Public international law: criminal law

This new edition of From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence.

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice.

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997, bans an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.

Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance.

The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law.

This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrators in government and society opt for brutality as a means of accomplishing their goals.

This book tackles one of the most contentious aspects of international criminal law the modes of liability.

The Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual provides a timely and unique, step-by-step approach to conducting or reviewing police misconduct investigations, whether a complaint involves a lower-level allegation of discourtesy or more serious concerns such as excessive force or criminal behavior.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

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.

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

An analysis of debates and mechanisms of international criminal law in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar.

This engaging book presents a critical approach to understanding prison conditions in the United States in the era of mass incarceration.

Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults-a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

This book investigates the policy implications, discursive ethos and practical realities of plea-based case dispositions in the criminal justice system of four Chinese-speaking jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British military held 46 trials in Hong Kong in which 123 defendants, from Japan and Formosa (Taiwan), were tried for war crimes.

This book offers the first detailed analysis of, and guide to, the interpretation of international crimes defined in the Rome Statute.

This book explores the external dimension of the ambitious EU policy on human trafficking.

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm.

Pediatric integrative medicine is a rapidly evolving field with great potential to improve the quality of preventive health in children and expand treatment options for children living with chronic disease.

Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character.

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

Offers the first analysis of international courts'' archives and of how these constitute the international community as a particular reality.

How do judges sentence?

Over the past ten years the content and application of international law in armed conflict has changed dramatically.

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

Demonstrating that public health and prevention program development is as much art as science, this book brings together expert program developers to offer practical guidance and principles in developing effective behavior-change curricula.

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The MMR controversy has been characterized by two one-sided discourses.

Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical and nursing experts, this fully-updated second edition provides evidence-based coverage of all frequently seen neonatal conditions.

Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965.

To understand the international legal order in the field of criminal law, we need to ask three elementary questions.

Contesting Carceral Logic provides an innovative and cutting-edge analysis of how carceral logic is embedded within contemporary society, emphasizing international perspectives, the harms and critiques of using carceral logic to respond to human wrongdoing, and exploring penal abolition thought.

The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women.

This book seeks to understand how and why we should hold leaders responsible for the collective mass atrocities that are committed in times of conflict.

Restorative justice is increasingly being applied to settings characterized by large-scale violence and human rights abuses.

The book examines the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, which was convened in 1946 to try the Japanese leaders accused of committing war crimes during World War II.

This edited collection brings together essays that explore personal debts to government.

This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens.

Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s.

Beyond Clinical Dehumanisation Toward the Other in Community Mental Health Care offers a rare and intimate portrayal of the moral process of a mental health clinician that interrogates the intractable problem of systemic dehumanisation in community mental health care and looks to the notion of "e;wonder"e; and the visionary relational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas for a possible cure.

Written for neonatal nurses and NICU clinicians, this innovative book provides evidence-based guidelines and clinical practice recommendations that have been proven to mitigate the trauma experience of the hospitalized infantfamily dyad.