Criminal Policy in Transition [Hardcover]

Criminal Policy in Transitioncomes 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

Penny Green is a Professor in Law at King's College London.
Andrew Rutherford is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Professor of Criminal Policy at the University of Southampton.

Criminal Policy in Transactionis a fine anthology. Contributing authors provide intersting profiles of criminal justice policy in several countries, speak to issues and themes that are important for our understanding of both crime and criminal punishment, and remind all legal scholars that law and its administration have to be studied in context, both in historical and more gerneral socio-economic terms. Moreover, the authors clearly illustrate the benefit of more international and comparative scrutiny of criminal justice policy and administration. Susette M. Talarico,The Law and Politics Book Review

These contributions are penned by eminent scholars in the criminal policy field and each participant is writing to the very bel³7