Criminal law: procedure and offences

This English-Russian legal dictionary covers the most frequently used criminal law terminology and court-related words and expressions.

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.

This book, first published in 1990, takes a challenging look at the images constructed by the Press of women's political protest.

The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice.

The legal system is often denounced as Kafkaesquebut what does this really mean?

Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice.

This book develops a new conceptualisation of lawfare that recognises the polysemantic nature of the term.

This book by Roger W.

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seems perti nent to a finding of criminal responsibility in situations where a minority cultural defendant has violated a valid criminal statute.

What kind of state emerges from the pandemic?

The volume examines how diversity in Member States'' legal cultures is being addressed in the development of EU criminal justice.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

This illuminating study explores the role of professionals, patients, regulation and law in improving patient safety.

This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement.

Prisons are everywhere.

This book examines the possible end of capital punishment due to new discoveries of innocence.

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.

Legal systems do not operate in isolation but in complex cultural contexts.

This book employs a transitional justice lens in order to explore justice initiatives in the United States of America.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

A comprehensive doctrinal analysis of cybercrime laws in four major common law jurisdictions: Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA.

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.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

This book traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting.

In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance - that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour - vary by ethnicity has received less attention.

Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other.

This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime.

This volume explores an important, yet under-researched, area of sentencing law and practice: the use of mitigating and aggravating factors.

During the last thirty years, the judiciary has undergone an unprecedented expansion in its size and power.

The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society.

Now in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law.

This book presents a unique series of graphic narratives which offer a new way to recount the lived experiences and life stories of women involved in transnational organised crime groups, from victims to perpetrators.

Awareness of peer-on-peer abuse is on the rise and is a matter of increasing international concern.

From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations.

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

The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals.

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity.

Global money laundering transactions are estimated to be $3.

Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports.

With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured.

This essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism.

Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively severe and that more people are executed for crime in China each year than in the rest of the world combined.

This title was first published in 2001.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

Justice processes operate in small groups, organizations, institutions, as well as society as a whole.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.