Willan imprint: 278 books

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book provides a stimulating, carefully planned introduction to the key issues and debates within family law from some of the leading authorities within their field. It is designed both as a self standing book focusing on the key issues in the subject, and as a supplement to more detailed textbooks...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book brings together research into key aspects of the interconnections between Islam, crime and the criminal justice system in Britain, a particularly timely collection in the light of both the recent disturbances in several northern English cities as well as the impact of the events of 11 September...

Child Pornography

Crime, Computers and Society

by Ian O'Donnell, Claire Milner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book explores the enduring appeal of child pornography and its ramifications for criminal justice systems around the world. It is based on an extensive review of academic literature and newspaper coverage, a trawl of websites frequented by those with a sexual interest in children, a survey of...

Protecting the Public?

Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders

by Tessa Boyd-Caine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension between...
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Release Date: August 1, 2006

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex...

Supermax

Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

by Sharon Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s. Drawing on unique access to two Supermax prisons and on in-depth interviews with prison officials,...
by Yvonne Jewkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some...
by Michael Tonry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned. It has ensured a continuously high profile for criminal justice issues, and they have been at the centre of wider political discourse. Yet...
by Tim Newburn, Peter Neyroud
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Contemporary policing is developing rapidly and is becoming increasingly professionalized. For practitioners National Occupational Standards, Skills for Justice and the the new PDLP (Police Development and Leaning Programme) have brought a new emphasis on skills, standards and knowledge. Training...
by Mary Corcoran
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was...
by Matthew Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Over the last thirty years, victims of crime have become a staple topic of media interest and policy-making discourse.Drawing on an extensive programme of first-hand empirical data gathered at some 300 English criminal trials, this book examines the practical outcomes of this reform agenda and assesses...

International Police Cooperation

Emerging Issues, Theory and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

The globalization of threats and the complexity of international security issues represents a greater challenge for international policing in (re)shaping inter-agency interaction, and makes effective international police cooperation more necessary than ever before. This book sets out to analyse...
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Release Date: May 13, 2013

Sex Work Now provides an authoritative overview of female sex work and policy in the UK, and addresses a number of key contemporary issues and debates. These include sex worker unionization, migrant sex work and trafficking, communities and sex work, male clients of sex workers, the policing of prostitution,...
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