Jurisprudence and general issues

The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals-and, just as important, freeing the innocent-has transformed society's assault on crime.

This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business.

Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades.

international Encyclopedia of Crime and Conniption is made to serve the purpose of a sourcebook on the subject areas of direct and related interests pertaining to crime and corruption.

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A collection of essays on the various aspects of the legal sources of international law, including theories of the origin of international law, explanation of its binding force, normative hierarchies and the relation of international law and politics.

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric.

Whatever your background, if you seek an understanding of the legal system of the United States, this is the book for you.

Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and successions.

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal 'masterplot'.

A clear, critical and direct account of the relation between the Rule of Law and the protection of private property.

Millions in our nation are under some type of judicial sanction, with some individuals behind bars but the majority serving their sentences while living and working among us.

This book explores a range of topics relating to the prosecution and trial of organised crime and the punishment, especially imprisonment, of members of organised criminal groups.

This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world.

What is the licensing framework of standard essential patents (SEPs) for connectivity standards such as 5G and Wi-Fi?

Globalization has become a common phenomenon, yet one that many people experience as a threat not only to their economic existence, but also to their cultural and moral self-image.

This book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive.

This book examines the assessment and obligatory treatment programs for violent and sexually violent offenders - primarily adolescents and adults - diagnosed with cluster B personality disorder or a conduct disorder.

The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis' early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations.

Individual rights raise endless conflicts and spawn intricate standards and policies.

In the critical period when Islamic law first developed, a new breed of jurists developed a genre of legal theory treatises to explore how the fundamental moral teachings of Islam might operate as a legal system.

Hannu Turba untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Logiken in hybriden Berufswelten deutend und handelnd verarbeitet werden – und mit welchem Ergebnis.

Wenn eine für den gesamten Bereich wissenschaftlicher Forschung, mithin für alle Wissenschaften im weitesten Sinne so wichtige Grundlagentheorie, wie die Logik, seit Jahrzehnten in einer geradezu atemberaubenden, zur Freilegung ganz neuer Perspektiven führenden Entwicklung begriffen ist, kann es nicht ausbleiben, daß sich dies schließlich - wenngleich mit nicht untypischer Verzögerung - auch in der Rechtswissenschaft auswirkt.

High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level.

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens.