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  • Landmark Cases in Criminal Law

    Edited by Philip Handler, Henry Mares, Dr Ian Williams ...
    Series series Landmark Cases
    Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling human drama. In this collection, expert authors place leading cases in criminal law in their historical and legal contexts, highlighting their significance both in the past and for the present.The cases in this volume range from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Many of them are well ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent

    by Daniel S. Medwed ...
    American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials—and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured by how many convictions they get. Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress evidence in order to establish a defendant’s guilt and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Plea Bargaining in National and International Law

    A Comparative Study

    by Regina Rauxloh ...
    Plea bargaining is one of the most important and most discussed issues in modern criminal procedure law. Based on historical and comparative legal research, the author has analysed the wide-spread use of plea bargaining in different criminal justice systems. The book sets out in-depth studies of consensual case dispositions in the UK, examining how plea bargaining has developed and spread in ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Violence As My Only Option

    by Vincent Diaz ...
    This is a book that is a cry for help from the author to be removed from this corrupt terroristic torture society and given a place in communism to prosper. It tells of the torture he has been put through and his military training the society is trying to bring out he does not want to use. ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punishment and Freedom

    by Alan Brudner ...
    This book sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order. The prevalent view today is that the penal law is best understood from the standpoint of a moral theory concerning when it is fair to blame and censure an individual character for engaging in proscribed conduct. By contrast, this book argues that the penal law is best understood by a political and constitutional ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The 9/11 Effect

    Comparative Counter-Terrorism

    by Kent Roach ...
    This book critically and comparatively examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. It assesses the convergence between the responses of Western democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada with countries with more experience with terrorism including Egypt, Syria, Israel, Singapore and ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Judges Against Justice

    On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack

    by Hans Petter Graver ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Guantanamo Files

    The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

    by Andy Worthington ...
    In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Children Kill Children

    Penal Populism and Political Culture

    by David A. Green ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide. Green explores the reasons underlying the vastly differing responses of the English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to the cases of James Bulger and Silje Redergard respectively. Whereas James Bulger's killers were subject to extreme press and public ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Adolescence, Discrimination, and the Law

    Addressing Dramatic Shifts in Equality Jurisprudence

    by Roger J.R. Levesque ...
    Explores the shifts and the research used to support civil rights claims of discrimination, particularly relating to minority youths’ rights to equal treatmentIn the wake of the civil rights movement, the legal system dramatically changed its response to discrimination based on race, gender, and other characteristics. It is now showing signs of yet another dramatic shift, as it moves from ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Fraudulent Evidence Before Public International Tribunals

    The Dirty Stories of International Law

    by W. Michael Reisman, Christina Skinner ...
    Series Book 21 - Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
    Domestic lawyers are, above all, officers of the court. By contrast, the public international lawyer representing states before international tribunals is torn between loyalties to the state and loyalties to international law. As the stakes increase for the state concerned, the tension between these loyalties can become acute and lead to practices that would be condemned in developed national ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law

    by Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson ...
    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if the gender of criminals and their victims is irrelevant. It has also been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation,crime detection, decisions to charge and prosecute, lawyers trial tactics, decisions as to guilt and sentencing policy and practice, all of which are significantly ... Read more

    $84.99 USD