NCJ Number
176845
Date Published
1997
Length
173 pages
Annotation
This book analyzes criminal policy and its connections with sociopolitical and ideological foundations of the system in Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
Abstract
The book attempts to determine the role of the community and its consensus about dominant social values within the context of questions about the constitution of legitimacy of social control, primarily in the framework of political and social changes in the post-1989 central-eastern European countries. The aim of the book is to offer a special synthesis of theoretical and practical considerations and material, which would be a source of relevant information in the area of criminal policy and theory, as well as a guide through the specific problems of security and criminal policy that are characteristic of contemporary central-eastern Europe. It is not an exhaustive critical study of all criminal legislation in the region and does not attempt to present all aspects of social control in the region. Rather, it attempts to be a comparative interpretation of emerging criminal policy in the region in the immediate aftermath of communism. Notes, figures, references