Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Casebook Approach (Comparative Law Series) - Softcover

Thaman, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594605009 ISBN 13: 9781594605000

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2008

Synopsis

As in the first edition, Thaman presents a topical approach to the subject, focusing on the roles of public prosecutors, police, victims, and defense attorneys in the investigation of criminal cases and trials up through the judgment phase. Thaman uses high court jurisprudence in English translation to elucidate the European approach to important, and often controversial, areas of criminal procedure, and he also links criminal procedure with its roots in substantive criminal law. Thaman looks at the early reactions to crimes committed flagrantly or in secret as the historical roots of modern criminal procedure. The approaches of the old inquisitorial system and the use of torture to solve circumstantial evidence crimes are also presented.

The Second Edition retains the basic content and organization of the original edition. It updates the citations to U.S. Supreme Court cases and to important literature which has appeared in the last six years and refers to some new important cases, primarily in footnotes. Stylistic improvements in the text and the translations have been made and glossary entries (including some Russian terms) have been added.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Thaman is a professor of law and Co-Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at St. Louis University School of Law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594605009
• ISBN 13: 9781594605000
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296