Criminal procedure

Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties.

The administration of justice and fair trial is the obligation of the state both under international as well as domestic laws.

Combating white-collar crime is a challenge as these criminals are found among the most powerful members of society, including politicians, business executives, and government officials.

It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women.

Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.

This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes.

How often is the defense of insanity or temporary insanity for accused criminals valid-or is it ever legitimate?

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.

The Youth Court Guide is the definitive legal handbook for practitioners involved in the youth court.

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With a Foreword by Sir Adrian Fulford, Vice President, Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

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

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.

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Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs.

This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy.

Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

This book systematically defends an account of the institution of legal punishment that draws on both retributive and crime-prevention thinking.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

The past decade has seen dramatic growth in every area of the prison enterprise.

Crime is as old as Man Mythology relates First Disobedience i.

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

This book explores contemporary thinking on the evidential requirements that are critical for practical decision-making.

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community.

This book explores the concept of punishment: its meaning and significance, not least to those subject to it; its social, political and emotional contexts; its role in the criminal justice system; and the difficulties of bringing punishment to an end.

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it.

These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology.

What makes someone responsible for a crime and therefore liable to punishment under the criminal law?

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

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime.

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing.

Criminal proceedings, it is often now said, ought to be conducted with integrity.

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political science, Thinking About Victimization offers an authoritative and refreshingly accessible overview of scholarship on the nature, sources, and consequences of victimization.

Psychological Aspects of Crisis Negotiation, Third Edition, explores the methods and strategies for confronting the nine types of subjects typically encountered in hostage/suicide sieges by correctional staff and law enforcement crisis negotiators.

This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries.

Dieser neue Klausurenkurs gibt wichtige Hilfestellung, das in der Vorlesung oder Referendarausbildung abstrakt erworbene Wissen zum Strafprozessrecht in eine gut strukturierte Falllösung umzusetzen.

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene.

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Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

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Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners.

In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms.