Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g
The International Problem-Solving Court Movement
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-12952-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Rather, they attempt to solve the problems underlying such criminal behaviors as petty theft, prostitution, and drug offenses. Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing is a study of the international problem-solving court movement and the first comparative analysis of the development of these courts in the United States and the other countries where the movement is most advanced: England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Looking at the various ways in which problem-solving courts have been taken up in these countries, James Nolan finds that while importers often see themselves as adapting the American courts to suit local conditions, they may actually be taking in more aspects of American law and culture than they realize or desire.
In the countries that adopt them, problem-solving courts may in fact fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about justice. Based on ethnographic research in all six countries, the book examines these cases of legal borrowing for what they reveal about legal and cultural differences, the inextricable tie between law and culture, the processes of globalization, the unique but contested global role of the United States, and the changing face of law and justice around the world.
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Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER ONE: Problem Solving and Courts of Law 7
CHAPTER TWO: Law and Culture in Comparative Perspective 24
CHAPTER THREE: Anglo-American Alternatives: England and the United States 43
CHAPTER FOUR: Commonwealth Contrasts: Canada and Australia 76
CHAPTER FIVE: Devolution and Difference: Scotland and Ireland 109
CHAPTER SIX: American Exceptionalism 136
CHAPTER SEVEN: Ambivalent Anti-Americanism 157
CHAPTER EIGHT: Building Confidence, Justifying Justice 179
Notes 197
Selected References 235
Index 243