Legal history

This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history.

Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

In the wake of Watergate, Gerald Ford appointed eminent lawyer and scholar Edward H.

This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain.

The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.

In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged.

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.

Based on an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Cambridge in May 2012, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration brings together internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines including criminology, international relations, sociology and political science to examine the meaning of legitimacy and advance its theoretical understanding within the context of criminal justice.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment.

This work offers, firstly, a fresh historical, philosophical and cultural interpretation of the relation between the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility, the sublime, and the theory and practice of eighteenth-century law.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system.

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

"e;Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece"e; re-evaluates central aspects of the genesis and application of laws in the communities of archaic Greece, including the structure and function of legislative bodies, the composition of the courts, the administration of justice and the use and abuse of legal norms and procedures by litigants in the courts and everyday settings.

This is the definitive book on the legal and fiscal framework for civil society organizations (CSOs) in China from earliest times to the present day.

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century.

The Rise of the Uncorporation covers the history, law, and finance of unincorporated firms.

Offers an algorithmic solution to the problem of legal fictions: enter a fiction and find the answer.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different traditions in terms of how each understands the idea of universal human rights.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

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The Wisconsin State Constitution provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state's governing charter.

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century.

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.

As the publishing, film and music industries are dominated by Big Media conglomerates, there is often recourse to simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics.

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand's work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this volume explore the creation and transmission of canonical texts and the motives of their compilers but also address the issues of how the law was interpreted and used by diverse audiences in the earlier middle ages, with especial focus on the eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

Intestate Succession is the second volume in the Comparative Succession Law series which examines the principles of succession law from a comparative and historical perspective.

This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850.