Criminal Law category: 2380 books
The Quiet Revolution
Shattering the Myths About the American Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This is a different view of our criminal justice system in a way that challenges the negative portrayals from people considered experts. Contrary to the prevailing view of most experts describing a broken and inhumane system, something appears to be working.
For the past twenty years crime...
by Lee E. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society, including what can be done to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm. Criminal justice and sociology students will find this text readable, up-to-date, and rich in historical detail....
The Politics of International Criminal Justice
German Perspectives from Nuremberg to The Hague
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
To anyone setting out to explore the entanglement of international criminal justice with the interests of States, Germany is a particularly curious, exemplary case. Although a liberal democracy since 1949, its political position has altered radically in the last 60 years. Starting from a position...
Up Against a Wall
Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses...
Fact-Finding without Facts
The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Fact-Finding Without Facts explores international criminal fact-finding - empirically, conceptually, and normatively. After reviewing thousands of pages of transcripts from various international criminal tribunals, the author reveals that international criminal trials are beset by numerous and severe...
by Olivera Simic
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The condemnation of wartime sexual violence as a gross violation of human rights has received widespread support. While rape and other forms of sexual violence have attracted considerable local and international attention, this often excludes wartime sexual violence among women belonging to so-called...
by Gideon Boas, Pascale Chifflet
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book explores crucial themes in international criminal justice. It starts by answering the searching question: what is international criminal justice? The book then considers the role and impact of politics, history, psychology, terrorism, transitioning society, and even the idea of hope, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Although psychologists have related, scientifically and professionally, to the law for over 50 years now, the two fields have not been systematically integrated. Happily, that situation is changing today. Psychologists and lawyers are becoming increasingly aware that laws are based upon assumptions...
Transnational Organised Crime
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud. The existence of a land border does not impede these operations; instead in many cases it is used to their advantage. In response, law enforcement strategies must include a transnational,...
From Retribution to Public Safety
Disruptive Innovation of American Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Over the past fifty years, American criminal justice policy has had a nearly singular focus – the relentless pursuit of punishment. Punishment is intuitive, proactive, logical, and simple. But the problem is that despite all of the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn't work. The majority...
Challenge to China
How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor draws attention to an underappreciated aspect of legal reforms in Taiwan, and asks how Taiwan's experience might be relevant to its giant neighbor across the Taiwan Strait. This timely book by Jerome A. Cohen,...
Arrest, Detention, and Criminal Justice System
A Study in the Context of the Constitution of India
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
A just, fair, reasonable, and purposeful exercise of arrest and detention powers by the State is both in the interest of the individual and the society at large. However, very often individual rights are impinged by arbitrary and illegal exercise of State power to arrest and detain. The book studies...
by Stephanos Bibas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims and defendants and, in many...
by Richard Vogler
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Criminal justice procedure is the bedrock of human rights. Surprisingly, however, in an era of unprecedented change in criminal justice around the world, it is often dismissed as technical and unimportant. This failure to take procedure seriously has a terrible cost, allowing reform to be driven by...