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This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice. It considers the state of crime globally and examines and reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the criminal justice process, from policing to systems of trial, to sentencing, and punishment. This popular bestseller has been fully updated and expanded for the fifth edition. This textbook provides the reader with: A comparative perspective on criminal justice and its main components Insight into methods for comparative research and analysis A discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the punitive turn, penal populism, privatisation, international policing, and international criminal tribunals An understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice such as security, surveillance, crimmigration, and penal exceptionalism Global and historical consideration of the death penalty and international criminal justice Increased attention to environmental crime, climate change, genocide, and police brutality The new edition has been fully updated to keep abreast with this growing field of study and research, to include a broader coverage of the global south, and new chapters on criminology and climate change, and on victimology. In this book, lists of further reading, study questions, and boxed case studies help bring comparative criminal justice to life for students and instructors alike. This book is perfect reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in comparative criminal justice and those who are engaged in the study of global responses to crime.

The world first confronted the power of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The global threat of these weapons deepened in the following decades as more advanced weapons, aggressive strategies, and new nuclear powers emerged. Ever since, countless books, reports, and articles - and even a new field of academic inquiry called "security studies" - have tried to explain the so-called nuclear revolution. Francis J. Gavin argues that scholarly and popular understanding of many key issues about nuclear weapons is incomplete at best and wrong at worst. Among these important, misunderstood issues are: how nuclear deterrence works; whether nuclear coercion is effective; how and why the United States chose its nuclear strategies; why countries develop their own nuclear weapons or choose not to do so; and, most fundamentally, whether nuclear weapons make the world safer or more dangerous. These and similar questions still matter because nuclear danger is returning as a genuine threat. Emerging technologies and shifting great-power rivalries seem to herald a new type of cold war just three decades after the end of the U.S.-Soviet conflict that was characterized by periodic prospects of global Armageddon.

It is a truism that Russian culture is based upon the reception of Byzantine culture. However, the question of what was in fact received is the task that Professor Thomson has set in these studies, by means of a detailed examination of the corpus of translations.

part Part I Philosophical Hermeneutics and Legal Theory -- chapter Gadamer on the Exemplary Significance of Law for Hermeneutical Philosophy -- chapter Philosophical Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence -- chapter Modes of Legal Interpretation: Statutory and Constitutional -- part Part II Gadamer in Conversation with other Leading Hermeneutic Philosophers on Law and Legal Theory -- chapter Gadamer and the Continental Tradition -- chapter Gadamer and Nietzsche -- chapter Gadamer and Habermas -- chapter Gadamer and Dworkin.

"This book is an extended argument for the critical importance which justice and ethical leadership should have in business ethics education. The book examines the history of ideas and purposes in education, the contemporary role of business schools, and the social foundations of moral education to conclude that the pragmatic pursuit of the good must be a central aim of business strategy. To meet the challenges facing society today, the masters of business must be moral craftsmen in a just and democratic private property economy that serves the common good. The author grounds this vision for business leadership in the centrality of systems of exchange in human society, in generating prosperity and providing for the general welfare. Business ethics education has focused primarily on moral formation of individual leaders and managers in the context of ethical codes, organizational culture, and legal compliance. Important as this approach is, it fails to generate a sufficient level of business responsibility to satisfy legitimate social concerns regarding the use of natural resources, environmental sustainability, reasonable limitation of systemic risk in capital markets, and fair allocation of goods and services. If the social purpose of business is not intentionally embraced and diligently pursued, the economy may enrich a few but impoverish the society, its resources, and its democracy. Hence this book argues for a new vision of business ethics that is grounded in public accountability of business operations and outcomes for the common good, as a matter of justice."--Publisher's description

