Criminal Justice: Local and Global

Systems of criminal justice are beset by controversy. They are routinely criticised either for their ineffectiveness or for their erosion of civil liberties. Criminal justice is also being challenged by the emergence of transnational agencies, international legal conventions, and the global flow of policies. Criminal Justice: Local and Global provides an in-depth critical analysis of how criminal justice is conceptualised and delivered through cultures of control; experiments in conflict resolution; risk and surveillance technologies; private security; transnational policing; and international human rights. Criminal justice is shown as just one means of imagining justice and as just one possible response to harms, conflicts and troubles.