Criminal procedure

Comment apprécier la valeur du témoignage d'un adolescent qui affirme avoir été victime d'agressions sexuelles ?

This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment.

Social workers have their hands in a lot of big sociopolitical issues.

Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration.

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist threat facing the United Kingdom and the European Union, focusing on how terrorists and terrorist organisations communicate in the digital age.

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment.

Esta compilación de nueve capítulos de investigación sobre los espacios de encierro, detención, castigo y trabajo penado en la historia de Colombia ofrece una mirada de larguísima duración en nuestro territorio, desde las primeras fundaciones de Tierra Firme, pasando por el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, hasta la República de Colombia en el siglo XX.

Human trafficking involves the violation of societal norms and often activates criminal justice responses including police, courts, juvenile justice, and child protective services.

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

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.

This edited collection analyses, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions.

Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values.

To what extent is restorative justice able to 'restore' the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence?

This book argues for a mixed theory of legal punishment that treats both crime reduction and retribution as important aims of the state.

The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years.

The women's movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace.

How do I reduce crime in my police command?

Resozialisierung hat im Justizvollzug eine bereits im Strafvollzugsgesetz verankerte zentrale Bedeutung.

Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems.

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

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent decades.

Land of White Gloves?

Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders.

This edited text draws together the insights of numerous worldwide eminent academics to evaluate the condition of predictive policing and artificial intelligence (AI) as interlocked policy areas.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force.

Der "Strafkammerbericht" enthält eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme erstinstanzlicher landgerichtlicher Strafverfahren aus fünf Erhebungsjahren und bietet damit vertiefte Einblicke in diesen wichtigen Teil der deutschen Strafjustiz.

Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s.

This book analyses the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities.

Every law enforcement patrol officer and investigator needs to understand both the tactical considerations of stopping and frisking a suspect, and the legal constraints that should govern that power.

Why is punishment not more effective?

In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens' sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law and cooperate with the legal authorities.

Because people's contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer.

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union.

El modelo actual de responsabilidad penal de las personas juridicas ha relegado a un segundo plano el sistema de determinacion de sus penas.

Public outcries and political platforms based on misinformation and misconceptions about the criminal justice system and current sentencing practice occur all too often in democratic societies.

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and Marxist political thought.

Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence.

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia.

Prepared by Patrick J.

To what extent is restorative justice able to 'restore' the harm suffered by victims of crimes of interpersonal violence?