Criminal Procedure category: 558 books

Cover of The Realm of Criminal Law
by R A Duff
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a normative theory of criminal law, and of criminalization, that shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained. The theory is based...
Cover of Pleading Not Guilty in a Criminal Matter
by Josh Taaffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016

Learn the court processes involved when contesting criminal charges in Victoria, Australia. How does a person plead not guilty to a criminal offence? This ebook details the step-by-step process of submitting a 'Not Guilty' plea at the Magistrates', County, and Supreme Courts. Know more about the rights...
Cover of Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process
by Nicola Padfield, Jonathan Bild
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015

Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, empirical...
Cover of Criminal Justice and Taxation
by Peter Alldridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

The fallout from the financial crisis of 2007-8, HSBC Suisse in 2015, and the Panama Papers in 2016 has generated calls for far more vigorous and punitive responses to tax evasion and greater international co-operation against mechanisms for giving anonymity to the ownership of property. One mechanism...
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Raw Law

An Urban Guide to Criminal Justice

by Muhammad Ibn Bashir Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

The first book of legal advice for the hip hop generation, Covering areas ranging from how to secure the best public defender to what to do when driving DWB, this is a step-by-step guide to the criminal system for those who need it most written by a criminal defense attorney who knows this world from...
Cover of International Criminal Law
by Ilias Bantekas, Susan Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

Providing an introduction to, and detailed examination of substantive, enforcement and procedural aspects of international criminal law, this book’s examination of international and transnational crimes under treaty and customary law has been fully updated and revised. Exploring the enforcement...
Cover of 80 Proposals to STOP Wrongful Convictions: Before the End of This Decade
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015

The United States has a large wrongful conviction problem, and it’s a travesty. This book presents 80 Proposals to STOP the problem. The forensic DNA revolution, which produced its first wrongful conviction exoneration in 1989, has led to some changes in the U.S. criminal justice system but not...
Cover of Punishment, Communication, and Community
by R. A. Duff
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003

The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing...
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Breaking the Pendulum

The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice

by Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, Michelle Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk...
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You're Under Arrest!

Understanding the Criminal Justice System

by Margaret C. Jasper
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

“You’re Under Arrest”—words that nobody ever wants to hear. This book is designed to help the reader who is facing his or her first brush with the law by providing an overview of the criminal justice system and the people and procedures one may encounter along the way. The complexity of this...
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The Ordering of Justice

A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process

by Patricia Baranek, Richard Ericson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982

From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system. They draw a picture of one who is dependent upon the orders and decisions of the police, crown attorney, defence lawyer, and judge and not a...
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Criminal Defense in China

The Politics of Lawyers at Work

by Sida Liu, Terence C. Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social science methods, to investigate and analyze the interweaving of politics and practice in five segments of the practicing...
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Debates in Criminal Justice

Key Themes and Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This innovative new book recognises that, while criminal justice studies is a core component of all criminology/criminal justice undergraduate degrees, it can be a confusing, overwhelming and a relatively dry topic despite its importance. Taking an original approach, this book sets out a series of...
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Criminalization

The Political Morality of the Criminal Law

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization,...
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