Legal history

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

What began as a standoff between competing steamship entrepreneurs ended as one of the Supreme Courts most significant cases.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

A growing number of churches are employing someone to work with children and young people.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

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

Franz Peter Bremer, der Anfang des 20.

Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (19311945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, traitors to the Han Chinese).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States.

This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe.

Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability.

This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that Allied powers held against the Japanese after World War II.

This collection discusses the concept of fraternity and examines the issue of its role in law.

Comprehensive study of the early modern inns of court, based on original sources, now revised and updated with recent scholarship.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law).

Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and punishment.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Herausbildung und Entwicklung junger Nationalstaaten" verfügbar.

The eminent legal historian William E.

Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder.

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency.

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This book is about heroes of law.

In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS).

Nach gängiger Ansicht endet das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation und mit ihm das Reichskammergericht am 6.

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynamics, and decline of American lynching.

This book outlines how odious debts are not legally binding under international or domestic law, contrary to widely held legal opinion.

Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario.

Nach den Erfahrungen mit der willkürlichen Gesetzgebung im Dritten Reich bemühte sich die deutsche Rechtswissenschaft um eine Neubegründung von Recht und Gerechtigkeit, indem sie auf alte Konzepte eines »Naturrechts« zurückgriff.

This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the US by tracing the development of regulated competition.

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a better understanding of racial profiling through traffic stop data concerning the race and gender of the driver.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.