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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “catherine appleton”
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  • Life Imprisonment and Human Rights

    Edited by Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, Dr Catherine Appleton ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Life Imprisonment in Asia

    Edited by Dirk van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton, Giao Vucong ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never been studied systematically. Life Imprisonment in Asia fills this major gap. It brings together thirteen new essays on life imprisonment in key jurisdictions in the region. Each chapter consolidates what is known about the law and practice ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Life Imprisonment

    A Global Human Rights Analysis

    by Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Catherine Appleton ...
    Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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    Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions

    by John D. Jackson, Sarah J. Summers ...
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    Although there are many texts on the law of evidence, surprisingly few are devoted specifically to the comparative and international aspects of the subject. The traditional view that the law of evidence belongs within the common law tradition has obscured the reality that a genuinely cosmopolitan law of evidence is being developed in criminal cases across the common law and civil law traditions. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • International Criminal Law Practitioner Library: Volume 3

    International Criminal Procedure

    by Gideon Boas, James L. Bischoff, Natalie L. Reid, B. Don Taylor III ...
    Series series The International Criminal Law Practitioner
    A comprehensive and invaluable reference work for practitioners, academics and students of international criminal law, this series critically examines a complex and important legal area. Volume I considers the criminal responsibility of individuals for the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide; Volume II focuses on these core international crimes and discusses their ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty

    A Worldwide Perspective

    by Roger Hood, Carolyn Hoyle ...
    The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights principles ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered

    Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law

    by Vladislava Stoyanova ...
    By reconsidering the definitions of human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour, Vladislava Stoyanova demonstrates how, in embracing the human trafficking framework, the international community has sidelined the human rights law commitments against slavery, servitude and forced labour that in many respects provide better protection for abused migrants. Stoyanova proposes two corrective ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Toward a Prosecutor for the European Union Volume 1

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Professor Katalin Ligeti ...
    Series series Modern Studies in European Law
    In an era in which the EU's influence in criminal law matters has expanded rapidly, attention has recently turned to the possible creation of a European Public Prosecutor's Office. This two volume work presents the results of a study carried out by a group of European criminal law experts in 2010-2012, with the financial support of the EU Commission, whose aims were to examine in detail current ... Read more

    $186.99 USD

  • 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

    $68.99 USD

  • The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment, Volume 2

    Abolition and Alternatives to Capital Punishment

    by Peter Hodgkinson ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Capital Punishment
    The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital punishment. The volume also provides an account of strategies employed by the abolition community ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law

    Edited by Kevin Jon Heller, Markus Dubber ...
    This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Criminology: A Complete Introduction

    A step-by-step Teach Yourself guide to use at home, school or college

    by Peter Joyce, Wendy Laverick ...
    'A great and educational read..' Amazon 5 star reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐**'**Would definitely recommend to anyone thinking .' Amazon 5 star reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Criminology is a multi-disciplinary subject - but it doesn't have to be difficult. This book, complete with case studies and key facts, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to having a confident grasp of th... ... Read more

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