Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by LawTech Publishing Group LawTech Publishing Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Full Text of the enforcement sections from the Penal Code in a condensed handbook-sized format. Includes selected enforcement sections from the Business and Professions, Fish & Game, Health & Safety Codes & more. Includes all required Penal Code Sections in the California P.O.S.T. Basic Academy.
Recruiting and Retaining America's Finest
Evidence-Based Lessons for Police Workforce Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Shares results of a survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, on recruitment and retention practices. Finds that police compensation, city size, and crime rates affected recruiting. Advertising and incentives had little effect on the number of recruits. Cohort sizes...
by LawTech Publishing Group LawTech Publishing Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Full text of the California Vehicle Code. Includes selected enforcement sections from the Bisiness & Professions, Fish & Game, Health & Saftey and a list of Violations.
by LawTech Publishing Group
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
2015 California Laws and Regulations Related to the Practice of Optometry all in one, easy-to-use handbook
by LawTech Publishing Group LawTech Publishing Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Full text of the enforcement sections from the Vehicle Code in a condensed handbook-sized format. Includes selected enforcement sections from the Business & Professions, Fish & Game, Health & Safety Codes and more. Includes all required Vehicle Code Sections in the California POST Basic Academy.
Securing Rights for Victims
A Process Evaluation of the National Crime Victim Law Institute's Victims' Rights Clinics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book discusses how some clinics have won significant gains at the appellate and federal court levels concerning victim standing, the rights to be consulted and heard, and the right to privacy. Some have won significant victories in gaining standing for victims and expanding the definition of...
by Anthony G. Amsterdam, Martin Guggenheim, Randy Hertz
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This updated second edition is a complete how-to guidebook for handling juvenile court cases from beginning to end. It details the tasks, skills, rules of law, and issues of strategic judgment involved in representing clients in juvenile court. If you have little or no juvenile court experience and are...
The Unlawful Society
Global Crime and Security in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Exploring the dynamics of law-making in a world where the pace of technological change is outstripping our capacity to capture new forms of transnational crime, this book uses the innovative concept of unlawfulness to examine the crimes of the global overworld, forming a unique analysis of global order in the twenty-first century.
Guilty by Reason of Insanity
A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares...
Money Laundering - An Endless Cycle?
A Comparative Analysis of the Anti-Money Laundering Policies in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book provides a detailed examination of anti-money laundering policies and legislative frameworks in a number of jurisdictions and considers how successful these jurisdictions have been in implementing international measures to combat money laundering.
Looking at the instruments and proposals...
Changing Lives
Lawyers Fighting for Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Changing Lives: Lawyers Fighting for Children demonstrates the critical role that attorneys play in changing the life courses of our most at-risk children. Without legal representation, the children profiled in this book likely would have gone down a path that was detrimental to their safety, their well-being, and ultimately their ability to grow into happy and successful adults.
After the War on Crime
Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the future. As American society confronts a...
by Ralph Henham
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Sentencing Policy and Social Justice argues that the promotion of social justice should become a key objective of sentencing policy, advancing the argument that the legitimacy of sentencing ultimately depends upon the strength of the relationship between social morality and penal ideology. It sheds...
Sunbelt Justice
Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift...