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Book SynopsisThis book gathers leading experts in the field to analyse the recent, major changes in Scots criminal evidence law. The areas affected include: police questioning of suspects, the treatment of vulnerable witnesses in court, hearsay, the admissibility of the accused s previous convictions, the Crown s duty of disclosure and corroboration.

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Book SynopsisThis book gathers leading experts in the field to analyse the recent, major changes in Scots criminal evidence law. The areas affected include: police questioning of suspects, the treatment of vulnerable witnesses in court, hearsay, the admissibility of the accused's previous convictions, the Crown's duty of disclosure and corroboration.

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Book SynopsisSociety and Law addresses the social context of law, the legal structure, and the relationships between society and law. The goal of this text is to help undergraduate students gain an understanding of the significant role law plays in our everyday lives and in larger society. It covers emerging theories and ideas from innovative fields such as critical legal studies, feminist jurisprudence, critical race theories, and intersectionality. Society & Law summarizes the material as succinctly as possible, incorporating examples of new laws, changes in laws, and legal cases that interest college students and help them connect the material to their own lives. The law can be fascinating, frustrating, and even funny. Society & Law presents these various aspects of the law in readable, understandable, and interesting ways. Features: ·Student-oriented pedagogy includes key terms and a complete glossary, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, and movie suggestions ·Case-in-Point boxes provide extended examples that illustrate key points ·Legalese boxes define legal terminology ·Sidebar boxes provide additional information about select conceptsTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1 Introduction Manifest Functions of Law Latent Functions of Law Dysfunctions of Law Law as a Social Construction Max Weber’s Sociological Approach to the Study of Law 1. The Moral Approach 2. The Jurisprudence Approach 3. The Sociological Approach Chapter Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for Kids for Cash 2 The Rule of Law and Major Legal Systems The Rule of Law Criteria for the Rule of Law The Rule of Law in the United States Typologies of Law Weber’s Three Features Major Legal Systems Romano-Germanic System, or Civil Law Common Law Systems Socialist Legal Systems Islamic Legal Systems Functions of Law Social Control Dispute Resolution Social Change Chapter Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for the Corporation 3 Modernization and Theoretical Perspectives on Society and Law The Evolution of Legal Systems Modernization and the Expansion of Law Traditional Legal Systems Transitional Legal Systems Modern Legal Systems Theories of Law and Society Early European Scholars of Law Classical Sociological Theories of Society and Law: Durkheim, Marx, and Weber Sociolegal Theorists Basic Tenets of Legal Realism Current Theories of Society and Law Critical Legal Studies (CLS) Feminist Legal Theory Critical Race Theory (CRT) Intersectional Approaches to Society and Law Chapter Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law 4 The Organization of Law The Courts Dispute Categories Organization of the Courts Participants in Court Processes Litigation in the Court Systems Civil Cases Criminal Cases Legislatures Administrative Agencies The Administrative Process Law Enforcement Agencies Chapter Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for Runaway Jury 5 Lawmaking and the Social Construction of Laws Social Constructionist Approach to Lawmaking Legislation The Instigation and Publicizing Stage Information-Gathering Stage Formulation Stage Interest Aggregation Stage Mobilization Stage Modification Administrative Rulemaking/Lawmaking The Administrative Process Judicial Lawmaking Lawmaking by Precedents The Interpretation of Statutes The Interpretation of Constitutions Influences on Lawmaking Processes Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for Food, Inc. 6 Law and Social Control Social Control: Why do Most People Behave Most of the Time? Internalization of Norms Control through External Pressures: Sanctions Informal Social Control Formal Social Control Criminal Sanctions Why We Punish Does the Threat of Death Deter Criminals? Who is Punished? Disproportionate Minority Sentencing Who is Not Punished Proportionately? White-Collar Crime Administrative Law and Social Control Licensing Inspection Threat of Publicity Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for The Thin Blue Line 7 Law and Dispute Processing Private Wrongs and Public Outcries Stages of Dispute Processing Methods of Dispute Resolution Primary Resolution Processes Negotiation Mediation Arbitration Forced or Mandatory Arbitration Adjudication/Litigation Hybrid or Combined Forms of Resolution Processes Collaborative Law Settlement Counsel Partnering Rent-A-Judge Mediation-Arbitration or Med-Arb “Mini-Trial” Who Can Sue? Justiciability and Standing Types of Private Wrongs Intentional Acts Negligence Strict Liability Property Disputes Contract Disputes Family Disputes Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for the film, Hot Coffee 8 Law and Social Change Law and Social Change Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779–1861) Social Changes as Causes of Changes in Law New Technologies as Catalysts for Change Revenge Porn or Nonconsensual Pornography Texting While Driving Law as an Instrument of Social Change Case In Point: Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Laws Attempting to Block Same-Sex Marriage The Advantages of Law as an Instrument of Social Change The Limits of Law in Creating Social Change Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for RBG 9 Gate-Keeping and the Law: The Legal Profession The Practice of Law: A Brief History The Evolution of the Legal Profession and the Professionalization of Lawyers in the United States Legal Education: The Growth of Law Schools in the United States The Current Picture for Law Schools in the United States The American Bar Association The Legal Profession Today Stratification within the Legal Profession Stratified Law Schools Stratified Law Practices Big Law Small Law or Private Practice Government Lawyers Advocacy Law/Nonprofit Law/Public Interest Law Diversity in Practice? Law and Diversity Crashing the Gate: Deprofessionalization and the Practice of Law Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions For A Civil Action 10 Gender, Inequality, and Law Law at the Intersections: Intersectionality Feminist Legal Scholarship/Feminist Jurisprudence The Social Construction of Gender The Separate Spheres Ideology Legal Constructions of Gender Early America: Women, Law, and the Colonial Era, 1630–1763 The Revolutionary to Post-Revolutionary Period, 1763–1815 The Civil War and the Period of Reconstruction, 1861–1877 The Progressive Era and First Wave Feminism, 1890–1920 Second-Wave Feminism, 1960s to 1980s Feminist Jurisprudence: Sameness, Difference, or Both? Third-Wave Feminism, 1990s to 2000s Fourth-Wave Feminism? #Metoo Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for the Film North Country 11 Race, Inequality, and Law Critical Race Theory The Social Construction of Race Legal Constructions of Race Racial Prerequisite Cases: Race and Citizenship The Naturalization Act of 1790 In re Ah Yup, 1878 Ex parte Shahid, 1913 Ozawa v. United States, 1922 The End of Racial Prerequisites Race and Marriage: Anti-Miscegenation Law in the Twentieth Century Kirby v. Kirby, 1922 The Estate of Monks, 1941 Loving v. Virginia, 1967 Law And Social Change Revisited Executive Order 13769: The Travel Ban Summary Key Terms Critical Thinking Questions Suggested Movie Discussion Questions for The Loving Story Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the authors’ extensive experience of working in the criminal justice and penal systems, this book presents a clear description and analysis of the stages and components of probation and parole work. Probation and parole are two vital components of any criminal justice system. Practitioners working in both are responsible for the assessment and supervision of those members of society who have committed criminal offences and are subject to court-ordered penal sanction. Those working in probation and parole must bring a range of knowledge and skills to bear in their daily work: championing community safety and justice, promoting offender reintegration, and seeking to reduce offending and the harm it causes. All of that practice is in turn underpinned by law. Professional practice in probation and parole is also increasingly informed by research findings regarding ‘what works’ and indeed ‘who works.'Table of Contents• Introduction • History of Probation and Parole in Ireland • Offender Assessment • Probation Work • Community Service • Restorative Justice and Victims • Parole • Conditional Release and Other Post-Release Supervision • Children and Young People • Electronic Monitoring • Other Issues and Challenges

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Book SynopsisDie fünfte Auflage des Lehrbuchs zum Völkerstrafrecht behandelt in bewährter Form die Grundlagen und den Allgemeinen Teil des Völkerstrafrechts sowie die einzelnen Völkerrechtsverbrechen. Internationale Rechtsprechung und Schrifttum sind auf aktuellem Stand umfassend berücksichtigt.Neu eingefügt wurden Abschnitte zur Kritik und zur Fragmentierung des Völkerstrafrechts, zu den durch die 16. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz zum IStGH-Statut beschlossenen Kriegsverbrechen des Einsatzes verbotener Kampfmittel, zur Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen in Syrien und Nordirak sowie zur Umsetzung der Neuregelungen über das Aggressionsverbrechen in Deutschland. Vollständig neu gestaltet wurden die Abschnitte zu den Kriegs- und Menschlichkeitsverbrechen der Sklaverei und Versklavung sowie der sexualisierten Gewalt und zum Kriegsverbrechen des Angriffs auf besonders geschützte Objekte, insbesondere auf Kulturgüter. Weitere Schwerpunkte der Überarbeitung bilden die Abschnitte über Quellen und Auslegung des Völkerstrafrechts, die innere Tatseite und die Formen strafbarer Beteiligung sowie die Immunität.

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Book SynopsisDie Wahrung der ärztlichen Schweigepflicht birgt im Strafverfahren ein besonderes Konfliktpotenzial. Einerseits haben Ärztinnen und Ärzte über Patientengeheimnisse grundsätzlich Schweigen zu bewahren. Andererseits kann eine möglichst umfassende Sachverhaltsaufklärung im allgemeinen wie auch im individuellen Interesse den Rückgriff auf Patienteninformationen erfordern. Annika Kristin Vahlenkamp untersucht, inwieweit entsprechende Befugnisse zur Durchbrechung der Schweigepflicht - zum Zwecke der Strafverfolgung ebenso wie zu Verteidigungszwecken - bestehen, und nimmt dafür verschiedene prozessuale Konfliktlagen in den Blick. Anschließend prüft die Autorin, welche Erkenntnisse prozessuale Verwertung finden dürfen, um materielles und prozessuales Recht in ein kohärentes System zu bringen. Im Rahmen der Analyse der Erlaubnisnormen kommt der melderechtlichen Vorschrift des § 32 Abs. 2 BMG sowie dem rechtfertigenden Notstand nach § 34 StGB besondere Bedeutung zu.

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Book SynopsisDie Digitalisierung durchdringt zunehmend alle Lebensbereiche. Dies hat zur Folge, dass immer mehr und immer genauere Informationen über Personen und Geschehnisse in digitaler Form vorliegen. Diese Daten sind auch für die Strafverfolgung von Bedeutung und werden von den Strafverfolgungsbehörden mittels verschiedener technischer Eingriffsmaßnahmen erhoben und von den Strafgerichten als Beweismittel verwertet. Die damit einhergehenden Grundrechtseingriffe müssen auf eine gesetzliche Rechtsgrundlage gestützt werden können und die Beweiswürdigung durch die Strafgerichte muss den Besonderheiten von digitalen Daten als Beweismittel Rechnung tragen. Christian Rückert untersucht, welche Vorgaben und Leitlinien sich dabei für die Erhebung, Verwertung und Beweiswürdigung von digitalen Daten im Strafverfahren aus dem Verfassungs-, Europa- und Strafprozessrecht ergeben.

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Book SynopsisDen deutschen Nachrichtendiensten ist gesetzlich ein wichtiger Teil staatlicher Sicherheitsgewährleistung überantwortet: Für politische Entscheidungsträger fungieren sie als Frühwarnsysteme für innere und äußere Gefährdungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und im Wirkungsverbund mit Polizeibehörden und Staatsanwaltschaften tragen sie zur Verhinderung und Aufklärung von Straftaten bei. „Sicherheit“ hat sich hierbei zu einem zentralen gesellschaftlichen Wertebegriff entwickelt, an den Sicherheitsbedürfnisse einzelner Bürgerinnen und Bürger anknüpfen. Zugleich sind die Nachrichtendienste verpflichtet, individuelle Freiheitsverbürgungen des Grundgesetzes nicht zu verletzen. Den Rechtsgrundlagen nachrichtendienstlicher Tätigkeit kommt die Aufgabe zu, den Schutz grundrechtlicher Freiheiten und die Gewährleistung öffentlicher Sicherheit miteinander in Einklang zu bringen.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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