Criminal justice law

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

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process.

Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls' offending in Britain reached fever pitch.

Cannabis Criminology explores the prohibition, decriminalization, and liberalization of cannabis policy through the lens of criminological and sociological theory, essential concepts, and cannabis research.

Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency.

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs.

This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and society.

Incarcerating Motherhood explores how initial short period in prisons can negatively impact mothers and their children.

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

Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use - Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs') documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society.

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system.

Investigative Interviewing: Adopting a Forensic Mindset is a straight-forward, practical textbook outlining proper interview planning and techniques, detailing all relevant case law concerning confessions.

The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat.

This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent.

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?

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

Torticollis: Differential Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment, Surgical Management and Bracing fulfills a need, long overdue.

When is it fair to hold young people criminally responsible?

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century.

As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation.

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

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?

The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy.

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

This title, first published in 1981, draws from an extensive range of national and local material, and examines how innovations in policy and administration, while solving problems or setting new objectives, frequently created or disclosed fresh difficulties, and brought different types of people into the administration and management of prisons, whose interests, values and expectations in turn often had significant effects upon penal ideas and their practical applications.

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools.

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited.

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

The punitive prison currently dominates the practice of Anglo-American criminal justice, stigmatising its victims as perpetual 'offenders' and failing to change a majority of them for the better.

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.

The recent global financial crisis has been characterised as a turning point in the way we respond to financial crime.

Forensic psychology is where psychology meets the criminal justice system.

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

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

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?

"e;Jeanne Stinchcomb's book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of the prison as a source of political ideas and site of political engagement, as well as in the prisoner's quest for citizenship.

Over the last thirty years, victims of crime have become a staple topic of media interest and policy-making discourse.

The overarching objective of this volume is to discuss and critique the legal regulation of human trafficking in national and transnational context.

Antisocial and criminal behaviour involving children and young people have been a cause of heightened public concern in England and Wales for more than a quarter of a century.

When a loved one with mental illness comes into contact with the law, trying to advocate for them can be an overwhelming and frustrating endeavor.

Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past makes a unique and timely contribution to the transitional justice field.

The modern public prosecutor is a figure both powerful and enigmatic.