Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society
Awards Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work …

Public opinion polls suggest that American's trust in the police and courts is declining. The
same polls also reveal a disturbing racial divide, with minorities expressing greater levels of …

Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998,
international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This three-volume Treatise on …

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 …

The rules and practices of criminal procedure assume a clean separation between the
interests of the public and the interests of the lone defendant who stands accused. Even the …

Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal
about the character of any society. In Japan, it is prosecutors who wield the greatest control …

The presumption of innocence is one of the most familiar maxims in criminal law.'Historically,
the presumption protected defendants from the time of charge to trial. 2 Grounded in the Due …

This Supplement includes all relevant United States Supreme Court decisions handed down
since the most recent editions of Understanding Criminal Procedure (Vol. 1, 7th ed.; Vol. 2 …

Criminal justice procedure is the bedrock of human rights. Surprisingly, however, in an era of
unprecedented change in criminal justice around the world, it is often dismissed as technical …

At least since 1964 when Herbert Packer introduced two competing models of criminal
justice, the Crime Control Model and the Due Process Model, we have become accustomed …