Criminal justice law

Murder is often regarded as both the 'ultimate' and a unique crime, and whereas courts are normally given discretion in sentencing offenders, for murder the sentence is mandatory indeterminate imprisonment.

Justice for Victims brings together the world's leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection.

This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the detection, investigation, and restitution of illicit cultural property.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication.

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy.

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as 'thieves-in-law' exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organized criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR.

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice.

With expert evidence used more and more often in criminal jury cases, evaluation of its admissibility and presentation is being increasingly thrust into the spotlight.

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence.

This title, first published in 1930, examines the events of eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes.

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive.

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

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

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them.

The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public.

Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology.

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

The Routledge Handbook of Corrections in the United States brings together original contributions from leading scholars in criminology and criminal justice that provide an in-depth, state-of-the-art look at the most important topics in corrections.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Eleventh Edition, offers a broad perspective on criminological theory.

The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses.

The problem of gangs and gang subculture is a growing threat to the stability of neighborhoods and entire communities.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation.

The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

There have been significant changes in public attitudes towards surveillance in the last few years as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.

A Hands-On Introduction to Forensic Science, Second Edition continues in the tradition of the first edition taking a wholly unique approach to teaching forensic science.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

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

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

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

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?