Social law and Medical law

The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.

The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services.

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.

Written from the viewpoint of the practicing clinician, this text is an indispensable addition to the library of anyone who is in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, or chiropractic, as well as for the judge, lawyer, or social worker who may interact with those presenting with the possibility of malingering.

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"e;Adequacy lawsuits"e; have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America.

Sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar international industry that preys on youth.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

This book argues that moral rights provisions in copyright law rest on a misunderstanding, or romanticisation, of the role of the author.

Hit by the European financial and economic crisis in 2008, several Member States of the European Monetary Union (EMU) were unable to refinance their public debt through the financial markets.

This book analyses the institution and concept of dictatorship from a legal, historical and theoretical perspective, examining the different types of dictatorship, their relationship to the law, as well as the analytical value of the concept in contemporary world.

This book considers the rapidly evolving, both legally and socially, nature of image-based abuse, for both minors and adults.

A critical evaluation of the law''s engagement with the process of healthcare decision-making, and how the relationship might be enhanced.

Griffiths and Sanders present a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the impact of the criminal process on medical practice.

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding's prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate.

Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the use of a somewhat nebulous concept of 'indecency'.

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.

Human-Machine Interface Technology Advancements and Applications focuses on analysis, design, and evaluation perspectives in HMI technological breakthroughs and applications.

Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.

This book prepares mental health professionals to conduct a thorough psychological assessment of individuals involved in immigration proceedings and present the results in a professional report.

Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

Textile-based compression therapy is used in a range of applications, such as for athlete and sport recovery, enhanced proprioception, compression spacesuits, and in the management of chronic diseases.

This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights.

There have been many recent developments in the research, theory, and practice of supervision in counseling, but few reliable resources are available for practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge in these areas.

Who enjoys statutory preferred creditor status?

This book examines the risks to freedom of expression, particularly in relation to the internet, as a result of regulation introduced in response to terrorist threats.

Combines original empirical data with theoretical and normative analysis of access to justice in the Court of Protection.

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This book explores how we can preserve the integrity of mental health provision in an age when community safety is dominant.

Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.

This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.

Policing remains one of the most controversial areas of criminal justice.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

Written in accessible language, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of a topical subject that is being widely debated across Europe.

Awarded the 2013 Birks Book Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars, Women, Judging and the Judiciary expertly examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity.

The Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948.

This important new handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of contemporary public policy and governance in the Global South.

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty.

Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people.

What responsibilities, if any, do we have towards our genetic offspring, before or after birth and perhaps even before creation, merely by virtue of the genetic link?

Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society presents the work of sociologist Niklas Luhmann in a radical new light.

Explores the diversity of partnerships at the interface of intellectual property and sustainable development.

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences.

Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of 'self-declaration' of legal gender status.

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

This book explores how the bedrock institution of today's global order - sovereignty - is undergoing transformation as a result of complex interactions between power and norms, between politics and international law.

An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients.