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Can I read Criminal justice in the Middle East on EtoBox?
Criminal justice in the Middle East by Jill Crystal is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Criminal justice in the Middle East about?
Criminal justice in the Middle East conjures up images of severed hands, religious police, and qadi justice. Yet those seeking a more accurate picture find few sources. Conventional treatments of the region focus on Islamic law, although few Middle Eastern states actually base their legal systems on Islamic law. This article argues that in the Middle East as elsewhere, rulers use criminal justice to achieve two related ends: to maintain order generally, and to maintain a particular order -to preserve the regime in power and the interests and values of those who support it. A comparative historical analysis of the emergence of the police and judiciary links these two ends, and these two institutions.
Who reads Criminal justice in the Middle East?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Jill Crystal
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0047-2352)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences