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I love quizzes. Don't win very many but I love them nevertheless. There is something very rewarding in the act of trawling through the inner recesses of one's mind to find that obscure fact or dipping into the dusty mental library that houses ancient school lessons. It is probably genetic. My grandfather, Victor Lloyd, loved quizzes and crossword puzzles and published many fine quiz books in the original Pillar Publishing Dublin in the 1930s and 40s. Now that I have created Pillar International Publishing, I have sought to pay tribute to Granda Lloyd's enterprise with this small series of...

The risk of political violence has constantly threatened the Irish state. To ensure its survival, the state has resorted to emergency laws that weaken due process rights. The effects of counter-terrorism campaigns upon the rule of law governing criminal justice in Ireland are a central feature of this book. Globalization has supported this crossover, as organized crime seems immune to conventional policing tactics. But globalization fragments the authority of the state by introducing a new justice network. New regulatory agencies are entrusted with powers to control novel risks, and social...

Contributes to the debates about civil liberties in the war on terror, how counter-terrorism can contaminate criminal justice, and how globalization challenges a state-centred view of criminal justice. This book is useful for students of criminology, law a