Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Richard Card, Jack English
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Now in its thirteenth edition, this well-respected and highly regarded book covers all areas of law and legal procedure which are of interest to police officers. Updated to include new legislation such as the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, the Protection of Freedom Act 2012, the Coroners...
Criminal Investigation
Introduction to Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This text is designed to provide students with a basic and philosophical understanding of the investigatory processes regarding crimes against persons: death investigations crimes against persons; specially assault/battery, robbery, kidnapping and sex crimes investigations. Students will explore the...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
ATTP 3-39.10 is written for Army military police personnel conducting L&O operations while assigned to military police brigades, battalions, companies, detachments, U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Command (USACIDC) elements, military police platoons organic to brigade combat teams (BCTs), and...
Armed Conflict and International Law: In Search of the Human Face
Liber Amicorum in Memory of Avril McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book is written in memory of Avril McDonald, who passed away in April 2010. Avril was an inspired and passionate scholar in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, human rights law and law in the field of arms control and disarmament. What in particular made...
Flawed Convictions
"Shaken Baby Syndrome" and the Inertia of Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law. As often occurs in the context of scientific knowledge, understandings of SBS have evolved. We now know that the diagnostic triad alone does not prove beyond...
Contesting Femicide
Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law...
by Michael O'Hear
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Synthesizing the latest scholarship in law and the social sciences on criminal sentencing and corrections, this book provides a thorough, balanced, and accessible survey of the major policy issues in these fields of persistent public interest and political debate.
• Provides readers with...
Plausible Crime Stories
The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Plausible Crime Stories is not only the first in-depth study of the history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine but it also pioneers an approach to the historical study of criminal law and proof that focuses on plausibility. Doctrinal rules of evidence only partially explain which crime stories make...
The Killer Across the Table
Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling...
Courtroom 302
A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Steve Bogira’s riveting book takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system. Courtroom 302 is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country.
We see the system through the eyes of the men...
Reimagining Restorative Justice
Agency and Accountability in the Criminal Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"Restorative justice theory has largely failed to keep pace with the rapid expansion of restorative practices worldwide – indeed, it is remarkable how much support RJ has when so few advocates can even define what it is. As such, this insightful and comprehensive new contribution from two of...
by Brian Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Fighting any false criminal allegation can cost a person potentially their life savings, reputation in the community, loss of friends, family, their career and ultimately their loss of freedom. From the time a criminal charge is laid, the process can last more than two years before a courts verdict...
by Carlos Fernández de Casadevante Romani
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspective...
by Jonathan Doak, Claire Mcgourlay, Mark Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on Evidence courses covering both criminal evidence and...