Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Tracey Maclin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
The application of the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule has divided the Justices of the Supreme Court for nearly a century. As the legal remedy for when police violate the Fourth Amendment rights of a person and discover criminal evidence through illegal search and seizure, it is the most frequently...
Geometries of Crime
How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The...
Policing the Waterfront
Networks, Partnerships, and the Governance of Port Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Long recognised as a site where criminal elements have flourished, the waterfront has been exploited for centuries by opportunistic individuals for a whole raft of illicit purposes. Policing the Waterfront: Networks, Partnerships, and the Governance of Port Security is the first book of its kind to...
by Michael Salter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been amongst...
Globalizing the Streets
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the...
Prisoner Voices from Death Row
Indian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture. Death penalty is embedded in Indian law, however very little is known about the people...
Sentencing Guidelines
Exploring the English Model
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals. Increasingly, structured sentencing guidelines are being introduce to frame judicial discretion. This volume...
Crime, Risk and Insecurity
Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary Western societies. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from...
by Michael F. Mangiaracina
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
The more confident you are in your testimony skills and your ability to not get confused or rattled by defense attorneys, the more cases you will win. You increase your confidence level by, first, acquiring knowledge, then by practicing and living out the concepts each and every time you testify in...
Imprisonment of the Elderly and Death in Custody
The Right to Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise in the number of prisoners dying in custody. In this book, Khechumyan questions whether respect for human dignity would justify releasing older and seriously ill prisoners. He also examines...
The Ethics of Capital Punishment
A Philosophical Investigation of Evil and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Debate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice. In The Ethics of Capital Punishment, Matthew Kramer takes a fresh look at the philosophical arguments on which the legitimacy...
Corruption in Commercial Enterprise
Law, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This edited collection analyses, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the issue of corruption in commercial enterprise across different sectors and jurisdictions. Corruption is commonly recognised as a major ‘social bad’, and is seriously harmful to society, in terms of the functioning and...
Drugs in Society
Causes, Concepts, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Lyman offers a comprehensive big-picture examination of the US drug problem,...
by Rube Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
When a prosecutor makes a rush to judgment before he knows all the facts, he is beginning to decide a case before it goes to trial. He insidiously develops a personal bias against the defendant. Prosecutorial action before trial can poison the minds of the public and potential jurors thus setting...