Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Banks and Financial Crime
The International Law of Tainted Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated new edition provides a practical guide for banks and their lawyers in respect of their regulatory responsibilities, their private law duties, their liabilities to third parties, and their obligations to assist persons seeking the recovery of assets (including regulatory...
Preventive Detention of Terror Suspects
A New Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Preventive detention as a counter-terrorism tool is fraught with conceptual and procedural problems and risks of misuse, excess and abuse. Many have debated the inadequacies of the current legal frameworks for detention, and the need for finding the most appropriate legal model to govern detention...
Policing Undocumented Migrants
Law, Violence and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional. Policing Undocumented Migrants explores the extraordinarily routine, powerful, and above all lawful practices engaged in policing status...
Unfair
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
"A law professor sounds an explosive alarm on the hidden unfairness of our legal system." —Kirkus Reviews, starred
A child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime he did not commit; a jury acquits...
The Brain Defense
Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...
Three Felonies A Day
How the Feds Target the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in...
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions. Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges,...
Busted!
Drug War Survival Skills and True Dope D
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you...
Capital Punishment
A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present. It also examines how international,...
Crime & Punishment
Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better.
According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they’ll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the...
by Mike Flax
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This text explores current trends in economic crimes and the investigative techniques used to combat these offenses. Relationships between victims and offenders will be examined. Students will understand motives and common methods of operation associated with economic crimes. This textbook is appropriate...
by Andrew Keogh
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This new edition of the bestselling Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook provides a complete practical guide for the busy magistrates' court advocate. Incorporating essential extracts from the Magistrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines, Andrew Keogh offers all you need in one trustworthy source. Covering...
by Margaret Obi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
An ideal first source of reference for practitioners, judges, and legal representatives working on any case affecting prisoners, Blackstone's Prison Law Handbook is a complete practical guide to the main areas that give rise to prisoner complaints which include sentence calculation, Independent Adjudications,...