Offering a comprehensive analysis, bestselling COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS, 5e compares the various criminal justice systems throughout the world using six model countries: China, England, France, Germany, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. The book illustrates the different types of law and justice systems while exploring the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural influences on each system. It examines important aspects of each type of justice system--common law, civil law, socialist law, and sacred (Islamic) law--to highlight the similarities and differences of each. Completely up to date, it provides expanded coverage of such high-profile topics as human trafficking, Internet pornography, identity theft, transnational policing, terrorism and more.
- ISBN13 9781285067865
- Publish Date 4 January 2013 (first published 17 August 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cengage Learning, Inc
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English