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Author:   Gregory Howard ,  Graeme Newman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   80
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9789004122451

ISBN 10:   9004122451
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   16 May 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Varieties of Comparative Criminology, Graeme Newman and Gregory J. Howard Micro-Macro Criminology, Shlomo Giora Shoham What Does the World Spend on Policing?, Graham Farrell, Erin Lake, Ken Clark and Andromachi Tseloni Issues and Patterns in the Comparative International Study of Police Strength, Edward R. Maguire and Rebecca Schulte-Murray Women Justice, and Custom: The Discourse of “Good Custom” and “Bad Custom” in Papua New Guinea and Canada, Cyndi Banks Confronting the Contradiction: Global Capitalism and Environmental Health, Mark Seis Toward a Universal Declaration of the Rule of Law: Implications for Criminal Justice and Sustainable Development, Adam C. Bouloukos and Brett Dakin Toward Comparative Studies of the U.S. Militia Movement, Joshua D. Freilich, Jeremy A. Pienik and Gregory J. Howard Women Police in a Traditional Society: Test of a Western Model of Integration, Mangai Natarajan Crime Prevention Policy and Government Research: A Comparison of the United States and United Kingdom, Gloria Laycock and Ronald V. Clarke List of Contributors Index

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Gregory J. Howard is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. His current research and practice is concerned with social movements, resistance and revolt, environmental sociology, comparative criminology, and pedagogy. Graeme Newman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. For the U.N. he pioneered the establishment of the U.N. Crime and Justice Information Network, the first international criminal justice presence on the Internet. Professor Newman has written widely in criminal justice and other fields, and has written commercial software. Among the books he has written or edited are The Global Report on Crime and Justice (United Nations/Oxford 1998); Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals, 2nd Edition, (Harrow and Heston 1995); The Punishment Response, 2nd Edition, (Harrow and Heston 1985); and Comparative Deviance: Law and Perception in Six Cultures (Elsevier 1976).

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