Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Understanding Canadian Law Four-Book Bundle
Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations / Life or Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
In this special four-book bundle, legal expert Daniel J. Baum explains Canadian law in a clear and understandable way.
**Includes:
Youth and the Law**
Laws, as they relate to youth and youth issues, can be difficult to understand for those they are intended to serve. Baum breaks down...
by Noelle Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Cultural defences, i.e. claims that certain aspects of a defendant’s cultural background should be taken into consideration by courts when adjudicating on their guilt or innocence, have been raised before domestic courts in a variety of jurisdictions. This has been a very sensitive and controversial...
Reconceptualising Penality
A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of ’three strikes’ laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these developments appear to signify a new, harsher era or ’punitive turn’. Yet these features of criminal justice are not universally present in...
by Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni, Edmundo Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
These studies recover the historical roots of thinking that are in conflict with, and critical of, present-day tendencies. Criminological theory over the last few decades has oscillated between extremes: on one side there are calls for increasing the state exercise of punitive power as the only means...
by C.T. Sistare
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
autonomy principally in tenns of the agent's conscious choice of ends or conduct. From this, the cognitivist emphasis on mental states and their contents naturally follows. The presence of specified mental states, as signifying agent choice, thus becomes the hallmark of responsible conduct. Capacities...
The International Criminal Court in Ongoing Intrastate Conflicts
Navigating the Peace–Justice Divide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
In recent decades, international courts have increasingly started investigating armed conflicts. However, the impact of this remains under-researched. Patrick S. Wegner closes this gap via a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the International Criminal Court in the Darfur and Lord's Resistance...
Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland
Sociopolitical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset. It has appeared at every stage of the development of every community, regardless of organisation, form of government or period in history. This work presents the views of criminologists from Central Europe on the phenomenon of criminality as...
A Typology of Criminal Personality
Deconstruction of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
The author's endeavor is to deconstruct important influences the American dream has on individuals' personality. In the American social structure, there exists a conflict between legitimate and illegitimate means of goal achievement. The design of social structure indicates the manner in which institutions...
Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice
Lessons from Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
While international criminal courts have often been declared as bringing ‘justice’ to victims, their procedures and outcomes historically showed little reflection of the needs and interests of victims themselves. This situation has changed significantly over the last sixty years; victims are increasingly...
Heinous Crime
Cases, Causes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
What circumstances lead someone to commit murder, rape, or acts of child molestation? Why does society have such a deep-seated wish for vengeance against perpetrators of heinous crimes? Can those found guilty of such crimes ever be rehabilitated? What are the long-term consequences of incarceration,...
Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Between Retribution and Reparation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994. Incorporating elements of both African dispute resolution and of Western-style criminal courts, Gacaca courts are in line with recent trends to revive traditional grassroots mechanisms as a way of addressing a violent past....
by Andrew Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Now in its sixth edition, Sentencing and Criminal Justice has been extensively rewritten to reflect recent legislation, guidelines and judicial decisions. New material includes comparative sentencing research, which looks at models from other countries in comparison with the approach in England and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
The intersection between law and neuroscience has been a focus of intense research for the past decade, as an unprecedented amount of attention has been triggered by the increased use of neuroscientific evidence in courts. While the majority of this attention is currently devoted to criminal law,...
by Tom Avery, Dan Byram, Amy Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This text introduces a broad, in-depth look at security planning and procedures. Students will learn to develop skills in interviewing and interrogation techniques, intelligence gathering, surveillances, perimeter and crime scene security, criminal evidence preservation and collection, and principles...