Criminal law: procedure and offences

New edition with bonus featuresThis hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle s front seat passenger, Jo.

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women's imprisonment.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years.

What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing?

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

The question "e;What can justify criminal punishment ?

This book considers the increasing trend towards a 'culture of control' in democratic countries.

Change is an inevitable part of any correctional institution, as new trends and initiatives constantly bombard the system.

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving.

A concise, accessible, and engaging guide to the law of treason, written by the nation’s foremost expert on the subjectThe only crime defined in the United States Constitution, treason is routinely described by judges as more heinous than murder.

The only book on international white collar crime remains an invaluable tool for business, law, and law enforcement.

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is the most widely used and accepted scheme for diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and beyond.

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house.

A comprehensive, three-volume set that provides detailed background essays, short topical entries, and primary document excerpts to explain the organization, history, and functioning of the U.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

The question of 'what works' in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years.

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution-the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

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

Public Speaking for Criminal Justice Professionals: A Manner of Speaking is a one-of-a-kind public speaking guide specifically written for criminal justice professionals, written by a criminal justice professional.

This book presents a fresh approach to cybersecurity issues, seeking not only to analyze the legal landscape of the European Union and its Member States, but to do so in an interdisciplinary manner, involving scholars from diverse backgrounds - ranging from legal experts to ICT and engineering professionals.

Expertly authored by the co-editor of the best-selling text Cultural Criminology Unleashed, this book re-examines criminology in a global context.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the increased role of criminal law in managing migration, from a European, domestic and comparative law perspective.

This book delves into risks that can easily bedevil any psychotherapist and what can happen if they are ignored.

This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour.

This handbook consists of essays on contemporary issues in criminal law and their theoretical underpinnings.

Over the last decade there has arisen considerable disquiet about the relationship between criminal justice and its publics.

The Injustice of Punishment emphasizes that we can never make sense of moral responsibility while also acknowledging that punishment is sometimes unavoidable.

Despite the media controversies surrounding high-profile cases of undercover policing, it is not always clear what ethical issues are at stake.

This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological developments as well as their political, ethical, and socio-legal aspects.

Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling human drama.

First published in 1993, Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it.

The first resource of its kind, this authoritative handbook holistically addresses the multidimensional aspects of perinatal and neonatal palliative care.

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together original contributions to present the best of current thinking about the nature and place of remorse in the context of criminal justice.

Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law.

Ethical principles and concerns are at the heart of criminological research and can arise at the planning, implementation and reporting stages.

The arts - spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres - constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness.

Whereas some Western democracies have turned toward substantially tougher law and order policies, others have not.

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

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Modern Criminal Law of Australia, 2nd edition is a guide to interpreting and understanding statutory offence provisions in every Australian jurisdiction.

This title was first published in 2000: Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime develops a unique line of thought in contemporary criminology, re-examining an under-researched dimension of radical discourse.

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Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility.

This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world.

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.