Comparative Research in Crime and Punishment

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This book provides an account of the opportunities and problems inherent in comparative research on crime and punishment. The authors review and synthesise what is a varied and largely unfocused literature of existing comparative criminological research and argue for the importance of the historico-cultural approach to understanding. Using case-study material on 'policy-learning' and regions (for example, Greater China), the book also illustrates how as ideas move across borders, they are adjusted to specific local conditions. Overall, the authors seek to encourage reflection on how, and in what ways, crime and punishment are embedded in changing local and international contexts.

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BILL HEBENTON is a faculty member in the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, School of Law, and a Research Associate of the Manchester Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in the field of crime and criminal justice; his monographs include "Policing Europe" and "International Cooperation""in Law Enforcement. "He is a member of the editorial board of Crime and Criminal Justice International.
SUSYAN JOU was founder of the Graduate School of Criminology at National Taipei University (Taiwan) and the first Head of the criminology program. She has undertaken extensive criminological work within the Greater China region. She has published widely in Chinese and English language journals. Her research interests have focused on youth justice, white collar crime and comparative studies. Her recent funded projects include the comparative study of punitiveness between Taiwan and England/Wales, opportunist insurance fraud under neo-liberalism, welfare state and market economies and business victims of cybercrime in the Asia-pacific region.