Criminal Justice : Local and Global (2009, Hardcover) by read online DOC, FB2

9781843925132
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1843925133
Criminal Justice: Local and Global and its sister text Crime: Local and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches, the books illuminate the different ways in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled. International case studies are used to demonstrate how 'crime' and 'justice' are historically and geographically located in terms of the global/local context, and how processes of criminalisation and punishment are mediated in contemporary societies. Criminal Justice: Local and Global covers the way the 'local¿ can be widened out to look at international, transnational and supranational aspects of justice. This means that issues such as corporate crime and human rights can be discussed in a comparative and critical way, examining the possibility, for example of an International Criminal Court, cross-national jurisdictions of regulation and control (such as Interpol) and so on. Each chapter covers a different area of regulation, punishment and process., Systems of criminal justice are beset by controversy. They are routinely criticised either for their ineffectiveness or for their erosion of civil liberties. Criminal justice is also being challenged by the emergence of transnational agencies, international legal conventions, and the global flow of policies. Criminal Justice: Local and Global provides an in-depth critical analysis of how criminal justice is conceptualised and delivered through cultures of control; experiments in conflict resolution; risk and surveillance technologies; private security; transnational policing; and international human rights. Criminal justice is shown as just one means of imagining justice and as just one possible response to harms, conflicts and troubles.

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