Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.
Law and Evidence: A Primer for Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Legal Studies, Third Edition, introduces the complex topic of evidence law in a straightforward and accessible manner.
Law and Evidence: A Primer for Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Legal Studies, Third Edition, introduces the complex topic of evidence law in a straightforward and accessible manner.
Originally published in 1985, Police and Public Order in Europe examines the development of the police in Western Europe and considers how police functions have changed over time.
Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.
Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.
Winner of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2023 Non-Fiction PrizeBulelwa Mabasa was born into a 'matchbox' family home in Meadowlands, Soweto, at the height of apartheid.
The Criminal Disclosure Referencer provides practitioners with a user-friendly guide to the law and practice relating to the disclosure of unused material.
Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state conspiracy theories or pathological portrayals of Black communities.
Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state conspiracy theories or pathological portrayals of Black communities.
First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.
First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.
The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an increasingly prevalent presence in our lives, going beyond historical standards.
The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an increasingly prevalent presence in our lives, going beyond historical standards.
'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expos of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.
This book uses humanity-rationality and experience and the freedom of human will as a theoretical perspective to examine the basic framework of criminal law theories constructed by the criminal classic school and the criminal empirical school.
El libro Reflexiones jurídicas sobre la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz es el producto de una investigación realizada de manera conjunta entre profesores de los departamentos de Derecho Penal y Criminología y Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, en la cual, luego de una serie de discusiones sobre los principales problemas teórico-prácticos de la nueva Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, decidimos que era indispensable abordar desde una perspectiva académica los principales retos que representaba esta jurisdicción en el derecho colombiano.
