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Penguin Books Ltd France on Trial
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJulian Jackson brings to life here with his customary mastery the trial in 1945 of France's highest ranking military officer, accused of having betrayed his country. Philippe Pétain knew extremes of glory and shame in his long military career. In 1919, as the supreme commander of French armies in World War I, he rode down the Champs-Elysées at the head of a victory parade. After June 1940, with almost unlimited power and prestige, he governed France under German occupation. In 1945 he sat in a French courtroom charged with treason for his exercise of that power. In this compelling book, Julian Jackson gives the reader a seat in the jury box and then follows France's debate over Petain - hero or traitor? - over the next fifty years. -- Robert Paxton, Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Columbia UniversityThe great general of the First World War, collaborator with Germany in the Second, how is Marshal Philippe Pétain to be remembered? His trial on charges of treason divided the French in 1945 and has divided them ever since. In the hands of Julian Jackson, a superb historian with the sensibility of a novelist, this is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership and the meaning of France itself. -- Margaret MacMillan, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of OxfordA superb book ... Jackson is that rare beast: a distinguished academic historian who writes with flair and clarity... one could almost be buried in a work of high-class fiction... 5/5 stars * Sunday Telegraph *If... cowardice, bad faith, dishonour and moral ambivalence is your thing, read on... A highly talented storyteller, Jackson certainly knows how to set the scene... What is chilling in Jackson's beautifully researched and meticulous account of the trial is the hopeless mediocrity of almost all people involved in it: from judges and jurors (résistants and parliamentarians) to lawyers prosecutors and witnesses. * Observer *Julian Jackson, the foremost historian of the period, here provides a magisterial account of this extraordinary yet also somehow squalid courtroom drama and its context. ... [A] fine, thought-provoking book. * Sunday Times *A splendid book ... The central narrative of the trial grips like a thriller ... Jackson's vivid prose is leavened by wit and sharpened by telling details ... This is a substantial achievement by a historian at the top of his game. * Literary Review *In France on Trial, his masterful account of the case, the historian Julian Jackson explains that it was not just Pétain who was being called to account, but the whole of France. * Financial Times *Painstakingly researched ... Jackson vividly reconstructs the drama. * Economist *An enthralling book ... The past is dangerous, you see. Real, hard history of this kind can reach out of the page and stick its thumb in your eye. Who needs fiction when the truth is as gripping as this? 5/5 stars. * Mail on Sunday *An essential key to understanding the country's recent past. * Spectator *A scrupulous and vivid reconstruction of the trial * Times Literary Supplement *'It is a sound approach to cover such a big canvas, one that springs to life thanks to Jackson's command of sources and exquisite use of anecdotes. ... There is a cinematic quality to the way Jackson brings us into the packed courtroom ... Listening to the testimonies, we too wrestle with terrible dilemmas' * The Critic *Professor Jackson's clear exposition of a criminal trial in the context of modern French history is an excellent illustration of a certain class of case with serious political consequences, beyond those of the accused. * Irish Legal News *I have nothing but praise for the way Jackson tells the story, with a clear elucidation of the swirling political passions, and vivid portraits of the heroes and villains, and those in between. * Tablet *Julian Jackson's France on Trial is one of those instant classic history books that are immediately recognisable as a masterpiece of scholarship. Although ostensibly about Marshal Petain's trial in the aftermath of the Second World War, Jackson weaves in all the main issues regarding French resistance versus collaboration, and the profound chiaroscuro between the extremes. I read it in Lyon, where the superb Resistance Museum records in powerful detail the crimes of Klaus Barbie and others, and it proved the perfect intellectual backdrop for the trip.Brilliantly researched and vividly narrated ... Jackson manages to engage the reader, adopting a rich literary style to communicate ... the atmosphere in and outside of the court and the personality of the characters ... Riveting. * Jewish Chronicle *[An] outstanding book ... Jackson's vivid, stylish, sometimes even cinematic reconstruction suggests this court case was about far more than one elderly man ... Jackson skilfully evokes the trial scene's atmosphere... [a] gripping and timely book. * Business Post *Highly detailed ... an impressive command of the nuances of this trial ... authoritative. -- John Reeves * LA Review of Books *This account of Philippe Petain’s 1945 trial for treason is a superb achievement, both reconstructing France’s Vichy shame and thoughtfully analysing its aftermath. * Daily Telegraph, Top 50 Books of 2023 *Perhaps the history book of the year. Jackson understands France like few others: he looks in vivid fashion at the trial of the arch-collaborator, and how the actions of a man who had embodied France’s heroism in the Great War became, 20 years later, the symbol of its shame … he subtly argues that the whole French nation, and not just its disgraced leader, was on trial. -- Simon Heffer * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *France on Trial stands out – a meticulously researched, attractively written account of the trial of the first world war hero turned Nazi collaborator Marshal Petain and its woeful Vichy background. Excellent on Petain’s legacy in modern right-wing French politics, Jackson adopts the requisite tone for a historian of our times, interrogating uncomfortable truths with objectivity mixed with lightness of touch. -- Andrew Lycett * Spectator, Books of the Year *This extraordinary book exposes how various sides in the Petain debate have manipulated the historical record in a desperate attempt to make the past palatable. -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times, Books of the Year *Julian Jackson’s France on Trial grapples with the life and (mis)deeds of Philippe Pétain—the French general who led the Vichy regime during the Second World War—and the country’s dark feelings of hatred and guilt after the war. * Prospect Books of the Year *
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Edinburgh University Press Scottish Evidence Law Essentials
Book SynopsisA concise guide to the law of evidence in Scotland
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Picador USA The Faithful Executioner
Book SynopsisTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionateeven progressive?In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt''s journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt''s life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes o
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Whitefox Publishing Ltd Nothing Like the Truth: The Trials and
Book SynopsisIn 100 per cent of criminal trials someone, if not everyone, tells lies. If it wasn't for liars, there wouldn't be trials. When a defendant swears 'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth', most judges and barristers believe their evidence will be 'nothing like the truth'. Who can blame them? During years of exposure to a daily diet of murder and mayhem, lies and liars, they've heard it all before. In Nothing Like the Truth, Nigel Lithman QC provides an entertaining and irreverent insight into life in the criminal courts as barrister, QC and Crown Court judge. Using his experience in true crime, he mixes tales of horror with humour and questions whether it is possible for defendants to get a fair trial.
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NOLO The Criminal Law Handbook
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Cambridge University Press Justice in Extreme Cases
Book SynopsisIn Justice in Extreme Cases, Darryl Robinson argues that the encounter between criminal law theory and international criminal law (ICL) can be illuminating in two directions: criminal law theory can challenge and improve ICL, and conversely, ICL''s novel puzzles can challenge and improve mainstream criminal law theory. Robinson recommends a ''coherentist'' method for discussions of principles, justice and justification. Coherentism recognizes that prevailing understandings are fallible, contingent human constructs. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars and jurists in ICL, as well as scholars of criminal law theory and legal philosophy.Trade Review'Robinson's brilliant Justice in Extreme Cases has rehabilitated international criminal law using a deft combination of sophisticated philosophy, legal doctrine, and level-headed policy. In rediscovering the justice in international criminal justice, Robinson's book sails against the prevailing winds of an increasingly cynical discipline and takes the reader on a refreshing journey.' Jens David Ohlin, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School'Darryl Robinson's important and compelling book marks a significant contribution to the literature on International Criminal Law. His rich and careful analysis is full of insights, providing a roadmap for better reasoned judicial opinions and welcome reforms that will re-commit the law to fundamental principles of justice.' Alexander K. A. Greenawalt, Professor of Law, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University'Drumbl produced a generation of expressivists, and Robinson is poised to create a generation of deontic cosmopolitan coherentists. Justice in Extreme Cases provides an eminently humane and sensible view of international criminal legal theory and offers a look at the theory in action with a compelling analysis of command responsibility. Anyone working in (or even just interested in) international criminal law should read this book.' Caroline L. Davidson, Professor of Law, Willamette University, College of Law'This well-reasoned, bountifully sourced, and exceptionally insightful book … If … you are interested in some challenging thinking that questions orthodoxies … and if you are in search of a new way of thinking about the interpretation and application of ICL, then Justice in Extreme Cases - Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law delivers.' Michael G. Karnavas, michaelgkarnavas.net'This is a very significant contribution to the theory of international criminal law (ICL) … by … a prominent member of the Canadian Government's team that worked on the ICC negotiations …Robinson sets out his … appealing jurisprudential stance for approaching such questions [and] weighs in persuasively on a matter of great significance.' Roger S. Clark, Criminal Law ForumDarryl Robinson has firmly established himself as a leading and original theorist in the area of international criminal law (ICL). Robinson's book has received widespread and justified praise…. [T]here is no aspect of ICL that could not be improved by adopting Robinson's approach to legal theory. Joseph Rikhof, Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit internationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Cases and Authorities; List of Abbreviations; Part I. Introduction and Problem: 1. Introduction; 2. The Identity Crisis of International Criminal Law; Part II. Proposed Solution: 3. The Humanity of Criminal Justice; 4. Fundamentals without Foundations; 5. Criminal Law Theory in Extremis; Part III. Illustration through Application: 6. An Unresolved Contradiction; 7. The Outer Limits of Culpability; 8. The Genius of Command Responsibility; 9. Horizons: The Future of the Justice Conversation; Judgment; Glossary of Selected Terms; Bibliography; Index.
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Pearson Education (US) Criminal Courts
Book SynopsisRichard D. Hartley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas-San Antonio where he teaches courses on criminal courts and the administration of justice as well as research design and analysis. He holds a PhD from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Dr. Hartley's research interests focus on decision-making practices in criminal courts. He has been involved with a number of funded research projects including an analysis of decision-making across multiple stages in the federal criminal justice system and a multi-site evaluation of veterans' treatment courts. He holds professional memberships in the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Society of Criminology, and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. Some of his recent research appears in Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and CriminaTable of ContentsTable of Contents Law: The Legal Battlefield The Structure of American Courts The Prosecution The Defense Judges Juries Pretrial Procedures and the Trial Process Pretrial Procedures: Plea Bargaining Sentencing Goals and Structures Judicial Sentencing Options, Sentencing Disparities, and Appeals The Juvenile Justice System: Juvenile Rights and Case Processing Juvenile Courts: Adjudication and Disposition Diversion, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Specialty Courts Courts, Media, and the Litigation Explosion Glossary References Cases Cited Index Name Index Subject Index
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Oxford University Press Crimcomics Issue 2 Biology and Criminality
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Oxford University Press The Machinery of Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisTwo centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims and defendants and, in many cases, substituting plea bargaining for the voice of the jury. The public sees little of how this assembly-line justice works, and victims and defendants have largely lost their day in court. As a result, victims rarely hear defendants express remorse and apologize, and defendants rarely receive forgiveness. This lawyerized machinery has purchased efficient, speedy processing of many cases at the price of sacrificing softer values, such as reforming defendants and healing wounded victims and relationships. In other words, the U.S. legal system has bought quantity at the price of quality, without recognizing either the trade-off or the great gulf separating lawyers'' and laymen''s incentives, vTrade ReviewIn The Machinery of Criminal Justice, author Stephanos Bibas presents a bold and inspiring vision of what criminal justice and the punishment imposed in its name can and should be about. Criminal justice is ideally the process, and punishment ideally the vehicle, through which wronged and wrongdoer restore the bond they once shared. Restoration, not retribution or deterrence, is the rock upon which Bibas builds." * Stephen P. Garvey, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School *The Machinery of Criminal Justice is an exceptional volume that gives us the big picture on a scholarly subject too often hobbled by technical focus and narrow thinking. Always accessible and always interesting, Bibas asks some hard questions and gives some creative answers. Common morality, lay justice, mercy, re-integrative punishment - these are the issues at the cutting edge of today's crime policy debates, but Bibas shows us that they are also the historical roots of American criminal justice." * Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania, author, with Michael Cahill, of Law Without Justice *Th[e] embrace of populism as a counterweight to expertise sets Bibas apart. The academics and professionals who work in criminal justice routinely look for ways to insulate criminal punishment from popular passions; they hope to take advantage of specialized professional insights. Bibas offers a bracing challenge to this received expert wisdom." * Ronald Wright, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review *Through a series of articles spanning more than a decade, Professor Stephanos Bibas has proven himself a bold and penetrating critic of America's system of criminal procedure. His theme has been the gap between the morality embodied in our substantive criminal law and the morality (or, perhaps more accurately, the lack thereof) embodied in our procedural rules and practices. This theme now gets its fullest exposition in his provocative new book, The Machinery of Criminal Justice." * Michael M. O'Hear, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online *His vision is a powerful one, he defends it with clarity and grace, and every idea he expresses is capable of starting an important conversation." * Andrew Taslitz, Jotwell *Table of ContentsAuthor Biography ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: The Divergence of Theory, Reality, and Morality ; Overview of the Book ; Themes of the Book ; Chapter I: The Long Drift from Morality Play to Assembly Line ; A. Criminal Justice in the Early American Colonies ; 1. Small-Town Morality ; 2. Lay Justice ; 3. Room for Mercy ; 4. Reintegrative Punishment ; B. Criminal Justice Since the American Revolution ; 1. The Changing Aims of Criminal Justice ; 2. Professionalization ; 3. The Birth of Plea Bargaining ; 4. The Hiding of Punishment Behind Prison Walls ; 5. The Decline of Mercy ; Chapter II: Opaque, Unresponsive Criminal Justice ; A. The Players ; 1. Dominant Insiders, Savvy and Self-Interested ; 2. Excluded Outsiders, Yearning for Justice ; B. The Play of the Game ; 1. Round One: Insiders' Procedural Discretion Shapes the Rules in Action ; 2. Round Two: Outsiders Try to Check Insiders ; 3. Round Three: Insiders' Procedural Discretion Undercuts Reforms ; 4. Round Four: Outsiders, Egged on by Politicians, Take Matters into Their Own Hands ; 5. Round Five: Insiders Circumvent Even <"Mandatory>" Reforms ; C. Costs of the Game ; 1. Clouding the Criminal Law's Substantive Message and Effectiveness ; 2. Undermining Legitimacy and Trust ; 3. Hindering Public Monitoring and Preferences ; D. Defense Lawyers and Defendants' Distrust ; 1. Insider Defense Counsel's Interests and Pressures ; 2. Defendants' Overoptimism and Risk-Taking ; 3. Miscommunication, Mistrust, and Timing ; Chapter III: Denial, Remorse, Apology, and Forgiveness ; A. Denial and Equivocation ; 1. The Use of Pleas by Defendants in Denial ; 2. The Danger of Convicting the Innocent ; 3. The Costs of False Denial and the Value of Confession ; 4. The Value of Trials as Morality Plays ; B. Remorse, Apology, and Forgiveness ; 1. The Irrelevance of Remorse and Apology in Contemporary Criminal Justice ; 2. Crime as a Relational Concept ; 3. Lessons from Noncriminal Contexts: Civil Mediation ; Chapter IV: Whose Voices Belong in Criminal Justice? ; A. The State's Monopoly on Criminal Justice ; B. Incomplete Alternatives to the State's Assembly Line ; 1. Victims' Rights ; 2. Restorative Justice ; 3. Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Problem-Solving Courts ; Chapter V: Popular Moral Discourse Versus Assembly-Line Efficiency ; A. Efficiency Instead of Moral Judgment ; B. Why Not Address Substantive Moral Goals? ; Chapter VI: Returning Power to the Public in a Lawyer-Driven System ; A. Macro-Level Reforms ; 1. From Idle Imprisonment to Work, Accountability, and Reform ; 2. Collateral Consequences and Reentry ; B. Mid-Level Reforms to Include the Public ; 1. Greater Transparency ; 2. Increasing Public Participation ; C. Micro-Level Solutions ; 1. Victim Information and Consultation ; 2. Defendants' Information and Participation ; 3. Restorative Sentencing Juries
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Oxford University Press Inc American Criminal Procedure Today
Book Synopsis.Trade ReviewThe most complete and student friendly text that I have seen. The authors have set up the book so that it flows in a way that makes sense and does not jump around. This book is perfect for undergraduates because it provides them with the knowledge that they need without being overcomplicated. * Heather Donovan, Lindenwood University *A good blend of theoretical and practical aspects of a criminal procedure text. * Robert Mongue, University of Mississippi *This is an outstanding, very readable text that brings the law to life with its unique approach. It provides a practitioner view along with sample documents and case review material which is outstanding. * Gregory Warchol, Northern Michigan University *Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Power of Criminal Procedure Chapter 2 The Many Layers and Constitutional Foundations of Criminal Procedure Chapter 3 Sources and Semantics of Criminal Procedure Chapter 4 The Administrative Beginnings of Criminal Procedure Chapter 5 Constitutional and Legal Standards for Obtaining Discovery and Other Evidence Prior to Trial Chapter 6 Pretrial Motions, Exclusionary Rule, and Plea Bargaining Chapter 7 The Fourth Amendment: Arrests and Seizures of Persons Chapter 8 The Fourth Amendment: Evidentiary Searches and Seizures Chapter 9 The Fifth Amendment: Right Against Self Incrimination Chapter 10 The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Pretrial Identifications Chapter 11 The Right to a Fair Trial Chapter 12 Sentencing and Other Post-Verdict Trial Court Procedures Chapter 13 Criminal Appeals, Habeas Corpus, and other Post-Conviction Proceedings Appendix A Legal Research and Briefing Appendix B Constitution of the United States of America Glossary
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Oxford University Press Roberts Zuckermans Criminal Evidence
Book SynopsisRoberts and Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence provides a systematic and contextualised introduction to the principles of criminal evidence and trial procedure. It is designed for university courses at all levels, and for criminal practitioners seeking concise summaries of current law and a principled basis for novel legal arguments.Trade ReviewFor students studying bar or solicitors vocational courses, perhaps encountering the law of evidence for the first time, this is an exemplar of powerful academic writing. It proves on every page how exciting, rather than intimidating, turgid and technical, this area of law really is. * Laura Hoyano, Law Society Gazette *For students studying Bar or solicitors' vocational courses, perhaps encountering the law of evidence for the first time, this is an exemplar of powerful academic writing which proves on every page how exciting, rather than intimidating, turgid and technical, this area of law really is. * Laura Hoyano, Law Society Gazette *Practitioners preparing a complex case or appeal on a point of law, or who want an intellectually stimulating refresher, will enjoy it immensely. The frequent citation of empirical research into the operation of particular evidential rules provide a grounded analysis which practitioners will often recognise. For students studying bar or solicitors vocational courses, perhaps encountering the law of evidence for the first time, this is an exemplar of powerful academic writing. It proves on every page how exciting, rather than intimidating, turgid and technical, this area of law really is. * Laura Hoyano, Law Society *Table of Contents1: Principles of Criminal Evidence 2: Procedural Framework of Adversarial Jury Trial 3: Admissible Evidence 4: Fact-finding and Proof 5: Fair Trial 6: Burdens of Proof and the Presumption of Innocence 7: Witness Testimony and the Principle of Orality 8: Criminal Trial Procedure: Examination-in-chief and Cross-examination 9: Hearsay 10: Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses 11: Expert Evidence 12: Confessions 13: The Accused's Privilege Against Self-incrimination 14: The Accused's Character and Extraneous Misconduct 15: Corroboration and Forensic Reasoning Rules 16: Criminal Evidence - Retrospective and Prospects
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Oxford University Press Criminal Evidence
Book SynopsisRoberts and Zuckerman''s Criminal Evidence is the eagerly-anticipated third of edition of the market-leading text on criminal evidence, fully revised to take account of developments in legislation, case-law, policy debates, and academic commentary during the decade since the previous edition was published. With an explicit focus on the rules and principles of criminal trial procedure, Roberts and Zuckerman''s Criminal Evidence develops a coherent account of evidence law which is doctrinally detailed, securely grounded in a normative theoretical framework, and sensitive to the institutional and socio-legal factors shaping criminal litigation in practice. The book is designed to be accessible to the beginner, informative to the criminal court judge or legal practitioner, and thought-provoking to the advanced student and scholar: a textbook and monograph rolled into one. The book also provides an ideal disciplinary map and work of reference to introduce non-lawyers (including forensic sciTrade ReviewFor students studying Bar or solicitors' vocational courses, perhaps encountering the law of evidence for the first time, this is an exemplar of powerful academic writing which proves on every page how exciting, rather than intimidating, turgid and technical, this area of law really is. * Laura Hoyano, Law Society Gazette *Practitioners preparing a complex case or appeal on a point of law, or who want an intellectually stimulating refresher, will enjoy it immensely. The frequent citation of empirical research into the operation of particular evidential rules provide a grounded analysis which practitioners will often recognise. For students studying bar or solicitors vocational courses, perhaps encountering the law of evidence for the first time, this is an exemplar of powerful academic writing. It proves on every page how exciting, rather than intimidating, turgid and technical, this area of law really is. * Laura Hoyano, Law Society *
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Oxford University Press Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law
Book SynopsisFoundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context. Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.
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Columbia University Press Tainted Witness Why We Doubt What Women Say About
Book SynopsisTainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.Trade ReviewIn this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing -- Sara Ahmed, author of Living a Feminist Life and Willful Subjects Tainted Witness is an important, relevant, often brilliant book. It further establishes Leigh Gilmore as one of the best critics writing today on the intersection of feminism and life narrative. -- Hillary Chute, author of Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics Tainted Witness displays, once more, Leigh Gilmore's remarkable ability to hone in on the most interesting, provocative, or instructive moments in any historical situation or text, and then say memorable and highly useful things about them. -- Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research and professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Rarely does an academic book address its moment so precisely as Tainted Witness... An important and timely book. If ever we needed evidence that the work of feminism is not yet done, this is it. Times Higher Education Tainted Witness doesn't just look at what's broken about how we view women's testimony. It also examines how women can work toward "distributing doubt" and ultimately arrive at true justice, making this essential reading for women living under a president who publicly professed sexual assault and faced no consequences. Rumpus Tainted Witness is a timely and necessary defense of the women whose voices are so often drowned out or shouted on. Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks 1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness 2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchu 3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help 4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling 5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica Kincaid Conclusion: Testimonial Publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Tainted Witness Why We Doubt What Women Say
Book SynopsisTainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.Trade ReviewIn this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing -- Sara Ahmed, author of Living a Feminist Life and Willful SubjectsTainted Witness is an important, relevant, often brilliant book. It further establishes Leigh Gilmore as one of the best critics writing today on the intersection of feminism and life narrative. -- Hillary Chute, author of Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary ComicsTainted Witness displays, once more, Leigh Gilmore's remarkable ability to hone in on the most interesting, provocative, or instructive moments in any historical situation or text, and then say memorable and highly useful things about them. -- Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research and professor of English, University of Hawai'i at ManoaRarely does an academic book address its moment so precisely as Tainted Witness.... An important and timely book. If ever we needed evidence that the work of feminism is not yet done, this is it. * Times Higher Education *Tainted Witness doesn't just look at what's broken about how we view women's testimony. It also examines how women can work toward "distributing doubt" and ultimately arrive at true justice, making this essential reading for women living under a president who publicly professed sexual assault and faced no consequences. * Rumpus *Tainted Witness is a timely and necessary defense of the women whose voices are so often drowned out or shouted down. * Washington Post *A highly original and precise account of contemporary cultural politics surrounding women's testimony that offers new perspectives on a set of important case studies and significant cultural moments. * Social and Legal Studies *A very provocative and well-grounded work that deserves considerable attention. * Choice *An important work. * Resources for Gender and Women Studies *The book’s import for the current and future field of auto/biography studies cannot be overestimated. Gilmore puts her finger on several of the most important, deeply intertwined questions about justice and about genre/form/mediation that we now face as interdisciplinary scholars of life writing and media. * Biography *Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica KincaidConclusion: Testimonial Publics—#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's CitizenNotesBibliographyIndex
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West Academic Publishing Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Book SynopsisThis casebook has been completely redesigned to provide law professors and law students with a sophisticated presentation of fundamental issues in constitutional criminal procedure. Material is presented in a succinct and efficient format.
