Comparative Criminal Justice: Beyond ethnocentricism and relativism
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چکیده
The task of comparative criminal justice, most scholars would agree, is to compare and contrast our ways of responding to crime with those practiced elsewhere. It also often involves, even if it does not necessarily have to do so, borrowing from, or at least trying to learn from, what is done in other places. It would seem obvious, therefore that, if it is to be at all helpful, comparison requires understanding and interpreting what those in other places are actually trying to do. What I want to show in this paper is that the implications of this apparently banal point are not always straightforward.
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