Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Witness for the Defense
The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be...
by Nanaymie Godfrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Court allegations can be based on nothing but a perspective that criminalizes confusing behaviors. Professionals who work within the court and its related bodies often are trained to seek out, diagnose and ostracize those who causesocial upheaval by these "aberrant" behaviors. Given the power to assert...
by Vários
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 13, 2016
EDITORIAL Guilt and the Time of Consciousness MARIA FERNANDA PALMA Comentário à sessão Neurociências e livre arbítrio RICARDO TAVARES DA SILVA Cérebro social, diversidade cultural e responsabilidade penal AUGUSTO SILVA DIAS Libertad, culpabilidad y neurociencias DIEGO-MANUEL LUZÓN PEÑA...
Onze strafpleiters
14 assisenpleiters over hun vak, het geweten en onze toekomst
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Zeven jaar geleden, nog voor Canvas uitpakte met de reeks Strafpleiters, sprak Margot Vanderstraeten al met twaalf vooraanstaande strafpleiters over hun vak, dat ook hun passie is. Hoe verdedigen ze een zware crimineel en waarom? Is waarheid belangrijk en bestaat waarheid wel? Wat denken ze over levenslang...
by Jacques Givet
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1986
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1986
« Il ne s’agit pas ici d’attaquer Jacques Vergès comme publiciste dont on ne partage pas les raisons, ni même comme simple adversaire politique. Mais de dénoncer les moyens de défense à la fois choquants et subtils de deux causes meurtrières : le terrorisme aveugle et le nazisme. Une défense...
The Guantanamo Files
The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2007
In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page...
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in...
Measurement Uncertainty in Forensic Science
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In the courtroom, critical and life-changing decisions are made based on quantitative forensic science data. There is often a range in which a measured value is expected to fall and, in this, an inherent uncertainty associated with such measurement. Uncertainty in this context is not error. In fact,...
Real-World Crime Scene Investigation
A Step-by-Step Procedure Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Real-World Crime Scene Investigation: A Step-by-Step Procedure Manual is designed as a field guide providing instruction on how to document a crime scene, including sketching, mapping, searching, collecting, and preserving physical evidence. It also addresses how to document a crime scene using photography...
Global Community Policing
Problems and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In nations all over the world, community policing has been found extremely beneficial in improving public confidence in the police. Community-oriented policing and police-citizen cooperation is now the accepted framework for all progressive police departments. Drawn from the proceedings at the 2010...
Analyzing 911 Homicide Calls
Practical Aspects and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book provides police investigators and homicide detectives with a practical method of analyzing 911 homicide calls to uncover the truth. A structured analysis of 911 homicide calls can directly aid in developing investigative leads, planning interviews and solving cases. Case examples present...
Pioneers in Forensic Science
Innovations and Issues in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book highlights the contributions of leading forensic science practitioners, iconic figures who have been integral in both establishing current scientific and medicolegal practices and innovative evidence collection, testing, and analysis methods. Such professionals include Henry Lee, Michael...
Death Scene Investigation
Procedural Guide, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Those tasked with investigating death scenes come from a variety of backgrounds and varying levels of experience. Whether a homicide detective, crime scene investigator, medico-legal death investigator, coroner or medical examiner, Death Scene Investigation: Procedural Guide, Second Edition provides...
by Matthew M. Lunn
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Essentials of Medicolegal Death Investigation uses a unique approach by combining medical issues, injury patterns, and investigative procedures to provide the reader with the basic fundamentals for a death investigation. The text introduces the reader to death investigation, common causes of death,...