Public international law: criminal law

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer collaterally.

"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

A compendium of prescribing information for more than 450 diagnoses!

Release from prison is matter of increasing interest throughout Europe.

This 2005 book concentrates on the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime.

This book rethinks the boundaries of transitional justice, urging scholars and practitioners to confront the often-overlooked nexus between mass violence and ecological harm.

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.

Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into adulthood.

War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death row for a crime he most likely did not commit, revealed the complexity of death penalty trials, the flaws in America's justice system, and the rift between those who are for or against the death penalty.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Depression is amorphous.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year 2011 (Category: Maternal And Child Health) Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood.

Discover how to best provide effective mental health treatments for criminal offenders Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment.

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media's influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in American prisons.

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

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

Based on Francesca Happe's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth.

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals.

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the provisions of the 'Malabo Protocol'-the amendment protocol to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights-adopted by the African Union at its 2014 Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment.

EU Criminal Law is perhaps the fastest-growing area of EU law.

This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations.

Over the last quarter of a century a new system of global criminal justice has emerged.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

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

Assessing the extent to which armed conflict impacts the obligations that states have towards foreign investors and their investments under international investment treaties requires considering a wide range of issues, many of which are systemic in nature.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

Das Ziel, Verurteilte wieder in die Gesellschaft einzugliedern, ist so alt wie der moderne Strafvollzug selbst.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

The book looks at the outreach and communication strategies employed by internationalised courts to try to understand the wider impact of international justice.