ABSTRACT
Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, among other issues, this timely reference presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world. Contributors bridge the academic gulf between worldwide and public policy studies, as well as the ideological gap between liberal and conservative attitudes toward constitutional law, individual liberty, public safety, and human rights. The authors emphasize the need for an integrated, "one-world" perspective in the international legal community, drawing on over 1200 references, tables, and illustrations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Citizen Participation Through Small Group Activities
The Possibilities for Community Policing in South Africa*
chapter 3|12 pages
The Public Prosecutor, Criminal Law, and the Rights of Accused in Japan
Yet to Strike a Balance?
chapter 4|20 pages
Fingerprinting Under the Alien Registration Law of Japan
Struggle for Its Abolition*
chapter 9|16 pages
New Times, a New Paradigm
Mapping the Interactions of the Legal System, Judges, Lawyers, and Regime Changes in Post-Communist Europe
chapter 10|11 pages
Creating the Institutions for a Law-Governed State
The Constitutional Politics of Bulgaria's Grand National Assembly
chapter 12|14 pages
The Influence of Expert and Non-Expert Members of Juries
The Spanish Jury as an Illustration
chapter 13|29 pages
The Judges of the English Court of Appeal
Public Law Decision-Making Characteristics and Chances of Promotion to the House of Lords
chapter 16|21 pages
Media Concentration and Law
New Developments in Germany and the European Community
chapter 20|23 pages
Community Policing, Equity, and Drug Enforcement
Toward a Consideration of Public Health Strategies
chapter 23|21 pages
A Challenge to Reform
How Competing Views of Children's Nature Have Influenced the United States Supreme Court's Determination of the Legal Status of Accused Juveniles
