Comparative Criminal Procedure – A Select Bibliography

By Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Lyonette Louis-Jacques is Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the D’Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago Law School. Lyo received her B.A. degree and her J.D. from the University of Chicago, and her library science degree from the University of Michigan. She was the Foreign and International Legal Reference Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library from 1986-1992 prior to her current position at the University of Chicago Law School. She teaches foreign, comparative, and international legal research and has written many articles on that topic in publications such as the Chicago Journal of International Law, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, and the International Journal of Legal Information. In particular, Lyo is the author of the “Law Lists” directory of law-related email listservs and other online discussion forums (updated through 2005) and the original Jumpstart guide to foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) research specialists. She wrote a “Legal Information” column for Slaw – Canada’s Online Legal Magazine from 2010-2020. She is co-founder with Mila Rush of the INT-LAW listserv for FCIL librarians and other legal information professionals. Lyo is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), and several other law and library-related organizations.

Published May/June 2021

(Previously updated in June/July 2013 and in November/December 2016)

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1. Introduction

This bibliography lists selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. It focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally, criminal procedure in multiple jurisdictions, and specialized research topics in comparative criminal procedure such as: arrest, pre-trial detention, criminal investigation, criminal evidence, interrogation, right to counsel, legal assistance for indigent defendants, discovery, plea bargaining, trial by jury, the privilege against self-incrimination, inquisitorial versus accusatorial systems, role of prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys, cross-examination, exclusionary rules, sentencing, criminal appeals, and double jeopardy. A few comparative international criminal procedure titles are included.

Relevant Library of Congress subject headings for searching U.S. library catalogs and union catalogs such as WorldCat include the following. Note that general comparative or multi-jurisdictional works are listed under the main subject headings:

  • Criminal justice, Administration of
  • Criminal justice, Administration of – [country, region]
  • Criminal justice, Administration of – Cross-cultural studies
  • Criminal procedure
  • Criminal procedure – [country, region]
  • Criminal procedure (International law)
  • Criminal procedure (Islamic law)

2. Primary Legal Materials

You can locate translations of foreign criminal procedure codes by searching in library catalogs, legal research guides and bibliographies (such as Foreign Law Guide and GlobaLex), specialized publications or sites containing translations, databases such as HeinOnline, websites of relevant government agencies such as ministries of justice, and related inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) such as the OSCE/ODIHR (Legislationline) and the UNODC/IMoLIN (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime/International Money Laundering Information Network) Anti-Money-Laundering International Database (AMLID) legislation/regulations for 120 countries). Sometimes searches of full text journal or book databases will be useful in obtaining citations to criminal procedure codes in English translation.

Selected Country Criminal Procedural Codes in Translation

  • China: Wei Luo, The Amended and Annotated Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China with Official Interpretations (Getzville, NY: W.S. Hein, 2d ed., 2018) (China Law Series; v.16)
  • China: Jianfu Chen & Suiwa Ke, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law in the People’s Republic of China: Commentary and Legislation (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013).
  • Eritrea: Criminal Procedure Code of the State of Eritrea (Asmara: Ministry of Justice, 2015). Text available via the UNHCR Refworld website.
  • France (via Legislationline): Code of Criminal Procedure (updated through January 1, 2006). With the participation of John Rason Spencer.
  • Germany (via the Bundesministerium der Justiz/juris’ Gesetze im Internet): Strafprozeßordnung (StPO) = The German Code of Criminal Procedure (2019).
  • Iran: Code of Criminal Procedure: The Islamic Republic of Iran (Khorsandy Publication, 2016). Mohammad Reza Matin Nejad, trans.
  • Israel: Aryeh Greenfield, Criminal Law Procedure (Haifa: A.G. Publications, 2017). Includes updated and consolidated translations of law 5742-1982 and regulations 5734-1974.
  • Italy: The Italian Code of Criminal Procedure: Critical Essays and English Translation (Mitja Gialuz, Luca Lupária, Federica Scarpa eds., WoltersKluwer/CEDAM, 2d ed., 2017).
  • Japan (Keiji soshoho): The Code of Criminal Procedure and the Law for Enforcement of the Code of Criminal Procedure for Japan (Tokyo: Eibun-Horei-Sha, 2017) (EHS Law Bulletin Series; v.2 RA-RB).
  • Poland: The Code of Criminal Procedure = Kodeks postepowania karnego (Joanna Ewa Adamczyk, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck, 2018) (bilingual Polish-English edition).
  • Russian Federation (via Legislationline): Criminal Procedure Code (2012).
  • Russia: William E. Butler, Russian Criminal Law and Procedure (London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Pub., 2011).
  • Somaliland: Criminal procedure code = Xeerka Habka Ciqaabta: English text & Somali version ([Hargeisa, Somaliland]: UNDP Rule of Law and Security Programme, 2014).
  • Turkey (Ceza muhakemeleri usulu kanunu): Turkish Penal Procedure Code (Feridun Yenisey trans., 3d ed., Istanbul: Kutup Yildizi Yayinlari, 2017).

Sources for Locating Criminal Procedure Codes in English Translation

American Series of Foreign Penal Codes (Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein): English translations of foreign criminal and criminal procedures codes formerly published by F. B. Rothman and now online via HeinOnline. Includes the French Code of Criminal Procedure (1988), the German Code of Criminal Procedure (1973), the Israeli Criminal Procedure Law (2001), and the Criminal Procedure Code of the People’s Republic of China and Related Documents (1985). Useful for historical research.

AMLID: the UNODC/IMoLIN (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime/International Money Laundering Information Network) Anti-Money-Laundering International Database; legislation/regulations for 120 countries.

Foreign Law Guide (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, May 2012- ): The FLG is a web-based subscription service via BrillOnline Reference Works including references to criminal procedure codes in the vernacular and in English translation for many countries. It began as a loose-leaf service compiled by Thomas (Tom) H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores titled Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World (Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman; W.S. Hein, 1989-summer 2007), then also web-based from 2000 until June 24, 2013). The Foreign Law Guide or FLG includes in an alphabetical listing by country under each country, a subject arrangement which references laws and codes in English translation with links to free Internet sources thereof.

