Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Shutting Down the Streets
Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers...
School Shooters
Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
School shootings scare everyone, even those not immediately affected. They make national and international news. They make parents afraid to send their children off to school. But they also lead to generalizations about those who perpetrate them. Most assumptions about the perpetrators are wrong and...
by Austin Sarat
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach...
The Road to Abolition?
The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing...
Black Silent Majority
The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.
Rape, Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice Challenges
Lessons from Bosnia Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
It is estimated that 20,000 people were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. Today, these men and women have been largely forgotten. Where are they now? To what extent do their experiences continue to affect and influence their lives, and the lives...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of ‘resistance’. In response, this book asks...
Youth Violence
Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Violence by and against youth continues to be one of the most challenging subjects facing criminologists. In this comprehensive and integrated analysis of the interrelationships of youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor and...
by Jessica Saunders, Steven W. Popper, Andrew R. Morral
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Israel has changed dramatically in the past two decades. The Israel Police is transforming itself to meet the needs of modern Israel. The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the Israel Police asked RAND to conduct a study to address issues of public perceptions and trust in the...
The Role of Courts in Transitional Justice
Voices from Latin America and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Bringing together a group of outstanding judges, scholars and experts with first-hand experience in the field of transitional justice in Latin America and Spain, this book offers an insider’s perspective on the enhanced role of courts in prosecuting serious human rights violations and grave crimes,...
Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region
A Comparative Study of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The dramatic uprisings that ousted the long-standing leaders of several countries in the Arab region set in motion an unprecedented period of social, political and legal transformation. The prosecution of political leaders took centre stage in the pursuit of transitional justice following the 'Arab...
Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union
Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the twenty-five years since the Soviet Union was dismantled, the countries of the former Soviet Union have faced different circumstances and responded differently to the need to redress and acknowledge the communist past and the suffering of their people. While some have adopted transitional justice...
Innocence on Trial
The Framing of Ivan Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
In early-1980s Vancouver, Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge. A short time later he found himself on trial for ten charges of sexual assault—crimes he vehemently denied committing. Henry spent twenty-seven years in prison...
Corrections
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and...