Comparative And International Criminal Justice: Traditional And Nontraditional Systems Of Law And Control

By Richard H. Moore Jr.

Book Overview

Valuable twenty-first-century insight into the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of international criminal justice! All those engaged in the sphere of comparative and international justice... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577663500
• ISBN13: 9781577663508
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Look at Crinminal Justice Systems Around the World

Today Americans and citizens of most countries think nothing of traveling around the world. They pay little attention to the criminal justice systems of the world because they think they are very similar to their own. Little do they realize that crime and justice even in neighboring countries may be very different. Fields and Moore do an outstanding job at looking at criminal justice systems around the world. Their book follows the traditional format of introductory criminal justice texts namely looking at crime, the police, the law, corrections, and finally criminal justice systems. What makes this a great primary or supplemental text for the classroom is that the text includes material from all the continents of the world - Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Australia. It exposes the reader to an understanding of the four major legal systems by including material from common law, civil law, socialist law, and Islamic law countries. Therefore, the reader can redily compare those four legal traditions of the world. This text is especially helpful to the reader from the United States, or any country, because it permits one to compare his or her country's criminal justice system with those from other countries with which the reader may be unfamiliar. It permits the reader to realize that even among democracies, there are major differences and that not all democracies of the world are the same. The material in this text is challenging to both undergraduate and graduate students. I have used the text for both categories of students and will use it again in the fall 2000 semester. It is an outstanding textbook that is comprehensive and I recommend it to all without qualification.