| Description |
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. International auto theft : the illegal export of American vehicles in Mexico -- 2. Russian organized crime and weapons of terror : the reality of nuclear proliferation -- 3. International financial fraud : emerging trends and issues -- 4. India's drug policy : Indian opium farmers' perspectives -- 5. The politics of crime control in the Caribbean : drug trafficking, economic aid, and soverignty -- 6. Confidence in the police among industrialized nations -- 7. Borrowing from the Shariah : the potential uses of procedural Islamic law in the west -- 8. Lay participation in the legal decision making in Continental Europe -- 9. Juvenile justice and deliquency prevention in Barbados -- 10. Trends in the law : shame and punishment -- 11. Corrections in Bangladesh -- 12. The sociology of capital punishment and the death row phenomenon in the United States and West Indies : a comparison -- 13. Public attitudes toward the treatment of sex offenders -- 14. On punitiveness and inclusiveness : offenders and victims in New Zealand's criminal justice system -- 15. Criminal justice response to violence against minority women -- 16. Issues in domestic violence : comparing woman battering in Tawain and the United States -- 17. Women and formal police conduct in Northern Island -- 18. International terrorism and the United States : the troubling case of Latin America -- 19. Electral corruption in Itasly and Japan -- 20. Comparing criminal justice systems : the European scenario -- 21. Criminal victimization in a postmaterialist world : a cross-cultural model -- 22. Toward a clasification of firearm regulation : preliminary implications of the United Nations' study |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of.
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| Author |
Rounds, Delbert L., 1964-
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| LC no. |
99022899 |
| ISBN |
0205290671 |
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