Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Edmund F. Du Cane
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the history and development of punishment and crime prevention. It explores how the ideas concerning crime and how to deal with it have changed throughout the ages, as well as analysing the way that we deal with such behavior in modern society. A thought-provoking...
How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation
Understanding Pound Seizure
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Back in the 1940s, the practice referred to as Opound seizureO became a common practice in taxpayer-funded animal shelters across the country. Whether for cosmetic testing, human or animal drug testing, medical technique and tool testing, or biochemical testing, these once-family pets are subjected...
The Anatomy of Prison Life
Behind the Walls of the Illinois Department of Corrections
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Control and Order, Gang Violence, Death Penalty, Spirituality, Rehabilitation, Survival, Redemption, Suicide, Hopelessness, Politics... The Anatomy of Prison Life shares the true story of the Illinois Department of Corrections and the personal experience of retired warden and author Charles Hinsley. You will be shocked. You will be infuriated. And you will be surprised at the power of the truth.
Punishment for Sale
Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad...
Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...
Behind the Walls
Inmates and Correctional Officers on the State of Canadian Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada’s prisons are overflowing, and outbreaks of violence continue to grab headlines. Applying Goffman’s frame theory and drawing on interviews with inmates and correctional officers in provincial...
by Joseph B. Ingle
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
"This is a remarkable book. It chronicles the 25 year journey of Philip Workman through what US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun termed "the machinery of death". It is the most detailed, intimate and complete look at a death row prisoner that I have encountered. The story is told through Ingle's...
After the Doors Were Locked
A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities,...
by Tony Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is designed specifically to meet the quick-reference needs of any officer conducting a serious investigation. The only portable step-by-step guide to the processes and actions involved in the role of a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO), it explains...
The 7/7 London Underground Bombing: Not So Homegrown
A Selection from The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This chapter analyzes the July 7, 2005 suicide bomb attacks against four London transportation targets that killed over 50 people and injured hundreds others. It was among the most important operations directed by core al Qaeda leaders in years following the events of September 11th 2001. Initially,...
Identity Theft Prevention: How to Protect Yourself From Predators and The Dangers of Identity Theft!
Identity Theft Prevention: How to Protect Yourself From Predators and The Dangers of Identity Theft!
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Identity Theft Prevention Handbook Lays Out Major Security Risks For Yourself And How To Stop Them From Occurring!
Protecting yourself and your identity is a serious concern for people in the digital age that we live in. Knowing what signs to look for can make a big difference in keeping yourself...
by Alan Lange,Tom Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
With over 200 individual fact citations into over 100 different sources, Kings of Tort has been impeccably researched. It used primary sources like the highly acclaimed book by Michael Orey entitled Assuming the Risk and Dan Zegart's book Civil Warriors. The book has also sourced information via articles...
Die Rolle des Strafrechts in Uebergangsprozessen ohne Uebergang
Ueberlegungen anhand des Falls Kolumbien
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Welche Rolle das Strafrecht bei der Aufarbeitung schwerer Menschenrechtsverletzungen spielen sollte, ist trotz des Bedeutungszuwachses des Völkerstrafrechts im Rahmen der Internationalen Strafgerichtsbarkeit eine hoch aktuelle und unter dem Schlagwort «Transitional Justice» kontrovers diskutierte...
Evolution, Kultur und Kriminalität
Über den Beitrag der Evolutionstheorie zur Kriminologie
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Die Evolutionsbiologie gilt einerseits als Königsdisziplin der Biologie, andererseits wird sie nach den erschreckenden Erfahrungen mit der Kriminalbiologie vor allem mit Eugenik, Sozialdarwinismus und Rassismus in Verbindung gebracht. Tatsächlich bietet die Evolutionstheorie viele Antworten auf...