Criminal justice law

Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims.

The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students.

This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths' cases and the juvenile justice system.

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house.

In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop - the process of desistance.

When it was published twenty years ago, Rethinking What Works with Offenders made a major contribution to criminological knowledge on why people stopped offending, and the impact the probation service had on the desistance process.

Within criminology 'the state' is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force.

In this landmark study, a thorough audit of British compliance with international human rights standards is carried out.

The US government spends billions of dollars to secure strategic and tactical assets at home and abroad against enemy attack.

This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978.

This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of conviction, such as loss of employment and housing, the imposition of significant fines, and loss of liberty-all amounting to the criminalization of poverty that happens in many U.

This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences.

February 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Inquiry into the events surrounding the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

The right to liberty is sacrosanct.

Violence against women is an enduring problem around the globe, yet very few books look at the full range of men's violences against women - perpetrated in relationships, in the family, in public spaces, and in institutions.

After the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and disintegration of the Soviet Union, scholars focused on the problems of legal transitions within the newly emerging democracies.

This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales, meeting the requirements of undergraduate law syllabuses.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era.

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya.

Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications for human rights and civil liberties.

Since the early 1990s, unexplained infant death has been reformulated as a criminal justice problem within many western societies.

This book aims to provide a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties, taking full account of recent developments and the creation of a National Probation Service in 2002.

This anthology chronicles the legal legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Este libro es una compilacion de los trabajos que se presentaron en el Congreso Homenaje a Michele Taruffo los dias 23 y 24 de enero de 2015 en Girona, organizado por la Catedra de Cultura Juridica de la Universidad de Girona.

Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time.

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities.

This book provides an overview of crimes under international law, radical evils, in a number of African states.

This edited collection brings together leading academics, researchers, and police personnel to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs Australian police education, training, research, policy, and practice.

Sexual cases are inherently complex and sometimes controversial presenting the practitioner with a multitude of procedural and legal challenges.

Maintaining the importance of socio-economic issues in devising transitional justice mechanisms, this book examines the widespread practice of land grabbing in Afghanistan.

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults' ability to learn.

Despite recent reforms to the Turkish Penal Code, the country retains a high level of honour-based violence.

Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime.

Die Geheime Staatspolizei ist längst zum Sinnbild der Strafverfolgung in der NS-Zeit geworden.

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence.

Social Justice, Criminal Justice is a thought-provoking examination of the U.

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the inception of the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of the POCSO Act and the best practices from other developed jurisdictions for handling cases and victims of child abuse.

Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is needed today is a way to think about the enterprise of justice that will capture its full potential.

La importancia de analizar nuestro objeto de estudio "la criminalidad" desde la multidisciplinariedad, radica en explicar de una manera más profunda y desde diversas disciplinas, tanto de lo social como fuera de este, la problemática de la criminalidad en relación a las violencias estructurales, con perspectiva de género y de grupos vulnerables, así como la participación del Estado como regulador del control social.

This book explores the intersection of two emergent and vibrant fields of study in international human rights law: transitional justice and corporate accountability for human rights abuses.

Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Why mass incarceration endures in the face of reforms, and how to truly change America's vast criminal justice systemCritics on both the left and the right increasingly use the term "e;mass incarceration"e; to call attention to the unprecedented scale and inequities of the U.

This book approaches the gun control debate by asking what it takes to achieve acceptance of, and compliance with, gun control regulations in a community thought to be opposed and resistant.

Develops readings of Rome''s historians Sallust, Livy and Tacitus in light of contemporary discussions of republicanism and rhetoric.

This collection examines contemporary challenges to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.