Bücher der Reihe Current Issues in Criminal Justice

This collection of scholarly essays discusses the internationalization of American drug policy from a variety of perspectives and features articles on Hong Kong, Britain, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, Latin America, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

This collection of original essays treats various aspects of a wide- ranging problem, including the evolution of the study of corporate crime, the difficulties of understanding corporate illegality, the nature and extent of corporate crime, financial and social costs, measurement issues, the regulation of corporate behavior, public perceptions, and the punishment of corporate crime.

This work analyses the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice, answering how the criminal framework was developed, and how to apply this framework to the study of criminal behaviour.

The 11 articles in this volume represent the cutting edge issues in the theory and practice of environmental criminal enforcement on the federal and state levels. The authors review EPA criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement; prosecutorial challenges and public protection; toxic dumping in

From the anti-opiate campaigns of the late 1800's to the DARE program of the 1990's, the United States has been at war with drugs throughout most of its history. Claiming that the drug war is for the good of the people, politicians use it as a campaign platform, the media sell it for higher ratings, and criminal justice administrators exploit it for expanded power and higher funding. Experts in criminology, the contributors to this volume closely examine the sociological impact of the global drug war, offering new insight to the debate. DRUG WAR, AMERICAN STYLE shows how the United States's war on drugs has spread throughout the world to Hong Kong and Australia, and affected policy in countries from Canada to Britain.

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