Criminal law: procedure and offences

How are juries selected in the United States?

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

This book addresses the largely neglected place of women defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism.

This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Courts juvenile justice decisions including Miller v.

Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

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

International criminal law has developed extraordinarily quickly over the last decade, with the creation of ad hoc tribunals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court.

This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo.

Nobody's Law shows how people - who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system - gradually move away from law.

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

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.

Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder.

The ultimate justice of the people?

Designed to assist practicing attorneys in all phases of a medical malpractice case, this practical handbook contains crucial information and strategies for handling a medical malpractice case in such areas as the investigation of the suit, defenses, discovery, use of expert witnesses, settlement discussions, and trial strategies.

El texto que se presenta es un estudio escrito por Mildred Hartmann acerca de los primeros años de funcionamiento del sistema acusatorio en Colombia, que fue realizado durante el año 2007 y que da cuenta de las dos primeras etapas de la implementación de esta importante reforma.

La prison, concentration de misère sociale et de violence, est un lieu de souffrances plurielles pour la personne privée de liberté ; comme pour l'ensemble des professionnels et des bénévoles qui interviennent entre ses murs.

A GLOBAL CABAL OF HITMEN.

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This groundbreaking book investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade across North Africa and Europe.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system.

Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated.

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

Al Capone was a criminal but he was once loved by his community.

Experts anticipate that more than 350,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will return to civilian life with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Juvenile Delinquency: Why Do Youths Commit Crime?

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.

Students that are going into criminal law can definitely take advantage of a criminal law study guide.

Develop a clear understanding on how criminal justice works to know when appeals can be heard.

This is your dictionary of common terminologies used in the study of criminal law.

How does a criminal get persecuted?

The 1970's and 1980's witnessed both substantial conceptual and practical interest in paratransit across Europe and North America, as well as widespread implementation of paratransit services and strategies.

Este libro es una compilacion de los trabajos que se presentaron en el Congreso Homenaje a Michele Taruffo los dias 23 y 24 de enero de 2015 en Girona, organizado por la Catedra de Cultura Juridica de la Universidad de Girona.

The book provides a critical analysis of EU law-making policy on the confiscation of the proceeds of crime, using a minimalist restorative approach to justice focused on the rights of victims and communities, and more proactive roles for all participants in confiscation procedures.

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

The book provides a sound base level of knowledge of the substantive law.

Answers questions and details the model of Youth Offender (YO) Court, a unique family-focused specialty drug court program.

This carefully revised third edition of Criminal Psychology offers a vital, up-to-date account of the wide range of psychological contributions to the understanding of criminals and crime, its investigation, the legal processes of dealing with offenders, and helping victims.

The book provides a broad explanation of the criminal activities that affect financial services providers and will help bankers to identify and combat financial crime.

El libro Delitos economicos y delitos violentos: Perspectivas actuales describe las dos tendencias que se encuentran en la conducta delictiva, una relacionada con los delitos de corrupcion y la otra relacionada con el comportamiento violento.

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

Criminal Legislation in Ireland consolidates the most important and frequently used pieces of criminal legislation and facilitates easy reference for criminal practitioners and students alike.

The book analyses the difficulties the International Criminal Court faces with the definition of those persons who are eligible for participating in the proceedings.

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as "e;law as social justice liberalism"e;, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been enacted globally.

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime.

This book draws on empirical work to examine the debates surrounding domestic violence disclosure schemes (also known as Clare's Law), focussing on England and Wales with comparisons to similar jurisdictions.