Crime and Punishment around the World: 4 volumes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313351333 ISBN 13: 9780313351334

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2010

Synopsis

This comprehensive, detailed account explores crime and punishment throughout the world through the eyes of leading experts, local authors and scholars, and government officials.

· 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

About this title

Book Description:

Fewer than 20 percent of countries have prohibited corporal punishment, while 35 percent retain the death penalty. Prison is still a universal punishment, regardless of culture or legal system. But what are the best ways to deter crime, while still recognizing civil rights? What lessons are there in the ways in which justice is administered—or abused—around the world?

About the Author:

Graeme R. Newman is distinguished teaching professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0313351333
• ISBN 13: 9780313351334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1872
• Editor: Newman Graeme R.