Public international law: criminal law

When a perpetrator of an international crime argues in his defence that he did not realise that he had violated the law, is this a reason not to punish him?

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child's right to health and development cannot be satisfied without also the fulfillment of their right to play.

This innovative text for Neonatal Nurses and NICU clinicians introduces new, evidence-based care protocols proven to mitigate or reduce the profound morbidities and subsequent developmental challenges that afflict newborns in the NICU.

The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment.

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum, Schaum's Outline of Pediatric Nursing complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts.

This book explores the ambiguities of the French law of genocide by exposing the inexplicable dichotomy between a progressive theory and an overly conservative practice.

Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "e;restorative corrections"e; utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates, fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.

This book discusses the validity, ethics, and usefulness of professional public commentary of politician's mental health and provides an alternative model for professionals to do so in an ethical manner.

There have been many recent developments in the research, theory, and practice of supervision in counseling, but few reliable resources are available for practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge in these areas.

International criminal law and justice is a flourishing field which has led, in recent years, to new international criminal tribunals and new mechanisms for investigation and holding criminals to account.

This book examines the meaning and significance of finality in capital cases.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology is the first edited collection of its kind to bring together the work of leading Irish criminologists in a single volume.

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 explores how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has been developed in the jurisprudence and practice of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law.

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur.

In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

In the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, major offences committed by individuals have been subject to progressive systematisation in the framework of international criminal law.

Since the Nuremberg trial, the crime of aggression has been considered one of the gravest international crimes.

The book is a comprehensive narration of the use of expertise in international criminal trials offering reflection on standards concerning the quality and presentation of expert evidence.

Róisín Mulgrew explores and reconceptualises the way in which international punishment is implemented.

This textbook offers a starting point for the education of attorneys and other legal professionals about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the law, as well as a forum for discussing artificial intelligence's legal and ethical concerns.

A lively narrative account of the first case to appear at the International Criminal Court, A Conviction in Question documents the trial of Union of Congolese Patriots leader and warlord, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.

Each year, countless people fall victim to crimes against humanity.

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal.

How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "e;right to remain silent"e; become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information?

There have been extraordinary developments in the field of neuroscience in recent years, sparking a number of discussions within the legal field.

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice.

This book provides a full analytical overview of the establishment and functioning of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the newest and most controversial of the UN-sponsored international criminal courts.

Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service.

This book examines whether and how non-state armed groups might be required to provide reparations for the harm caused by their violations of international law committed during situations of non-international armed conflict.

Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

The Second Edition of An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides a comprehensive overview of transitional justice judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse.

This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology.

In recent years European prison law and policy have emerged as a force to be reckoned with.

This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics.

Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard and as an outlet for leniency in punishment.

With the acceptance of international criminal procedure as a self-sustaining discipline and as the tribunals established to try the most serious crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda have completed or are beginning to wind up their activities, the time is ripe for a critical evaluation of these international criminal tribunals and their legacy.

Written by some of the most notable criminologists of South Asia, this book examines advances in law, criminal justice, and criminology in South Asia with particular reference to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings-and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty.