Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Chasing Gideon
The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The Washington Post reporter delivers a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s crisis of indigent defense—“a hugely important book” (New York Law Journal).
A Nieman Report’s Top Ten Investigative Journalism Books of 2013
First published to mark the fiftieth anniversary...
Uncertain Justice
Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.
In Uncertain Justice, Beverley Boissery and Murray Greenwood portray a cast of women characters almost as often wronged by the law...
Witness Testimony in Sexual Cases
Evidential, Investigative and Scientific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Sexual cases are inherently complex and sometimes controversial presenting the practitioner with a multitude of procedural and legal challenges. The increasing number of sexual cases, often historic, places significant demands upon the criminal justice system. Sexual crime is recognised as a specialist...
The Case Against Lawyers
How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING HOST OF COURT TV’S "CATHERINE CRIER LIVE" DESCRIBES AN AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL – AND FINDS THE LAWYERS GUILTY AS CHARGED.
As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch....
Punishing Race
A Continuing American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police,...
Jury Nullification
The Evolution of a Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent can a jury be? How much power does a jury...
They Wished They Were Honest
The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed...
The Pleader
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Len Murray, described by a High Court judge as the most respected pleader of his generation, practised as a solicitor in Glasgow for over 40 years. As part of a triumvirate of top lawyers based in the city during its period of renaissance, he built up one of the most respected law practices in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today—an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.
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Ethnic Cleansing
A Legal Qualification
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of...
Imprisoned by the Past
Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penaltyconnects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey. By highlighting the relation between American history and an individual case, Imprisoned by the Past provides a unique understanding of the big...
A History of Drugs
Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces...
Cuts and Criminality
Body Alteration in Legal Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how they are conceptualised within legal discourse. By drawing connections between types of body alteration that have traditionally been considered separately...
Crimes Against The State
From Treason to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In the post-2001 context of economic and political conflict, this book presents a timely and detailed examination of the role of the criminal law in the protection of the existing order from political dissent and destabilization. It reviews offences such as rebellion, treason, mutiny, espionage, sedition,...