Criminal procedure

The Sex Offender Register examines the origins, history, structure and legalities of the UK sex offender register, and explores how political and public opinion has influenced the direction the policy of registration has taken.

This authoritative, balanced, and accessible reference resource provides readers with a wide-ranging survey of capital punishment in America, including its history, its legal and cultural foundations, and racial and economic factors in its application.

Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology.

Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years.

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism.

This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators.

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders.

Sentencing is one of the fastest moving areas of law, with frequent legislative changes and hundreds of reported appellate decisions each year.

If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial?

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections.

The author of the true crime “masterpiece” Lobster Boy traces a brutal killer’s history across two decades of slipping past the legal system (The Guardian).

Prisons are everywhere.

The structure of policing is undergoing change in Scotland at present and the profile of the police officer differs from that of the past.

In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report.

This book evaluates the role played by statistical evidence in litigation.

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs.

Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century.

Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work.

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity?

This well-respected and highly regarded book provides straightforward coverage of all aspects of law and police procedure that affect the community at large.

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The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered.

Police powers to stop, question and search people in public places, and the way these powers are exercised, is a contentious aspect of police-community relations, and a key issue for criminological and policing scholarship, and for public debate about liberty and security more generally.

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future.

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

Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts.

Questions regarding how to improve the transitional phase from prison to life in society after release have gained major importance in the last decade in criminal policy.

Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations.

Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.

Buena parte de las reflexiones de este libro se dedicarán a estudios que se enmarcan en el ámbito de la epistemología individual.

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs.

This book introduces a new conceptual framework for impunity within state crime theory and uses Turkish state criminality against Kurds between 1990 and 2000 as a case study.

The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business.

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective.

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand for punishment.

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

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime.

Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities.

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic.

This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place.

What role can and should police unions and rank-and-file officers play in driving and shaping police reform?

With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing.

The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena.

As class actions have evolved, they have become larger and more complex, requiring mastery of and compliance with ever-evolving case law.