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Faith Seeking Understanding -- Part I Reason and Motive -- 2 Juris, Fides, et Ratio: What Judges and Some Legal Scholars Miss About Reason and Religious Beliefs -- 2.1. Faith, Reason, and Law -- 2.1.A. The Courts -- 2.1.B. The Legal Theorists -- 2.2. Reasonable Faith? A Critique of Secular Rationalism -- 2.2.A. SR Is Epistemically Suspect -- 2.2.B. SR Begs Substantive Questions -- 2.2.B.1. Religious Claims Are Unprovable -- 2.2.B.2. Religious Claims Are Incontestable -- 2.2.B.3. Religious Claims Cannot Change or Develop Because They Are Insulated from the Ordinary Standards... -- 2.2.C. SR Confuses Religion as Such with Particular Religions and Beliefs Tethered to Them -- 2.3. Conclusion -- 3 Theological Exclusionary Rule: The Judicial Misuse of Religious Motives -- 3.1. The No Religious Test Clause and the First Amendment -- 3.2. The Distinction between Belief and Action: Freedom of Belief as an Ultima Facie Right -- 3.3. Motives as Beliefs -- 3.3.A. Purposes and Motives Are Conceptually Distinct -- 3.3.B. Motives Are Types of Beliefs -- 3.4. Religious Motive Analysis -- 3.4.A. Selman v. Cobb County School District (2005) -- 3.4.B. Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) -- 3.5. An Objection -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Part II Dignity and Personhood -- 4 Dignity Never Been Photographed: Bioethics, Policy, and Steven Pinker's Materialism -- 4.1. Dignity Is Subjective -- 4.1.A. Dignity Is Relative -- 4.1.B. Dignity Is Fungible -- 4.1.C. Dignity Is Harmful -- 4.2. Dignity Is Unnecessary -- 4.2.A. Autonomy Is Not Identical to Dignity -- 4.2.B. Dignity Has Greater Explanatory Power Than Does Autonomy -- 4.2.C. Nonautonomous Beings Can Have Their Dignity Violated -- 4.2.D. Autonomy as a Power Had by a Rational Agent -- 4.3. Conclusion.

Preparing for Next Generation Security Leader Opportunities is an excellent resource for the new or existing security leader who wants to prepare him or herself for the future of security. In this 30-minute Proven Practices presentation, narrator Francis D'Addario explains that traditional expectations of the security leader will soon merge with new requirements and measured performance. Organizations have come to expect leadership that is able to respond nimbly, communicate care, and galvanize resources. Also included in this presentation is a list of 16 performance criteria

How can you make necessary professional judgments without being judgmental?Assessment and diagnostic skills are essential professional tools for the social worker, but all too often they are neglected or downplayed. Diagnosis in Social Work argues for the reinstatement of social diagnosis to its former place as an essential concept in social work. This courageous book demonstrates the detrimental impact of the loss of diagnostic skills on the quality of social work intervention.Combining meticulous history with insightful analysis, Diagnosis in Social Work shows how the con

1. Globalisation and criminology : an agenda of engagement / Francis Pakes -- 2. The challenge of globalisation for comparative criminal justice / David Nelken -- 3. Globalisation and criminology : the case of organised crime in Britain / Daniel Silverstone -- 4. Crimes of globalization as a criminological project : the case of international financial institutions / David O. Friedrichs and Dawn L. Rothe -- 5. Policing international terrorism / Mathieu Deflem and Samantha Hauptman -- 6. Policing in peace operations : change and challenge / Bethan Greener -- 7. Two profiles of crimmigration law : criminal deportation and illegal migration / Juliet P. Stumpf -- 8. Exporting risk, deporting non-citizens / Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering -- 9. Borderworld : biometrics, AVATAR and global criminalization / Ben Muller -- 10. Globalisation, mass atrocities and genocide / Susanne Karstedt -- 11. Parochialism and globalisation : the rise of anti-immigration parties in Europe / Francis Pakes.

This book is a comprehensive safety and security resource for individuals, families, organizations, and communities. it is organized by areas of concern, from personal risk awareness to protection and security considerations for family, home, travel, and work