GlobaLex (founded and edited by Mirela Roznovschi 2005-2015; now edited by Lucie Olejnikova 2015-present, Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law) (open access publication). The “Foreign Law Research” section of GlobaLex includes legal research articles for over 100 countries. Many of the articles include sections on the basic codes including criminal procedure codes and have sections on how to locate laws in English translation.

Legislationline (Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR)). Legislationline includes links to English translations of texts of legislation of European countries on the police, prisons, right to a fair trial, judicial and prosecution systems, and the death penalty. Under “Criminal Codes” in the OSCE/ODIHR Documentation Center are English versions of criminal procedure/penal procedure codes or acts for most of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. The dates of amendment vary. Some codes of criminal procedure are translated through their amendments as of 1988, some as of 2020.

SHERLOC (Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Database of Legislation). SHERLOC contains full texts of criminal procedure codes/acts/laws for various countries in English translation; about 675 pieces of legislation from a Search By Keyword for: criminal procedure.

WorldCat (OCLC; free web discovery service): The WorldCat bibliographic service includes holdings from catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide. To locate English translations of foreign criminal procedure codes or laws, you can search by the country as an Author and by Title: criminal procedure code. You can also search for Title: penal procedure code. You can search by the title of the code in the vernacular/original language and then limit/filter/refine by the language in which you want the translation or use the Advanced Search page to limit by language directly. You can get the vernacular names of criminal procedure codes by using the Foreign Law Guide or GlobaLex. For example, you can find libraries holding separately published print (or e-cataloged) English translations of Turkey’s criminal procedure code (Ceza muhakemesi kanunu) via WorldCat.

3. Books

  • Abdel Haleem, Muhammad, Sharif, Adil Umar, & Daniels, Kate eds. Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Sharīa (London; New York: I.B. Tauris; Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; 2018 (paperback edition)).
  • Akeredolu, Olusina. The Indigenous African Criminal Justice System for the Modern World (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2016) (Carolina Academic Press African World Series). Includes a chapter on “Revision of the Moroccan criminal procedure law”.
  • Albrecht, Hans-Jörg & Klip, André eds. Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Europe: Collection in Honour of Prof. em. dr. h.c. Cyrille Fijnaut(Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2013). Includes chapters on public prosecution in Europe and DNA analysis in criminal proceedings.
  • Andrews, J.A. ed. Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study (The Hague; Boston: M. Nijhoff; Kluwer, 1982). – Covers protection of the rights of the accused in pre-trial and trial procedures (preliminary investigation, arrest, bail, speedy trial, trial by jury, fair trial, right to counsel, search and seizure, detention, etc.) in Belgium, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the United States.
  • Bachmaier, Lorena, Thaman, Stephen, & Lynn, Veronica, eds. The Right to Counsel and the Protection of Attorney-Client Privilege in Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative View (Cham: Springer, 2020). Covers China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and the USA.
  • Banks, Cynthia L. & Baker, James. Comparative, International and Global Justice: Perspectives from Criminology and Criminal Justice (Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, 2016). Includes chapters on the criminal procedure codes of China and Russia.
  • Bassiouni, M. Cherif ed. The Islamic Criminal Justice System (London; New York: Oceana Publications, 1982).
  • Berg, Manfred, Kapsch, Stefan, & Streng, Franz eds. Criminal Justice in the United States and Germany: History, Modernization, and Reform = Strafrecht in den Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland: Geschichte und neuere Entwicklungen (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006).
  • Bettwy, Samuel W. Comparative Criminal Procedure through Film: Analytical Tools & Law and Film Summaries by Legal Tradition and Country (Lake Mary, Fl.: Vandeplas Publishing, 2015). “This textbook describes analytical tools for studying comparative criminal procedure through film and provides summaries of the law of 50 countries and of over 270 films that depict criminal procedure in action in those countries.”
  • Billing, Fenella M. W. Right to Silence in Transnational Criminal Proceedings: Comparative Law Perspectives (Switzerland: Springer, 2016).
  • Blackstock, Jodie, Taru Spronken, Anna Ogorodova, Ed Cape, & Jacqueline Hodgson. Inside Police Custody: An Empirical Account of Suspects’ Rights in Four Jurisdictions (Cambridge, UK: Intersentia, 2014) (Ius Commune Europaeum; 113). The jurisdictions are England and Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Scotland.
  • Bohlander, Michael. Principles of German Criminal Procedure (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2012). 2d ed. forthcoming 2021.
  • Bradley, Craig M. ed. Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study (2d ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2007). Adds Egypt and Mexico but omits Scotland and Spain which were in the 1999 1st ed. Covers Argentina, Canada, China, Egypt, England & Wales, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and the United States.
  • Brown, Darryl K., Turner, Jenia I., & Weisser, Bettina, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019). Covers criminal procedures in Europe, and common law and civil law systems generally.
  • Bryett, Keith & Osborne, Peter. Criminal Prosecution Procedure and Practice: International Perspectives (Belfast: Stationery Office, 2000) (Research Report/Northern Ireland. Criminal Justice Review Group; 16). Covers adversarial and inquisitorial models of criminal justice, public and private prosecutors, prosecution structures, accountability and independence of prosecutors, equity and fairness, for Northern Ireland, England and Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.
  • Caianiello, Michele & Hodgson, Jacqueline, eds. Discretionary Criminal Justice in a Comparative Context (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2015). Covers prosecutorial discretion, plea agreements, and exclusionary rules in the People’s Republic of China, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • Cape, Ed, Namoradze, Zaza, Smith, Roger, & Spronken, Taru eds. Effective Criminal Defence in Europe (Antwerp; Oxford; Portland: Intersentia, 2010) (Ius commune europaeum; 87). The executive summary is available at the Open Society Justice Initiative website and includes recommendations for Belgium, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Turkey.
  • Cape, Ed, Hodgson, Jacqueline, Prakken, Ties, & Spronken, Taru eds. Suspects in Europe: Procedural Rights at the Investigative Stage of the Criminal Process in the European Union (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2007) (Ius commune europaeum; 64). Covers Belgium, England and Wales, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland.
  • Cappelletti, Mauro & Cohen, William. Comparative Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1979) (includes sections on criminal procedure).
  • Carter, Linda & Pocar, Fausto eds. International Criminal Procedure: The Interface of Civil Law and Common Law Legal Systems (Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013). Includes coverage of criminal procedures, such as plea bargaining, at the national level.
  • Carter, Linda E., Blakesley, Christopher L., & Henning, Peter J. Global Issues in Criminal Procedure (St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2011) (American Casebook Series).
  • Charret-Del Bove, Marion & Mourlon, Fabrice, eds. Pre-Trial Detention in 20th and 21st Century Common Law and Civil Law Systems (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014).
  • Cole, George F., Frankowski, Stanislaw J., & Gertz, Marc G. eds. Major Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey (2d ed., Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987). Covers criminal procedure law in England, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Nigeria, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Sweden, and the United States. Includes an extensive bibliography of books and articles in English at pages 262-285.
  • Coutts, John Archibald ed., The Accused: A Comparative Study (London: Published under the auspices of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law [by] Stevens, 1966). Covers pre-trial procedure in England, Scotland; criminal defendant in the U.S.; administration of criminal justice in Northern Ireland; the preliminary hearing in Ireland; and criminal procedure in New Zealand, Malaysia, former British Commonwealth dependencies, Israel, South Africa, France, former French territories in Africa, Germany, Poland, the U.S.S.R., defense rights in ex-Belgian Congo.
  • Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2000). Includes chapters on restorative justice, crime prevention, emerging issues, new criminal legislation, policing, the prosecution process and the changing role of the prosecutor, sentencing, community sanctions, and prisons.
  • Cryer, Robert, Robinson, Darryl, & Vasiliev, Sergey. An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (4th ed., Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
  • Dammer, Harry R. & Albanese, Jay S. Comparative Criminal Justice Systems (5th ed., Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014)(1st ed. 1993 by Erika Fairchild). Covers the reasons to compare criminal justice systems, cross-national comparisons of crime data (including resources for doing so), comparative legal systems, and criminal law and criminal justice in six model nations: England, France, Germany, China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Includes a section on law enforcement in these countries, criminal procedure, legal actors, courts, sentencing, prisons, terrorism, transnational organized crime, juvenile justice, and contemporary issues such as computer crime, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, terrorism.
  • Delmas-Marty, Mireille & Spencer, J.R. European Criminal Procedures (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Covers criminal procedure in Belgium, England, France, Germany, and Italy. Has a section on special issues such as The Public Prosecutor; The Balance of Power between the Police and the Public Prosecutor; The Role of the Judge; Private Parties: The Rights of the Defendant and the Victim; Evidence; Negotiated Justice; and Justice and the Media. English version of Procédures pénales d’Europe (1995). Introduction includes a historical overview of the development of criminal procedure in Europe.
  • Duce, Mauricio. Criminal Procedure Reforms in Latin America: Experiences in Innovation=Reformas procesales penales en América Latina: experiencias de innovación (Santiago, Chile: Justice Studies Center of the Americas, 2005).
  • Dünkel, Frieder, ed., in collaboration with Andrea Gensing, Michele Burman, and David O’Mahony. Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe: Current Situation and Reform Developments (Mönchengladbach: Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2010). Four-volume set including country reports on juvenile criminal procedure in the following European countries: v.1: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England-Wales, Estonia, Finland, France; v.2: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal; v.3: Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine; v.4 includes comparative analyses of sentencing practices, pre-trial detention, etc.
  • Dupont, Lieven & Fijnaut, Cyrille eds. International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Criminal Law (Deventer; Boston: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, c1993-date). The IEL: Criminal Law is also available via Kluwer Law Online. Updated 5-volume looseleaf service and online resource containing monographic treatments (so far) of criminal procedure law in Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Macau, Malawi, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, United States of America, Uruguay, Zimbabwe. Publication dates range from 1993 to the most recent national monographs, Croatia and Hong Kong, published in 2019.
  • Ebbe, Obi N.I. ed. Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections (3d ed., Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013). Includes coverage of the criminal justice systems of Argentina, China, Ireland, Israel, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, the UK, and the U.S. has chapters on criminal procedure in Nigeria, the Islamic criminal justice system, and a case study of a criminal trial in China.
  • Eidam, Lutz, Lindemann, Michael, & Ransiek, Andreas, eds. Interrogation, Confession, and Truth: Comparative Studies in Criminal Procedure (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020)( Schriften zum Internationalen und Europäischen Strafrecht, vol. 43).
  • Eser, Albin & Rabenstein, Christiane eds. Criminal Justice Between Crime Control and Due Process: Convergence and Divergence in Criminal Procedure Systems=Strafjustiz im Spannungsfeld von Effizienz und Fairness: Konvergente und Divergente Entwicklungen im Strafprozessrecht (Berllin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004). Includes English-language articles on general and specific aspects of criminal procedure in England and Wales, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Russia, Scotland.
  • Esmein, Adhémar. A History of Continental Criminal Procedure, with Special Reference to France (John Simpson trans.; Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1913). Available as an ebook via the Gale Cengage Learning The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law database.
  • Fabri, Marco. Four Criminal Procedure Cases Studies in Comparative Perspective: China – Italy – Russia – U.S.A. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016).
  • Feeney, Floyd & Joachim Hermann. One Case – Two Systems: A Comparative View of American and German Criminal Justice Systems (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2005).
  • Fennell, Phil. Criminal Justice in Europe: A Comparative Study (Oxford: New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1995) (covers convergence and Europeanization of criminal procedure law in the Netherlands and the UK).
  • Fields, Charles B. & Moore, Richter H., Jr., Comparative and International Criminal Justice: Traditional and Nontraditional Systems of Law and Control (2d ed., Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2005). Focuses on specialized topics in the area such as cross-national crime, international terrorism, organized crime, policing, corrections, juvenile justice, etc. Includes a section on “Law and Justice: Judicial Systems-Formal and Informal” which covers uniform sentencing in Denmark and Scotland, justice in the southern Philippines and post-British Nigeria, three Islamic legal systems (traditional Saudi Arabia, contemporary Bahrain, and evolving Pakistan), and a comparative perspective on the privilege against self-incrimination.
  • Gazal-Ayal, Oren, ed. A Global Perspective on Sentencing Reforms (Durham, NC: Duke University School of Law, 2013) (Law and Contemporary Problems, v.76, no.1). Covers sentencing guidelines in England and Wales and the U.S. and articles such as “Determinate sentencing and American exceptionalism: the underpinnings and effects of cross-national differences in the regulation of sentencing discretion” and “Moderate and non-arbitrary sentencing without guidelines: The German experience.”
  • Germain, Claire M. “Comparing French and U.S. Legal Systems: The French Criminal Trial” (Cornell Law School Library) (via the Internet Archive, as of March 10, 2011). Provides an overview of the French criminal proceedings, including video segments of trials and arraignments. Includes French-English glossary.
  • Gewirtz, Paul, Johnson, Karen, & Cogan, Jacob Katz eds. Global Constitutionalism: Criminal Procedure, Courts and Politics (New Haven, CT: Yale Law School, 2000). Covers “the right to silence and the privilege against self-incrimination, the right to confront witnesses, and the relationship between the media and the courts in criminal cases” with illustrative cases from Australia, Canada, England and Wales, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Germany, Israel, Italy, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the United States.
  • Gilliéron, Gwladys. Public Prosecutors in the United States and Europe: A Comparative Analysis with Special Focus on Switzerland, France, and Germany (Cham; New York: Springer, 2014).
  • Ginsburg, Tom, Monateri, P.G., & Parisi Francesco, eds. Classics in Comparative Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2014) (Elgar Research Reviews in Law). 4v. Includes the following articles: Damaška, Mirjan (1975), ‘Structures of Authority and Comparative Criminal Procedure’, Yale Law Journal, 84 (3), January, 480-544; Langbein, John H. and Lloyd L. Weinreb (1978), ‘Continental Criminal Procedure: “Myth” and Reality’, Yale Law Journal, 87 (8), July, 1549-69-Langer, Máximo (2004), ‘From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure’, Harvard International Law Journal, 45 (1), Winter, 1-64.
  • Giostra, Glauco & Vania Patanè. European Juvenile Justice Systems (Milano, Italy: Giuffrè Editore, 2007). Has national reports for Belgium, Croatia, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, and the Netherlands.
  • Gless, Sabine & Richter, Thomas. Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?: A Comparative Perspective on Evidentiary Rules (Cham: Springer, 2019)(Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, No. 74). Covers the People’s Republic of China, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States.
  • Groenhuijsen, Marc S. & Kooijmans, Tijs. The Reform of the Dutch Code of Criminal Procedure in Comparative Perspective (Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).
  • Gruber, Aya, de Palacios, Vicente, & van Kempen, Piet Hein. Practical Global Criminal Procedure: United States, Argentina, and the Netherlands (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012).
  • Hatchard, John, Huber, Barbara, & Vogler, Richard eds. Comparative Criminal Procedure (London: B.I.I.C.L., 1996) (Comparative Law Series). Includes an overview chapter on comparative criminal procedure followed by separate chapters on criminal procedure in France, Germany, England and Wales, and a chapter on comparison between the three jurisdictions. Each country chapter covers Source of Criminal Procedure; General Principles Governing Criminal Procedure; Rights of the Accused; Phases of the Criminal Process (police investigation, judicial investigation, trial, appeals); Agencies Involved in the Criminal Justice System; Other Participants in the Criminal Process; Sources of Evidence; Finality; Special Forms of Procedure; Consensual Disposal; and Proposals for Reform.
  • Hodgson, Jacqueline. French Criminal Justice: A Comparative Account of the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime in France (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2005).
  • Hodgson, Jacqueline S. The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice: A Comparative Account (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020). Focuses on England and Wales and France. Covers adversarial and inquisitorial criminal procedure, prosecution, defense, and miscarriages of justice.
  • Huff, C. Ronald & Killias, Martin. Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems (New York, NY: Routledge, 2013) (Criminology and Justice Studies).
  • Ingraham, Barton L. The Structure of Criminal Procedure: Laws and Practice of France, the Soviet Union, China, and the United States (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987). Compares procedures for intake, screening, charging, adjudicating, sanctioning, and appeal. References relevant constitutional provisions, statutes, codes for each country on pretrial detention, searches and seizures, notice of charges and evidence against defendant, right of counsel, self-incrimination, non-public adjudication, double jeopardy, and right of appeal.
  • Jackson, John D. & Sarah J. Summers. The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  • Jackson, John D., Langer, Máximo, & Tillers, Peter eds., Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context: Essays in Honour of Professor Mirjan Damaška (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2008). Includes chapters by prominent scholars in the field on criminal procedure in Germany, Italy, the U.S., post-Soviet states, and South-Eastern Europe generally.
  • Jehle, Jörg-Martin & Wade, Marianne eds. Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems: The Rise of Prosecutorial Power across Europe (Berlin; New York: Springer, 2006). Covers the prosecution service function in England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden.
  • Johnson, David T. The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • Jongbloed, A.W., ed. The XIIIth World Congress on Procedural Law: The Belgian and Dutch Reports (Antwerp; Portland: Intersentia, 2008). Contains reports on illegal evidence in criminal procedure from the the 13th World Congress of Procedural Law of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL), September 16-21, 2007.
  • Kaplan, Martin F. & Martin, Anna M. Understanding World Jury Systems Through Social Psychological Research (New York: Psychology Press, 2006). Chapters discuss trial by jury, jury systems, mixed (lay and professional) juries, lay judges, law participation for the following countries: Australia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Spain, U.S.
  • Kempen, P.H.P.H.M.C. van (Piet Hein P.H.M.C.)., Krabbe, Maartje, & Brinkhoff, Sven, eds. The Criminal Justice System of the Netherlands: Organization, Substantive Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Sanctions (Antwerpen; Cambridge: Intersentia, 2019). Includes a chapter on the criminal procedure law by Swen Brinkhoff, Joeri Bemelmans , & Maarten Kuipers).
  • Kempen, P.H.P.H.M.C. van (Piet Hein P.H.M.C.). Pre-Trial Detention: Human Rights, Criminal Procedural Law and Penitentiary Law, Comparative Law = Détention avant jugement: droits de l’homme, droit de la procédure pénale et droit pénitentiaire, droit comparé / (Cambridge, UK; Portland, Or.: Intersentia, 2012).
  • Koppen, Peter J. van & Penrod, Steven D. eds. Adversarial Versus Inquisitorial Justice: Psychological Perspectives on Criminal Justice Systems (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003). Compares the two systems, American and European approaches to police investigation (including coverage of search and seizure and interrogation). Covers police interrogations in England and the Netherlands, the death penalty in the U.S., recovered memories in court, cross-examination of witnesses, children in court, expert evidence in the Netherlands and the U.S., and expert witnesses in Europe and the U.S.
  • Kostoris, Roberto E., ed. Handbook of European Criminal Procedure (Cham: Springer, 2018).
  • Kovalev, Nikolai. Criminal Justice Reform in Russia, Ukraine and the Former Republics of the Soviet Union: Trial by Jury and Mixed Courts (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).
  • Kuczynska, Hanna. The Accusation Model before the International Criminal Court: Study of Convergence of Criminal Justice Systems (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015) “Abstract: This book examines how the functioning of the International Criminal Court has become a forum of convergence between the common law and civil law criminal justice systems. Four countries were selected as primary examples of these two legal traditions: the United States, England and Wales, Germany and Poland. The first layer of analysis focuses on selected elements of the model of accusation that are crucial to the model adopted by the ICC. These are: development of the notion of the prosecutor’s independence in view of their ties to the countries and the Security Council; the nature and limits.”
  • Langbein, John H. Comparative Criminal Procedure: Germany (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Pub. Co., 1977) (American Casebook Series).
  • Langbein, John H. Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974).
  • Ligeti, Katalin ed. Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union (v.1: A Comparative Analysis) (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2013) (Modern Studies in European Law; v.34). Covers “national systems of investigation, prosecution, evidence and procedural safeguards”, criminal procedure of Austria, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
  • Lippman, Matthew, McConville, Sean, & Yerushalmi, Mordechai. Islamic Criminal Law and Procedure: An Introduction (New York: Praeger, 1988).
  • Luna, Erik, Wade, Marianne, Dr., & Bojanczyk, Antoni eds. The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Covers England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden (and other Nordic countries), Europe generally, and the U.S.