£196.35
The University of Michigan Press More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything
Book SynopsisMigration, borders, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and terrorism: Homeland security is constantly in the news. Ben Rohrbaugh, a former border security director at the National Security Council, cuts through the noise to provide an accessible framework to understand both homeland security and the thinking around how to keep civilians safe.
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The University of Michigan Press More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything
Book SynopsisProvides an accessible and novel framework to understand both US homeland security and the thinking around how to keep civilians safe. The book makes innovative arguments about the American government and keeping citizens safe, and provides practical solutions to real-world problems.Trade Review“A thorough and comprehensive analysis of homeland security in the U.S., both from a conceptual standpoint and from an operational standpoint. Rohrbaugh makes homeland security issues more approachable and understandable.” —Laurie Trautman, Director of the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University “Part memoir, part policy analysis, Rohrbaugh provides a compelling look at the homeland security enterprise spanning the country . . . More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything should be of interest to general readers interested in current events, public policy practitioners as well as undergraduates and graduate students who aspire to become government officials or policy analysts.” —Rey Koslowksi, University at Albany, State University of New York
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University of California Press Encountering Correctional Populations
Book SynopsisWhile many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for those studying youth and adults on probation, on parole, and in jails and prisons. The book addresses topics such as how to build rapport with offenders and those who monitor them; how to select from the many types of correctional data that can be collected; how to navigate the informed consent process and maintain research ethics; and how to manage the logistics of doing research. With personal stories, what if scenarios, case studies, and real-world tools like checklists and sample forms, the authors share methods of negotiating the complexities that researchers often face as they work with those behind bars.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Gaining Access to and Building Rapport with Correctional Populations 3. Types of Correctional Data That Can Be Collected 4. Informed Consent Process and Research Ethics 5. Logistics of Doing Research with Correctional Populations Appendix A. Agency Letter of Support Appendix B. Weekly Contact Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix C. Weekly Contact Code Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix D. Publically Available Data Sources Appendix E. “Thinking for a Change” Facilitator Peer Rating Form Appendix F. General Informed Consent for Traditional Placements in the Florida Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix G. Example of Re-Consent for Youths Participating in the Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix H. Informed Consent Form for Youth Interview Appendix I. Example IRB Protocol Appendix J. Application for a Research Assistant Position References Recommended Further Reading Index
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University of California Press Death by Prison The Emergence of Life without
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.Trade Review"Seeds does a masterful job of busting the myth of how [life without parole] replaced the death penalty." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Christopher Seeds’ Death by Prison is a comprehensive and compelling origin story of a sentence that is a crime against human decency. . . . This book is essential reading for all students of crime and punishment." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Foundations 1. Perpetual Penal Confinement 2. Precursor and Prototype 3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained Part II Eruptions 4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition 5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm 6. Governors and Prisoners Part III Adaptation and Solidification 7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP 8. Abolition and the Alternative 9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Death by Prison
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.Trade Review"Seeds does a masterful job of busting the myth of how [life without parole] replaced the death penalty." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Christopher Seeds’ Death by Prison is a comprehensive and compelling origin story of a sentence that is a crime against human decency. . . . This book is essential reading for all students of crime and punishment." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Foundations 1. Perpetual Penal Confinement 2. Precursor and Prototype 3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained Part II Eruptions 4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition 5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm 6. Governors and Prisoners Part III Adaptation and Solidification 7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP 8. Abolition and the Alternative 9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
Cengage Learning Interviewing and Interrogation The Discovery of
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Pantheon Books This House of Grief
Book SynopsisThe engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure •This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood.—Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of GaietyOn the evening of Father’s Day, 2005, separated husband Robert Farquharson was driving his three young sons back to their mom’s house when the car veered off the road and plunged into a dam. Farquharson survived the crash, but his boys drowned. Was this a tragic accident, or an act of revenge? The court case that followed became a national obsession—a macabre parade of witnesses, family members, and the defendant himself, each forced to relive the unthinkable for an audience of millions.In This House of Grief, celebrated writer Helen Garner tells the
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Princeton University Press Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern
Book SynopsisThe kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world.Trade Review"This is a tour-de-force study... Lucid, delightful to read, yet theoretically sophisticated, this is one of the best books on the Tokugawa-Meiji transition in many years."--Mark Ravina, Journal of Asian Studies "[A] lasting contribution to understanding a subject that many historians of Japan have talked about but few have explored... This is an outstanding social history, richly detailed and insightful, that deserves a wide readership."--Michael Lewis, American Historical Review "In this fine book Daniel Botsman uses an examination of punishment to argue that imperialism helped to constitute state power in modern Japan. The book also does much more. It explains the relationship between state power and punishment in Japan from the early Tokugawa period to the end of the nineteenth century, and is accessible and based on an impressive mastery of primary and secondary source material."--Robert Eskildsen, Pacific Affairs "Botsman sets a high standard of research and analysis... [T]his book is outstanding."--Geoffrey C. Gunn, Journal of Contemporary Asia "In this impressive volume, Daniel V. Botsman details the history of Japanese punishment and penal reform in the early modern and modern periods... In his view, Japanese penal reform should be interpreted as an example of how external forces--in this case, Western imperialism and the desire for treaty revision--were integral to the formation of modern Japan, rather than such vague notions as 'civilization' and 'progress.'"--Choice "Botsman's book tries to move past the tendency to see punishment in Tokugawa Japan as harsh and barbaric, or 'uncivilized'. Without denying the ferocity of Tokugawa penal practices, he argues that these were part of a sophisticated system of order that had internal limits and was not simply arbitrary."--F.G. Notehelfer, International History Review "The penal system and methods of punishment employed by any government have less to do with suppressing crime than with bolstering its authority and enhancing its vision of itself, as Daniel V. Botsman ably demonstrates in this path-breaking study."--Anne Walthall, The Historian "This is a superb book on a subject of enormous importance--namely, prisons and punishment in Japan from the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) through the beginning of the twentieth century... [The book has] sweeping scope, ambition, conceptual sophistication, and intellectual force... [A]lthough the book is erudite and theoretically sophisticated, it is written in a very clear and accessible manner, ensuring that it can be read with much profit by advanced undergraduates as well as scholars and graduate students inside and outside of Japanese studies."--Takashi Fujitani, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Signs of Order: Punishment and Power in the Shogun's Capital 14 CHAPTER 2: Bloody Benevolence: Punishment, Ideology, and Outcasts 41 CHAPTER 3: The Power of Status: Kodenmacho Jailhouse and the Structures of Tokugawa Society 59 CHAPTER 4: Discourse, Dynamism, and Disorder: The Historical Significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers 85 CHAPTER 5: Punishment and the Politics of Civilization in Bakumatsu Japan 115 CHAPTER 6: Restoration and Reform: The Birth of the Prison in Japan 141 CHAPTER 7: Punishment and Prisons in the Era of Enlightenment 165 CONCLUSION: Punishment, Empire, and History in the Making of Modern Japan 201 Notes 231 Bibliography 281 Index 303
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Lexington Books Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global
