Criminal law: procedure and offences

The true story of the Lady Detective Agency, one of the UK's most successful female private detective services.

Challenged by the thought of changing a wheel?

'I doubt whether any book of greater importance will be published in 1997.

In Donald Harstand's most compelling novel yet, Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman returns for the latest installment in this fast-paced crime series.

A countdown of the 40 worst Members of Parliament in British political history.

Columbus, Georgia, has been run by the same tiny clique for over 100 years - the members of the all-white Big Eddy Club.

A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana.

'Sadopaideia' is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society.

In an extraordinary history of the criminal trial, Sadakat Kadri shows with wit, legal insight and a travel writer's eye for detail, how the irrationality of the past lives on in the legal systems of the present.

The seventh classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.

The eighth classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.

The third book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Lars Kepplar.

Timed to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil and told in the style of a page-turning thriller, this is the book that will blow the lid off international match fixing in football: a pandemic that has struck at the heart of the 'beautiful game'It began as a series of disparate reports coming in from the corners of the football world: referees, players and managers were deliberately fixing results at the behest of illegal bettors.

The true story of a young police officer's imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.

The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society.

Now a major TV series'A masterpiece that reads like a thriller' Time OutA gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history.

Diese deutschen Tatorte erlangten traurige Berühmtheit: Eppstein-Vockenhausen (Freiherr-von-Stein-Schule, 1983), Eching und Freising (staatliche Wirtschaftsschule, 2002), Erfurt (Gutenberg-Gymnasium, 2002), Emsdetten (Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule, 2006), Würzburg (Kaufhaus am Barbarossaplatz, 2021, Berlin (Weihnachtsmarkt am Breitscheidplatz, 2022), und jetzt schließlich auch Hamburg (Deelböge, Gemeindehaus der Zeugen Jehovas, 2023).

The fantastic fourth classic instalment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.

Now in its third edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law.

The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.

As in its first edition, this book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies.

It is clear that physical abuse is an integral component of some intimate relationships.

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession The old aphorism "e;possession is nine-tenths of the law"e; is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims.

In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus.

One of the most powerful words in the English language, "e;corruption"e; is also one of the most troubled concepts in law.

How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience?

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior.

This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today.

The Unbounded Home grapples with a core modern reality -- that the value and meaning of a home extend beyond its property lines to schools, shops, parks, services, neighbors, neighborhood aesthetics, and market conditions.

When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War.

How are juries selected in the United States?

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm.

An examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offers a comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility.

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat in seinem Urteil vom 26.

Durchdachte EntscheidungshilfenDer Ratgeber leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu mehr Sicherheit im beruflichen Kontext der Bediensteten der öffentlichen Verwaltung.

Präventive und repressive ErmächtigungsgrundlagenUnterstützt durch viele Fallbeispiele verdeutlichen die Autoren des Buches nicht nur präventive und repressive Ermächtigungsgrundlagen.

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

At a time when AI is already being integrated into the criminal justice systems of the US and other countries, and legal professionals are considering the accuracy and impact of using AI in their preparatory work, AI in Criminal Law provides much-needed insights for legal practitioners.

Are you interested in exploring a unique perspective on crime and punishment?

Winner of the American Society of Criminologys Michael J.

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

At a time when AI is already being integrated into the criminal justice systems of the US and other countries, and legal professionals are considering the accuracy and impact of using AI in their preparatory work, AI in Criminal Law provides much-needed insights for legal practitioners.

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

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

The killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses - and how they almost got away with it.

Dieses Lernbuch für Referendare vermittelt strukturiert und prägnant den gängigen strafprozessualen Prüfungsstoff staatsanwaltlicher Assessorklausuren.

"e;Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us.