Criminal Law (Aspen Casebook)
by John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, and Guyora Binder
A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor.The definitive account of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain. For three days, escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family, keeping them in separate rooms of their home while secretly murdering them one by one. On several occasions Hughes orde...
This work examines the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour. It contains the stories of inmates' schooldays told in their own words as they try to answer the question "could anything have been done to prevent you being in custody now?" The book ends with suggestions on action schools might take towards redressing social, cultural and educational disadvantage and intervening to help limit future offending behaviour.
Demystifying the Law: An Introduction for Professionals explains unfamiliar legal concepts in interesting contexts, thus helping you to understand and remember them. It illustrates legal principles using simple examples that anyone can understand. No single book can turn you into a lawyer, but this one can help you decide when you need a lawyer's assistance and help you ask intelligent questions of your lawyer. It can even help keep you out of situations requiring a lawyer. Part I tells you wher...
Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials
by Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity, and George Williams
A timely examination of the impact of Australia's antiterror laws after September 11, and the new 2014 terror laws. Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more antiterrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. Yet again, powers and sanctions once thought to lie outside the rules of a liberal democracy except during wartime, have become part of Australian law. Timely and piercing, this book asks whether Au...
How Effective is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here?
by Lois M Davis, Jennifer L. Steele, Robert Bozick, Malcolm V. Williams, Susan Turner, Jeremy N. V. Miles, Jessica Saunders, and Paul S. Steinberg
'Hate Crime is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners seeking to understand this complex and contested subject. It is thoroughly researched and theoretically informed, but will be accessible to newcomers to the field and to people delivering practical responses to offending and victimisation. Clearly written and with case-study illustrations, Chakroborti and Garland bring this challenging subject to the reader in a vivid and readable form.' - Ben Bowling, Professor of Crim...
A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience present a book that cuts through the hype and paranoia to offer real solutions. Drawing on actual case s...
Vergleichsweise Menschlich? (Schriftenreihe Des Strafvollzugsarchivs)
by Christine M Graebsch and Sven-Uwe Burkhardt
A literary mixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers, artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders.Rebel Speak sounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholar Bryonn Rolly Bain brings us transformative oral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the...
Das strafende Gesetz im sozialen Rechtsstaat (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften Zu Goettingen. N, #9)
The Trial of William Drennan (History)
The Police in America
by Professor of Criminal Justice Samuel Walker, Charles M. Katz, Samuel Walker, and Katz Charles
This is a comprehensive, introductory survey of police, police work, and police systems intended for criminal justice courses on police administration, and courses on criminology or the sociology of law enforcement. It describes how police departments are organized, what police officers do, the different problems in policing (police-community relations, use of discretion, police corruption, etc) how individuals enter policing as a career and what happens to them during the course of their career...
Written for students at the undergraduate level or at the master's level in a criminal justice program who are taking a criminal law, criminal procedure, or criminal evidence course, this book uses real-world issues to demonstrate evidence law in a concrete manner. The book contains serious consideration of the legal aspects-including admissibility factors-of scientific and technical evidence and expert testimony. Eight themes are covered under two sections.
Gifts from the Dark (Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice)
by John R Chaney and Joni Schwartz
Brute Force looks at people having the most contact with everyday animal abuse- humane law enforcement officers who are charged with enforcing anti-cruelty statutes. The author spent one year studying 30 animal cops and dispatchers in two large cities. They see themselves as a power for the helpless, a voice for the mute. On-the-job experience changes this view. Rather than fighting the good fight against egregious cases of cruelty, they are overwhelmed with complaints that are ambiguous and mus...
Strafrecht Allgemeiner Teil (Grundstudium Recht)
by Jorg Eisele and Bernd Heinrich
The story of Tekashi 6ix9ine one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale his meteoric rise to fame. In tracing Danny "Tekashi 6ix9ine" Hernandez's life from Bushwick to the heights of the rap scene, Complex reporter Shawn Setaro illuminates the story of the young rapper who forged an alliance with a notorious street gang to bolster his image and boost his internet clout. Before long, Tekashi's antics and affiliations caught up with him, leading to a...
White Collar Crime (Yale Studies on White-Collar Crime)
by Edwin H. Sutherland
This classic study of corporate crime in America is now available for the first time the way Sutherland originally wrote it -- with names and case studies of offenders included.