25 books on criminal law in Sweden, Germany, Japan, America, England, China and other countries

SWEDEN

1. A PUNISHMENT FOR EACH CRIMINAL: GENDER AND CRIME IN SWEDISH MEDIEVAL LAW - CHRISTINE EKHOLST

The book explores the important legislative changes that took place when women were made personally responsible for their own crimes.

 

GERMANY

2. “MORAL ORDER” AND THE CRIMINAL LAW: REFORM EFFORTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND WEST GERMANY - ORLAN LEE AND T. A. ROBERTSON

This is a book concerned with the problems of criminal law reform in the United States and in Germany. The section on Germany gives the English-speaking reader a good and comprehensive introduction into the historical and on-going development of German criminal law reform and the results which have been achieved thus far.

 

3. CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN MODERN GERMANY - RICHARD F. WETZELL  

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. 

 

JAPAN

4. HISTORY OF LAW IN JAPAN SINCE 1868 - WILHELM ROHL

A careful analysis of Japan's dealings with its legal system through a time of unprecedented change (1868- 1960). A must for scholars of Japanese studies, historians and jurists alike.

 

5. SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE LAW IN JAPAN - CATHERINE BURNS

This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making and shows how the legal constraints confronting women claiming sexual assaults are enormous. It includes analysis of specific case studies and a discussion of recent moves to address the problem.

 

6. THE CULTURE OF CAPITA PUNISHMENT IN JAPAN – DAVID T. JOHNSON

This bold and innovative series provides a much needed intellectual space for global scholars to showcase criminological scholarship in and on Asia.

 

7. CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL POLICY IN JAPAN: ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE SHOWA ERA, 1926-1988 - MINORU SHIKITA AND SHINICHI TSUCHIYA

This White Paper is the first comprehensive publication that deals not only with the crime situation but also with the various activities of the criminal justice system, including the police, public prosecutors' offices, courts, correctional institutions, and probation and parole supervision organisations for 63 years.

 

8. PUNISHMENT AND POWER IN THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN - DANIEL V. BOTSMAN

The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire.

 

AMERICA

9. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1789-1939 (NEW HISTORIES OF AMERICAN LAW) - ELIZABETH DALE

This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts, and punishment.

 

10. A HISTORY OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA - WILLARD M. OLIVER AND JAMES F HILGENBERG

Each chapter begins with an overview of the social, political, and economic forces that shaped society during each of America s historical eras, then follows with a more specific review of both the ordinary and extraordinary crimes of that time period. Each chapter then covers how the criminal justice system (police, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice) responded to these crimes, thereby conveying how the American criminal justice system developed over time.

 

11. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY - LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

 

12. CRIMINALITY AND NARRATIVE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: BEYOND THE LAW - HAL GLADFELDER

In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience.

 

13.  LAW AND LIBERTY IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND DUE PROCESS, 1620-1692 - EDGAR J. MCMANUS

This first comprehensive history of criminal law in early New England.

 

14.  EVANGELICALISM, PENAL THEORY AND THE POLITICS OF CRIMINAL LAW REFORM IN ENGLAND, 1808–30 - RICHARD R. FOLLETT

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "bloody code" of criminal statutes. This examines the politics and propaganda of criminal law reform from 1808 to the Whig succession to power in 1830. 

 

15. LAW AND IMPERIALISM: CRIMINALITY AND CONSTITUTION IN COLONIAL INDIA AND VICTORIAN ENGLAND - PREETI NIJHAR

Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly populace. This title uses material from both British Parliamentary Papers and colonial archive material to provide evidence of legal change and response.

 

CHINA

16. TRUE CRIMES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA: TWENTY CASE HISTORIES - ROBERT E. HEGEL

The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China.

These true stories of crimes of passion, family conflict, neighborhood feuds, gang violence, and sedition are a treasure trove of information about social relations and legal procedure.

 

17. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN CHINA: A HISTORY - KLAUS MUHLHAHN

Mühlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.

 

18. CRIMINAL DEFENSE IN CHINA: THE POLITICS OF LAWYERS AT WORK - SIDA LIU, TERENCE C. HALLIDAY

This book is the first to examine everyday criminal defense work in China as a political project. The authors engage extensive scholarship on lawyers and political liberalism across the world, from seventeenth-century Europe to late twentieth-century Korea and Taiwan, drawing on theoretical propositions from this body of theory to examine the strategies and constraints of lawyer mobilization in China.

 

19. INSIDE CHINA’S LEGAL SYSTEM - CHANG WANG AND NATHAN MADSON

The book concludes with a comparison of China’s fundamental governing and legal principles with those of the United States, in such areas as checks and balances, separation of powers, and due process.

 

20. UNDERSTANDING CHINA’S LEGAL SYSTEM – C. HSU

This volume brings together ten original essays by leading Chinese law experts in the United States and beyond. Employing a variety of perspectives and materials, these writings tackle important issues that range from ancient Chinese legal history to aspects of the contemporary legal process in the People’s Republic of China.

 

OTHER COUNTRIES

21. DRUGS LAW AND LEGAL PRACTICE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: INDONESIA, SINGAPORE AND VIETNAM - TIM LINDSEY AND PIP NICHOLSON

Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam.

 

22. INTERNATIONAL CRIMIAL LAW IN MEXICO: NATIONAL LEGISLATION, STATE PRACTICE AND EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION - TANIA IXCHEL ATILANO

This work is mainly based on documentary research, encompassing legal texts, laws, databases, as well as numerous journalistic accounts that helped t not only bring the topic up to date, but also added an additional, quasi-sociological, viewpoint to the legal one.

 

23. IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL LAW IN THE EUROPEAN UNION - PAUL MINDERHOUD (EDITOR) ELSPETH GUILD (EDITOR)

This is a study of the legal framework on criminal measures on trafficking and/or smuggling and facilitating illegal entry in six Member States: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and the European Union.

This book deals with both. On the one hand it looks at the laws and the court decisions on criminal trials in respect of immigrants for immigration related offences, on the other hand it looks at how the society (political actors, media, interest groups etc) discuss and develop this issue.

 

24. CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ISRAEL: ASSESSING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE TOWARDS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - ROBERT R. FRIEDMANN

Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.

 

25. CRIMINAL LAW IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE - STANLEY YEO, NEIL MORGAN, CHAN WIN CHEONG

This book aims to meet the interests of several groups - legal practitioners and judges, scholars and students. Criminal law has always been a mainstay of a law school curriculum. It provides an opportunity to develop the fundamental legal skills of statutory interpretation, case law analysis and problem solving.

 

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