Public international law: criminal law

Explores how reparations in international criminal justice have been constituted and contested in various social contexts.

The only book on international white collar crime remains an invaluable tool for business, law, and law enforcement.

As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners.

Mit der Föderalismusreform des Jahres 2007 hat eine bewährte Praxis auf der Grundlage eines Bundesgesetzes und bundeseinheitlich vereinbarter Verwaltungsvorschriften ein Ende gefunden.

The high profile cases of Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, and Tafida Raqeeb raised the questions as to why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

The book deals with the controversial relationship between African states, represented by the African Union, and the International Criminal Court.

This groundbreaking volume of original essays presents fresh avenues of inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry.

Developing a forensic practice can be confusing and intimidating.

Duncan Gaswaga, a former judge of the Seychelles Supreme Court who has presided over numerous piracy trials, asked the following question: "e;What is a judge to do when a bearded piracy suspect facing justice asserts that he is fourteen?

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.

This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice.

Despite repeated declarations of 'never again' in response to the commission of atrocities, civilians have continued to be targeted by their leaders and opposition groups.

Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries.

This book shows how international tribunal judges expand human rights protections and ensure the legacy of international justice.

In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions.

Notoriously difficult to access, armed robbers have mostly eluded the attempts of authors to access their lives.

This book is a survival guide for all nurses who provide emergency care to children and young people.

A human rights analysis of international efforts to confiscate wealth in grand corruption cases that focuses on protections for property.

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors.

This book provides theoretical foundations and practical guidelines for an ethically competent integration of Islam and mental health practice.

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.

Media interest in the fates of people at sea has heightened across the last decade.

Praise for the Fifth Edition:"e;This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery.

EU enforcement authorities are on the rise, entrusted with investigating breaches of EU law by individuals and economic actors.

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields.

Central to this book is the concept of humanity in international law.

This market-leading textbook gives an authoritative account of international criminal law, and focuses on what the student needs to know - the crimes that are dealt with by international courts and tribunals as well as the procedures that police the investigation and prosecution of those crimes.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the Mafia and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants - such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky - for their origins.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights.

The International Criminal Court remains a sensitive issue in U.

This book is the first to map and critically analyse the legalisation of EU-Japan cooperation in criminal justice matters, charting the existing legal instruments which regulate cooperation in the fight against crime between European states and Japan.

Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified.

This book considers the extent to which States are held accountable for breaches of jus cogens norms under international law.

The book investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) affects efforts to negotiate peace.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

This book critically analyzes the criminalization of incitement to terrorism under the fundamental principles of legality, necessity, and proportionality with the aim of striking a fair balance between security and liberty on this complicated issue.

Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so.

In the aftermath of Martinson's 1974 "e;nothing works"e; doctrine, scholars have made a concerted effort to develop an evidence-based corrections theory and practice to show "e;what works"e; to change offenders.

Long sentenced young people are a small but significant part of the juvenile prison population.

What do Russian prisons look like?

This book offers a critical analysis of hate crime law using Italy as a case study.

When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent opponent, the book was an immediate sensation.

The development of international human rights law and international criminal law has triggered the question whether states and their officials can still shield themselves from foreign jurisdiction by invoking international immunity rules when human rights issues are involved.

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.