Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Jeremiah Goulka, Carl Matthies, Emma Disley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
RAND researchers explored the U.S. and English forensic DNA analysis systems to find out whether England has capitalized more fully on their crime-fighting potential than the U.S. system, processing samples more quickly and providing more database hits for law enforcement.
The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities
Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of theLaw That Make Us AllU nsuspecting Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
You're probably breaking the law right now-and don't even know it.
Did you know...
? Naples, Italy, enforces laws for what constitutes real pizza, and "pizza police" visit restaurants to crack down on unlawful pies?
? In West Virginia it is a crime to display or possess a red or black...
Sin No More
From Abortion to Stem Cells, Understanding Crime, Law, and Morality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which...
Beyond Repair?
America’s Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Can the death penalty be administered in a just way—without executing the innocent, without regard to race, and without arbitrariness? How does capital punishment in the United States fit with international human rights law? These are among the questions that leading legal scholars and journalists...
by Devallis Rutledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Two handy publications now combined into one. No more legalese and long-winded case law commentaries to struggle through. QWIK-CODE's easy-to-use format makes it a pleasure to look-up the same information contained in California's cumbersome Peace Officers' Legal Sourcebook and CDAA's Field Guide (a very lengthy version of the Sourcebook).
Police and Community in Chicago
A Tale of Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Highly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty-five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved?...
Crime & Politics
Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to take the credit for crime reduction and to exploit grisly headlines for short-term political gain, these questions remain among the most important-and...
by Jed S. Rakoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The first book to examine the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines in detail, Federal Corporate Sentencing: Compliance and Mitigation shows how to develop and improve an internal compliance program—a critical preventive tool and the most important mitigating factor in sentencing. Because the Guidelines...
Today's Police and Sheriff Recruits
Insights from the Newest Members of America's Law Enforcement Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
For much of the past decade, police and sheriff's departments faced considerable challenges in attracting and retaining recruits. This volume summarizes a 2008-2009 survey fielded to recent police officer and sheriff's deputy recruits nationwide. The authors focus on how understanding modern recruits...
Prison Religion
Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church...
Insider Trading
Law, Ethics, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it. Politicians make or break careers by pillorying, enforcing, and sometimes engaging in it. But, oddly, no one seems to know what's really wrong with insider trading,...
by Robert C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Historically, police agencies have measured their performance against a restricted set of crime-focused indicators, but modern police officers must be prepared to take on a wide variety of roles. Performance measures should be multidimensional to capture this complexity. This report describes some key...
Final Judgments
The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture explores the significance and meaning of finality in capital cases. Questions addressed in this book include: how are concerns about finality reflected in the motivations and behavior of participants in the death penalty system? How does...
The Scene of Violence
Cinema, Crime, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator’s encounter with the cinematic scene of violence – rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture and terrorism. Providing a detailed...