Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Burning Down the House
The End of Juvenile Prison
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four hours, and then locked in solitary confinement for a month.
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The Criminalization of Black Children
Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, progressive reformers recoiled at the prospect of the justice system punishing children as adults. Advocating that children's inherent innocence warranted fundamentally different treatment, reformers founded the nation's first juvenile court in Chicago in 1899. Yet...
The Securitization and Policing of Art Theft
The Case of London
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The subject of many films and books, art theft is a fascinating topic that continues to capture the popular imagination. However, it is one of many types of art crime that remain under-researched and which require much more academic, empirical investigation. This book examines who is performing, managing,...
Filicide-Suicide
The Killing of Children in the Context of Separation, Divorce and Custody Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filicide in the UK, this book identifies relationship and family patterns in which situations may rapidly deteriorate, and children may become the ultimate weapon in disputes between partners.
Preventing Corruption
Investigation, Enforcement and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption.
Canada's Big House
The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "...[shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not...
Das Reichsjustizministerium und die hoeheren Justizbehoerden in der NS-Zeit (19351944)
Protokolle und Mitschriften der Arbeitstagungen der Reichsjustizminister mit den Praesidenten der Oberlandesgerichte, des Volksgerichtshofs, des Reichsgerichts sowie mit den Generalstaatsanwaelten
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Das Buch enthält die umfangreichen Protokolle der regelmäßigen Arbeitstagungen, welche zwischen 1935 und 1944 im Reichsjustizministerium stattfanden und die einen detaillierten Einblick in die Ziele der nationalsozialistischen Rechtspolitik geben. Diese Treffen der Reichsjustizminister erfolgten...
Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the...
Terrorism in East and West Africa
The Under-focused Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since 9/11, despite extensive international efforts against global terrorism, there has been a worrying lack of focus on terrorist activity in Africa. Terrorism in East and West Africa: The Under-focused Axis addresses this strategic deficit by drawing together and analysing the various domestic and...
Transnational Crime and Human Rights
Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic,...
by Biko Agozino
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Criminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in comparative criminology now means that countries compare notes, thereby broadening the parameters of...
The Long Term
Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
There is a growing movement against mass incarceration and this book fits with that dynamic; #Black Lives Matter movement has raised interest in books about the police and prison system and racism; Books like The New Jim Crow have been best sellers
Policing
Politics, Culture and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study...
How to Pass the Police Officer Selection Process
A Definitive Guide to the 2016 UK Police Selection Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A new study guide for those candidates that are serious about becoming Police Officers in the UK The book will take you through: Completing the Police application form in order to ensure success. The pre-released SEARCH Assessment materials that you need to study and what you need to know. The 6...