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Awards:
2008 SELLIN-GLUECK AWARD
“This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective…. It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development.”
—Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS INDIA
In today's interdependent world, governments must become more transparent about their crime and justice problems. The World of Crime: Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World seeks to break the “conspiracy of silence” regarding statistical information on these sensitive issues. It subsequently analyzes the macro causes of crime such as rapid urbanization, economic inequality, gender discrimination, abuse of alcohol, and drugs and availability of guns. Furthermore, the book analyzes the impact of crime on individuals and societies. Using a wealth of statistical information, the author underlines the need of greater international efforts to tackle transnational problems of crime.
Key Features
Presents 13 chapters, which are organized in 4 main parts, that cover measurement challenges, common crimes, emerging global crimes, criminal justice, and international perspectives on crime and justice; Contains statistical data taken from 2005 International Crime Victim Surveys; Includes high quality figures such as scatter plots, graphs, and maps; Features summary reviews and figure footnotes at the ends of each chapter
Intended Audience: The book is intended as a supplementary text for introduction to criminology, criminal justice, and comparative justice courses and is also appropriate for those professionally interested in security, criminal justice and development.
Corrections: A Global Perspective
Corrections: A Global Perspective
Trends in Imprisonment Rates
On the basis of the latest available figures of the World Prison Population List, collated by British criminologist Roy Walmsley, the world imprisonment rate was approximately 147 per 100,000 population in 2004–2006. This figure indicates that at that time, over 9 million people were being held in penal institutions around the world, either as pretrial detainees or after having been convicted.1 According to informed estimates, the Chinese numbers exclude 610,000 people in “administrative detention” ordered by the prosecutors outside court procedures and another 400,000 people in pretrial detention (Walmsley, 2007). If these estimated dark numbers of Chinese prisoners are added, the world total of inmates can be estimated at 10.2 million. This amounts to the ...
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