Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Nicola Padfield, Jonathan Bild
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, empirical...
by Hungerford Welch, Peter Hungerford-Welch
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Criminal Procedure and Sentencing provides a comprehensive, engaging and up-to-date guide to each step of criminal procedure, from the arrest of the suspect through to trial, sentencing and appeals. Taking a strong practical focus throughout, it covers all aspects of the process of the criminal courts.
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Under The Wig
A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or sway a jury? Or get a judge to drop a case?
In this vivid memoir, veteran English lawyer William Clegg revisits his most intriguing trials, from the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando to the UK's first prosecution for Nazi...
Corporate Criminal Liability
Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons,...
by J. Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today—the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counsel, and the right to remain silent, among others—were not part of the original Bill of Rights, but were the result of criminal trials and...
Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial
International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Over the past decades, international criminal law has evolved to become the operative norm for addressing the worst atrocities. Tribunals have conducted hundreds of trials addressing mass violence in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and other countries to bring to justice perpetrators...
by HHJ Jeff Blackett
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
This new edition of Rant on the Court Martial, Discipline, and the Criminal Process in the Armed Services follows the Armed Forces Act 2006, which overhauls the naval and military justice systems, establishing a single system of service law and removing the need for separate consideration of the law...
Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union Volume 1
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In an era in which the EU's influence in criminal law matters has expanded rapidly, attention has recently turned to the possible creation of a European Public Prosecutor's Office. This two volume work presents the results of a study carried out by a group of European criminal law experts in 2010-2012,...
The International Criminal Court and Global Social Control
International Criminal Justice in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. At its genesis the ICC was expected to help prevent atrocities from arising or escalating by ending the impunity of leaders and administering punishment for the commission of international...
by Guyora Binder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction....
Dictionary of Crime
Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In order to understand the machinations and inner workings of crime and punishment in this country, it is necessary to negotiate through the wild linguistic labyrinth of its esoteric terminology and pungent slang. Here is Jay Robert Nash's comprehensive Dictionary of Crime: Criminal Justice, Criminology,...
Crimes of Terror
The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The U.S. government's power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of...
by Antonio Cassese, Guido Acquaviva, Dapo Akande
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
The move to end impunity for human rights atrocities has seen the creation of international and hybrid tribunals and increased prosecutions in domestic courts. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice is the first major reference work to provide a complete overview of this emerging field....
Proving Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering in International Arbitration
On Applicable Criminal Law and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Over the past few decades, arbitration has become the number one mechanism to settle international investment and commercial disputes. As a parallel development, the international legal framework to combat economic crime became much stronger within the fields of foreign public bribery, private bribery,...