Criminal law: procedure and offences

Many academic criminal lawyers and criminal law theorists seek to resolve the optimum conditions for a criminal law fit to serve a liberal democracy.

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

In the last two decades, the philosophy of criminal law has undergone a vibrant revival in Canada.

Since the first edition of this book - the first on the new system of case management in Crown Courts - much has happened, and the controversial and often misunderstood elements of case management have gradually evolved into a system which now appears to be having its intended effect.

Since the first edition of this book - the first on the new system of case management in Crown Courts - much has happened, and the controversial and often misunderstood elements of case management have gradually evolved into a system which now appears to be having its intended effect.

'Debating Law' is a new, exciting series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest.

EU Criminal Law is perhaps the fastest-growing area of EU law.

In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.

Since the early 1990s, unexplained infant death has been reformulated as a criminal justice problem within many western societies.

The last year has seen the largest and most comprehensive reform of Coronial Law since the early nineteenth century.

Many liberals consider CCTV surveillance in public places - particularly when it is as extensive as it is in England - to be an infringement of important privacy-based rights.

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeSex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates.

Despite the advent of new sexual knowledges,new perspectives, new experiences even, we do not routinely or habitually reflect on the interface of social and legal dimensions of sexuality.

This book assembles essays by leading scholars in their fields of criminology and socio-legal studies.

The UK's new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process.

EU Criminal Law is perhaps the fastest-growing area of EU law.

The criminal attacks that occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world.

This book of eleven chapters and an Introduction is by and about women, the harms and crimes to which they are subjected as a result of global social processes and their efforts to take control of their own futures.

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) was an innovative and controversial attempt to regulate the investigation of crime.

German substantive criminal law has been influential in many civil law countries, most notably in the Hispanic world.

In recent times, the idea of 'victims' rights' has come to feature prominently in political, criminological and legal discourse, as well as being subject to regular media comment.

This book is set against the background of the 'justice gap' in sexual assault cases - the dramatic gap between the number of offences recorded by the police and the number of convictions.

In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.

Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship.

The criminal trial is under attack.

A number of jurisdictions world-wide have changed or are considering changing their homicide laws.

Shortlisted for the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2011Governing, Independence and Expertise tells the story of the not-for-profit housing sector in England, focusing on its representative body, the National Housing Federation.

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

Prohibitions against offensive conduct have existed for many years, but their extent and use was on the decline.

Internationally,there is now an acceptance of the need to develop new strategies in criminal justice which reflect restorative justice principles.

The idea of an International Criminal Court has captured the international legal imagination for over a century.

This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy.

What are the aims of a criminal trial?

Restorative Justice has emerged around the world as a potent challenge to traditional models of criminal justice,and restorative programmes, policies and legislative reforms are being implemented in many western nations.

In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty to doctors and approved social workers.

Courts are constantly required to know how people think.

This book contains original essays by a distinguished group of jurists from six different European countries confronting the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law.

In the past twenty years action in respect of the profits of crime has moved rapidly up the criminal justice agenda.

Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.

The political libel is as old as politics itself.

In recent years,a number of key terms of the criminal law have seemed to defy definition.

Basing much of its analysis upon the first systematic empirical study of the French pre-trial process, this monograph breaks new ground in the field of comparative criminal justice.

This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation.

Leading an FBI Homicide Task Force and having run-ins with drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert.

The day Rose Callaly found her daughter Rachel's battered body was only the start of her nightmares.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of all the required areas of criminal and policing law, with explicit links to the National Occupational Standards.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of all the required areas of criminal and policing law, with explicit links to the National Occupational Standards.

On the eve of her hanging, Ruth Ellis wrote to a friend: 'I must close now but remember I am quite happy with the verdict, but not the way the story was told, there is so much that people don't know.