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  • CIA World Factbook
    The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
  • International Corrections and Prisons Association
    Library of articles - sign up for free affiliate membership. Some items only for paid members.
  • INTERPOL
    International Criminal Police Organization
  • Legal and Judicial Systems in Countries Around the World
    This guide identifies selected print and online sources describing the legal systems of foreign countries and their constitutions and constitutional courts. It also describes research strategies for locating other books and law review articles.

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    One of the key tasks of UNODC is to produce and disseminate accurate drugs and crime statistics at the international level. UNODC also works to strengthen national capacity to produce, disseminate and use drugs and crime statistics within the framework of official statistics.

  • University of Ottawa Juriglobe
    JuriGlobe is a research group formed by professors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, which focuses on the development of a multilingual information data bank, accessible to all on the internet, containing general information relating to the different legal systems in the world.
  • University of Pittsburgh JURIST resource
    World Law is JURIST's quick reference guide to the constitutional and legal systems of countries around the world.
 

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This guide provides support for the research project asking you to compare the criminal justice systems of two different countries.

 

Resources to Start With

Do a subject search in the library catalog: Criminal justice, administration of


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Comparative and international criminal justice systems: policing, judiciary, and corrections - Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe, editor
Call Number: ebook
Explores policing, judicial, and penological models of various countries and contrasts effective and less effective methods.


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Crime and Punishment Around the World
Call Number: REFERENCE SECTION HV6025 .C711 2010
Publication Date: 2010
V. 1. Africa and the Middle East -- v. 2. The Americas -- v. 3. Asia and Pacific -- v. 4. Europe




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Policing in America: A Reference Handbook - Leonard A. Steverson
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781598840438
Includes chapters on policing in other countries.

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Prisons the world over - Simon, Rita J.
Call Number: HV8665 .S49 2011

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Profiling and Criminal Justice in America: A Reference Handbook - Jeffrey B. Bumgarner, editor
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781851094691
Publication Date: 2004
Includes chapters on profioing - international perspective and four legal traditions around the globe.

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Statesmans Yearbook
Call Number: REF JA51 .S7
Click for online version. Legal systems are summarized under “social institutions—justice”

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The Policing Web - Brodeur, Jean-Paul
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199740598
Publication Date: 2010


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The State of the prisons--200 years on - edited by Dick Whitfield
Call Number: ebook
Sheds light on 10 prison systems worldwide

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World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems - Kurian, George Thomas
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780787677367
Publication Date: 2006
Describes the national law enforcement and correctional systems of more than 195 countries across the globe. Click on Online link then table of contents.



 
 

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