Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Undoing Impunity
Speech after Sexual Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important yet silenced subject. Six country volumes (one each...
The Unknown Target of Life Experiences
Two boats and the unseen waves of life, past and present and beyond the motionless waters yet to wave
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
David Thomson had a challenging childhood. His father abandoned his wife and seven children, leaving them to struggle with the bleak future that the desperation of poverty often brings. Determined to succeed, Thompson pursued a career with the Philadelphia Police Department where he worked for over 12...
Obstructive Marketing
Restricting Distribution of Products and Services in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In Obstructive Marketing, Maitland Hyslop deals with a very negative kind of activity which embraces activities, legal or otherwise, designed to prevent or restrict the distribution of a product or service, temporarily or permanently, against the wishes of the product manufacturer, service provider...
Policing Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption
Exploring the Role of Communication Interception Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Examining the role of communication interception technology (CIT) in the investigation of transnational organised crime, the authors demonstrate that a proactive intelligence-led policing framework and a re-evaluation of the constraints of CIT are required to combat the international issue of corruption.
Transitional and Transformative Justice
Critical and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This book engages the limits of transitional justice and, more speci
Circling Disaster
Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The NAACP Image Award-–winning author of A Question of Freedom examines the failures—and broader repercussions—of America’s broken juvenile justice system.
Over the past four decades, the prison population in America has increased by more than 500 percent, leaving more than three million...
Balancing Liberty and Security
Human Rights, Human Wrongs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Examining the erosion of people's democratic rights and the potential catastrophic dangers of neglecting civil liberties, this book explores the endemic danger of the enlarged power of the state and the central role of Government in undermining personal freedoms through the use of state force in the name of the protection of security.
Slavery and the Death Penalty
A Study in Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respective abolitionist movements. The book explains...
AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL
People v. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As I write this, the nation is still reeling from multiple shocks in July 2016. First, as the month began, came yet two more videotaped incidents of police shooting to death black arrestees after many other such widely-publicized incidents over the previous several years. The day after the Fourth of...
Mental Health in the War on Terror
Culture, Science, and Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Neil Krishan Aggarwal's timely study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism. In the process, the state has used psychiatrists and psychologists to furnish knowledge on undesirable populations,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for...
Punishment in Europe
A Critical Anatomy of Penal Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries. Noting particularities as well as similarities, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the use of harsher sanctions against the poor, this book questions how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe.
by Ian O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the passing of time. In particular,...
Hate Crime and Restorative Justice
Exploring Causes, Repairing Harms
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The product of an 18 month empirical study which examined the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice in order to examine the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation. Hate Crime and Restorative Justice: Exploring Causes,...