  • Mack, Raneta Lawson. Comparative Criminal Procedure: History, Processes and Case Studies (Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein, 2d ed., 2017). 3d ed., forthcoming 2021. Includes examples from Argentina, China, England, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Spain, and EU member states generally.
  • Maffei, Stefano. The Right to Confrontation in Europe: Absent, Anonymous, and Vulnerable (2d ed., Groningen: Europa Law Publishing, 2012). First ed. 2006 titled:The European Right to Confrontation in Criminal Proceedings: Absent, Anonymous and Vulnerable Witnesses (European and International Criminal Law Series; 1). Covers the right to confrontation in European human rights law and in English, French, and Italian criminal procedure.
  • Malsch, Marijke. Democracy in the Courts: Lay Participation in European Criminal Justice Systems (Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009) (International and Comparative Criminal Justice).
  • McBride, Jeremy. Human Rights and Criminal Procedure: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2d ed., 2018).
  • McConville, Michael & Pils, Eva. Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China (Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013). Includes a chapter of commentary on the 2012 revision of the Chinese criminal procedure law.
  • McConville, Mike & Choongh, Satnam. Criminal Justice in China: An Empirical Inquiry (Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011). Includes Appendix 1: “Chinese Criminal Procedure: An Overview.”
  • Mueller, Gerhard O.W. & Le Poole-Griffiths, Fré. Comparative Criminal Procedure (New York: New York University Press, 1969). Includes chapters on general history of continental criminal procedure and overview of comparative criminal procedure (“Lessons of Comparative Criminal Procedure” covers arrest, probable cause, trial, victims), on judicial supervision of pre-trial procedure, preliminary investigation by magistrates, non-punitive detention, judicial fitness, and jurisdiction over crimes committed abroad or with aircraft.
  • National Criminal Justice Profiles (print and online texts on the criminal justice systems of European countries published by HEUNI, the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with the United Nations, from 1990-2006). Includes profiles for Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England and Wales, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden. Include PDF of profiles that are in print.
  • Nelken, David. Contrasting Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). Covers various aspects of criminal justice in England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.S.
  • Nesossi, Elisa. China’s Pre-Trial Justice: Criminal Justice, Human Rights and Legal Reforms in Contemporary China (London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Pub., 2012) (Law in East Asia).
  • O’Connor, Vivienne & Rausch, Collette eds. Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice: Volume II: Model Code of Criminal Procedure (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008).
  • Pakes, Francis J. Comparative Criminal Justice (4th ed., New York: Routledge; Taylor and Francis Group, 2019). Discusses the reasons to study criminal justice comparatively and methods of comparative research. Has chapters on comparative policing, prosecution and pre-trial justice, systems of trials, judges, juries, punishment, fairness and effectiveness, prisons, the death penalty, international and transnational criminal justice, terrorism, cybercrime, and the evolution of criminal justice systems. Covers Australasia, Europe, the UK, and the U.S.
  • Rauxloh, Regina. Plea Bargaining in National and International Law: A Comparative Study (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012). Compares England and Wales and (West) Germany. Has a chapter on the former German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany).
  • Reichel, Philip L. Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach (7th ed., Boston: Pearson, 2018). Covers policing, corrections, juvenile justice, and general criminal procedures in over 30 countries including Australia, China, France, Germany, England and Wales, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. Discusses general characteristics and principles of procedural criminal law in four legal traditions: common, civil, Islamic, Eastern Asia. Includes a chapter on comparing crimes rates, with reference to sources of international crime statistics. Each chapter concludes with suggested readings, websites, and bibliographic references.
  • Ricarda Roos, Stefanie. The Rights of Suspects/Accused and their Defense in Criminal Proceedings in South East Europe: Volume II: Studies in English Translation (Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2008). Covers national criminal procedural law of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Volume I (2017) has the country criminal procedure studies in the original languages.
  • Roberson, Cliff & Das, Dilip K. An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice (2d ed., Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2016).
  • Roberts, Paul & Hunter, Jill B. Criminal Evidence and Human Rights: Reimagining Common Law Procedural Traditions (Oxford; Portland, OR: Hart Pub., 2012). Covers criminal procedure in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, Scotland, South Africa, and the U.S.
  • The Role of the Public Prosecution Office in a Democratic Society (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1997) (covers European countries).
  • Ross, Jacqueline & Thaman, Stephen C. eds. Comparative Criminal Procedure (Northampton, MA; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law). Contains essays on screening mechanisms, pre-trial procedure, intelligence investigations, jury trials, and comparative criminal procedure generally for various countries including France, Germany, India, Japan, post-Soviet States, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States.
  • Ryan, Andrea. Towards a System of European Criminal Justice: The Problem of Admissibility of Evidence (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014).
  • Scheffer, Thomas, Hannken-Illjes, Kati, & Kozin, Alexander. Criminal Defence and Procedure: Comparative Ethnographies in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
  • Seetahal, Dana S. & Ramgoolam, Roger. Commonwealth Caribbean Criminal Practice and Procedure (5th ed., London; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019). Covers 11 Caribbean jurisdictions, including Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica, and Grenada. British West Indies.
  • Sellier, Élodie & Weyembergh, Anne. Criminal Procedures and Cross-Border Cooperation in the EU Area of Criminal Justice: Together But Apart? (Bruxelles: Éditions de l’Université, 2020).
  • Shahidullah, Shahid M. Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Global and Local Perspectives (Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2014).
  • Slobogin, Christopher. Criminal Procedure: Regulation of Police Investigation, Legal, Historical, Empirical and Comparative Materials (5th ed., Newark, N.J.: LexisNexis, 2012). Focuses on the criminal procedure in the United States, but covers practices in Australia, England, Germany, France, India, Italy, and Japan.
  • Sluiter, Göran. International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Spronken, Taru, Vermeulen, Gert, de Vocht, Dorris, & van Puyenbbroeck, Laurens eds. EU Procedural Rights in Criminal Proceedings (Antwerp; Portland: Maklu, 2009).
  • Summers, Sarah J. Fair Trials: The European Criminal Procedural Tradition and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart, 2007).
  • Tak, Peter J.P. The Dutch Criminal Justice System (3d ed., Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2008).
  • Tak, Peter J.P. ed. Tasks and Powers of the Prosecution Services in the EU Member States ([Nijmegen: The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2004).
  • Tata, Cyrus & Hutton, Neil eds. Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). Covers Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, England, Finland, Italy, South Africa, the UK, and general sentencing policy.
  • Terrill, Richard J. World Criminal Justice Systems: A Comparative Survey (9th ed., New York Routledge, 2016). Covers government, police, the judiciary, criminal procedure law, corrections, juvenile justice in China, England, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa, and Islamic law (Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey). Includes an extensive bibliography at pages 691-718.
  • Thaman, Stephen. World Plea Bargaining: Consensual Procedures and the Avoidance of the Full Criminal Trial (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010). Covers plea bargaining in criminal proceedings in Argentina, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, and the United States, with an “Asian detour”. Includes Appendix: Codes of Criminal Procedure.
  • Thaman, Stephen C. Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Casebook Approach (2d ed., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2008) (Comparative Law Series). Provides a brief history of European criminal procedure; includes chapters on the criminal investigation, search and seizure, the privilege against self-incrimination, admissibility of evidence at trial, procedural economy, and the trial. Focuses on Europe.
  • Thaman, Stephen C. Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (Dordrecht; New York: Springer, 2013) (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice; 20). “This book is a comparative study of the exclusion of illegally gathered evidence in the criminal trial, which includes 15 country studies [Belgium, England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the U.S.], a chapter on the European Court of Human Rights, and a comparative synthetic conclusion. The topic is one of the most controversial in criminal procedure law, because it reveals a constant tension between the criminal court’s duty to ascertain the truth, on the one hand, and its duty to uphold important constitutional rights on the other, most importantly, the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to privacy in one’s home and one’s private communications.”
  • Tochilovsky, Vladimir. The Law and Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals and Courts: Procedure and Human Rights Aspects (2d ed., Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2014).
  • Tonry, Michael H. & Lappi-Seppälä, Tapio, eds. Crime and Justice in Scandinavia (Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011) (Crime and Justice (Chicago, Ill.); v.40).
  • Tonry, Michael & Frase, Richard S. eds. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 2001). Covers sentencing in Australia, England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.
  • Tonry, Michael, Hamilton, Kate, & Hatlestad, Kathleen eds. Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective (1997). Covers sentencing in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, the U.S., and Western Europe.
  • Tonry, Michael H., ed. Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective (Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012) (Crime and Justice (Chicago, Ill.); v. 41). Includes articles on prosecutors in Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and the following U.S. states – Arizona, North Caroline, and Washington.
  • Tonry, Michael H. ed. Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2016) (Crime and Justice (Chicago, Ill.); v. 45). Articles cover the differences in national sentencing systems generally, and specifically Nordic sentencing, and the sentencing process in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the U.S.
  • The Training of Judges and Public Prosecutors in Europe (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1997).
  • Trechsel, Stefan. Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Focuses on criminal procedure rights in European Union countries such as the right to a fair trial, the right to counsel, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the protection against double jeopardy.
  • Turner, Jenia I. Plea Bargaining Across Borders: Criminal Procedure (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010). Covers plea bargaining in Bulgaria, China, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.
  • Vanoverbeke, Dimitri. Juries in the Japanese Legal System: The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy (London; New York: Routledge, 2015).
  • Vidmar, Neil ed. World Jury Systems (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Has chapters on the criminal jury in Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Spain, the United States, and elsewhere in the world.
  • Vogler, Richard. A World View of Criminal Justice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). And 2016 paperback edition. Covers inquisitorial and adversarial systems in Europe, China, and Latin America; also covers Islamic criminal justice and the European jury.
  • Vogler, Richard & Huber, Barbara eds. Criminal Procedure in Europe (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008) (Schriftenreihe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht. Strafrechtliche Forschungsberichte; Bd. S 112). Covers England and Wales, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain.
  • Walsh, David, Gavin E Oxburgh, Alison D Redlich, & Trond Myklebust. International Developments and Practices in Investigative Interviewing and Interrogation (London; Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2016) (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice). 2v.
    • Volume 1, Victims and witnesses: Covers Asia (Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea), Australia, New Zealand, Europe (Belgium, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavia, Scotland, Slovenia), North America (Canada, U.S.), South America (Brazil, Chile).
    • Volume 2, Suspects.
  • What Public Prosecution in Europe in the 21st Century (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2000).
  • Wyngaert, Christine Van Den ed. Criminal Procedure Systems in the European Community (London: Butterworths, 1993). Includes multi-lingual subject index that cross-references to related English terms. Has separate chapters with similar outline of contents for Belgium, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, and Spain. The chapters cover Sources; Structure of the Criminal Justice System; Parties to Criminal Proceedings; General Principles Concerning Criminal Procedure; Coercive Measures; The Ordinary Course of Criminal Proceedings; Evidence; Special Forms of Procedure; Remedies; Other Questions; and Select Bibliography.
  • Xie, Guoxing. The Exclusionary Rule of Evidence: Comparative Analysis and Proposals for Reform (Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014) (International and Comparative Criminal Justice). Covers China, the UK, the U.S.
  • Yi, Yanyou. Understanding China’s Criminal Procedure (Paramus, NJ]: Homa & Sekey Books: Tsinghua University Press, 2013) (Chinese Law Series).
  • Zimring, Franklin E., Máximo Langer, & David S. Tanenhaus, eds. Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective (New York: New York University Press, 2015). Includes chapters covering juvenile justice in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America, and Muslim-majority states. Has specific chapters on the People’s Republic of China, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and South Africa.

