Criminal Law category: 2380 books
A Return to Justice
Rethinking our Approach to Juveniles in the System
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Juveniles who commit crimes often find themselves in court systems that do not account for their young age, but it wasn’t always this way. The original aim of a separate juvenile justice system was to treat young offenders as the children they were, considering their unique child status and amenability...
Juvenile Delinquency
A Sociological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year institutions.
Taking a sociological approach, Juvenile Delinquency, Tenth Edition, discusses delinquency as...
Youth Gangs and Community Intervention
Research, Practice, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice agencies. Less attention and fewer resources have been directed to prevention and intervention strategies that draw on the participation...
Crime and Justice, Volume 45
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julian V. Roberts and Andrew Ashworth on the evolution...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2006
This comprehensive reference work presents inside information on the Juvenile Justice-systems in 19 different countries, both in old and new EU-member states and in the United States and Canada. The book is the result of research conducted by a group of outstanding researchers, who are concerned about...
The Common Law
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law.
by Max M. Houck, Jay A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Fundamentals of Forensic Science, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the basic principles of forensic science. The book begins at a crime scene and ends in the courtroom.
The book is divided into six parts. Part 1 provides an overview of criminal justice and forensic science, covering...
Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice
Transforming Individuals and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings....
Imprisoning Communities
How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities....
Female Offenders and Reentry
Pathways and Barriers to Returning to Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Often, research concerning the female offender is scarce. This book adds to the criminological literature on the topic of reentry for women, focusing on the barriers women face as they return to society and adjust to life after incarceration. Each chapter addresses specific issues, challenges, and...
Comentários a uma sentença anunciada
o processo Lula
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Esta obra é uma versão jurídica, e talvez, o mais importante documento jurídico publicado no Brasil nos últimos anos. "Comentários a uma Sentença Anunciada: O processo Lula", surgiu de um movimento de juristas brasileiros que examinaram cuidadosamente a sentença proferida pelo juíz...
Policing Serious Crime in China
From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...
Executing Grace
How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champion of the new monastic movement, popular speaker, and author of the bestselling The Irresistible Revolution offers a powerful and persuasive appeal for the abolition of the death penalty.
The Bible says an eye for...
Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults
Working Effectively in Adult Protection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.
The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice...