Abstract
Book abstract: This comprehensive, detailed account explores crime and punishment throughout the world through the eyes of leading experts, local authors and scholars, and government officials. 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Crime and Punishment Around the World |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780313351334 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2010 |
Keywords
- international law
- Russia
- criminal law