4. Book Chapters and Journal Articles

  • Berman, Harold J. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: Soviet Union,”1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 207-215 (Sanford H. Kadish ed., New York: Free Press, 1983).
  • Brook, Carol A., Hon. Justice Bruno Fiannaca, Hon. Judge David Harvey, Paul Marcus, Jenny McEwan, and Hon. Justice Renee Pomerance. “A Comparative Look at Plea Bargaining in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, and the United States,” 57 William & Mary Law Review 1147-1224 (2016).
  • Coscas-Williams, Béatrice & Alberstein, Michal. “A Patchwork of Doors: Accelerated Proceedings in Continental Criminal Justice Systems,” 22 New Criminal Law Review 585-617 (2019). “Our paper surveys the development of criminal hybrid models in two continental jurisdictions, Italy and France, following the 1987 Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to accelerate criminal proceedings through the introduction of guilty pleas, out-of-court settlements and simplified proceedings. We describe various frameworks for criminal justice as a multi-door arena, of which the plea bargaining is but one of several possibilities.”
  • Damaška, Mirjan. “Adversary System,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 25-31 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Davies, Malcolm. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: England and Wales,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 182-192 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Dorsen, Norman, Rosenfeld, Michel, Sajó, András, Baer, Susanne, & Mancini, Susanna. “Criminal Procedure (Due Process),” in Comparative Constitutionalism (3d ed., St. Paul, MN: West Academic, 2016). Excerpts cases from Canada, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), France, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the U.S. Covers adversarial versus inquisitorial systems, fair trials, presumption of innocence, right to a trial before an impartial tribunal, pretrial due process, arrest, search and seizure, the exclusionary rule, pretrial detention, bail, prompt judicial review, preventive detention, right to counsel, right to silence, privilege against self-incrimination, right to effective assistance of counsel, right to prepare and conduct a defense, interrogation, torture, right to call and cross-examine witnesses, right to a speedy trial, right to appeal, prohibition against double jeopardy, prohibition against retroactivity of a criminal law.
  • Dubber, Markus Dirk. “American Plea Bargains, German Lay Judges, and the Crisis of Criminal Procedure,” 49 Stanford Law Review 547-605 (1997).
  • Forte, David F. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: Islam,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 192-199 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Frase, Richard S. “Main-Streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How to Incorporate Comparative and International Concepts and Materials into Basic Criminal Law and Procedure Courses,” 100 West Virginia Law Review 773-798 (1998) (includes as “Resources for Further Study” in an appendix, an annotated bibliography of published works for professors and students).
  • Fu, Hualing. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: China,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 172-182 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Gazal-Ayal, Oren & Riza, Limor. “Plea-Bargaining and Prosecution,” in Criminal Law and Economics 145-170 (Nuno Garoupa ed., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009) (Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2d ed.)
  • Gless, Sabine. “AI in the Courtroom: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Evidence in Criminal Trials,” 51 Georgetown Journal of International Law 195-254 (2020). Compares Germany and the United States.
  • Grande, Elisabetta. “Comparative Criminal Justice,” in The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law 191-209 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Comparative criminal procedure discussion at pages 199-209.
  • Grande, Elisabetta. “Legal Transplants and the Inoculation Effect: How American Criminal Procedure Has Affected Continental Europe,” 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 583-618 (2016).
  • Herrmann, Joachim. “The German Prosecutor”, in Discretionary Justice in Europe and America 16-74 (Kenneth Culp Davis ed., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976) (discusses limited discretion of German prosecutors and right of victims to compel prosecution).
  • Jayasuriya, Dayanath C. & Kodagoda, Yasantha. “Criminal Procedures,” 1 Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia 381-384 (Herbert M. Kritzer ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002). Covers China, France, Italy, Japan, Sri Lanka, the U.S., and the U.K.
  • Jimeno-Bulnes, Mar. “American Criminal Procedure in a European Context,” 21 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 409-460 (2013).
  • Langbein, John H. & Weinreb, Lloyd L. “Continental Criminal Procedure: ‘Myth’ and Reality,” 87 Yale Law Journal 1549-1569 (1978). See also “Comment on Continental Criminal Procedure” by Abraham S. Goldstein & Martin Marcus at pages 1570-1577.
  • Levine, Kay & Feeley, Malcolm. “Prosecution,” 19 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 210-215 (Wright, James D., ed., New York: Elsevier Science, 2d ed., 2015).
  • Lewisch, Peter. “Criminal Procedure,” 5 Encyclopedia of Law and Economics 241-260 (Boudewijn Bouckaert & Gerrit De Geest eds., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000)(Chapter 7700).
  • Lubman, Stanley. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: China,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 182-193 (Sanford H. Kadish ed., New York: Free Press, 1983).
  • Ma, Yue. “Lay Participation in Criminal Trials: A Comparative Perspective,” 8 International Criminal Justice Review 74-94 (1998) (covers the U.S. and England, lay judges in France, Germany, and Italy, people’s assessors in China, and the jury trial experiment in Russia).
  • Ma, Yue. “Prosecutorial Discretion and Plea Bargaining in the United States, France, Germany, and Italy: A Comparative Perspective,” 12 International Criminal Justice Review 22-52 (2002).
  • Merryman, John Henry & Pérez-Perdomo, Rogelio. “Criminal Procedure,” in The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Europe and Latin America 127-135 (4th ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). See also The Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia (John Henry Merryman, David S. Clark, & John O. Haley, 1994).
  • Miceli, Thomas J. “Criminal Procedure,” in Criminal Law and Economics 125-144 (Nuno Garoupa ed., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009) (Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2d ed.) (focuses on American criminal procedure).
  • Nader, Laura. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: Pre-Literate Societies,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 199-207 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Pérez-Perdomo, Rogelio. Symposium: “Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America’s Criminal Procedure Revolution,” Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, v.14, no.2 & v.15, no.1 (2008).
  • Pizzi, William T. & Perron, Walter. “Crime Victims in German Courtrooms: A Comparative Perspective on American Problems,” 32 Stanford Journal of International Law 37-64 (1996).
  • Selih, Alenka. “The Prosecution Process and the (Changing) Role of the Prosecutor,” in Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe 93-107 (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Pub., 2000).
  • Smit, Paul R. “Prosecution and Courts,” in Crime and Criminal Justice Systems in Europe and North America, 1995-2004 94-117 (Kauko Aromaa & Markku Heiskanen eds., Helsinki: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, 2008). Includes statistics on suspected and convicted offenders.
  • Thaman, Stephen C. “A Comparative Approach to Teaching Criminal Procedure and its Application to the Post-Investigative Stage,” 56 Journal of Legal Education 459-476 (2006).
  • Thaman, Stephen C. “Comparative Criminal Law and Enforcement: Russia,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 207-218 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Thaman, Stephen C. “Criminal Courts and Procedure,” in Comparative Law and Society 235-253 (David Scott Clark ed., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2012) (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law).
  • Thaman, Stephen C. “Miranda in Comparative Law,” 45 Saint Louis University Law Journal 581-624 (2001).
  • Turner, Jenia I. “Plea Bargaining and Disclosure in Germany and the United States: Comparative Lessons,” 57 William & Mary Law Review 1549-1596 (2016).
  • Turner, Jenia Iontcheva & Weigend, Thomas. “The Purposes and Functions of Exclusionary Rules: A Comparative View,” 74 IUS Gentium 255-282 (2019). Covers Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the U.S.
  • Wade, Marianne L. “A European Public Prosecutor: Potential and Pitfalls,” 59 Crime, Law and Social Change 439-486 (2013).
  • Wade, Marianne L., Jehle, Jörg-Martin, & Elsner, Beatrix. “Prosecution and Diversion within Criminal Justice Systems in Europe,” 14 European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 93-99 (2008) (part of September 2008, Issue 2-3, on “Prosecution and Diversion within Criminal Justice Systems in Europe”, pp. 91-368).
  • Weigend, Thomas. “Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure,” Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law 261-278 (2d ed., Jan M. Smits ed., Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Pub., 2012) (includes bibliography of resources in English, French, and German at pages 273-278).
  • Weigend, Thomas. “Criminal Procedure: Comparative Aspects,” 1 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 444-457 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Weigend, Thomas. “Prosecution: Comparative Aspects,” 3 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 1232-1242 (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002).
  • Weisselberg, Charles D. “Exporting and Importing Miranda,” 97 Boston University Law Review 1235-1291 (2017). Covers the U.S., Japan, and Europe. “Miranda v. Arizona just had a milestone birthday. Perhaps the United States Supreme Court’s best-known criminal procedure decision, it has been both revered and reviled for over fifty years…The Court established Miranda’s regime of warnings and waivers of the right to remain silent and the right to counsel in order to protect suspects from compelled self-incrimination during police interrogation in violation of the Fifth Amendment.”
  • World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1993). Includes reports on criminal justice systems of 45 countries. All were published in 1993 except for five country reports from 2002 (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Venezuela).

5. Journals

  • Asian Journal of Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Crime, Law and Deviance in Asia (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006- ).
  • Crime & Justice: A Review of Research (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979- ) (annual). Includes thematic issues.
  • Crime & Justice International (CJI; publication of the Sam Houston State University College of Criminal Justice’s former Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ); archives from 1994-2007)
  • Crime, Law and Social Change ([Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1977- ).
  • Criminal Law Forum (Camden, NJ: Rutgers University School of Law, 1990- ).
  • eucrim: The European Criminal Law Association Forum (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, 2006- ).
  • European Criminal Law Review (Munich, Germany: Verlag C.H. Beck; Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing; [Baden-Baden, Germany]: Nomos, 2011- ). EuCLR.
  • European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (Deventer, The Netherlands; Cambridge, MA, USA: Kluwer; Stockholm, Sweden: Fritzes; Neuwied, F.R. Germany: Luchterhand, c1993- ).
  • European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research ([Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993- ).
  • European Journal of Criminology (London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2004- ).
  • International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (Wichita, Kan.: Wichita State University; PA: Taylor & Francis, 1977- ).
  • International Journal of Evidence and Proof (London: Blackstone Press, 1996- ).
  • International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier, c2008-) (the previous title was the International Journal on the Sociology of Law).
  • (Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) e-journal. See also the Criminal Procedure eJournal and the Criminal Justice Research Network.
  • Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention (London?: Taylor & Francis, 2000- ).
  • New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal (University of California Press, 2007-; continues Buffalo Criminal Law Review (BCLR)).
  • New Journal of European Criminal Law (Mortsel, Belgium: Intersentia, 2009- ).

6. Organizations and Research Institutes