Comparative Criminal Justice - Making Sense of Difference

Informationen zum Autor David Nelken is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is also visiting Professor of Law (Criminology) at University College London where he was previously Reader in Law. His book The Limits of the Legal Process (Academic Press, 1983) gained an American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award. He is general editor of the International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Dartmouth) for whom he is editing a volume on White-Collar Crime . He will also shortly be publishing a book with N Passas on Controlling EC Fraud and for Pluto Press a book entitled Law's Truth . CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Nelken: Futures of Criminology Stanley Cohen Hebrew University Jerusalem Wayne Morrison Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Massimo Pavarini University of Bologna Peter Rush University of Lancaster Alison Young University of Lancaster Klappentext A short, authoritative, innovative assessment of emerging issues in comparative criminal justice. Zusammenfassung A short! authoritative! innovative assessment of emerging issues in comparative criminal justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Changing Paradigms Why Compare? Just Comparison Ways of Making Sense Explaining too Much? The Challenge of the Global Whose Sense?

Product details

• Authors: David Nelken, Professor David Nelken
• Assisted by: David Nelken (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2010
• EAN: 9781847879370
• ISBN: 978-1-84787-937-0
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Compact Criminology; Compact Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology