Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by John Hendy, Odette Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The Optimize series is designed to show you how to apply your knowledge in assessment. These concise revision guides cover the most commonly taught topics, and provide you with the tools to:
Understand the law and remember the details
· using diagrams and tables throughout to demonstrate...
by Attorney Dennis A. Bjorklund
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
“DUI Survival Guide” is authored by one of the best DUI lawyers in the country. It is the most accessible, down-to-earth book to discuss the criminal charge of drunk driving (other terms include DUI, DWI, OWI). The “DUI Survival Guide” is an essential product to store in every vehicle’s...
The Wrong Carlos
Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and...
May It Please the Court
Judicial Processes and Politics In America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This practical, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the American judicial system is designed primarily for undergraduate students in criminal justice, liberal arts, political science, and beginning law. It differs from other texts not only by delivering an insider’s view of the courts, but...
The Impact of Plea Bargaining on the Criminal Justice Delivery
A Case Study of the Uganda High Court Criminal Trials
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Developing criminal justice systems? This is a paradox to unveil for one to justify any meaning of this administrative/judicial paradigm in the contemporary criminal jurisprudence. Nakibuule explores insights on plea bargainings impact on criminal justice delivery. Learn what plea bargaining could...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic. The harm may be financial, as occurred when such well-regarded companies as Enron, Lehman Brothers, Worldcom and Barings collapsed, or it may...
Regulation and Criminal Justice
Innovations in Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
While regulatory institutions and strategies have been the subject of increasing academic attention, there has been limited application of regulatory theories to criminal justice scholarship. This collection of essays from a range of outstanding international scholars adopts a critical, inter-disciplinary...
Crook County
Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored...
by Colin Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The 3rd edition of this leading text examines, from a practitioner's point of view, the concept of abuse of process and how it operates within criminal and extradition proceedings. This title deals with the different procedural and factual situations that give rise to an abuse of process, covering...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
The United States has a large wrongful conviction problem, and it’s a travesty. This book presents 80 Proposals to STOP the problem.
The forensic DNA revolution, which produced its first wrongful conviction exoneration in 1989, has led to some changes in the U.S. criminal justice system but not...
Case of a Lifetime
A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal...
Courts in Conflict
Interpreting the Layers of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The rise of international criminal trials has been accompanied by a call for domestic responses to extraordinary violence. Yet there is remarkably limited research on the interactions among local, national, and international transitional justice institutions. Rwanda offers an early example of multi-level...
Transformation and Trouble
Crime, Justice and Participation in Democratic South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Crime is one of the major challenges to any new democracy. Violence often increases after the lifting of authoritarian control, or in the aftermath of regime change. But how can a fledgling democracy fight crime without violating the fragile rights of its citizens? In Transformation and Trouble, accomplished...
Breaking the Pendulum
The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk...