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12 J. Ethnicity Crim. Just. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/wecj12 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal ofEthnicity in CriminalJustice, 12:1-3, 2014 Routledge Copyright 0 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Taylor& Francis Group ISSN: 1537-7938 print / 1537-7946 online DOI: 10.1080/15377938.2014.857949 Guest Editor's Introduction OBI N. I. EBBE Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA This special issue is on comparative and international criminal justice. It is undeniable that the study of comparative and international criminal justice sharpens our awareness of the ubiquitous operational dynamics in criminal law and of the variety of cultural concepts that brought different criminal justice systems into being. In the process of studying the ways in which social order is achieved and maintained across nations, we learn how to modify our own society, bearing in mind that what works for one country may not work for another (Ebbe, 1996, 2000). The relevance of studying comparative and international criminal jus- tice can be unmistakably seen in the three articles presented in this cur- rent issue. The three articles describe many countries and cultures, namely, Australia/Australian aborigines, China, Finland, Russia, Somalia, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. The foci of the articles are very close. The first article focuses on the operations of the criminal justice system, whereas the last two focus on perceptions of the operation of the justice system. In Distrust of the Police in a Nordic Welfare State: Victimization, Discrimination, and Trust in the Police by Russian and Somali Minorities in Helsinki, KAdridinen and Niemi report on a study of Russian (n = 562) and Somali (n = 484) minorities living in Helsinki, Finland, and their trust in the police. They found that 90% of Russians have solid trust in the police, whereas 68% of Somalis have solid trust in the Helsinki police. They also found that the homogeneous Finnish people have solid trust in their police. Chui and Cheng contribute the second article, Chinese Migrants' Per- ceptions of the Queensland Criminal Justice System. They studied 264 Chi- nese migrants living in Brisbane (the capital of Queensland, Australia) and measured their perceptions of the integrity, competence, and fairness of var- ious departments of the criminal justice system in dealing with the Chinese Address correspondence to Dr. Obi N. I. Ebbe, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598. E-mail: obi-ebbe@utc.edu 1

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