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A new installment of the series of Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons, this book expands upon the criminal justice coverage of earlier volumes, offering the voices of 14 lawyers from 13 diverse locales, including countries in Africa, North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. This book is intended for students and others focusing on law and legal studies, policing, psychology and law, criminology, justice studies, public policy, and for all those interested in the front lines of legal change around the world.
Featuring versatile chapters perfect for individual use or as part of a collection, this volume offers a personal approach to the legal world for students and experienced professionals.
List of contents
Series Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
1. Introduction to Legal Advocacy Across the GlobeJANE GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY AND DILIP K. DAS
2. Australia
The Criminal Justice Process of AustraliaANNE WALLACE
Mark Tedeschi AM QC, Senior Crown Prosecutor, SydneyANNE WALLACE
3. Belgium
The Criminal Justice Process of BelgiumNIK KIEFER
Raf Verstraeten, Attorney and Professor of Criminal Law, LeuvenNIK KIEFER
4. Bolivia
The Criminal Justice Process of Bolivia
ASTRID BIRGDEN AND LOLA ARAUJO LANGTHALER
Maria Teresa Rivero Gutierrez (Esq.), Attorney
LOLA ARAUJO LANGTHALER AND ASTRID BIRGDEN
5: Canada
The Criminal Justice Process of Canada
NIKOLAI KOVALEV
Brian H. Greenspan, Defense Counsel, Greenspan Humphrey Lavine, Toronto
NIKOLAI KOVALEV
6. China
The Criminal Justice Process of ChinaAI MA AND ZHUO ZHANG
Huisheng Zong, Senior Prosecutor of the Henan People’s Procuratorate BeijingAI MA AND ZHUO ZHANG
7. India
The Criminal Justice Process of IndiaAMITA DHANDA
Dinesh Mathur, Senior Advocate of High Court, DelhiAMITA DHANDA
8. Japan
The Criminal Justice Process of JapanMAKOTO IBUSUKI
Naoya Endo, Attorn
About the author
Jane Goodman-Delahunty, JD, PhD, is a Research Professor at Charles Sturt University. Trained in law and experimental psychology, she joined academe in Sydney, Australia in 2001. Her research is informed by her experience as a litigator, an administrative judge with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a JAMS-Endispute mediator, a Commissioner with the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and General Member of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a former editor of Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, and a past president of the American Psychology-Law Society and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. Her empirical legal studies have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Research Council, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the FBI High Value Detainee Group. Her research applies psychological scientific methods to promote evidence-based policies to enhance justice. She is author of over 150 scholarly books and articles.
Dilip Das is a professor of criminal justice, former police chief, founding editor-in-chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, PPR, and a human rights consultant to the United Nations. After serving in the Indian Police Service for 14 years, he moved to the United States, where he later became the founding president of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), www.ipes.info, which is in special consultative status with the United Nations. He has authored, edited, and coedited more than 30 books and numerous articles, has received several faculty excellence awards, and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.
Summary
A new installment of the series of Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons, this book expands upon the criminal justice coverage of earlier volumes, offering the voices of 14 lawyers from 13 diverse locales, including countries in Arfrica, North Amercia, South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
