Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Mike Presdee
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms...
End of Its Rope
How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.
by Edward Rees QC, Richard Fisher QC, Richard Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) mainly came into force in March 2003, introducing a new anti-money laundering regime. It created the Asset Recovery Agency; introduced wide new powers in relation to the confiscation of criminal property; as well as new civil recovery and enforcement powers. The...
Punishment and Inclusion
Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S. population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote, and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than 5 million adult Americans cannot...
Innocent
Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott...
The Culture of Control
Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and "zero-tolerance" policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response...
Interpersonal Criminology
Revisiting Interpersonal Crimes and Victimization
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Based on peer-reviewed articles from the Second International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, Interpersonal Criminology investigates the roots of crime and victimization, rather than dissecting criminal behavior after the fact. The book divides crime by type,...
by David R. Fisher, Barry A. J. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
"If you are a Professional Crime Scene Investigator, then this book is a must have for both your personal forensic reference library, as well as your office reference library."
—Edward W. Wallace Jr., Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst, Retired First Grade Detective, NYPD
"Techniques...
Crime Prevention
International Perspectives, Issues, and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions, from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime. Based on a review of the literature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In Brazil, where crime is closely associated with social inequality and failure of the criminal justice system, the police are considered by most to be corrupt, inefficient, and violent, especially when occupying poor areas, and they lack the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by police forces in many...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operating in other jurisdictions. This book will be a resource...
by R.K. Dixit
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
This book deal with problems, prospects and perspectives of governance problems in India.It Carries contributions from distinguished leaders in several fields of contemporaneous national concern.
American Justice in the Age of Innocence
Understanding the Causes of Wrongful Convictions and How to Prevent Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
The exoneration of more than two hundred and fifty people who have been wrongfully convicted makes it clear that Americas criminal justice system isnt foolproof. Its important to understand the causes of wrongful conviction in order to find solutions to this growing problem. Edited by one of the nations...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
This unparalleled reference spans the entire scope of world history offering a thorough investigation into the most infamous crimes and their perpetrators throughout recorded time. Arranged by subject, from Assassination to Terrorism, each chapter begins with an essay that introduces the topic and...