Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct
A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The Fraud Act 2006 presented a wholesale reform of the pre-existing deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978. This edited collection offers a critical evaluation of fraud legislation and provides a review of the Fraud Act 2006 within the context of measures introduced within...
Prosecuting Juvenile Piracy Suspects
The International Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Duncan Gaswaga, a former judge of the Seychelles Supreme Court who has presided over numerous piracy trials, asked the following question: "What is a judge to do when a bearded piracy suspect facing justice asserts that he is fourteen?" This book addresses this important question by focusing...
The Police Power
Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.
Dubber explores the roots of the power...
Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition
Failed Policies, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 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...
Crime, Reason and History
A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Many books seek to explain the general principles of the criminal law. Crime, Reason and History stands out and alone as a book that critically and concisely analyses these principles and comes up with a different viewpoint: that the law is shaped by social history and therefore systematically structured...
by Stephanie Wickouski
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
This authoritative treatise on bankruptcy fraud is an invaluable reference book for bankruptcy law practitioners, white-collar criminal lawyers, prosecutors, judges, restructuring professionals, and academicians. Bankruptcy Crimes is the only book extant on the subject and is unique in its dual perspective...
Biological Determinism, Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Insights from Genetics and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book examines the way in which new discoveries about genetic and neuroscience are influencing our understanding of human behaviour. As scientists unravel more about the ways in which genes and the environment work together to shape the development of our brains, their studies have importance...
Criminal Justice at the Crossroads
Transforming Crime and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism,...
The Privilege of Silence
Fifth Amendment Protections Against Self Incrimination
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
The U.S. Constitution provides that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." While this portion of the Fifth Amendment contains only fifteen words, its application can be deceptively complex. Using the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is dependent...
The International Criminal Court
A Global Civil Society Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective.
It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly...
Homicide
A Forensic Psychology Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Forensic psychology plays an increasingly important role in criminal investigations and legal decision-making. Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook guides readers through the practical aspects of homicide cases across the entire criminal justice system, from the investigative process to the criminal...
Arrested
Battling America's Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1900
Learn how to protect yourself from the American criminal justice system. And why you need to! Practicing criminal defense attorney Dan Conaway has written Arrested to help us all understand our rights and responsibilities in the country we live in. “The Beast”—as he refers to our criminal justice...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book draws on findings from psychology, neurology, and genetics, to offer a multi-dimensional analysis of criminal behavior. It explores the biological bases of emotions such as aggression, anger, and hostility and how they-- combined with social psychological influences, such as family history...
by James B. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have rights too. James Jacobs examines the problem of erroneous records and proposes ways to eliminate discrimination for those who have been rehabilitated.