Criminal justice law

The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context.

The Use of Force in Criminal Justice addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy.

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 demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings.

Interviewing of Suspects with Mental Health Conditions and Disorders in England and Wales explores cutting-edge research that focuses specifically on these adults (including their cognitive needs and psychological vulnerabilities), the impact on the investigative interview, and existing legislation, guidance and practice.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines.

Over the last fifteen years there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with terrorism.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

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.

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction).

This book examines the role of Chief Executives in white collar crime from a convenience theory perspective.

Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

First published in 1965, the original blurb reads: "e;At the present time more and more public interest centres on crime, prison and prisoners, and the prison population in this country now exceeds 24, 000.

This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies.

In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different.

This anthology of original research studies focuses on why and how sex workers and pimps quit the sex trade.

Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners.

Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the 'who' and 'how' we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of 'deserving' victim.

This book is an in-depth critical examination of all pertinent aspects of life without parole (LWOP).

This book provides a systematic and analytical account of the problems facing transnational criminal justice.

This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture.

Building on her leading research in creative methodology, in this book Wendy Fitzgibbon explores and illustrates how Photovoice, a participatory, active research tool, can enable new insights and engagement with both marginalised people and those working with them in the criminal justice system.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

There are few skills more important to the modern fact finder than the ability to obtain information through effective interviewing.

Por la naturaleza didactica de la obra, la misma comienza con el analisis de los diversos conceptos de derecho penal, que nos brinda la doctrina, sus caracteristicas y generalidades, estableciendose de manera clara el significado de la norma penal.

How do societies define crime, and how should it be punished or prevented?

Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare.

Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

Correctional policies for Islamist violent extremist offenders are often based on the premise that prisons can be hotbeds of radicalization.

Examines the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and sentencing conditions that are increasingly issued in the context of criminal proceedings.

Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned.

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

A leading work in the field of international criminal law, which is accessible, comprehensive and up to date.

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative.

The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member States in relation to crime and criminal law.

This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders.

How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities?

This volume is the first comprehensive empirical examination of the premises and effects of sex offender registration and notification laws.

The study of victims of crime is a central concern for criminologists around the world.

John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective.

This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany - how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion.

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s to the early 1990s, through the uneasy peace that followed the 1994 paramilitary ceasefires (1994-1998), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the 1999 Patten Report.

Genocide, State Crime and the Law critically explores the use and role of law in the perpetration, redress and prevention of mass harm by the state.

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldestquestions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong.

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field.