Jurisprudence and general issues

This book provides a detailed analysis of mutual fund regulations and governance in the UK from the investor protection perspective.

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.

'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal'A madcap chase.

Exploring the controversy surrounding therapeutic human cloning, this book draws upon data collected from news articles and interviews with journalists to examine the role of mass media in shaping biomedical controversies.

International Commercial Mediation is a practical guidebook that explains how to handle and complete a mediation, as well as how to personally market the skills developed as a mediator.

All over the world, there is a growing interest in the relationship between law and aging: How does the law influence the lives of older people?

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance.

This textbook focuses on the interrelationships between economic elements and legal principles with regard to business and company law.

Klugheit ist die Kompetenz, sich selbst im Handeln und Leben zu orientieren.

Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate.

From the initial investigation of a crime to the sentencing of an offender, many everyday practices within the criminal justice system involve complex psychological processes.

How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic communities around the world.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Dangerous Politics: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Penal Policy brings together relevant literature in law, criminology, and politics to provide insights into the nature of British penal politics, the role of the judiciary and pressure groups, and the interrelation between risk, the 'public voice', and penal politics.

Steinberg''s field-defining work shows how Boccaccio''s Decameron reveals unexpected connections between the contemporary emergence of literary realism and legal inquisition in early modern Europe.

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls' Law of Peoples.

This book questions what practices constitute a ''religious activity'' such that it cannot be supported or funded by government.

One of the most dynamic areas of EU law since the great changes brought to the EU constitutional order by the Amsterdam Treaty in 1999 has been cooperation in the fields of policing and criminal justice.

This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences.

The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains.

Criminology is at a crossroads.

Der "War for Talents", der Kampf um hochqualifiziertes Personal, zwingt Unternehmen in Zeiten ständiger Veränderungen durch Digitalisierung und den Einsatz von KI dazu, attraktive Angebote zur Bindung von hochqualifizierten Mitarbeitern zu entwickeln.

HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the twentieth century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical reflection on the nature of law.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars.

In the last 20 years interest in network phenomena has grown immensely among anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists, economists and lawyers.

Human trafficking is a multi-faceted crime.

Instead of resurrecting old images and nourishing new narratives about a 'New Cold War', Post-Soviet Conflict Potentials features politically and legally oriented critical investigations into conflict potentials and dynamics in the post-Soviet region and beyond.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

This book examines the Court of Final Appeal''s structure, jurisprudence and politics and the contribution of its Chief Justice under Chinese sovereignty.

This book presents a broad overview of succession law, encompassing aspects of family law, testamentary law and legal history.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever it was advantageous to do so.

This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes.

This volume summarizes the achievements on rule of law in China for the ten years from 2002 to 2012, particularly focusing on areas such as judicial review, anti-monopoly, reform of government agencies, the circulation of rural Land contracted management rights, and the protection of children's rights.

Originally published in 1950 and as a third edition in 1967, this volume traces the evolution of the English nation - the amalgamation of differing races and the unification of warring tribal princedoms into one monarchy under the stress of competition for power, the disciplinary influence of Christianity, the stimulus of foreign invasion, the compression of conquest, the centralisation of government, the standardisation of institutions, the interchange of trade, and the triumph of one common tongue in the rivalry of languages and dialects.

El derecho administrativo colombiano ha sido estudiado como heredero exclusivo de la influencia francesa.

The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing victims to seek redress.

Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will.

This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land.

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments.