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Tables of Contents for Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chapter 1 Taking an International Perspective
1
25
Why Study the Legal System of Other Countries?
3
3
Approaches to an International Perspective
6
4
Strategies Under the Descriptive Approach
10
6
Comparison through Classification
16
6
The Structure of this Book
22
2
Summary
24
1
Suggested Reading
25
3
Chapter 2 Crime On The World Scene
26
28
The Crime Problem
27
6
Comparing Crime Rates
33
9
Crime Trends and Crime Theories
42
11
Summary
53
1
Suggested Reading
53
1
Chapter 3 An American Perspective on Criminal Law
54
25
Essential Ingredients of Justice Systems
55
22
Summary
77
1
Suggested Reading
78
1
Chapter 4 Legal Traditions
79
44
Today's Four Legal Traditions
84
25
Comparing the Legal Traditions
109
12
Summary
121
1
Suggested Reading
121
2
Chapter 5 Substantive Law and Procedural Law in the Four Legal Traditions
123
37
Substantive Criminal Law
124
14
Procedural Criminal Law
138
20
Summary
158
1
Suggested Reading
159
1
Chapter 6 An International View of Policing
160
40
Classifying Police Structures
162
29
Policing Issues: Police Misconduct
191
2
Policing Issues: Global Cooperation
193
5
Summary
198
1
Suggested Reading
198
2
Chapter 7 An International Perspective on Courts
200
52
Professional Actors in the Judiciary
202
15
The Adjudicators
217
16
Variation in Court Organization
233
18
Summary
251
1
Suggested Reading
251
1
Chapter 8 An International Perspective On Corrections
252
41
Variability in Justification
255
1
Imprisonment as Punishment
256
5
Corrections in Australia
261
16
Corrections in Poland
277
9
Corrections in Japan
286
6
Summary
292
1
Suggested Reading
292
1
Chapter 9 An International Perspective on Juvenile Justice
293
28
Delinquency as a Worldwide Problem
295
3
Models of Juvenile Justice
298
20
Summary
318
2
Suggested Reading
320
1
Chapter 10 Japan: Examples of Effectiveness and Borrowing
321
48
Why Study Japan?
322
5
Japanese Cultural Traits
327
9
Criminal Law
336
4
Policing
340
4
Judiciary
344
12
Corrections
356
7
Coming Full-Circle
363
1
What Might Work?
364
3
Summary
367
1
Suggested Reading
368
1
References
369
24
Name Index
393
5
Subject Index
398