Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Kafka's Law
"The Trial" and American Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The Trial is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client’s perception of the system. It’s supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it’s reality. It’s very important that lawyers read it and understand this.” Justice Anthony Kennedy famously offered this assessment of the...
by Jonathan Herring
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
This bestselling, classic textbook provides a clear and straightforward account of criminal law, while also introducing current debates about the nature, scope and functions of the law and discussing wider controversies surrounding the basic doctrines. Written by one of the UK’s leading experts...
Avoiding a Full Criminal Trial
Fair Trial Rights, Diversions and Shortcuts in Dutch and International Criminal Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions. This book is concerned with mechanisms that either divert from or speed up the proceedings.
Koen Vriend argues that the fair trial rights as established by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 ECHR provide...
by Elies van Sliedregt
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book examines the concept of individual criminal responsibility for serious violations of international law, i.e. aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Such crimes are rarely committed by single individuals. Rather, international crimes generally connote a plurality of...
Answering for Crime
Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
In this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability. His starting point is a distinction between responsibility (understood as answerability) and liability, and a conception of responsibility as relational and practice-based. This...
by Dr Mark Dsouza
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Despite the existing scholarly literature on criminal defences, many issues remain contested or unresolved. Dr Dsouza offers a thorough and scholarly treatment of a complex topic which can be expected to become a point of reference for future work in the field.”
Professor...
by Devallis Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Much of the daily work of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and criminal court judges is controlled by hundreds of decisions issued by the US Supreme Court over the past few decades. Keeping up with all of the principles governing police searches and seizures, interrogation of suspects and eyewitness...
The Western Codification of Criminal Law
A Revision of the Myth of its Predominant French Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil...
by Joseph N. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals is a comprehensive textbook that recognizes that successful reports are the result of a preliminary investigation, interpersonal communication skills, and a well written narrative. Based on their years of law enforcement and teaching experience the...
Wickedness and Crime
Laws of Homicide and Malice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Attempts to try individuals such as Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein for international crimes and the creation of the International Criminal Court highlight the growing currency and importance of international criminal law as a discipline in its own right. Contemporary importance and academic...
Miscarriages of Justice
Actual Innocence, Forensic Evidence, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Miscarriages of justice are a regular occurrence in the criminal justice system, which is characterized by government agencies that are understaffed, underfunded, and undertrained across the board. We know this because, every week, DNA testing and innocence projects across the United States help to...
Memory and Punishment
Historical Denialism, Free Speech and the Limits of Criminal Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book examines the criminalisation of denials of genocide and of other mass atrocities in Europe and discusses the implications of protecting institutional historical memory through criminal law.
The analysis highlights the tensions with free speech, investigating the relationship between...
by James O’Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The study of law can be an arduous and burdensome endeavour. Students can be overwhelmed by the unrelenting volume and complexity of legal texts. This can result in students failing to adequately understand the basic principles of their relevant study areas.
Blackhall’s Essential Law Revision...