Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice

Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice provides a holistic analysis of modern criminal justice issues, encompassing the pre-trial, investigative, and post-conviction stages of criminal justice in legal settings across the world.

Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice provides a holistic analysis of modern criminal justice issues, encompassing the pre-trial, investigative, and post-conviction stages of criminal justice in legal settings across the world. The contributors acknowledge and examine the vast array of challenges in global criminal justice, from the role of the International Criminal Court to policing, the integration of technology, and how marginalized groups, such as sex workers and those with addictions, are treated in the courts. With contributions from scholars in England and Wales, New Zealand, Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada, and The Republic of North Macedonia, this book is not limited to one jurisdiction, and highlights that criminal justice is very much a global issue in a state of crisis. From policing to the courts, it is in urgent need of reform. Without a competent criminal justice system, justice does not exist. This book would be of interest to scholars in the legal, criminal justice, and criminology fields.

Introduction by Ed Johnston and Sophie Marsh

Chapter 1: The Importance of Protecting Sex Workers from Harm by Sophie Marsh

Chapter 2: The Impact of the Judicial Role on Treatment and Punishment in the New Zealand

Alcohol & Other Drug Treatment Court by Toni Carr

Chapter 3: Stop and Search Powers in England & Wales: The Commissioner, the Home

Secretary, the Media and the Public by Jack James and Richard Hester

Chapter 4: Reform of Police Interrogations in Croatia: Endangering the Efficiency of the

Criminal Justice System by Elizabeta Ivičević Karas and Zoran Burić

Chapter 5: The Risks of Risk Aversion: Trajectories of Automation in Policing by Mehzeb

Chowdhury

Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence and the Use of Algorithms in the Criminal Judicial System,

Chimera or Panacea? by Raquel Borges Blázquez

Chapter 7: The Vulnerable Accused in Scotland: ‘A Fig for Those by Law Protected’? by

Eamon P. H. Keane

Chapter 8: The Group Decision-Making of the Jury: Challenges to a Fair Trial by Sarah

Lloyd

Chapter 9: Victim Participation as a Right: From the International Criminal Court to the

European Court of Human Rights by Freya Doughty

Chapter 10: Out-Of-Court Disposals in the Dutch Criminal Process: An Affront to a Fair

Trial? by Anna Pivaty

Chapter 11: The Over-Representation of Aboriginals in Canadian Correctional Facilities: An

Issue Before Canada by Eric Myles

Chapter 12: Contemporary Issues in the Penitentiary System of the Republic of Macedonia:

Fundamentals of Criminal Justice Reform and Penitentiary Reform by Gordana

Lažetić and Elena Mujoska-Trpevska