Criminal justice law

Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system.

The privilege against self-incrimination is often represented in the case law of England and Wales as a principle of fundamental importance in the law of criminal procedure and evidence.

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement.

This book examines the structures that support the policing organisation internally and externally, including its partners within the criminal justice system.

Dieses anwenderorientierte Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Theorie und Praxis audiovisueller Vernehmung (AVVs).

Policing the Pandemic explores how police agencies in United Kingdom and the United States have adjusted to their changing environments, both during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and later, when the restrictions have been relaxed and the societies have begun to develop their new normal.

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition.

First published in 1973, this book offers a fascinating and systematic description of the debt-collection process in 1970s England.

Law and Justice: Thomas Bingham, Nicholas Phillips and Eleanor Sharpston is the first time a collection of interviews is being published as a book.

Criminal Law for Criminologists uses theoretical and practical research to bridge the gap between 'the law in the books' (criminal law doctrine) and 'the law in action' (criminal justice process).

This book deals with the most fundamental problem in criminal law, the way in which free will and determinism relate to criminal responsibility.

This book explores the outcomes of Sweden's aim to create a 'drug-free society' on the lived realities, health, and welfare of people who use drugs, and on the dynamics of Swedish drug use.

An insightful account of the international court''s efforts to make sense of African conflicts in completing its first three trials.

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians.

Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations.

This collection explores organized crime and terror networks and the points at which they intersect.

Questions about gender, justice and crime are constantly in the public arena, whether they focus on young women getting drunk or taking drugs, or the rising numbers of women going to prison or committing violent crimes, or reports of macho behaviour on the part of men in the military, law enforcement or professional sport.

This book examines young people's involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders.

Community policing has been a buzzword in Anglo-American policing for the last two decades, somewhat vague in its definition but generally considered to be a good thing.

For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions.

This book reflects on the institutionalisation of restorative justice over the last 20 years and offers a critical analysis of the qualitative consequences generated by such a process on the normative structure of restorative justice, and on its understanding and uses in practice.

Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on those offenders who are often assessed as being dangerous.

Criminal justice systems are complex and difficult to design and operate.

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration.

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

Crime Scene Investigation offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation.

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church.

This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world.

This book considers the ability of island jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their innocent (or otherwise) facilitation of the receipt of suspect wealth.

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response.

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations.

Questions of legitimacy and issues of compliance lie at the heart of criminal justice systems and policies.

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.

Since the 1970s the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been explained through the patriarchal desire of men to control and dominate women, but this gendered perspective limits both our understanding of IPV and its treatment.

This book examines access to justice in summary criminal proceedings by considering the ability of defendants to play an active and effective role in the process.

Understanding the Modern Russian Police represents the culmination of ten years of research and an ongoing partnership between the Volgograd Academy of Russian Internal Affairs Ministry (VA MVD) and the Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (VAPA).

One of the most important problems faced by the United States is addressing its broken criminal justice system.

This study, written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, addresses the application and interpretation of the ne bis in idem principle in EU law.

Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom and welfare.

This book focuses on the testimonial evidence of traumatised witnesses in trials of international crimes, which deal with acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day.

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation.

First published in 1993, Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it.

The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the history and development of punishment and crime prevention.

This book offers an applied approach to criminology suitable for prospective police officers.

This book provides a distinctive and critical analysis of the anti-money laundering (AML) measures that have been put in place in Turkiye and the United Kingdom.