Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada

Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada
Author: Louis Knafla
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1554581575

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an international conference on crime and criminal justice at The University of Calgary attended by historians, professors of law, judges, and criminologists. The essays in Part I consider the evolution of criminal law doctrine, and those in Part II analyse the theory and measurement of crime in the past and at present. Parts III and IV examine the courts and prosecution, and Part V assesses the historical roots of the insanity defence and the theory and practice of punishment. The volume will be of interest, across national boundaries, to historians, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and persons involved in the administration of justice as well as the general reader concerned about civil rights, social values, and justice. The eighteen contributors include F.H. Baker, J.M. Beattie, W.A. Calder, T.C. Curtis, D. Hay, H. Diederiks, A. Lachance, His Honour W.G. Morrow, A. Soman, and S. Verdun-Jones.

Criminal Justice Systems in Europe

Criminal Justice Systems in Europe
Author: Matti Joutsen
Publisher: Heuni European Institute for Crime Prevention and Company Filiate
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 9789515313584

Transnational and Comparative Criminology

Transnational and Comparative Criminology
Author: James Sheptycki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135311447

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students.

Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Europe

Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Europe
Author: Hans-Jörg Albrecht
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004250786

This unique collection of essays celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the seminal journal the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, as well as the outstanding and uninterrupted work over that period of its founding Editor-in-Chief, Professor Cyrille Fijnaut. The volume consists of a selection of some of the most ground-breaking articles published over the past twenty years, covering the three areas of focus of the journal: problems of crime, developments in criminal law and changes in criminal justice. It thus explores such diverse issues as the problems of crime in Central and Eastern Europe after the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Yugoslavia; the allocation of criminal law power in the European Union; police cooperation in the border areas of the Member States; the criminalization of white collar crime; the establishment of European police services and of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office; new forms of criminal justice cooperation between the Member States; and many others. The journal's unique multidisciplinary approach and its commitment to offer insights from a wide variety of European countries and language areas ensure that a varied range of perspectives are offered on the topics discussed. The result is an enlightening and highly readable anthology, shedding light on the extraordinary developments that have taken place in the area of crime and punishment in Europe.