Criminal Law category: 2380 books
The Costly U. S. Prison System
Too Costly in Dollars, National Prestige, and Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The prison system in the U.S. is in crisis. We have far too many prisoners and spend far too much on housing them and building more prisons. We have far too harsh penalties for less serious nonviolent crimes, so we are unnecessarily incarcerating people who could be productive...
Grief Diaries
Victim Impact Statements
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
The victim impact statement is an indispensable tool that helps hold the offender accountable for the consequences of a crime. It gives the judge the rest of the story, the part that doesn’t appear in police reports or courtroom evidence, and connects vital pieces of information to emotions in a...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime. However, in reality almost half of offenders stand to be sentenced for more than one crime. The high proportion of multiple crime offenders poses a number of practical and theoretical challenges for the criminal...
by Andrew Staniforth, Police National Legal Database (PNLD), Clive Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Blackstone's Handbook of Ports & Border Security is a practical, portable handbook for police officers and other professionals concerned with security and crime prevention at all UK ports and borders. Over the past decade, significant legislative and operational changes have been introduced to...
The Burdens of Proof
Discriminatory Power, Weight of Evidence, and Tenacity of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Adjudicative tribunals in both criminal and non-criminal cases rely on the concept of the 'burden of proof' to resolve uncertainty about facts. Perhaps surprisingly, this concept remains clouded and deeply controversial. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, this book explores contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis of juvenile justice systems across the world. The second edition of this *Handbook *has been updated with 13 new chapters, now covering a total of 34 countries, across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East...
Contested Justice
The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The International Criminal Court emerged in the early twenty-first century as an ambitious and permanent institution with a mandate to address mass atrocity crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. Although designed to exercise jurisdiction only in instances where states do not pursue...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender,...
by Linda E. Carter, Mark Steven Ellis, Charles C. Jalloh
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
International tribunals need to interface effectively with national jurisdictions, which includes coordination with domestic judicial prosecutions as well as an appreciation for other non-judicial types of transitional justice. In this book, the authors analyze the earlier international tribunals established...
by Martin Wasik
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.
by Rose Ellen Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book is a "tell all" name and shame expose about the disgraceful and shocking conduct of social workers in the UK today, here are confirmed lists of convictions involving the most terrible crimes that could be imagined, all carried ouyt by social workers, the very people paid by the state to protect our children
Child Abuse
Today's Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The purpose of this book is to attempt to explore child abuse from a contemporary perspective in terms of its multiple elements, victims, and criminal justice responses. This text will: (1) begin to address the needs of those studying child abuse from a cultural perspective; (2) provide a general...
by Bernardo Feijoo Sánchez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2007
En este libro se recogen una serie de artículos relativos a algunas de las cuestiones básicas que determinan los actuales debates en el ámbito del derecho penal, tanto desde una perspectiva filosófica, como dogmática y político-criminal: las perspectivas metodológicas más actuales, especialmente...
Delito, pena, política criminal y tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en las modernas ciencias penales
memorias II Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores en Ciencias Penales 27, 28 y 29 de junio de 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2013
El II Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes investigadores en Ciencias Penales, celebrado en Salamanca en los días 27 a 29 de junio de 2011, viene a rubricar esa vocación de continuidad de aquél primer congreso salmantino del año 2009. Y este recado de permanencia se ha dado, de nuevo en esta segunda...