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CJ 4365: Comparative Criminal Justice

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Comparative and international criminal justice systems : policing, judiciary, and corrections examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries.
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment entries cover the world, although the emphasis of this encyclopedia is the United States.
International and Comparative Criminal Justice: A Critical Introduction aims to familiarize researchers with the literature and debates surrounding international criminal justice and enable them to critically appreciate their theoretical and policy context to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the analysis of comparative policy convergence and research.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that comprises more than 3,900 commissioned articles and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
World of Criminal Justice, the individual entries in this book explain in concise language some of the most important topics, theories, discoveries, concepts, and organizations in criminal justice. Brief biographical profiles of the people who have made a significant and lasting impact on the field of criminal justice and society in general are included.
A World View of Criminal Justice brings together a huge range of historical and contemporary research on criminal justice across the globe. This book proposes a theory of procedure derived from the three great international trial modes of 'inquisitorial justice', 'adversarial justice' and 'popular justice' for comparative study and practical reform around the world.