Legal history

This is the first book on Italian colonialism that specifically deals with the question of citizenship/subjecthood.

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high.

The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order.

Illuminating US constitutional concepts in plain language and clarifying nuances in the law, this third edition of Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice simplifies understanding of the United States judicial system for those without advanced legal training.

Federalismincluding its meanings and limitsremains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

Provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical forensic studies.

Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations.

This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions.

This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War.

How do lawyers think?

Illuminating their breadth and diversity, this book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of legal documents and their manifold forms, uses, materialities and meanings.

Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health, such as minors, people with mental illness, disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use, from harming themselves or others.

Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "e;the violent north"e;, but how true is this statement?

The Veterans Treatment Court Movement provides a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the burgeoning veteran's court movement from genesis through to operation, and concluding with comments on its societal relevance.

This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession''s constitutionality was debated.

In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and the relationship between law and politics in the United States.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change - and how and why these changes differ in different contexts.

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective.

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases.

Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years.

This book challenges accounts about the development and operation of the common law.

When the name Constance Baker Motley is mentioned, more often than not, the response is "e;Who was she?

Although Mexico's Constitution of 1917 mandated the division of large landholdings, provided land for the landless, and guaranteed workers the rights to organize, strike, and bargain collectively, it also guaranteed fundamental liberal rights to property and due process that enabled property owners and employers to resist the implementation of the new social rights by filing suit in federal court.

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016.

A Festschrift in honour of Professor Sir John Baker, presented by leading scholars on the sources of English legal history.

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized.

The papers collected in this volume fall into three main groups.

This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here.

Interrogates the role of power and emotions in the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses.

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders.

An analysis of slave and slaveholder understanding and manipulation of formal legal systems in the region known as the American Confluence during the antebellum era.

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure.

Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of confinement.

A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

Foreword The The Committee Committee of of Ministers Ministers of of the the Council Council of of Europe Europe by by a a Re- Re- solution of 6th February I958, authorised the publication of a solution of 6th February I958, authorised the publication of a Yearbook Yearbook of of the the European European Convention Convention on on Human Human Rights.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.