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  • Deserved Criminal Sentences

    This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offender's crime in deciding the severity of his punishment, and has become increasingly influential in recent penal practice and scholarly debate. It explains why sentences should be based ... Leer más

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  • Previous Convictions at Sentencing

    Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

    Series series Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics
    This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldestquestions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence? Although there is an extensive literature on the definition and use of criminal history information, the emphasis here is on the theoretical and normative aspects of considering previous convictions ... Leer más

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  • Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs

    On the Principles of Criminalisation

    When should we make use of the criminal law? Crimes, Harms, and Wrongs offers a philosophical analysis of the nature and ethical limits of criminalisation. The authors explore the scope of harm-based prohibitions, proscriptions of offensive behaviour, and 'paternalistic' prohibitions aimed at preventing self-harm, developing guiding principles for these various grounds of state prohibition. Both ... Leer más

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    A Concise Moral Critique

    de Hyman Gross ...
    It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act. Determining when criminal liability should be imposed calls for a moral assessment of the conduct in question, with criminal liability tracking as closely as possible the contours of morality. Versions of this view are frequently argued for in philosophical accounts of crime and ... Leer más

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  • Criminal Law Handbook, The

    Know Your Rights, Survive the System

    The criminal justice system is complicated.Understand it and your rights.This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. It also provides critical information on working with a lawyer.In plain English, The Criminal Law Handbook covers ... Leer más

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  • The Grangegorman Murders

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Lord High Executioner

    An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind

    de Howard Engel ...
    A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty.In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to the present-day United States. Throughout "civilized" history, executioners employed on behalf of the kingdom, ... Leer más

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  • Death Penalty Cases

    Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

    de Barry Latzer ...
    Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible ... Leer más

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  • Globalizing Transitional Justice

    Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past. Whether one thinks of ... Leer más

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  • Abolition Democracy

    Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

    Series series Open Media Series
    Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of ... Leer más

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  • Acting White?

    Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America

    What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu ... Leer más

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  • Preventive Justice

    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford. The study seeks to develop an account of the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the individual. States today are increasingly using criminal law or criminal ... Leer más

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