Criminal law: procedure and offences

We're losing the war on drugsbut the fight isn't over yetFederal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs examines our current anti-drug programs and policies, explains why they have failed, and presents a plan to fix them.

We're losing the war on drugsbut the fight isn't over yetFederal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs examines our current anti-drug programs and policies, explains why they have failed, and presents a plan to fix them.

First Published in 1993.

First Published in 1993.

This is an examination, from a feminist historian's standpoint, of the background to the present system of regulating prostitution in Britain - which is generally admitted to be not only unjust and discriminatory, but ineffective even in achieving its stated aims.

This is an examination, from a feminist historian's standpoint, of the background to the present system of regulating prostitution in Britain - which is generally admitted to be not only unjust and discriminatory, but ineffective even in achieving its stated aims.

Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history.

Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history.

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment?

First Published in 1997.

First Published in 1997.

Prisons remain a controversial topic for debate in our society.

Prisons remain a controversial topic for debate in our society.

First Published in 1994.

First Published in 1994.

This book enlightens the reader as to how the financial sector in the UK operates fraud databases to help combat fraud and explains the phenomenon of 'debanking'.

Get the tools to coordinate a plan in your community!

Get the tools to coordinate a plan in your community!

Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing.

Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing.

This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes.

Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and often contradictory.

Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and often contradictory.

Containing a wealth of archival material and statistical data on crime and criminal justice, Criminal Justice in Hong Kong presents a detailed evaluation of Hong Kong's criminal justice system, both past and present.

Containing a wealth of archival material and statistical data on crime and criminal justice, Criminal Justice in Hong Kong presents a detailed evaluation of Hong Kong's criminal justice system, both past and present.

How should the needs of victims of crime be met by the criminal justice system?

How should the needs of victims of crime be met by the criminal justice system?

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely.

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely.

Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.

Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

Identifying and exploring the challenges in understanding and responding to youth crime, this book investigates the different contexts which contribute to youth offending as well as those which either help or hinder effective youth justice responses to it.

This work explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in Europe in this period.

This work explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in Europe in this period.

Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice.

Questions of evidence and proof are fundamental to the operation of substantive law and to our understanding of law as a social practice.

The purpose of this book is to give the reader a selective outline of significant parts of the central areas of German substantive law, along with original German legal material from these areas.

The purpose of this book is to give the reader a selective outline of significant parts of the central areas of German substantive law, along with original German legal material from these areas.

Understanding Criminal Law clarifies a subject which students often find somewhat difficult and confusing.

Understanding Criminal Law clarifies a subject which students often find somewhat difficult and confusing.

This book provides everyone associated with mixed use buildings with clarity of information in understanding the key laws.

This book provides everyone associated with mixed use buildings with clarity of information in understanding the key laws.

This is the first book to combine, in one volume, the UK's cases and materials on combating terrorism.

This is the first book to combine, in one volume, the UK's cases and materials on combating terrorism.

This book provides a clear, concise and highly accessible overview of the key aspects of criminal law doctrine as it applies in England and Wales.

This book provides a clear, concise and highly accessible overview of the key aspects of criminal law doctrine as it applies in England and Wales.

Quasi-Policing provides an insight into the increasing use of civilians performing police and other public protection duties.

Quasi-Policing provides an insight into the increasing use of civilians performing police and other public protection duties.