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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Criminal Policy in Transition 2001 by Edited by Penny Green Edited by Andrew Rutherford
Criminal Policy in Transition comes 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 resultthey 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 Governmentshow more