Book SynopsisThe recently established International Criminal Court (ICC) has been touted as a major breakthrough in the potential control of genocide, terrorism, and war crimes. This book explores the historical origins of the court and provides and examination of the basic structure and functioning of the court. Rothe and Mullins offer a detailed critique of procedural, conceptual, and practical elements of the ICC through the lens of critical criminological theory and research and identify several problems with the design and proposed implementation of the ICC. The theoretical analysis employed shows how the Court is but a small step forward in the control of crimes by states and state leaders due to its limited scope., myopic conception of crime, jurisdictional scope, and minimal compulsory power. Certain to appeal to criminology and international studies scholars, this volume strives to outline suggestions for strengthening the court.Trade ReviewIf criminology is to have any relevance in the era of globalization, it must more directly address the vitally important issues of state crime and international social control. Dawn Rothe and Chris Mullins have made an outstanding contribution to this project with their incisive and critical analysis of the International Criminal Court. -- Ron Kramer, Western Michigan UniversityIt is a very readable and well-written introduction to the question of what international criiminal justice is after all about....The authors also provide a refreshing look into the American criminological community's soul when it comes to the attitude of the current US administration and the population in general. * International Criminal Law Review *The chapters, ideas, and information presented in them appear to logically flow from one idea to the next. The manuscript is an excellent review of the problems and opportunities presented by the International Criminal Court. The manuscript is well written, clear, and appropriately documented. The historical sections are well crafted. Instructors in the fields of international law, international organizations, and human rights will find this book particularly useful. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, Editor of Controlling State Crime and Varieties of State Crime and Its Control editor of Controlling State Crime and VarietieTable of ContentsChapter 1 The International Criminal Court's Relevance to Criminology Chapter 2 An Integrated Theory of State Crimes Chapter 3 Developing an International Criminal Court Chapter 4 The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Chapter 5 The Contradictions of International Law Chapter 6 The Illegal War on Iraq: The "Role" of the International Criminal Court Chapter 7 Enhancing the Potential of the International Criminal Court
£81.00
Lexington Books Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global
Book SynopsisThe recently established International Criminal Court (ICC) has been touted as a major breakthrough in the potential control of genocide, terrorism, and war crimes. This book explores the historical origins of the court and provides and examination of the basic structure and functioning of the court. Rothe and Mullins offer a detailed critique of procedural, conceptual, and practical elements of the ICC through the lens of critical criminological theory and research and identify several problems with the design and proposed implementation of the ICC. The theoretical analysis employed shows how the Court is but a small step forward in the control of crimes by states and state leaders due to its limited scope., myopic conception of crime, jurisdictional scope, and minimal compulsory power. Certain to appeal to criminology and international studies scholars, this volume strives to outline suggestions for strengthening the court.Trade ReviewIf criminology is to have any relevance in the era of globalization, it must more directly address the vitally important issues of state crime and international social control. Dawn Rothe and Chris Mullins have made an outstanding contribution to this project with their incisive and critical analysis of the International Criminal Court. -- Ron Kramer, Western Michigan UniversityIt is a very readable and well-written introduction to the question of what international criiminal justice is after all about....The authors also provide a refreshing look into the American criminological community's soul when it comes to the attitude of the current US administration and the population in general. * International Criminal Law Review *The chapters, ideas, and information presented in them appear to logically flow from one idea to the next. The manuscript is an excellent review of the problems and opportunities presented by the International Criminal Court. The manuscript is well written, clear, and appropriately documented. The historical sections are well crafted. Instructors in the fields of international law, international organizations, and human rights will find this book particularly useful. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, Editor of Controlling State Crime and Varieties of State Crime and Its Control editor of Controlling State Crime and VarietieTable of ContentsChapter 1 The International Criminal Court's Relevance to Criminology Chapter 2 An Integrated Theory of State Crimes Chapter 3 Developing an International Criminal Court Chapter 4 The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Chapter 5 The Contradictions of International Law Chapter 6 The Illegal War on Iraq: The "Role" of the International Criminal Court Chapter 7 Enhancing the Potential of the International Criminal Court
£37.80
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers When the Shooting Stopped
Book SynopsisCharlZs outlines a fundamental methodology for crisis negotiation, as it occurs for law-enforcement officers trained in crisis intervention. When the Shooting Stopped systematically examines the process of negotiation, dissecting the conduct of meaningful discourse, use of language, and use of the collaborative team process. Using case data on a school hostage negotiation, CharlZs reveals the underlying communication processes at work in crisis negotiation. When the Shooting Stopped is a key resource for criminal justice professionals, law enforcement personnel, and family counseling psychologists alike.Trade ReviewWith broad appeal to professionals and laypersons alike, When the Shooting Stopped shows the harrowing modern reality of hostage negotiation. Charlés offers intense and fascinating insight into the internal mechanisms of an actual hostage negotiation— If truth is stranger than fiction, this work provides evidence that truth can be more exciting! -- Frederick J. Lanceley, F.B.I. (ret), director of Crisis Negotiation Associates in Canton, Georgia and author of On-Scene Guide for Crisis NegotiatorsWhen the Shooting Stopped is a thoroughly researched and uniquely perceptive examination of a real life-and-death negotiation. Charlés' work is an engaging must read for anyone interested in the human drama of crisis negotiation. -- Gary W. Noesner, chief, FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit (ret)When the Shooting Stopped is of a growing field of scholarly research on crisis and hostage negotiation. Charlés' case study of the language of negotiation builds upon nearly three decades of discourse and analytic research. Her work provides fellow researchers and negotiators with an in-depth analysis of negotiation in action as critiqued from extant crisis negotiation guidelines and from which practical insights can be gleaned. -- Randall G. Rogan, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University and co-editor of Dynamic Processes of Crisis NegotiationTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: A Systemic View of Crisis Negotiation Chapter 2 Origins in the Field, Police Standoffs in the 1970s, First Hostage Negotiation Unit, Hostage Negotiation as a Professional Responsibility Chapter 3 Necessary Requirements of Effective Crisis Negotiation Reconceptualizing, Who Makes an Ideal Crisis Negotiator, Rethinking the Relationship with the Hostage Taker, Utilizing Psychological Theory, Creating a Climate for Conversation, Approaching the Conver Chapter 4 Categorizing Hostage Takers according to Individual Characteristics, Appreciating the Limits of Categories, Considering the Contextual Circumstances of an Incident, Valuing Communication Skills, Using Active Listening with Hostage Takers Chapter 5 Elements of a Typical Crisis Negotiation Incident, First Response at the Scene, Making Contact, Coordination the Negotiation Team, SWAT involvement, Mental Health Consultation, Third Party Intermediaries, Dynamic Inactivity, The Stockholm Syndrome, Discus Chapter 6 Research on Crisis Negotiation, The Potential for Paradox, Studying Aspects of "Face", Uncovering Emotion and Affect, Exploring the Developing Relationship, Discourse Analysis of a Successful Crisis Negotiation, Combining Methods (Discourse Analysis, Ethn
£36.90
University Press of America Murder as a Business Decision An Economic
Book SynopsisIn the second edition of Murder as a Business Decision, a new chapter is added that covers aspects of additional real world planned homicide investigations. The new material covers investigations related to FBI undercover operations Strawman in Kansas City.Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 List of Tables Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 An Introduction to Economics and Criminal Behavior: Consumer Choice Theory; The Utility Maximizing Consumer: Total and Marginal Utility; Utility Ranking; Elasticities; Producer Choice Theory; Similarities in Consumption and Production; A Sh Chapter 5 Murder as a Business Decision: Theoretical Aspects: The Appropriate Level of Information; The SEU Model of Murder as a Business Decision; The Effect of Perfect Information; Murder Consequences as Events; A Less Complex Model: Inexperienced Off Chapter 6 Endnotes Chapter 7 Bibliography Chapter 8 Index
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University Press of America The Death Penalty
Book SynopsisCapital punishment attracts strong and opposing moral positions: execution by the state under any condition is wrong versus execution as just retribution for heinous killing. In this book, the author rejects these moral arguments as a basis for determining the social value of the death penalty and considers the issue scientifically by determining whether capital punishment deters willful killing. Using evidence from legal history, the impairment / abolishment of the death penalty between 1968 and 1976 and the right of states to adopt or abolish the death penalty, this book examines the statistical relationship between the death penalty and deterrence. The investigation considers the murder rate during periods with and without the threat of capital punishment, the role of state commitment to its own capital punishment system, and fairness in administering the death penalty.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgment Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Section I: Does the Death Penalty Deter Willful Killing?: Chapter 1. The Interminable Debate Regarding the Death Penalty; Chapter 2. The 45-Year Study of the Death Penalty and Deterrence; Chapter 3. Conceptual Lacunas in the Deterrence Evidence Part 4 Section II. Can the Death Penalty be Fairly Implemented?: Chapter 4. Fair Practice in Adjucating the Death Penalty: The Issue of Race; Chapter 5. Fair Practice in Adjucating the Death Penalty: The Issue of Gender; Chapter 6. Fair Practice in Adjucat Part 5 Section III. Putting it All Together: Chapter 8. A Verdict on the Death Penalty as a Deterrent to Murder; Chapter 9. Fairness in Adjucating the Death Penalty
£42.30
University Press of America Criminology and Criminal Policy Movements
Book SynopsisThese studies recover the historical roots of thinking that are in conflict with, and critical of, present-day tendencies. Criminological theory over the last few decades has oscillated between extremes: on one side there are calls for increasing the state exercise of punitive power as the only means of providing security, in the face of both urban and international rime; while the other side highlights the need for reducing the exercise of punitive power because of the paradoxical effects that it produces. Useful for academics, practitioners, professionals and students, this book will certainly contribute to a wider awareness in crime prevention and criminal justice.Trade ReviewThis collection of essays by two South American professors of criminal law is fairly described as 'truly monumental'—essential reading for those interested in the relationships between the intersecting developments of criminology and criminal policy. Collectively, they identify the many worrying features of the current situation from a human rights and civil liberties focus. Politically, their perspective is best described as 'progressive liberal.' The pieces by Argentine Zaffaroni (emer., Univ. of Buenos Aires) are more theoretical, while those of Brazilian Oliveira (Univ. of Amazonia, Brazil) are more practical policy oriented. Both authors show an extreme awareness of pan-historical and geographical trends and divergences. Zaffaroni is especially impressive in his exposition of the dangers implied by the explosion of technology. All his essays are contentious and make fascinating and fruitful reading. For example, he reminds readers of the 'inclusive' and 'exclusive' consequences of 'seeking enemies' and explains how the profusion of 'enemy' and 'war' discourse cripples traditional legal restraints on states. Advocates for visible and accountable laws become a 'hindrance' and, on occasion, 'traitors' (e.g., the cases of Assange, Manning, and Snowden). As a result, the formal search for and punishment of 'enemies' 'justifies' the informal supervisory control of everyone. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and professional criminal lawyers. * CHOICE *…A truly monumental work on…written by the two giants in the field. Zaffaroni and Oliveira examine an extraordinary range of crimes, policies, theories, and empirical facts in a broad historical perspective, which is at the same time looking toward the future. -- Setsuo Miyazawa, Aoyama Gakuin University Law School, chair, Local Arrangement Committee, 16th World Congress of the ISC, Ph.D., S.J.D.Table of ContentsPreface. History, Science, and Politics: Criminology’s Foundations and Challenges – Emilio C. Viano Introduction Chapter 1. Seeking the Enemy: From Satan to Cool Criminal Law – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 2. Criminology and Psychiatry: The Trauma of the First Meeting – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 3. Criminal Law and Social Protest – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 4. Organized Crime: A Frustrated Category – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 5. Is a Non-Authoritarian Enemy Criminal Law Possible? – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 6. Girardin: Abolitionism between the Second Empire and the Third French Republic – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 7. Globalization and the Current Orientations in Criminal Policy – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 8. The “Dangerous Classes”: The Failure of a Pre-Positivist Police Discourse – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 9. The Legitimation of Penal Control over the “Strangers” – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 10. The Path of Criminology – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 11. Can Criminal Law Really Contribute to the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity? – Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Chapter 12. Crime and Heredity – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 13. The Delinquent by Tendency – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 14. Importance and Usefulness of the Criminological Exam – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 15. The Scientific Character of Criminology – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 16. Criminology and Criminal Policy – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 17. Prison: Past, Present and Future – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 18. Justification for Punishment in Judicial Organization – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 19. Penitentiary Consensualism – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 20. Prison and Human Rights – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 21. Technological Progress and Penal Reform – Edmundo Oliveira Chapter 22. Globalization, Cyberspace and Organized Crime on the Internet – Edmundo Oliveira Bibliography Index About the Author
£47.70
University Press of America Crime Policy in America
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s.Trade ReviewThis is the first up-to-date book to provide an overview and discussions of the shaping of federal, state, and local criminal justice policies throughout American society . . . This excellent book increased my knowledge of the social, political, psychological, and economic context of criminal justice policies. I highly recommend this book to criminal justice students and practitioners, legislators, lobbyists, advocates, librarians, and educators. -- Albert R. Roberts, professor of criminal justice, School of Arts and Sciences, RutgersCrime Policy in America is a detailed and insightful analysis of the America’s criminal justice system. Dr. Shahidullah provides an exceptional historical review of the America’s criminal justice system and moves the reader to contemporary issues within the appropriate cultural and social contexts. -- James F. Hodgson, vice-president, Virginia Association of Criminal Justice EducatorsDr. Shahidullah provides a detailed and extensive review of the federalization of crime and justice policy in the United States . . . Carefully documenting a myriad of laws and legislation, as well as key Supreme Court decisions, Dr. Shahidullah illustrates the expansive growth of the federal and state crime legislation and the subsequent growth of affiliated agencies, institutions, and programs. Clearly organized, the comprehensive reference is adaptable for classroom instruction, and will also serve the interests of policy-makers, scholars and librarians. -- Judith A. Rider, professor of criminal justice, St. John’s University, editor of Criminal Justice AbstractTable of Contents Foreword Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Crime Policy: Meaning, Nature, Actors, and Contexts Chapter 2: Federalization of Crime and Justice Policy: History, Trends, and Processes Chapter 3: The War on Drugs: Evolution of the Policy of Criminalization Chapter 4: Policy-Making in Juvenile Justice: Growth, Change, and Continuity Chapter 5: Sex Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 6: Cyber Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 7: Crime and Justice Policy in America in the 21st Century: The Emerging Trends References
£39.60
University Press of America Crime Policy in America
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s. This book examines the nature of presidential policy-making in crime and justice from Nixon to Obama, congressional policy-making since the birth of the Bill of Rights, and judicial policy-making since the promulgation of the Judicial Act of 1789. The perspective of this book is deeply historical, sociological, and legalistic. Historically, the book has explored the evolution of different policy strategies at different periods of American history; sociologically, it scrutinized the impact of the get-tough policy paradigm on crime and justice, and from a legal perspective it has examined the conflict and the consensus of Congress and the federal judiciary on different issues of crime and justice from drug crimes to sex crimes to counterterrorism. The second edition of the book hTrade ReviewThis is the first up-to-date book to provide an overview and discussions of the shaping of federal, state, and local criminal justice policies throughout American society . . . This excellent book increased my knowledge of the social, political, psychological, and economic context of criminal justice policies. I highly recommend this book to criminal justice students and practitioners, legislators, lobbyists, advocates, librarians, and educators. -- Albert R. Roberts, professor of criminal justice, School of Arts and Sciences, RutgersCrime Policy in America is a detailed and insightful analysis of the America’s criminal justice system. Dr. Shahidullah provides an exceptional historical review of the America’s criminal justice system and moves the reader to contemporary issues within the appropriate cultural and social contexts. -- James F. Hodgson, vice-president, Virginia Association of Criminal Justice EducatorsDr. Shahidullah provides a detailed and extensive review of the federalization of crime and justice policy in the United States . . . Carefully documenting a myriad of laws and legislation, as well as key Supreme Court decisions, Dr. Shahidullah illustrates the expansive growth of the federal and state crime legislation and the subsequent growth of affiliated agencies, institutions, and programs. Clearly organized, the comprehensive reference is adaptable for classroom instruction, and will also serve the interests of policy-makers, scholars and librarians. -- Judith A. Rider, professor of criminal justice, St. John’s University, editor of Criminal Justice AbstractTable of Contents Foreword Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Crime Policy: Meaning, Nature, Actors, and Contexts Chapter 2: Federalization of Crime and Justice Policy: History, Trends, and Processes Chapter 3: The War on Drugs: Evolution of the Policy of Criminalization Chapter 4: Policy-Making in Juvenile Justice: Growth, Change, and Continuity Chapter 5: Sex Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 6: Cyber Crimes: Laws and Policy Developments Chapter 7: Crime and Justice Policy in America in the 21st Century: The Emerging Trends References
£82.80
University of British Columbia Press Changing of the Guards
Book SynopsisChanging of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.Table of ContentsForeword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam WhiteIntroduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek SilvaPart 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van BrunschotPart 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra MackinnonPart 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee SinghPart 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey MacklinPostscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin MonahanIndex
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Scarecrow Press Homicide Investigation An Introduction
Book SynopsisA person is murdered only once while a crime scene can be destroyed many times. Whenever something is added or removed from a homicide scene before police process it, the interpretation of what took place could be altered. This type of altering is only one bump in the road that homicide detectives come across during an investigation. Homicide Investigation is an introduction to forensic science, investigative procedures, and the underlying motives in specific cases. Utilizing the jargon spoken by police the author analyzes the combination of methods detectives use to determine what they think took place at the scene of a violent crime. Using hundreds of sources including newspaper and magazine articles, Internet sites, books, television programs as well as information not broadcast on television news shows and not published in newspapers, this book describes graphic details of classic and routine homicides. A chronology and a list of acronyms are included to help the reader. Chapters cover: Types of homicides Serial killers Police databases Crime scenes Evidence Wounds and injuries Weapons Forensic investigation procedures Perpetrator profiles True crime readers, students and professionals in law enforcement, sociology, psychology, criminal justice, law and criminology, and anyone concerned with his or her personal safety will have an interest in this book.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 A Note to the Reader Chapter 3 Chronology: Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation Chapter 4 Acronyms Chapter 5 Introduction Chapter 6 1 Types of Homicide Chapter 7 2 Homicide in the Underworld Chapter 8 3 Serial Killers Chapter 9 4 Police Communications and Databases Chapter 10 5 Detectives Chapter 11 6 Assessment of the Crime Scene Chapter 12 7 Evidence Chapter 13 8 Wounds and Injuries Chapter 14 9 Fingerprints and Fingerprinting Chapter 15 10 Firearms, Poisons, and Uncommon Weapons Chapter 16 11 Integrity of Evidence Chapter 17 12 Forensic Investigation Chapter 18 13 Sketches, Photographs, and Videotaping Chapter 19 14 Forensic Experts Chapter 20 15 Body Fluids Chapter 21 16 Test Methods Chapter 22 17 Persons of Interest (POI), Perpetrators, and Pyromaniacs Chapter 23 18 Case Profiles Chapter 24 Bibliography Chapter 25 Index Chapter 26 About the Author
£67.50
Rowman & Littlefield Dying on the Job
Book SynopsisDying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder. While some perpetrators are certainly mentally impaired, many workplace murders are committed by people considered to be normal. Brownexplores the various motives and drives that spark workplace murder, and answers hundreds of questions that are usuallyasked only after a workplace murder rampage has already occurred. Are men or women more likely to commit workplace homicide? How can people more easily spot those likely to commit workplace murder? What are some of the warning signs? How often is suicide used as workplace revenge? The answers to these questions and more are based on more than 350 actual cases of workplace murder, and the answers are often surprising. Brown also addresses different areas of prevention, counseling, and rehabilitation, and analyzes different approaches to gun control for both management and employees to make their job a safer place to work.Trade ReviewA unique exploration of the growing epidemic of murder at work. Ronald Brown has crafted a highly readable and fascinating look at this unfathomable and shocking phenomenon. Written with historical perspective, statistics, factual accounts of numerous events and detailed analysis the reader gains not only insight into the genesis of the problem, but a better understanding of the underlying fears that often drive these assailants. While debunking the myths about workplace homicide and exposing the futility of some preventative policies and procedures, in the end Brown provides important preventative rules and recommendations that can make a difference. Timely and useful, this book is a must read for CEOs and their staff, HR executives, middle managers, safety and security professionals and anyone concerned about this abhorrent problem sweeping the nation. -- Richard A. Pollock, CSP, President & CEO, CLMI Safety TrainingDying on the Job highlights an important problem all concerned with the state of American workers must confront. -- Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law and director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, NYU LawSadly, too many workplace killings take place. Ronald Brown's book, the first ever about this subject, shows the terrible number, the variety of circumstances and causes, and ways society could address this problem. Managers, HR professionals, and anyone who works in an office need this information. -- Lance Liebman, professor and former dean, Columbia University School of LawWith this fascinating book on workplace murder, Ronald Brown has filled a gaping hole in the literature on workplace violence, and he has done so with lively and accessible prose and a prosecutor’s eye for detail. His ‘closing argument’ on the role of guns in the epidemic of workplace murders should provoke serious and much-needed debate on American gun culture and permissive gun laws. -- Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor, NYU School of LawThis is an excellent book; the first serious book-length study on work-place homicide. It contains valuable empirical information and useful suggestions for prevention. -- Roger S. Clark, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers Law School, Camden, New JerseyDying on the Job addresses the most critical work place problem in the US. Written in a style which is both accessible and graphic, it touches on all the relevant aspects of this worrisome matter. This is the best examination of violence, murder and mayhem at work that I have seen. Policy makers and all who are concerned about the workplace will do well to read this exhaustive discussion and to heed its recommendations. I recommend it highly. -- William B. Gould IV, Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1994-98)This book is an important discussion of a frighteningly prevalent phenomenon, that of workplace homicide. It is a book all employers should read, as it provides information which can help them take steps to reduce the likelihood that an employee will be the victim of workplace homicide. -- Carol Bohmer, visiting associate professor, Department of Government at Dartmouth College; teaching fellow, Department of War Studies at King's College, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Murder in the Workplace: Nature, Scope, and Origins 2. Why So Little is Known About the Problem 3. Definitely Not Your Average Girl Next Door 4. The Limits of the Human Resources Function 5. Some Were Crazy, Some Not So Crazy 6. The Influence of Gender & Race 7. The Problems and Politics of Being the “Boss” 8. Debunking the Myths / Confirming the Facts 9. Deciphering the “Language” of Workplace Suicide 10. The Warning Signs: the Tick, Tick, Tick of the Bomb 11. Ironies Trends, and Troublesome Facts 12. Employer Response, Responsibility and Resolve 13. Guidelines for Workplace Safety, Security, and Control 14. Conclusion Endnotes Appendix Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments About the Author
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New York University Press Not Guilty Are the Acquitted Innocent
Book SynopsisProvides a sustained examination and analysis of the factors that lead juries to find defendants "not guilty"Trade ReviewExcellent acquisition for criminal justice, law, and crime collections. Summing up: highly recommended. All readership levels. -- D. Schultz, Hamline University * Choice *In their terrific if misleadingly titled new book, Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent?, Daniel Givelber and Amy Farrell ask a practically unanswerable question: how many defendants who are acquitted at trial are actually innocent?... it is immensely valuable for the close look it provides at what we know, and can know, about the correctness of jury verdicts. -- Darryl K. Brown * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *This interdisciplinary scholarship between law and a social science is sorely needed in the United States and I hope Givelber and Farrell have begun a trend that is so well established in other countries such as Germany and England. The authors are to be commended for writing a book that is thought provoking and vitally important in understand an ignored area of our justice system. -- Robert Costello * Social and Legal Studies *An acquittal is the most powerful and final of legal judgments. It may not be reviewed let alone reversed. It is also, perhaps, the least respected. After a criminal defendant has been convicted, prosecutors and judges often resist efforts to reconsider the verdict, even in the face of strong new evidence of innocence, because & the jury has spoken. When a defendant is acquitted they are as likely say & that doesnt mean hes innocent.In Not Guilty Daniel Givelber and Amy Farrell explore this anomaly.Givelber and Farrell make a persuasive case that most jury acquittals are based on evidence not emotion, and that acquittals should be taken to mean what they say: that the defendant is Not Guilty. -- Samuel Gross,co-author of A Modern Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, Transcripts, and CasesDaniel Givelber and Amy Farrell have written a brilliant book that masterfully debunks the conventional wisdom that those who are charged with crimes in our criminal justice system, even when they are acquitted at trial, are almost certainly guilty. Drawing on extensive empirical research, this book systematically analyzes the sources of judge-jury disagreement about leniency and acquittals. This book challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the meaning of an acquittal in a system that asymmetrically treats & guilty verdicts as factual but & not guilty verdicts are merely procedural. It also exposes how false assumptions about the probable guilt of the acquitted contribute to miscarriages of justice. This is a book that anyone interested in the accuracy and fairness of the criminal justice system should read. It is a data-driven tour de force. -- Richard A. Leo,author of Police Interrogation and American JusticeThis book is powerful, strong, and convincing. It is written at a level that undergraduates can understand and it avoids arcane academic language so that the book can be read and understood by practitioners, academics, and the general public...The book is quite informative, but it is also succinct and can be read quickly and easily. This book is likely to inform our understanding of jury behavior and of the nature of acquittals for years to come. * Crime Law and Social Change *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Invisible Innocence 2 Judge and Jury Decisions to Acquit: What We Know from Social Science Research 3 Screening for Innocence 4 Understanding Why Judges and Juries Disagree about Criminal Case Outcomes: Are Jury Verdicts an Expression of Sentiment? 5 Th e Defense Case 6 Th e Impact of Race on Judge and Jury Decision Making 7 Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Judging Addicts
