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Overview"This comprehensive, detailed account explores crime and punishment throughout the world through the eyes of leading experts, local authors and scholars, and government officials. It is a subject as old as civil society, yet one that still fuels debate. Now the many and varied aspects of that subject are brought together in the four-volume Crime and Punishment around the World. This unprecedented work provides descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies. Each chapter examines the historical, political, and cultural background, as well as the basic organization of the subject state's legal and criminal justice system. It also reports on the types and levels of crime, the processes leading to the finding of guilt, the rights of the accused, alternatives to going to trial, how suspects are prosecuted for their crimes, and the techniques and conditions of typical punishments employed. Comprising a study that is at once extraordinarily comprehensive and minutely detailed, the essays collected here showcase the variety and the universality of crime and punishment the world over. Four volumes covering Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and Europe More than 200 essays written by academics, government officials, and independent experts Four world maps and sixteen regional maps depicting distribution of murder rates, prison, corporal punishment, and death penalty rates A ""Learn More"" section in each chapter that lists 4–6 recommended readings Quick reference information at the start of each entry providing at a glance a country's type of legal system, use or prohibition of capital and corporal punishment, and levels of serious crimes such as murder and human trafficking" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Graeme R. NewmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: ABC-CLIO Dimensions: Width: 24.10cm , Height: 15.20cm , Length: 29.80cm Weight: 6.804kg ISBN: 9780313351334ISBN 10: 0313351333 Pages: 1586 Publication Date: 19 October 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p>. ..a handy compilation of country-specific information...Academic, law, and special libraries with comprehensive criminal-justice collections may want to purchase this set. - <p>Booklist Author InformationGraeme R. Newman is distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |