Criminal law: procedure and offences

Encapsulating new policing developments under the Coalition, A Future for Policing in England and Wales examines the major reform proposals and reports brought in since May 2010, including the Winsor Report and the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review, and analyses what these changes mean for the future of policing in England and Wales.

Throughout history prostitution has always been a source of fierce debate; societies have either grudgingly tolerated it or tried (always unsuccessfully) to ban it.

This book seeks to provide and promote a better understanding and a more responsive and inclusive governance of the automation and digital devices in public institutions, particularly the law and justice sector.

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family.

This textbook provides the reader with an insight into the needs of children with both physical and learning disabilities, particularly within an acute care setting.

The Showa Era in Japan commenced in December 1926, when Emperor Showa ascended the Throne, and came to an end in January 1989, when His Majesty passed away, ushering in the new Heisei Era.

A comprehensive collection on police and policing, written by experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory.

Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda.

This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration.

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma, Second Edition, takes a unique comparative approach to the exploration of race- and ethnicity-related justice issues in five countries around the world.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education.

In this book, Kerry Carrington takes a bold, critical and reflexive approach to understanding the global divisions and inequalities that shape distinctive patterns of gender and crime.

This book is concerned to analyse the production of criminological knowledge, with particular reference to one of the most important institutions in the western world involved in this -the official inquiry.

In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with.

International anti-terrorism measures existed long before 11 September 2001 but have increased markedly since.

The first detailed description of when and how the police may use force under the international law of law enforcement.

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America.

Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy.

Terrorism: Law and Policy provides a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of issues related to terrorist activity.

Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics.

Crime is always part of a social process.

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets?

Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud.

Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering criminal process and access to justice for prisoners.

An invaluable tool equipping healthcare professionals, auditors, and investigators to detect every kind of healthcare fraud According to private and public estimates, billions of dollars are lost per hour to healthcare waste, fraud, and abuse.

Medical confidentiality is universally recognised as a value worth protecting.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

As a Catholic priest, Grandier was an influential figure in the Loudun community and local government.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

The field of ethics in science aims to improve the way the audience perceives science, and this unique workbook discusses the areas of ethics and scientific misconduct.

While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face.

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentencesaccording to Amnesty International, the country has the world's highest rate of capital punishment per capita.

This book deals with the most fundamental problem in criminal law, the way in which free will and determinism relate to criminal responsibility.

This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.

Originally published in 1997.

An account of the 19th-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the crimes committed and the classification of offences to the different courts and their procedure.

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism.

This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the 'disappearances' that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict - or 'Troubles' - and the post-conflict response to these 'disappearances.

This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies.

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

The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom.

The notion of social justice permeates much of current Western political and cultural discourse with a newfound urgency.

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo.

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.

This book explores the politics of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) regulation in several countries across Africa and the Small Island States.