Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Nathan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Why should you have to fight off something that is supposedly here to help you? Well here's the deal, if you can afford it then the law can indeed be a great asset to you, but for the average citizen the law amounts to an ongoing barrage of harassment, fines, threats, fear, grief and humiliation,...
MacCarthy on Impeachment
How to Find and Use These Weapons of Mass Desctruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Impeachment of witnesses is "an alien, mystifying and obtuse area of the law" write the authors of MacCarthy on Impeachment. While there are many books on evidence and trial advocacy, there is very little written specifically on the law of impeachment. Generally, impeachment law is found...
Trying Cases to Win
In One Volume
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This book is an insightful study in trial psychology, an instruction manual about how to make your arguments resonate in the courtroom, and an examination of what made some of the greatest trial lawyers of our time so effective.Law school will teach you the law and how to form an argument, but this book...
Habeas Corpus in Wartime
From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Habeas Corpus in Wartime unearths and presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in the Anglo-American legal tradition. The book begins by tracing the origins of the habeas privilege in English law, giving special attention to the English Habeas...
Three Strikes and You’re Out!
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.
It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes...
The German Prosecution Service
Guardians of the Law?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Acclaimed as the "the most objective prosecutors in the world", the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars. At first glance, the institutional position and statutory mandate of German prosecutors indicate that that reputation is...
by Joseph J. Fischel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It is, he argues, a moralized fiction, and it churns out figures for its normativity: the predatory sex offender...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book offers various perspectives, with an international legal focus, on an important and underexplored topic, which has recently gained momentum: the issue of foreign fighters. It provides an overview of challenges, pays considerable attention to the status of foreign fighters, and addresses...
Negotiations in the Case Law of the International Court of Justice
A Functional Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book examines the multifunctional role negotiations play in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. Prior negotiations may be necessary to bring to the surface and clarify the legal aspects of a dispute before its submission to the ICJ. Negotiations may play a potential and parallel...
Showing Remorse
Law and the Social Control of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture. In capital trials in the United States, it can be a question of life or death whether a jury believes that a wrongdoer showed remorse. And in wrongdoings that...
Traces of Terror
Counter-Terrorism Law, Policing, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
In the wake of 2001, terrorism laws and their policing have been charged with eroding civil liberties and discriminating against Muslim and ethnic minority peoples. Traces of Terror: Counter-Terrorism Law, Policing, and Race goes further and asks how counter-terrorism reproduces the social relations...
Juveniles’ Waiver of Rights
Legal and Psychological Competence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The research studies reported in this book were completed between June, 1976 and November, 1979, with a USPHS research grant (MH- 27849) from the Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency, National Institute of Mental Health. Every phase of the project was an exercise in combining the research methods...
Regulating Preventive Justice
Principle, Policy and Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has a long pedigree in both fields. 17th century jurist Sir Edward Coke observed that ‘preventing justice excelleth punishing justice’. A century later, Sir William Blackstone similarly stated that ‘preventive...
by Yuwen Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Administrative litigation systems are a rapidly developing legal field in many countries. This book provides a comparative study of the administrative litigation systems in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, as well as a number of selected European countries that covers both states with an advanced...