Making the Transition
International Intervention, State-Building and Criminal Justice Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Published on 22. March 2011
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-94-000-0140-4 (ISBN)
Description
Making the Transition provides an analysis of processes of reform, reconstruction, and restructuring in the criminal justice field in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years since it completed a violent secession from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Across the three sectors of policing, courts, and prisons, this work details the challenges facing Bosnia and Herzegovina and explores a range of internationally-sponsored reform initiatives. These three sectors are often examined independently of each other, but by analyzing their development side by side, Making the Transition is able to determine common challenges while establishing different logics and methods of international intervention. The book reflects the author's education in a number of disciplines (politics, history, criminology) and will be a useful addition for those with an interest in the mechanics of state-building and in the reconstruction of post-conflict states.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Antwerp
Belgium
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
613 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-000-0140-4 (9789400001404)
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Andy Aitchison lectures in Criminology and co-directs the MSc in Global Crime, Justice and Security at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously worked in research roles with Cardiff University and the UK Home Office. His research can be divided into two broad strands, both connected by a long-standing interest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first of these relates to questions around the reform and reconstruction of criminal justice institutions in post-socialist, post-authoritarian and post-conflict contexts. Themes of international intervention and democratisation run throughout this work. The second strand of work deals with the criminology of atrocity, a field that has seen significant development over the past 15 years. He supervises at doctoral level across a range of topics related to post-socialist politics and policy, including criminal justice policy, police governance, transnational and international crime, and transitional justice.