Criminal law: procedure and offences

Research on prisons prior to the prison boom of the 1980s and 1990s focused mainly on inmate subcultures, inmate rights, and sociological interpretations of inmate and guard adaptations to their environment, with qualitative studies and ethnographic methods the norm.

Should public opinion determine--or even influence--sentencing policy and practice?

The American prosecutor plays a powerful role in the judicial system, wielding the authority to accept or decline a case, choose which crimes to allege, and decide the number of counts to charge.

Criminological theory texts typically follow a conventional format.

How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "e;right to remain silent"e; become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information?

The Language of Sexual Misconduct Cases analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases.

Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago.

Although white-collar crime has caused a substantial amount of damage on both the individual and societal levels, it often ranks below street crime as a matter of public concern.

How well does memory work, how accurate is it, and can we tell when someone is reporting an accurate memory?

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study.

In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror.

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

It is no secret that America's sentencing and corrections systems are in crisis, and neither system can be understood or repaired fully without careful consideration of the other.

In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them?

Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years.

The recent Boumediene v.

Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights.

Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent behavior.

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

The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

Oscar, physically and sexually abusive, stabbed his partner and two stepdaughters to death, buried the bodies, and fled the state with his two younger children.

Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors.

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States.

What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice?

In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David S.

Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading--more so than anywhere else in the liberal west.

This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978.

This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "e;harm principle,"e; the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation.

In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders.

In Genocide Denials and the Law, Ludovic Hennebel and Thomas Hochmann offer a thorough study of the relationship between law and genocide denial from the perspectives of specialists from six countries.

Anti-Bribery Laws in Common Law Jurisdictions provides a comprehensive analysis of the foreign bribery laws and of related laws and regulations in key common law jurisdictions.

Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

Ten years ago, in the wake of massive crimes in central Africa and the Balkans, the first permanent international criminal court was established in The Hague despite resistance from some of the world's most powerful states.

The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars.

What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal?

For nearly two centuries in the United States, the punishment of crime was largely aimed, in theory and in practice, at prevention, rehabilitation or incapacitation, and deterrence.

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison?

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it.

InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well.

Can the original goal of the authors of the Miranda law be salvaged?

A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust.

Criminal Law Conversations provides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up.

Punishment, like all complex human institutions, tends to change as ways of thinking go in and out of fashion.

When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up.