Criminal law: procedure and offences

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford.

An examination of the debates regarding whether judicial review is an effective and appropriate way to regulate counter-terrorism measures.

Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity, in violation of international criminal laws during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging.

Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security.

Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children.

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

This book analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment.

How do societies define crime, and how should it be punished or prevented?

When people witness occasions when police use their powers to investigate crime and arrest offenders, how do those members of the public assess what they have seen?

This 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures as a sheriff.

Philip Jessup coined the term "e;transnational law"e; in his Storrs Lecture on Jurisprudence delivered in 1956 to describe law that regulates activities or actions that transcend national borders.

Many liberals consider CCTV surveillance in public places - particularly when it is as extensive as it is in England - to be an infringement of important privacy-based rights.

Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse fills a gap for an authoritative and considered text focused on false accusations of recent or historical abuse, both as a miscarriage of justice and as an ordeal which impairs lives even when it does not result in criminal charges.

States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually.

This book offers a detailed overview of the rules regarding criminal investigations into financial-economic criminality in the EU's main legal systems.

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

The notion of human dignity is frequently, yet enigmatically, invoked in legal and political debates on sex work, where many people use it without much elaboration on exactly what they mean by it.

Geographical Offender Profiling (GOP) is the term that has emerged for the examination of where offences take place and the use of that examination to formulate views on the nature of the offender and where s/he might be based.

The new edition of this seminal text outlines the fundamental aspects of the German approach to criminal procedure.

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America - effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times.

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials.

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies?

Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services.

Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories.

Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers examines the role of lawyers in court cases involving white-collar crimes, revealing fresh insights into the relationship between a lawyer's stature and a case's potential verdict.

Sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar international industry that preys on youth.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration.

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

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force.

Griffiths and Sanders present a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the impact of the criminal process on medical practice.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction.

Marianne Wade and Almir Maljevi?

This book prepares mental health professionals to conduct a thorough psychological assessment of individuals involved in immigration proceedings and present the results in a professional report.

A Columbia Law School team’s in-depth examination of one man’s 1989 wrongful conviction and execution for murder.

Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.

There is an impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice, represented by punitive and harmful practices, and liberal objections to these processes on the other, based predominantly on arguments for 'rehabilitation'.

This book is a survival guide for all nurses who provide emergency care to children and young people.

The Statute of the United Nations promotes a very disastrous image of the inequality of arms.

Controversial and forward-thinking, this volume presents a much-needed analysis of restorative justice practices in cases of violence against women.

An important classic, familiar to virtually all criminologists, Clinard and Quinney's Criminal Behavior Systems: A Revised Edition begins with a discussion of the construction of types of crime and then formulates and utilizes a useful typology of criminal behavior systems.

There is no consensus among legal scholars on the meaning of judicial integrity, nor has legal scholarship yet seen a well-articulated discussion about the normative concept of judicial integrity.

This book examines the risks to freedom of expression, particularly in relation to the internet, as a result of regulation introduced in response to terrorist threats.

All modern sentencing systems, in the US and beyond, consider the offender's prior record to be an important determinant of the form and severity of punishment for subsequent offences.