Crime and Punishment around the World

Africa and the Middle East

Bibliographic Data

ID19903346
EditorsGraeme Newman
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCrime and Punishment around the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherABC-CLIO (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5040/9798216963264
OpenAlexW2794477513
ISBN9798216963264
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Criminology · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology

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