Criminal law: procedure and offences

Why do people stop offending?

"e;Although the topics dealt with are complex, the author has been very successful in presenting and exploring them clearly.

Few people can talk about prisons with the authority and experience thatAndrew Coyle brings to his subject.

Reviewers comments on the first editionThis is an excellent introductory textbook on youth and crime.

"e;Bennett and Holloway's Understanding Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime isthe best, most up-to-date and comprehensive examination for theUnited Kingdom of interactions among drugs, alcohol, and crime.

On December 24, 1968, ten-year-old Pamela Powers was brutally murdered, her body dumped at the side of the road to freeze.

The new Judicial Federalism is a significant development in American law: more cases are being decided by state constitutions than ever before in history.

Hirschel and Wakefield provide their readers with an informed and interesting view of two criminal justice systems.

This English-Russian legal dictionary covers the most frequently used criminal law terminology and court-related words and expressions.

This critical yet honest appraisal of our criminal justice system addresses its strengths and its flaws-and makes recommendations for improvement.

A team of expert contributors provides an in-depth exploration of police use of force, firearms, and less-than-lethal weapons from a dozen countries across five continents.

Offender profiling is mainly used by the police to narrow down suspects in cases where no physical evidence was left at a crime scene.

More and more, the descendants of indigenous victims of genocide, land expropriation, forced labor, and other systematic human rights violations committed by colonial powers are seeking reparations under international law from the modern successor governments and corporations.

Gun control is one of the most enduringly controversial issues in modern American politics.

This book is a frontal assault on the federal government's almost century-long campaign against marijuana in all its forms-cultivation, growing, selling, and recreational and medicinal use.

Saddam Hussein's execution for his crimes against Iraq's Shia not only brought an end to his reign of oppression, but also to the justice that was to be served to the Iraqi Kurds.

Alfredo Garcia, who has been both a prosecuting and a defense attorney in criminal processes, reviews the United States Supreme Court's interpretations of the Sixth Amendment--the right to a fair trial--as they have evolved since the 1960s.

Eighty to ninety percent of the nation's urban criminal defendants are defended in court by public defenders.

Providing legal analysis and touching upon social history and art history themes, this work offers an objective review of five art trials.

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has delineated the nature and extent of delinquency, as well as the role of the juvenile justice system.

Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial.

This volume traces the history of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

This book is inspired by the international movement towards the criminalisation of cartel conduct over the last decade.

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship.

In the last two decades, the philosophy of criminal law has undergone a vibrant revival in Canada.

The authors offer many insights into the regulatory, operational and institutional opportunities and challenges for OLAF, the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Office.

When should we make use of the criminal law?

This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US, Europe, alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights issues in developing countries or countries in transition.

German criminal law doctrine, as one of the more influential ones over time and on a global scale, takes rather different approaches to many of the problems of substantive law from those of the common law family of countries like the UK, the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc.

For more than 20 years, the Cali cartel saturated U.

The presumption of innocence is universally recognized as a fundamental human right and a core principle in the administration of criminal justice.

This book combines a careful philosophical discussion of the rationale justifying self-defence with a detailed discussion of the range of statutory self-defence requirements, as well as discussions of numerous other relevant issues (i.

For more than three centuries the criminal law has given rise to a divergent set of approaches to the crime of homicide.

The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice.

Coercive rules and their implementation are,in liberal democratic societies at least, subject to ethical constraints.

This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law.

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

Gender based violence (GBV) in travel and tourism is embedded within wider social structures of gender inequalities and discrimination.

Gender based violence (GBV) in travel and tourism is embedded within wider social structures of gender inequalities and discrimination.

Disclosure remains the most important part of trial preparation and can often make the difference between conviction and acquittal.

Disclosure remains the most important part of trial preparation and can often make the difference between conviction and acquittal.

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

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

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations.

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorism activities should occur at every level, including that of intergovernmental organizations.

The book consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 WG Hart Workshop on Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice organised by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre.

The book consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 WG Hart Workshop on Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice organised by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Centre.

"e;Restorative justice theory has largely failed to keep pace with the rapid expansion of restorative practices worldwide indeed, it is remarkable how much support RJ has when so few advocates can even define what it is.