Australian Criminal Justice

by Mark Findlay, Stephen Odgers, Stanley Yeo

Australian Criminal Justice provides a complete overview of the criminal justice process. It analyzes the influences that shape criminal justice and examines the institutional and administrative features of its operation in all jurisdictions.

Building on the rights theme of previous editions, this fourth edition more clearly highlights and discusses the "justice for all" theme present in international conventions and in the core principles of criminal justice. The authors also examine the derogation of a number of these principles--in
particular, the erosion of individual right protection and due process, and conditions of criminal justice which require the recognition of fundamental presumptions in the defendant's favor.

Genres: Law

437 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 1994

Reviews

[Tony · Rating 3 out of 5]

I re read this book which is basically a text book for those studying in the Australian Justice System. The book is now about 30 years old and sadly, in some cases, things haven't changed that much. The author sometimes gets away from the text book style and his own emotions and opinions creep in and I recall that I resented that a little when I first read it. The second time around I became aware that because of that it has made me think more critically about issues and to not be so one sided in my opinions about things. So because of that positive influence I quite enjoyed this book.