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  • Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea

    The Legal Framework for Counter-Piracy Operations in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden

    by Robin Geiss, Anna Petrig ...
    Since 2008 increasing pirate activities in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean have once again drawn the international community's attention to piracy and armed robbery at sea. States are resolved to repress these impediments to the free flow of trade and navigation. To this end a number of multinational counter-piracy missions have been deployed to the region. This book describes the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Watching Out

    reflections on justice and injustice

    by Julian Burnside ...
    ‘When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result. The legal system is designed to produce justice. We call it the justice system — sometimes un ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Executed on a Technicality

    Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

    by David R. Dow ...
    When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.It is these concrete accounts of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Rising Road

    A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

    by Sharon Davies ...
    It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Law of Entry, Search, and Seizure

    by Richard Stone ...
    In recent years, the law relating to entry, search and seizure has undergone major change. Significant legislation, including the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, has led to the amendment and abolition of powers, creating a complex and dynamic legal landscape. What powers are available? Who may use them? And under what circumstances? A practical guide to the powers available in both criminal and ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs

    Philosophy for the White House

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Inside Immigration Detention

    by Mary Bosworth ...
    On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained in similar conditions. The institutions charged with immigrant detention are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know very little. What is their goal? How do they operate? How are they justified? ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The State and the Body

    Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy

    by Elizabeth Wicks ...
    This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation

    by Professor Clive Walker ...
    Series series Blackstone's Guides
    This new edition of the Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation provides expert explanation of the key anti-terrorism legislation. It offers comprehensive guidance on the effects, extent, and scope of the legislation, along with key extracts from the legislation, including the Terrorism Act 2000, Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, Terrorism Act 2006, the Justice and Security ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism

    Edited by Fergal Davis, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
    The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies.This book brings together leading legal scholars in ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Espionage and Secrecy (Routledge Revivals)

    The Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989 of the United Kingdom

    by Rosamund Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this criminal law is analysed carefully, illustrated by leading cases of UK spies prosecuted under this section, particularly during the 1980’s — including MI5 officer Michael Bettaney and Geoffrey Prime who ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control

    Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging

    Edited by Mary Bosworth, Alpa Parmar, Yolanda Vázquez ...
    The criminalization of migration is heavily patterned by race. By placing race at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines, questions, and explains the growing intersection between criminal justice and migration control. Through the lens of race, we see how criminal justice and migration enmesh in order to exclude, stop, and excise racialized citizens and non-citizens from societies across ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD