NCJ Number
136918
Date Published
1991
Length
325 pages
Annotation
This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Indian criminal justice system; a legacy of the British colonial system. The author argues that structural changes are needed in all components of the system to bring it into line with current national values.
Abstract
The comparative study of the criminal justice systems in several Western countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the former Soviet Union is useful in that it provides valuable reference points as well as a notion of how reforms in India should proceed. The book examines the neglected areas of court management and the criminology of bail as well as the system's endemic delays in the dispensation of justice. The trial of the accused assassins of Prime Minister Indira Ghandhi is used as the central case study of the book.