Download or read book Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems written by Jörg-Martin Jehle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the results of a six-nation study of how criminal justice agencies in England and Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden have reacted to high crime rates and punitiveness. The book details how various solutions have been adopted, involving diversion of cases from courts, increases in financial penalties imposed by police or prosecutors without full court hearings and the introduction in some countries of "administrative offences".