Download or read book Issues in Comparative Criminology written by Piers Beirne and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering together work in comparative criminology, this text focuses on issues of theory, explanation and measurement. The articles have been selected because of their cross-cultural attention to crime, rather than to the processes and institutions of criminal justice.