Making sense of local and global criminal justice -- Conducting comparative research in a globalised world -- Comparing crime: finding patterns, uncovering meaning -- Crime fighters, social workers, torturers : comparative policing -- Global cops? transnational and global policing -- Prosecution and pre-trial justice -- The day in court : systems of trial -- Peers or patriarchs : judicial decision-makers -- Sentencing : punitivity, prison and the death penalty -- States, state crimes, and genocide -- International criminal justice : tribunals, statutes and prosecutions -- Concluding comments.
