Criminal Policy in Transition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781841131887)

Criminal Policy in Transition comes along at a time when the literature in criminology is desperately short of "global" perspectives. It helps fill that gap while it presents important new insights into changing penal policy and practice. That it raises as many questions as it seems to answer is one of its great strengths. The authors write knowledgeably about their home societies without being prematurely bounded by comparative criteria. As a result, they develop a complex and uneven image of similarities and differences, of divergence and convergence through time. In this sense the collection offers a model of how international collaborative work should proceed.

The book is the product of a workshop held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain. The IISL is a partnership between the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law and the Basque Government

Author: Penny Green
ISBN-10: 1841131881
ISBN-13: 9781841131887
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 144