This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures.
This book takes a critical approach to examining British and Italian occupational health and safety enforcement policies and questions the legal and political principles that underpin them.
The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.
This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde.
This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services.
This book addresses the 'three moments' in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers' and refugees' efforts to secure protection: The reasons for their flight, the Refugee Status Determination process, and their integration into the host community once they are recognized refugee status.
Despite a popular view that trials are the focal point of the criminal justice process, in reality, the most frequent way a criminal matter resolves is not through a fiercely fought battle between state and defendant, but instead through a process of negotiation between the prosecution and defence, resulting in a defendant pleading guilty in exchange for agreed concessions from the prosecution.
In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.
Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?
This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.
Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.
This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa - a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades.
In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system.
This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison.
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the 'public' and 'private' spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both.
This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other.
This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.
This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.
This book takes a critical approach to examining British and Italian occupational health and safety enforcement policies and questions the legal and political principles that underpin them.
This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders.
This third and final volume of Richard Jessor's collected works explores the central role of the social context in the formulation and application of Problem Behavior Theory.
The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.
This book develops a responsible and practical method for evaluating the success, failure, or "e;crisis"e; of American civil-military relations among its political and uniformed elite.
Das Phänomen Stalking erregt große mediale Aufmerksamkeit und stellt neue Herausforderungen an Justiz, Psychiatrie und die gesamte psychosoziale Beratungslandschaft: Wie kann den betroffenen Personen durch unsere Gesellschaft und durch professionelle Helfer Schutz geboten werden?
Das Phänomen Stalking erregt große mediale Aufmerksamkeit und stellt neue Herausforderungen an Justiz, Psychiatrie und die gesamte psychosoziale Beratungslandschaft: Wie kann den betroffenen Personen durch unsere Gesellschaft und durch professionelle Helfer Schutz geboten werden?
Mining law has been further developed several times in recent years by the legislature, particularly as a result of new technological and political developments.
Mining law has been further developed several times in recent years by the legislature, particularly as a result of new technological and political developments.
Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?
