Criminal justice law

This book is a comprehensive guide to setting up, running and growing a successful private therapy practice that resonates with your values and professional goals.

Police-citizen relations are in the public spotlight following outbursts of anger and violence.

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States.

This collection presents an analysis of illicit networks and discusses implications for law enforcement and crime prevention.

The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented.

"e;Restorative justice theory has largely failed to keep pace with the rapid expansion of restorative practices worldwide indeed, it is remarkable how much support RJ has when so few advocates can even define what it is.

This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on Aboriginal children, young people, and their families.

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.

Introduces a wider perspective to the study of human rights and human rights violations by focusing on empirical material.

A pragmatic guide to a growing area of professional practice, this book describes the multiple roles of the trial consultant and provides tools for carrying them out competently and ethically.

Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of the emotional transformation of forgiveness.

The interpretation and evaluation of scientific evidence and its presentation in a court of law is central both to the role of the forensic scientist as an expert witness and to the interests of justice.

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts.

The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic.

Scholarly exploration into how and why people stop offending (desistance from crime) has focused on the impact of internal and external factors in processes of desistance.

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.

Women's Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women's offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries.

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence.

The law and practice relating to corruption and the misuse of public office is of increasing topical importance.

Commencing its search for a principled international criminal justice, this book argues that the Preamble to the Rome Statute requires a very different notion of justice than that which would be expected in domestic jurisdictions.

Over the last few decades, the racial and ethnic composition of the United States has changed dramatically.

Violence against Women in Pornography illuminates the ways in which adult pornography hurts many women, both on and off screen.

This book shows how Rwanda''s mass courts for genocide crimes helped ensure political stability and authoritarian control for Rwandan elites.

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of 'police' and 'policing'.

The issue of minority ethnic groups' experiences of the criminal justice process, and in particular whether they are subject to disadvantageous treatment, has received much attention in recent years following high-profile events such as the publication of the Macpherson report in 1999 and the riots involving British-born Asian youths in northern towns in 2001.

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role.

High risk offenders can have a disproportionate impact on their communities because, despite all manner of sentencing options, they continue to commit a wide range of crimes, both minor and serious.

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address.

The European Union is developing instruments which allow law enforcement and judicial authorities to freeze, seize and confiscate illicit assets in a simplified way.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.

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

Researching Prisons provides an overview of the processes, practices, and challenges involved in undertaking prison research.

Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks underpinning the field of children and young people's mental health.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victim's procedural place within modern Western societies.

Lode Walgrave has made a highly significant contribution to the worldwide development of the restorative justice movement over the last two decades.

The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales).

In Male-Male Murder, Dobash and Dobash - experienced researchers, award winning authors and long-time collaborators use evidence from their Murder Study to examine 424 men who murdered another man.

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

Correctional officers face considerable stress, risk, and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes.

Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to violations of criminal law.

Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems.

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies.

This book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody.

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies.

Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate business.