Criminal Law category: 2380 books

Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains by...

Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology...

The pardon is an act of mercy, tied to the divine right of kings. Why did New York retain this mode of discretionary justice after the Revolution? And how did governors’ use of this prerogative change with the advent of the penitentiary and the introduction of parole? This book answers these questions...

This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities in densely populated spaces across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Based on ethnographic research, the chapters analyze this complex with respect to marginalized young men in Haiti, community policing members...

Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also...

Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious. In this rich and diverse collection of 34 essays, some of the worlds leading criminologists respond to a series of questions designed to investigate the state, impact and future challenges of the discipline: What...

The setting is the small community of Burkesville, KY. Mark Casey has been arrested for crimes he did not commit. Now he will face the Commonwealth of Kentucky in a jury trial. His attorney is convinced he is innocent. His friends are convinced he is innocent. Many people living in the community...

Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed...

This is a golden era for juvenile justice reform in America. Both the Left and the Right, are demanding change. Now nationally acclaimed Judge Steven Teske, a juvenile court judge, provides a no nonsense prescription for change. With easy to understand examples, he takes aim at the flawed thinking,...

The book focuses on one of the most problematic areas of Turkish penal justice: the overreliance on custodial measures and a corresponding growth in the prison population, and compares Turkey with two major European countries in this respect: England and Wales and Germany. The underlying question...

Der Autor untersucht die Voraussetzungen und Folgen des Zweckbindungsgedankens für die präventive und repressive staatliche Informationstätigkeit. Hierzu analysiert er die Mechanismen der Zweckfestlegung zur Identifizierung von Zweckänderungen und die Bedingungen für eine Rechtfertigung von zweckbeibehaltenden...

In Maryland, 1994, Kenneth Peacock returned home to find his wife of several years in bed with another man. After chasing the man out of the house at gunpoint, he spent several more hours drinking and arguing with his adulterous wife before shooting her in the head with his single shot rifle...