Learning from Elsewhere: From Cross‐cultural Explanations to Transnational Prescriptions in Criminal Justice. An Introduction
| Date | 01 October 2019 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12180 |
| Published date | 01 October 2019 |
| Author | Stewart Field,Renaud Colson |
JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY
VOLUME 46, ISSUE S1, OCTOBER 2019
ISSN: 0263-323X, pp. S1±S11
Learning from Elsewhere: From Cross-cultural
Explanations to Transnational Prescriptions in Criminal
Justice. An Introduction
Renaud Colson* and Stewart Field**
COMPARING CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN A
TRANSNATIONAL ERA
We are living at a time in which increasingly concerns about crime and
security are shared across national borders and our responses are becoming
transnational: this is evident in intensifying international efforts at crime-
control cooperation and the dissemination of particular approaches to crime
prevention, criminal justice, and the rule of law. These developments are
being implemented partly through international law (especially international
criminal law and international human rights law) and partly through wider
and more diverse forms of supranational influence and intergovernmental
cooperation. There is now a substantial grey literature emerging from
international institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union,
and the Council of Europe, producing comparative data and research and
seeking to promote particular views of good practice in relation to a variety
of issues around crime, security, and justice.
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S1
*Faculte
Âde droit et des sciences politiques, Universite
Âde Nantes, Chemin
de la Censive-du-Tertre, BP 81307, 44313 Nantes CEDEX, France
renaud.colson@univ-nantes.fr
** Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Law Building, Museum Avenue,
Cardiff CF10 3AX, Wales
fieldsa@cardiff.ac.uk
This Special Supplement emerged from a workshop jointly organized by the Centre for
Crime, Law and Justice and the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff Law School in May
2017. The project benefited from the financial support of the Centre of Law and Society,
the Cardiff University International Visiting Fellow scheme, and the Max-Planck-Institut
fu
Èr auslaÈndisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg.
1 The UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the European Union Agency for Fundamental
Rights or the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction are obvious
examples.
ß2019 The Author. Journal of Law and Society ß2019 Cardiff University Law School
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