Criminal Procedure category: 558 books
by Daniel J. Baum
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
When police are called in to investigate a crime, what powers and limitations apply to them? What are their rights to question strangers, search without warrants, or detain individuals who might become suspects? Crime Scene Investigations breaks down the Supreme Court's decisions on questions like...
Crime Policy in America
Laws, Institutions, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s. This book examines the nature of presidential policy-making in crime and justice from...
by Ken Rossignol
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
The legendary Clarence Darrow slipped them off the hangman's gallows into prison for life. With all the details of today's modern documentaries the very words of the killers themselves will spellbind the reader and have all parents noting the whereabouts of their children. Danger lurks at all times,...
by D. P. Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The goal of this book is to provide correctional supervisors and others tasked with the responsibility of conducting internal investigations with the information and tools to become proficient and meet the state and federal court mandates and expectations of quality. The procedures and tasks in this...
A Toast to Silence
Avoid Becoming Another Victim of Deceptive Police Tactics By Knowing When and How to Use the Power of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Every day, police deception tactics fool millions of Americans into giving evidence they don’t have to give, leading to their arrest and conviction in court because they don’t know when and how to take advantage of their absolute constitutional right to remain silent. By the time they hear the Miranda warning,...
Child Hunters
Requiem of a Childkiller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
In the Wrinkles of my Soul I carefully saved tears To calm the danger, That sneakily threatens my heart. Through the dark corridors, Furtively sneak in those thoughts, That fear for the light When U convulsively Vomit... No!!!!!
by Sofia Graça, Kevin Lawton-Barrett, Martin O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2014 reflects the multitude of avenues into the police force now open to future police officers, from pre-join courses to PCSOs and Specials. Designed specifically to meet the new requirements of police training and developed from the best-selling Blackstone's...
Recounting the Anthrax Attacks
Terror, the Amerithrax Task Force, and the Evolution of Forensics in the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
It was September 18, 2001, just seven days after al-Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. In the early morning darkness, a lone figure dropped several letters into a mailbox. Seventeen days later a Florida journalist died of inhalational anthrax. The death from the rare disease made world news....
by Clive Harfield, Karen Harfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Examining all the issues you need to consider when deploying investigative tools under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Covert Investigation is a highly practical and detailed guide to this important, complex and sometimes controversial...
Encountering Correctional Populations
A Practical Guide for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for...
by José Luis Monereo Pérez, Cristóbal Molina Navarrete, María Nieves Moreno Vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Es una satisfacción presentar en los ámbitos académico y profesional la segunda edición de la primera obra de estas características, con una metodología nueva que entendemos de gran valor para hacer más operativa la enseñanza poniendo en práctica las indicaciones del Espacio Europeo de Educación...
Collaborative Practice
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Collaborative practice is a new method of dispute resolution, used mainly in family law matters. By taking a non-adversarial approach, it challenges the strictly positivist view of the lawyer as ‘zealous advocate’ for the client. As such, it has received much criticism from the established Bar...
Property Crime in Canada
An Econometric Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the...
The Politics of Policing
Between Force and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings...