Criminal Procedure category: 558 books
by Abenaa Owusu- Bempah
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Requirements for the defendant to actively participate in the English criminal process have been increasing in recent years such that the defendant can now be penalised for their non-cooperation. This book explores the changes to the defendant’s role as a participant in the criminal process and...
by Neil Boister
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
National borders are permeable to all types of illicit action and contraband goods, whether it is trafficking humans, body parts, digital information, drugs, weapons, or money. Whilst criminals exist in a borderless world where territorial boundaries allow them to manipulate different markets in illicit...
Hypercrime
The New Geometry of Harm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized conception of deviance, one that clarifies the continuities between crime in the traditional, physical context and developing spaces...
by Rick Michelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Introduction to California Criminal Law provides students with a working knowledge of the elements of the most serious and most frequently encountered California crimes. It examines both the statutory components of these crimes and the case law interpretations applied by the California appellate courts....
Criminal Fair Trial Rights
Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Article 6 fair trial rights are the most heavily-litigated Convention rights before the European Court of Human Rights, generating a large and complex body of case law. With this book, Goss provides an innovative and critical analysis of the European Court's Article 6 case law.
The category of...
by Counsel Mayabi
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, University of Nairobi (Law), course: Criminal Law, language: English, abstract: There are a number of requirements to be met before any lawyer could prove a case in a court of law. Among them is the...
by Louise Arbour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Reflecting on these experiences, she argues in War Crimes and the Culture of Peace that the level of public awareness...
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...
Criminal Justice and Minority Groups
A critical assessment of the question to what extent police stop and search powers may impact on trust and confidence in the police service with particular reference to the notion of 'overpolicing'
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 50 Punkte = 3,00, University of Portsmouth (Institute of Criminal Justice), language: English, abstract: The use of stop and search by the police, according to the definition on the website...
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...
Criminal Law Concentrate
Law Revision and Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
The Criminal Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Written by experts and covering all key topics, Concentrate guides help focus your revision and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused...
by James O’Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.
Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision...
by Professor J R Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 re-wrote the hearsay evidence rule for the purpose of criminal proceedings, enacting the recommendations of the Law Commission together with some proposals from the Auld Review. In 2008, Professor Spencer wrote a book explaining the new law, intended for practitioners...
The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence
Principle, Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the principles...