Book SynopsisThe number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased criminalization of drugs and the medicalization of addiction in the U.S. by focusing on drug courts, where defendants are sent to drug treatment instead of prison. Rebecca Tiger explores how advocates of these courts make their case for what they call enlightened coercion, detailing how they use medical theories of addiction to justify increased criminal justice oversight of defendants who, through this process, are defined as both sick and bad. Tiger shows how these courts fuse punitive and therapeutic approaches to drug use in the name of a progressive and enlightened approach to addiction. She critiques the medicalization of drug users, showing how the disease designation can complement, rather than contradict, punitive approaTrade Review[T]his is an excellent book that will be of interest to sociologists who study punishment, health, deviance, and social control. It is well written and persuasive. Tiger effectively brought the sociology of knowledge to bear on a contemporary, policy-relevant question. This is no small accomplishment. While there are other critical books on drug courts available, Tigers approach is fresh and unique and therefore should be required reading by anyone studying the drug court movement. * Social Forces *[Judging Addicts] is interesting and well written, and perhaps its greatest strength lies in the way in which its author sets her discussion of the drug court initiative in a historic context. * Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy *Table of ContentsBoth Bad and Sick2 Criminalizing Deviance: Reconciling the Punitive and Rehabilitative3 "The Right Thing to Do for the Right Reasons": The Institutional Context for the Emergence of Drug Courts 4 "Enlightened Coercion": Making Coercion Work5 "Force Is the Best Medicine": AddictionRecovery, and Coercion6 "Now That We Know the Medicine Works": Expanding the Drug Court Model
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ The World Bank Group Sanctions Process and its
Book SynopsisPresents a detailed account of the evolution of the World Bank's sanctions process since its inception in 1996, with particular focus on the most recent round of reforms, and showing how the model has moved closer to a judicial model while ramaining essentially administrative in nature.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Criminal Procedure
Book SynopsisThe emergence of international criminal courts, beginning with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and including the International Criminal Court, has also brought an evolving international criminal procedure.Trade Review‘Professor Carter, Judge Pocar and the individual authors of ICP have made an important contribution to international justice by blending many of the challenges of crafting the right international criminal procedures into a single, useful volume .’ -- Dan Saxon, The Cambridge Law Journal‘International Criminal Procedure, edited by two insiders to international criminal proceedings, Professor Linda Carter and Professor Fausto Pocar, a judge at the ICTY and a former President of this Tribunal, is a coherently organized, well-researched, very informative and not the least elegantly-written contribution to a young and rapidly developing legal sub-discipline. The book provides its reader with a highly accessible and up-to date introduction into key elements of international criminal procedure as well as with critical commentary and rich inspiration for improvements of current practices.’ -- Claus Kreß LL.M. (Cantab.), University of Cologne, Germany and Institute for International Peace and Security Law‘This book addresses compelling issues that have come before international criminal tribunals. They include the self-representation of accused persons, plea bargaining and victim participation. It usefully approaches all of the issues and problems from a comparative law perspective. This excellent and accessible work is essential reading for practitioners, faculty and students of international criminal law.’ -- Richard Goldstone, Retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for RwandaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Challenge of Shaping Procedures in International Criminal Courts Fausto Pocar and Linda Carter 2. Plea Bargaining Jenia Iontcheva Turner 3. Witness Proofing Hannah Garry 4. Written and Oral Evidence Guido Acquaviva 5. Self-representation and the Use of Assigned, Standby and Amicus Counsel Charles Chernor Jalloh 6. The Role of Victims Sigall Horovitz 7. Right to Appeal Magali Maystre Index
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Burnham, Incorporated Suspect Documents
Book SynopsisTo find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
£95.00
Crown King Books The Articulate Witness An Illustrated Guide to
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Cambridge University Press The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Book SynopsisRuth Bader Ginsburg was a legal icon. In more than four decades as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth Bader Ginsburg made over the last half-century. Including chapters written by prominent court-watchers and leading scholars from law, political science, and history, the book offers diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and different periods in Ginsburg''s career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law. This updated second edition features a new foreword from Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and a new introduction from the editor Scott Dodson.Trade Review'Scott Dodson presents leading scholars' expert perspectives on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's historic legacy and long-term agenda, both of which continue even after she is gone. Dodson's anthology details how RBG's pathmarking legal years shaped this country's policies and laws. Her dedication and forward-thinking will be memorialized in these pages for future generations to learn from.' Rebecca Gibian, journalist and author of The RBG WayFrom the first edition: 'Scott Dodson, the editor of this volume, has brought together an impressive group of law professors, lawyers, historians, and journalists to write about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy.' Barbara Babcock, Stanford Law School, on SCOTUSblogFrom the first edition: 'The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg artfully chronicles Justice Ginsburg's prolific career and intersperses engaging personal perspectives.' Harvard Law ReviewFrom the first edition: '[A] terrific compilation of essays.' Susan Burgess, Ohio University, in Law & Society ReviewFrom the first edition: 'Now this - this is something that I like.' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the New York TimesTable of ContentsPart I. Shaping a Legacy: 1. Notes on a life Nina Totenberg; 2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: law professor extraordinaire Herma Hill Kay; 3. Before Frontiero there was reed: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the constitutional transformation of the twentieth century Linda K. Kerber; 4. Struck by stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination Neil S. Siegel and Reva B. Siegel; 5. Beyond the tough guise: Justice Ginsburg's reconstructive feminism Joan C. Williams; Part II. Rights and Remedies: 6. 'Seg Academies,' taxes, and judge Ginsburg Stephen B. Cohen; 7. A more perfect union: sex, race, and the VMI case Cary Franklin; 8. Barriers to entry and justice Ginsburg's criminal procedure jurisprudence Lisa Kern Griffin; 9. A liberal justice's limits: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the American criminal justice system Aziz Z. Huq; Part III. Structuralism: 10. A revolution in jurisdiction Scott Dodson; 11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the interaction of legal systems Paul Schiff Berman; 12. The once and future federalist Deborah Jones Merritt; Part IV. The Jurist: 13. Reflections on the confirmation journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, summer 1993 Robert A. Katzmann; 14. Justice Ginsburg: demosprudence through dissent Lani Guinier; 15. Oral argument as a bridge between the briefs and the court's opinion Tom Goldstein; 16. Fire and ice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the least likely firebrand Dahlia Lithwick; Ginsburg, optimism, and conflict management Scott Dodson; Index.
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Routledge Neurolaw in the Courtroom
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Cambridge University Press Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims Rights
Book SynopsisThe responsibility of any state is to protect its citizens. But if a state, either through omission or commission, fails to investigate and prosecute crime then what remedies do citizens have? Verónica Michel investigates procedural rights in Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico that allow citizens to call for the appointment of a private prosecutor to initiate criminal investigations. This right diminishes the monopoly of the state over criminal prosecutions and thus offers citizens a way of insisting on state accountability. This book provides the first full-length empirical study of how the victims'' right to private prosecution can impact access to justice in Latin America, and shows how institutional and legal arrangements interact to shape the politics of criminal justice. By examining homicide cases in detail, Michel highlights how everyday legal struggles can help build the rule of law from below.Table of ContentsIntroduction: private prosecution, access to justice, and rule of law; 1. Private prosecution as an accountability tool; 2. Private prosecution as a victim's right in Latin America; 3. David and Goliath: private prosecution in Guatemala; 4. Against oblivion: private prosecution in Chile; 5. Discovering the power of rights: private prosecution in Mexico; Conclusions: prosecutorial accountability and rule of law from below.
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John Wiley & Sons Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal
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Hanover Square Press Alabama V. King
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Edinburgh University Press Scottish Evidence Law Essentials
Book SynopsisA concise guide to the law of evidence in Scotland
£85.00
Xlibris Corporation Practical Narcotics Investigations
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