Relations between societal values and legal doctrine are inevitably complex given the time lag between law and social reality, and the sociological space between legal communities involved in the development and application of the law and non-legal communities affected by it.
The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to the analysis of the law/revenge binary, and attempts to dismantle the common idea of revenge as lacking any legal, moral or rational dimension.
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.
This book explores a foundational philosophical tension in contemporary retributivism, revealing ambiguities in its approach to punishment between two conflicting conceptions of restoration: legal justice and ethical love.
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.
Personal Identification: Modern Development and Security Implications, Second Edition explains how personal identification - and REAL ID - became part of the American fabric along with their past century's historical ID development.
This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.
This book offers up-to-date information and guidance on the application of metrology in legal proceedings, clarifying the limits of validity of scientific evidence and presenting an illuminating series of case studies in which measurement uncertainty has played an important role.
Dieses Buch bietet Einsatztrainer*innen, Polizist*innen, Entscheider*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen einen praktischen und evidenzbasierten Zugang zum Thema des polizeilichen Einsatztrainings.
This book is devoted to illustrating the significance of perpetrator-victim relationship, including its status and state, in understanding intimate partner homicide (IPH) in the context of China today after comparing with the findings in the previous studies.
This book presents the latest and most relevant studies, surveys, and succinct reviews in the field of financial crimes and cybercrime, conducted and gathered by a group of top professionals, scholars, and researchers from China, India, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and Russia.
Desde su creación como repúblicas independientes, los países latinoamericanos se han debatido entre el anhelo de alcanzar la libertad y el de asegurar el orden.
A thorough and engaging look at an unexpected driver of changes in the American criminal justice systemDriving is an unavoidable part of life in the United States.
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.
Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is aimed at meeting the reference needs of officers who investigate serious, major, and organised crime.
This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy.
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.
Explore the key aspects of business law through accessible, engaging real-life cas Law for Business Students, 12th edition, by Adams, Caplan and Lockwood provides you with contemporary and comprehensive coverage of the fundamental legal principles relating to the business environment.
This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding client group.
"La pregunta central que se pretende responder en este libro es si una empresa, constituida como persona jurídica, puede ser llamada a responder frente a la comunidad por un delito cometido a propósito de su funcionamiento en forma independiente a sus integrantes individualmente considerados.
"El proceso judicial actual es heredero, en la enorme mayoría de países, de antiguas regulaciones, romanas sobre todo, que fueron acumuladas, reformadas y casi podría decirse que amontonadas durante varios siglos, hasta que vinieron las codificaciones del siglo xix y las que les siguieron, que intentaron compilar mejor y simplificar el panorama existente.
"El libro presenta un análisis de epistemología jurídica que parte del presupuesto de que la averiguación de la verdad es objetivo fundamental del proceso judicial.
"El blanqueo de capitales ocupa un lugar fundamental en los debates político-criminal y jurídico-penal contemporáneos y aparece relacionado con la persecución e investigación de numerosos delitos.
