Criminal Law category: 2380 books
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment, Frank Zimring...
Doing Life
Reflections Of Men And Women Serving Life Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
What does it mean to face a life prison sentence? What have "lifers" learned about life-from having taken a life? Photographer Howard Zehr has interviewed and made portraits of men and women in Pennsylvania prisons who are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. Readers see the prisoners...
The Death Penalty in America
Current Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1998
InThe Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies, Hugo Adam Bedau, one of our preeminent scholars on the subject,provides a comprehensive sourcebook on the death penalty, making the process of informed consideration not only possible but fascinating as well. No mere revision of the third edition...
A Restorative Approach to Family Violence
Changing Tack
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This volume provides an essential update on current thinking, practice and research into the use of restorative justice in the area of family violence. It contains contemporary empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives on the use of restorative justice for intimate partner and family violence,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why prison? In addressing...
Transitional Justice
Images and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of ’justice’. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside...
Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription
Memory, Space and Narrative in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the burgeoning literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: how shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? Joseph Robinson argues that without understanding how memory shapes, moulds,...
Youth in Crisis?
'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term 'gang' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban 'territories'...
Shoot or be Killed
Putting You in the Officer's Shoes During a Use of Deadly Force Case
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Ever wonder what exactly happens when an officer is involved in the User of Deadly Force? What the officer saw and what he thought as it occurred? You have that opportunity as a 25 year veteran police Sergeant puts you in his shoes on that fateful day he experienced. You are taken step by step from being...
The Sherlock Effect
How Forensic Doctors and Investigators Disastrously Reason Like the Great Detective
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who—inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials—piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes—the...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This is Volume 2 of the book, “EYE CONTACT - The Mysterious Death in 2000 in Maine of Kassidy Bortner and the Wrongful Conviction of Chad Evans and Amanda Bortner." Volume 1 tells the story of the wrongful convictions of Chad and Amanda and the campaign for exoneration. This volume 2 contains the...
Criminalization, Representation, Regulation
Thinking Differently about Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and...
The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat
From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Examining major terrorist acts and campaigns undertaken in the decade following September 11, 2001, internationally recognized scholars study the involvement of global terrorist leaders and organizations in these incidents and the planning, organization, execution, recruitment, and training that went...
Veterans on Trial
The Coming Court Battles over PTSD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012