Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Danielle Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions, Sex, Culpability...
Confronting Underground Justice
Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Plea negotiation is rife with due process concerns, including a heightened risk of coerced pleas, ignoring mens rea, serious questions about assistance of counsel, limited discovery and little litigation of the evidence, the conviction of innocent defendants and significant questions about fairness...
Books, Crooks, and Counselors
How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today’s writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided...
Cybercrime
Digital Cops in a Networked Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The Internet has dramatically altered the landscape of crime and national security, creating new threats, such as identity theft, computer viruses, and cyberattacks. Moreover, because cybercrimes are often not limited to a single site or nation, crime scenes themselves have changed. Consequently,...
Following the Proceeds of Environmental Crime
Fish, Forests and Filthy Lucre
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Huge quantities of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance. Most illegal exploitation and pollution occurs in countries with poor governance capacities, but much of the sale for...
Implied Consent and Sexual Assault
Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the Court rejected the idea that sexual consent could be "implied." Ewanchuk was a landmark ruling, reflecting a powerful commitment to women's equality and sexual...
Access to Justice and Legal Aid
Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political...
Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition
Failed Policies, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Praise for the First Edition: "Sex Offender Laws . . . is a good source for [a] balanced, objective, and thorough critique of our current sex offender policies as well as a source for accurate information about a very heterogeneous population. . . . The message that sexual abuse is often a...
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
Conundrums of the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law.
"Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying...
by Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
‘Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors’ - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK
‘The best value and best format books on the market.’ - Ed Bates, Southampton University, UK
Routledge Student Statutes present all...
The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty
Constitutional Jurisprudence and Legislative Reform in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Historically, at English common law, the death penalty was mandatory for the crime of murder and other violent felonies. Over the last three decades, however, many former British colonies have reformed their capital punishment regimes to permit judicial sentencing discretion, including consideration...
by Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points...
Understanding Canadian Law Three-Book Bundle
Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts. Anti-corruption is one of the preeminent issues in the modern global commercial order and is tackled with the help of criminal law and contract law in...