Criminal justice law

This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration offers invaluable insight into how Shakespeare appears in prison.

An analysis of the local impact of the International Criminal Court in four countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya and Uganda.

Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison.

La libre circulación de personas, bienes y servicios entre los distintospaíses, ha determinado como contrapartida la globalización del crimen.

This collection brings together international experts to present a comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure.

Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world.

While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence, drug policy is an area where particular challenges abound.

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational justice models.

Professional development is an issue of interest to all criminal justice faculty, from the newest Assistant Professor to the most senior Full Professor.

What is intelligence-led policing?

How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any otherHow could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice?

This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending.

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor?

This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years.

This proposes a new framework for atrocity prevention, featuring scholars from around the globe including three former UN special advisers.

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions-the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units-this book explores the spatial scale of crime.

Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental sectors.

The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation.

We now live in a world which thinks through the legislative implications of criminal justice with one eye on human rights.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds.

El principio de justicia universal se erige como un título válido que promueve la persecución y sanción de delitos especialmente odiosos y atentatorios contra la comunidad internacional.

The term judicial opinion can be a misnomer as rarely are judges true feelings on legal issues and the work they do made available to the public.

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.

Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile.

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

The enormous financial cost of criminal justice has motivated increased scrutiny and recognition of the need for constructive change, but what of the ethical costs of current practices and policies?

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Imprisoned Men explores how adult male prisoners interpret and give value to their experiences of education, presenting an opportunity to consider how education can be beneficial to prisoners including and beyond the enhancement of employability skills.

This volume follows one man's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina's death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.

Criminal Legislation in Ireland consolidates the most important and frequently used pieces of criminal legislation and facilitates easy reference for criminal practitioners and students alike.

Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard and as an outlet for leniency in punishment.

This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters.

Provides an original approach to the emerging practice of reparations for international crimes and a fresh analysis of the recent jurisprudence at the International Criminal Court.

The criminal justice process is dependent on accurate documentation.

Each entry in this essential collection of primary resources on capital punishment features an authoritative introduction and analysis that helps provide crucial context for understanding the evolution of law and public attitudes toward the death penalty in America, from colonial times to the present.

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research - both theoretical and empirical - that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming.

This book engages comprehensively with the dynamics of the transitional justice process in Tunisia and its mechanisms, elaborating lessons for transitional justice practice globally.

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

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

Around one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent.

As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion.

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This volume provides an important and exciting contribution to the knowledge on punishment across Europe.

Techniques in the investigative interviewing and interrogation of victims, witnesses and suspects of crime vary around the world, according to a country's individual legal system, religion and culture.