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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tyrone kirchengast”
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  • Victimology and Victim Rights

    International comparative perspectives

    by Tyrone Kirchengast ...
    This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century. Accessing substantial source material that sets out a normative framework of victim rights, this work argues that despite degrees of convergence, victim rights are interpreted on the domestic level, in accordance with the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Victims and the Criminal Trial

    by Tyrone Kirchengast ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial. Victims are increasingly participating in all phases of the criminal trial, with new substantive and procedural rights, many of which may be enforced against the state or defendant. This movement to substantive rights has been contentious, and ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Canadian Law Three-Book Bundle

    Youth and the Law / Freedom of Expression / Crime Scene Investigations

    by Daniel J. Baum ...
    Series series Understanding Canadian Law
    Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first three instalments of the series are available in an ebook-exclusive bundle.IncludesYouth and the ... Read more

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  • Changing Lenses

    A New Focus for Crime and Justice

    by Howard Zehr ...
    Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not accidental, but are inherent in the very definitions and assumptions which govern our thinking about crime ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Responsibility

    Essays in the Philosophy of Law

    by H.L.A. Hart ...
    This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

    Transforming Crime and Punishment

    by William Kelly ...
    Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Criminal Justice

    by Peter Joyce, Neil Wain ...
    A Dictionary of Criminal Justice is the only dictionary that deals with criminal justice from a UK perspective, and in doing so provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the British criminal justice system, including its historical context and contemporary operations.The first three sections of the book explore in turn key definitions, key pieces of legislation and key documents that have ... Read more

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  • Blackstone's Prison Law Handbook 2014-2015

    by Margaret Obi ...
    An ideal first source of reference for practitioners, judges, and legal representatives working on any case affecting prisoners, Blackstone's Prison Law Handbook is a complete practical guide to the main areas that give rise to prisoner complaints which include sentence calculation, Independent Adjudications, licence recall, and Parole Board hearings. The Handbook emphasises practical ... Read more

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  • Witness Testimony in Sexual Cases

    Evidential, Investigative and Scientific Perspectives

    Edited by Pamela Radcliffe, Gisli H. Gudjonsson CBE, Anthony Heaton-Armstrong, David Wolchover ...
    Sexual cases are inherently complex and sometimes controversial presenting the practitioner with a multitude of procedural and legal challenges. The increasing number of sexual cases, often historic, places significant demands upon the criminal justice system. Sexual crime is recognised as a specialist area which demands unique skills from the practitioner and handling witness testimony in these ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Punishment for Sale

    Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

    by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD