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Criminal Procedure: Comparative Aspects - Purposes And Problems, Two Models Of The Criminal Process, Investigation, Control Of Police, Prosecution

In the light of growing dissatisfaction with the realities of American criminal procedure, the criminal process of foreign countries has since the 1970s attracted growing interest among American scholars. They have sought possible models for domestic reform not only in other jurisdictions of the common law family but also in continental Europe, where the criminal process has followed a format quite different from the Anglo-American tradition.

THOMAS WEIGEND

See also ADVERSARY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND ENFORCEMENT: CHINA; COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND ENFORCEMENT: ENGLAND AND WALES; COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND ENFORCEMENT: ISLAM; COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND ENFORCEMENT: RUSSIA; CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS; CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM; CRIMINAL LAW REFORM: CONTINENTAL EUROPE; CRIMINAL LAW REFORM: ENGLAND; CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS; PROSECUTION: COMPARATIVE ASPECTS.

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