Over the last decade, policy transfer has emerged as an important concept within public
policy analysis, guiding both theoretical and empirical research spanning many venues and …

This article proposes an agenda for research into the spatial, social, and relational character
of globally circulating urban policies, policy models, and policy knowledge. It draws on …

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population
centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and …

In Punishing the Poor, I show that the ascent of the penal state in the United States and other
advanced societies over the past quarter-century is a response to rising social insecurity, not …

David Nelken is the 2013 laureate of the Association for Law and Society International Prize
The increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original …

Two principles should form the bedrock for effective policing in a democratic society. The first
is that crimes averted, not arrests made, should be the primary metric for judging police …

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in
the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing …

Many of the generalizations bandied about in discussions of penal policy in Western
countries are not true. If penal populism (Pratt 2007) or populist punitiveness (Bottoms 1995) …

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice. It examines and
reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the …

The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different
countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new …