Criminal Law category: 2380 books
The 9/11 Effect
Comparative Counter-Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book critically and comparatively examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. It assesses the convergence between the responses of Western democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada with...
The Sword and the Scales
The United States and International Courts and Tribunals
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
The Sword and the Scales is the first in-depth and comprehensive study of attitudes and behaviors of the United States toward major international courts and tribunals, including the International Courts of Justice, WTO, and NAFTA dispute settlement systems; the Inter-American Court of Human Rights;...
by Andrew Staniforth, Police National Legal Database (PNLD), Clive Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Accessible and portable, this Handbook provides all counter-terrorism practitioners with an authoritative, operational guide to anti-terrorism legislation. It also contains important contextual chapters on the counter-terrorism operational framework, the national structures and strategies, and the...
Combating Economic Crimes
Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse...
The Death Penalty: Documents Decoded
Documents Decoded
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
When is the death penalty considered "cruel and unusual punishment" or "constitutionally permissible"? This book exposes readers directly to landmark opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court that strive to answer difficult questions regarding capital punishment.
• Presents the...
Putting Trials on Trial
Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less...
Sex Crimes
Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence,...
by Professor Barry Mitchell, Professor Julian V Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Murder is often regarded as both the 'ultimate' and a unique crime, and whereas courts are normally given discretion in sentencing offenders, for murder the sentence is mandatory – indeterminate imprisonment. Since the crime and the punishment come as a 'package deal' this book looks at both the...
The War on Kids
How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
In 2003, when Terrence Graham was sixteen, he and three other teens attempted to rob a barbeque restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. Though they left with no money, and no one was seriously injured, Terrence was sentenced to die in prison for his involvement in that crime. As shocking as Terrence's...
Regulating Corporate Bribery in International Business
Anti-corruption in the UK and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests. Recent large-scale cases involving multinational corporations demonstrate how large commercial ’non-criminal’ enterprises are being implicated...
Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs
On the Principles of Criminalisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
When should we make use of the criminal law? Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs offers a philosophical analysis of the nature and ethical limits of criminalisation. The authors explore the scope of harm-based prohibitions, proscriptions of offensive behaviour, and 'paternalistic' prohibitions aimed at preventing...
Environmental Crime in Transnational Context
Global Issues in Green Enforcement and Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the reasons why governments and the enforcement community have trouble in finding the proper responses. Law...
Innovations in Evidence and Proof
Integrating Theory, Research and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Innovations in Evidence and Proof brings together fifteen leading scholars and experienced law teachers based in Australia, Canada, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the USA and England and Wales to explore and debate the latest developments in Evidence and Proof scholarship. The essays comprising...
The Crime of Aggression
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. This landmark commentary provides the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of...