The eighth edition of Criminal Law for Police Officers presents the historical concepts fundamental to understanding criminal law. The book is written in a non-legalese format, which makes it very student friendly. Areas covered include jurisdiction, matters of responsibility and accountability, and general principles about the criminal act. New to this Edition: *Materials have been updated. *Comprehensive discussions on crimes include assaults, homicide, sex offenses, theft, robbery, burglary,...
Die Untersuchung hat die strafmildernde Wirkung des Gestandnisses zum Gegenstand. Nach einem UEberblick uber die historische Dimension des Gestandnisses wird seine Bedeutung fur die Strafzumessungspraxis und -lehre dargestellt. In diesem Zusammenhang wird die Untauglichkeit der doppelspurigen Indizkonstruktion aufgezeigt und neuere Loesungsansatze diskutiert. Daran anknupfend untersucht die Verfasserin den strafmildernden Einfluss des Gestandnisses vor dem Hintergrund der Strafzwecke Schuld, Gen...
Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics. Providing proven-techniques for detecting and mitigating the ever-evolving threats to casino security, this book covers the core skills, knowledge, and techniques needed to prote
Der Uebereilte Rechtsmittelverzicht Des Angeklagten (Bielefelder Rechtsstudien, #21)
by Thorsten Berenbrink
Nicht selten erklaren Angeklagte im Gerichtssaal unmittelbar im Anschluss an die Urteilsverkundung Rechtsmittelverzicht. Spater wollen sie dann oft gleichwohl ein Rechtsmittel gegen das Urteil einlegen. Die Untersuchung beleuchtet diese Problematik unter normativen und erfahrungswissenschaftlichen Aspekten. Besondere Beachtung kommt dabei der Frage zu, wie das Zustandekommen ubereilter Verzichte unter Berucksichtigung von Erkenntnissen aus der Kommunikationswissenschaft und der Psychologie zu er...
Psychology and Crime (Key Approaches to Criminology)
by Dr Craig Webber
This volume deals with the cultural and legal debates which have counterposed the right to free speech and the need to protect Christian sensibilities in Britain from the time of the French Revolution to the present day. Central to the book is a close study of the content and public reception of the anti-Christian literature of the 19th century associated with the names G.W. Foote and J.W. Gott, the "Freethinker" and the "Truthseeker". David Nash here also examines a variety of critical-theoreti...
Handbook of Forensic Statistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods)
Handbook of Forensic Statistics is a collection of chapters by leading authorities in forensic statistics. Written for statisticians, scientists, and legal professionals having a broad range of statistical expertise, it summarizes and compares basic methods of statistical inference (frequentist, likelihoodist, and Bayesian) for trace and other evidence that links individuals to crimes, the modern history and key controversies in the field, and the psychological and legal aspects of such scientif...
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the...
For courses in Community Policing and Police-Community Relations. This book is about policing at its most important and challenging levels-in neighborhoods and in communities across the nation and abroad. Unique in perspective, its focus is on community policing and problem solving-and the processes that are being implemented under COPPS to control and prevent crime, disorder and fear. Extremely applied, this text focuses on daily processes and tactics and how and why agencies are revoluti...
Justice Gained?
Meine Damen Und Herren Seine Exzellenz Der Stuckateur Betritt Das Gebaude
by Burospass Geschenke
Appropriate as a supplementary text for undergraduate survey courses in U.S. history and Colonial American history. This book provides a much needed synthesis of the recent scholarship on the Salem Witch Trials. It places the trials into context of the Great European Witch Hunt and of witch hunting in 17th century New England within an accessible narrative format that is as dramatic as it is informative.
Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime Against Humanity. Such atrocity labels have been popularized among international lawmakers but with little insight offered into how and when these terms are applied and to what effect. What constitutes an event to be termed a genocide or war crime and what role does this play in the application of legal proceedings? Markus P. Beham, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, unpicks these terms to uncover their historical genesis and their implic...
CCTV and Policing (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
by Benjamin J. Goold
CCTV and Policing is the first major published work to present a comprehensive assessment of the impact of CCTV on the police in Britain. Drawing extensively upon empirical research, the volume examines how the police in Britain first became involved in public area surveillance, and how they have since attempted to use CCTV technology to prevent, respond to, and investigate crime. In addition, the volume also provides a detailed analysis of the legality of CCTV surveillance in light of recent ch...
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It
by James Gray
A forceful argument for why we need to repeal drug prohibition
Norwich Heresy Trials 1428-31 (Camden Society S., #20)