Criminal Law category: 2380 books

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this...

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to...

Miller’s Children is a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court’s decision in the case of *Miller v. Alabama, *which outlaws mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. The decision to apply the law retroactively to other cases...

LIFER45 Years in Her Majesty’s PrisonsThis is the story of a ‘Lifer’, a prisoner who was convicted of murder in the Old Bailey in May 1968 and who remains in prison in March 2013. Many books have been written about convicted criminals, usually to prove either their innocence or...

Field Manual (FM) 3-39 describes the operational doctrine of the Military Police Corps Regiment. The manual is linked to joint and Army doctrine to ensure that it is useful for joint and Army. Other military police FMs will be based on the foundations established in this manual and will be synchronized...

Summaries of enforcement sections from the Vehicle Code, written in a clear, concise, easy-to-use format. Includes selected enforcement sections from the Business and Professions, Fish & Game, Food & Agriculture, Health & Safety, Public Resources, Public Utilities and Streets & Highways...

El principal objetivo de la Ley que se comenta debe ser, en nuestra opinión, generar oportunamente información de calidad para que, a través de la debida utilización de los Avisos, las autoridades puedan, como fin último, privar a la delincuencia organizada de los cuantiosos recursos económicos...

Los temas sobre los que trata este texto son problemas que no pueden dejar de interesarnos a todos. La importancia de abordar de modo específico las cuestiones implicadas en los periodos de transición desde la perspectiva de la justicia radica en que las violaciones generalizadas y sistemáticas...

Looking Back, A Police Story tells the story of Law Enforcement Professionals (LEPs) who are embedded in the US Military Forces and who are assisting with the War on Terrorism. Since the attacks of 9-11 the military has had to adjust to not only fighting this war on the battlefields but also in the...

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology. The chapters provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction and overview of conflict situations stemming from human...

A comprehensive guide for officers working Drunk Driving Enforcement. It combines all aspects of DUI / DWI enforcement into one preliminary investigation manual. Learn how to maximize your enforcement efforts and prepare for court by learning the three defense strategies and by reviewing 55 questions...

This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice. With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial...

Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the evolution of crime. In The Will to Punish, using an approach both genealogical and ethnographic, distinguished anthropologist Didier Fassin addresses...

Predictive policing is the use of analytical techniques to identify targets for police intervention with the goal of preventing crime, solving past crimes, or identifying potential offenders and victims. These tools are not a substitute for integrated approaches to policing, nor are they a crystal ball....