Criminal Law category: 2380 books
How They Got Away With It
White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
A team of scholars with backgrounds in criminology, sociology, economics, business, government regulation, and law examine the historical, social, and cultural causes of the 2008 economic crisis. Essays probe the workings of the toxic subprime loan industry, the role of external auditors, the consequences...
by Studio Legale Rusconi, Antonio Giacalone, Fausto Indelicato
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2015
L’esigenza di scrivere un breve testo in materia di antimafia, nasce dai più recenti interventi legislativi in materia di appalti pubblici e dall’istituzione di un’Autorità Nazionale in materia di anticorruzione, l’A.N.AC. che ha “definitivamente” sostituito l’Autorità per la Vigilanza sui Contratti pubblici di Lavori, Servizi e Forniture (AVCP).
Acting White?
Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really"...
by Ken Devos
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of why taxpayers behave the way they do. It reveals the motivations for why some taxpayers comply with the law while others choose not to comply. Given the current global financial climate there is a need for governments worldwide to increase their revenue...
by LawTech Publishing Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Summaries of enforcement sections from the Drug Laws, written in a clear, concise, easy-to-use format. Includes selected enforcement sections from the Business and Professions, Health & Safety codes.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This innovative volume explores a fundamental issue in the field of sentencing: the factors which make a sentence more or less severe. All sentencing systems allow courts discretion to consider mitigating and aggravating factors, and many legislatures have placed a number of such factors on a statutory...
The Ferguson Report
Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and court system, and connecting...
Insider Trading in Developing Jurisdictions
Achieving an effective regulatory regime
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The book examines the regulation of insider dealing in the developed jurisdictions, using three of the G7 countries as guides with the aim of knowing how they have regulated insider trading and what lessons can be learnt from their failures and achievements. It looks at regulatory regimes in the...
The OECD Convention on Bribery
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The OECD Convention on Bribery established an international standard for compliance with anti-corruption rules, and has subsequently been adopted by the thirty-four OECD members and six non-member countries. As a result of the Convention and national implementation laws, companies and managers now...
A New Leaf
The End of Cannabis Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Two award-winning journalists offer a “cogent, well-sourced and ambitious analysis of the slow decline of cannabis prohibition in the United States” (Kirkus Reviews).
In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis...
New York Murder Mystery
The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a local and a national context for New York's plunging crime rate, Karmen tests and debunks the many self-serving explanations for the decline. While crediting...
Bio-Privacy
Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology. Focusing particularly on the relationship between the use of this technology and the protection of privacy, this book draws on material...
by Charles Dickens, Paul Lorrain
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
LONDRES. La session judiciaire qui commence après la Saint-Michel vient de s’ouvrir, et le lord chancelier siège dans la grande salle de Lincoln’s Inn. Un affreux temps de novembre ; autant de boue dans les rues que si les eaux du déluge venaient seulement d’abandonner...
Locked In
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing...