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  • Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition

    Failed Policies, New Directions

    Edited by Dr. Richard Wright ...
    Praise for the First Edition: "Sex Offender Laws . . . is a good source for [a] balanced, objective, and thorough critique of our current sex offender policies as well as a source for accurate information about a very heterogeneous population. . . . The message that sexual abuse is often a multifaceted and complex issue and that policy based on quick fixes or knee jerk reactions does not often ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

    by John H. Langbein ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History
    The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history. For centuries defendants were forbidden to have legal counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant to answer the charges in person. The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-dominated criminal ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

    Law and Practice

    Edited by Amal Alamuddin, Nidal Nabil Jurdi, David Tolbert ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
    This book provides a full analytical overview of the establishment and functioning of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the newest and most controversial of the UN-sponsored international criminal courts. In 2005, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri was assassinated in a huge blast that reverberated across Lebanon and the region. The Tribunal was established with a mandate to try the perpetrators ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Implied Consent and Sexual Assault

    Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice

    by Michael Plaxton ...
    In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the Court rejected the idea that sexual consent could be "implied." Ewanchuk was a landmark ruling, reflecting a powerful commitment to women's equality and sexual autonomy. In articulating limits on the circumstances under which women can be said to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

    Edited by Gerben J.N. Bruinsma, Shane D. Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent ... Read more

    $158.39 USD

  • Unconstitutional Solitude

    Solitary Confinement and the US Constitution’s Evolving Standards of Decency

    by Charlie Eastaugh ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book examines American solitary confinement – in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time – and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny. While Eighth Amendment precedent has otherwise experienced a generational fixation on the death penalty, this book argues that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Victims of Crime

    Construction, Governance and Policy

    by Matthew Hall ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Since the election of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in May 2010 it is argued that victimization has increasingly taken on a greater cultural resonance both in England and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Gaukroger ...
    - Is objectivity possible?- Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes?- What would a truly objective account of the world be like?- Is everything subjective, or relative?- Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative?Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Poisons

    An Introduction for Forensic Investigators

    by David J. George ...
    A unique book on recognition and investigationof criminal poisoning for investigatorsof all backgrounds and stages of their careers.Poisons: An Introduction for Forensic Investigators is a concise yet comprehensive overview of toxicants and unanticipated circumstances in which poisoning occurs. This book expands awareness of poisoning possibilities, heightens recognition of the toxic potential of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
    The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern. Human rights activists increasingly address the activity of multinational corporations, the policies of international organizations such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, and international crimes committed by entities such as armed opposition groups and terrorists. This book presents an approach to ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Private Security and the Law

    by Charles P. Nemeth ...
    Private Security and the Law, Fifth Edition, is a singular resource that provides the most comprehensive analysis of practices in the security industry with respect to law, regulation, licensure, and constitutional questions of case and statutory authority.The book begins with a historical background of the security industry, laws and regulations that walks step-by-step through the analysis of the ... Read more

    $102.99 USD