Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice

Edited by David Nelken, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, UK and Claire Hamilton, Professor of Criminology and Head of Criminology, School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland

‘This book is a gem. The editors’ introduction not only provides context for the contributors’ essays; it also provides a sophisticated epistemologically rich investigation into the various understandings of what it means to undertake comparative analysis. And the other contributors do much more than bring us up to date in various fields. They also create new fields, propose to redefine traditional fields, ask new questions, point to new directions, and draw on unexpected and informative material to buttress their claims. The new student, the advanced graduate student, and the established research scholar will all find it to their advantage to consult this volume frequently. A must for every scholarly library.’

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 New directions in comparative criminal justice 2David Nelken and Claire HamiltonPART II THE COMPARATIVE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL2 Youth justice: European and international developments and (good) practices 30Frieder Dünkel3 Prosecution in adversarial and inquisitorial procedures: the weakeningof professional autonomy 49Jacqueline S. Hodgson4 Systems of trial: towards convergence? 66Richard Vogler5 The diffusion of plea bargaining and the global administratisation ofcriminal convictions 84Máximo Langer6 The Nordic exceptionalism thesis revisited 109John Pratt7 Theorising global penal change 126Ely Aaronson8 Making sense in cross-cultural research in criminal justice: somereflections on theory and method 141Stewart FieldPART III MAPPING THE DARK SIDE OF GLOBALISATION9 Transnational policing, crime and justice 155James Sheptycki10 Surveillance, police, and quarantining COVID-19 in Canada and Australia 175Randy K. Lippert and Adam Molnar11 Towards convergence? Comparative counter-terrorism and the‘transnational counter-terrorism order’ 192Claire Hamilton12 Criminology of the borderlands 207Maartje van der Woude13 Money laundering 225Michael Levi14 Cybercrime 243Stefano Caneppele and Amandine da Silva15 Personalising comparison in international criminal law 261Nicola PalmerPART IV SPREADING UNIVERSAL STANDARDS16 Criminology and human rights 274Marinella Marmo and Elaine Fishwick17 Capital punishment in comparative perspective 289David T. Johnson18 Globalisation, gender and crime 304Rosemary Barberet19 Green criminology, environmental harms and eco-justice 315Rob White20 Decolonising comparative criminology 332Chris Cunneen21 Comparative criminal justice as a social practice: the case ofstandardising indicators 348David Nelken22 Comparative criminology in the time of algorithmic knowledge: thechallenges of global comparison 365Dvir Yogev and Yoav MehozayIndex 383