Includes bibliographical references and index. Nelken, D. (2010). Comparative criminal justice: making sense of difference. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Introduction: changing paradigms -- Why compare? -- Just comparison -- Ways of making sense -- Explaining to much? -- The challenge of the global -- Whose sense?

This book offers an original and insightful perspective into why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties we encounter when we do so. Drawing on experience of teaching and research in a variety of countries, the author explores how we can learn from other jurisdictions, how to compare 'like with like', and how to make sense of national differences in matters such as prison rates and response to global trends.