Public international law: criminal law

This book engages with international legal responses to the global environmental crisis.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions.

The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom.

The notion of social justice permeates much of current Western political and cultural discourse with a newfound urgency.

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.

This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context.

The definitive textbook on the law of international armed conflict.

A step-by-step guide to mastering recognition and interpretation of pediatric EKGs for pediatric nurses at all levels, physician assistants, residents, paramedics, medical students, and technicians.

The right to a fair trial is the most litigated human right in the world.

The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970.

This book reports on advanced concepts in fuzzy graph theory, showing a set of tools that can be successfully applied to understanding and modeling illegal human trafficking.

Awarded Digital Book World's Best Book Published by a University Press In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent MarkGodseytakes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions.

Women's incarceration is on the rise globally and this has significant intergenerational, economic and humanitarian costs for communities across the world.

This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.

En este libro, de forma novedosa, se trata de forma conjunta la prescripción y la imprescriptibilidad de los delitos, estudiando la evolución histórica de cada una de estas figuras desde sus orígenes hasta su actual regulación en el Código Penal español tras su modificación por Ley Orgánica 1/2015, de 30 de marzo, con mención especial a la importante reforma operada en la materia por la Ley Orgánica 5/2010, de 22 de junio.

Looks at the effect of new technologies and privacy, arguing that advances in technology can enhance privacy and security at the same time.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

This book provides the foundation for a lifelong journey of ethical practice in service for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

In the last decade, there has been a turn to history in international humanitarian law and its accompanying fields.

Women, Crime and Justice in Context presents contemporary feminist approaches to key issues in criminal justice.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

This book gathers the general contributions to the 3rd Thematic Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which took place from 16 to 18 November 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

Consent, Stealthing and Desire-Based Contracting in the Criminal Law examines the inconsistencies in the definitions of consent in sexual encounters by examining emerging sex crimes alongside changing community values and the changing legal definitions of consent in sexual offending, focusing on common law and civil law countries.

Originally published in 1991, The Case for the Prosecution examines the entire process of arrest through to conviction.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two.

This book addresses the conceptual and evidentiary issues relating to the treatment of propaganda in international criminal law.

The outcome for children with cancer has shown enormous improvement since the first edition of this book was published in 1975.

Corruption is a globalising phenomenon.

In the event of a paediatric cardiac arrest, it is essential to be able to respond rapidly, providing safe and effective care.

This book situates Ghana's truth-telling process, which took place from 2002 to 2004, within the discourse on the effectiveness of the different mechanisms used by post-conflict and post-dictatorship societies to address gross human rights violations.

Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, Sixth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting corrections in the United States-prisons and jails, probation, parole, the death penalty, juvenile justice, and sexual assault offender laws.

It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity.

Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

This volume considers a variety of key issues pertaining to the rights of defendants and victims at International Criminal Courts (ICTs) and explores how best to balance and enhance the rights of both in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of international criminal proceedings.

The book defines and critically discusses the following five principles: the harm principle, legal paternalism, the offense principle, legal moralism and the dignity principle of criminalization.

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The present book brings together perspectives from different disciplinary fields to examine the significant legal, moral and political issues which arise in relation to the use of lethal force in both domestic and international law.

Why is genocide the ''ultimate crime'' and does this distinction make any difference in confronting evil?

Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion of "e;certainty"e; in medical testimony.

Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies.

This concise guide to contemporary neonatal practice contains up-to-date information for RNs practicing in this nursing specialty and defines the level of nursing practice and professional performance for neonatal nurses at all practice levels and in all settings.

This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument.