Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Dying on the Job
Murder and Mayhem in the American Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder. While some perpetrators are certainly mentally impaired, many workplace murders are committed by people considered to be “normal.” Brown explores the various motives and drives that spark workplace...
Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution
Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years...
by Sarah Lucy Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors, many of whom work on these cases daily, investigate contemporary issues...
by Cedric Kerns
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
What makes drug court programs different from traditional criminal courts? This e-book answers that question and details the model of Youth Offender (YO) Court, a unique family-focused drug court program designed to address the specific needs of young persons, ages 18 to 24, and their families-from the perspective of the presiding judge.
by Jill Leslie Rosenbaum, Shelley Spivack
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Studies have shown that arts-based programming in juvenile detention settings can be an effective tool in rehabilitating and reintegrating youth who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Implementing a Gender-Based Arts Program for Juvenile Offenders focuses on a 2012-2013 program...
by Hannah Maslen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This monograph addresses a contested but under-discussed question in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's remorse affect the sentence he or she receives? Answering this question involves tackling a series of others: is it possible to justify mitigation for remorse within a retributive...
Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator...
Professional Risk and Working with People
Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Professional Risk and Working with People provides advice on assessing and managing risks for all those employed to take risks with or on behalf of other people.
The authors explore issues of risk assessment and management that provides readers with a broad knowledge of risk practices that...
Enti e responsabilità da reato
Commento al D.Lgs. 8 giugno 2001, n. 231
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Un’opera innovativa che fornisce una visione completa della normativa, mediante un’analisi puntuale seppur sintetica delle singole disposizioni sia sotto il profilo dottrinale sia in relazione agli sviluppi giurisprudenziali. In particolare, mediante la trattazione di tutti i profili inerenti...
Diritto penale delle società
Accertamento delle responsabilità individuali e processo alla persona giuridica
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Questa nuova edizione offre un quadro aggiornato e completo della disciplina dei reati societari, alla luce dei più recenti interventi normativi e giurisprudenziali, e analizza le singole fattispecie attraverso la lente del processo penale, facendo emergere i problemi di maggior rilievo sull'accertamento...
by Leonida Primicerio
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Probabilmente esiste un nodo irrisolto nel nostro ordinamento, che parte dalla scelta dei padri costituenti – forse fondata sul clima di unità ma anche reciproca diffidenza politica di allora – di un P.M. come “parte imparziale”, prosegue negli anni successivi della Repubblica, nel confronto...
Living With Hacktivism
From Conflict to Symbiosis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom. After discussing the birth of the phenomenon and the various relevant groups, from Electronic Disturbance Theater to Anonymous, their philosophies and tactics, this...
by Leon Duguit
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
It is perhaps worth explaining why there is a special importance in the present development of the theory of the State. Law, like every social phenomenon, is subject to perpetual change; indeed any scientific study of law must necessarily involve an analysis of the evolution of legal institutions....
Little Book of Family Group Conferences New Zealand Style
A Hopeful Approach When Youth Cause Harm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Family Group Conferences (FGCs) are the primary forum in New Zealand for dealing with juvenile crime as well as child welfare issues. This third volume in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series is about the juvenile justice system that is built around these conferences. Since their introduction...