Unit 7 Internationa

l Policing and Courts

CJ 343 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Police Structure

Centralized versus Decentralized systems.

Examples?

What makes them centralized or not?

CJ 343 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Law on the books versus law in action.

Who makes the decision and at what level?

What makes a police department in the United States? How is it structured?

Paramilitary Organization structure

CJ 343 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Gendarmerie Special units

Interpol

Europol

International courts

Lower level to highest level

Professionalism?

Lay Judges?

The international court of JusticeJurisdiction?

The International Court of Justice acts as a world court. The Court has a dual jurisdiction : it decides, in accordance with international law, disputes of a legal nature that are submitted to it by States (jurisdiction in contentious cases); and it gives advisory opinions on legal questions at the request of the organs of the United Nations or specialized agencies authorized to make such a request (advisory jurisdiction).

In Contentious proceedings, when a dispute is brought before the Court by a unilateral application filed by one State against another State, the names of parties in the official title of the case are separated by the abbreviation v. for the Latin versus (e.g., Cameroonv. Nigeria). When a dispute is submitted to the Court on the basis of a special agreement between two States, the names of the parties are separated by an oblique stroke (e.g., Indonesia/Malaysia).

- The first case entered in the General List of the Court (Corfu Channel (United Kingdom v. Albania)) was submitted on 22 May 1947.From 22 May 1947 to 19 February 2010, 146 cases were entered in the General List.

Questions?