International Criminal Law
ISBN: 9780198728962 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique textbook provides an accessible introduction to a fascinating subject area. Written with student needs at its heart, innovative features such as 'Counterpoint' and 'Pause for reflection' boxes highlight current debates and areas worthy of more detailed analysis, providing students with the tools they need to develop their knowledge and start thinking critically about the law. Learning outcomes open each chapter, and are complemented by closing summaries to further support student understanding.
Structured in four parts, the book first sets out the key international law... This unique textbook provides an accessible introduction to a fascinating subject area. Written with student needs at its heart, innovative features s...
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
ISBN: 9780674743991 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans--far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Michael Javen Fortner shows in this eye-opening account that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about decline and disorder in their communities. Black Silent Majority uncovers the role African Americans played in creating... Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and rel... |
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Democratic Views on Criminal Justice Reforms Raised Before the Over-Criminalization Task Force & the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Securi
ISBN: 9781512100709 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it comes to crime policy, we have a choice - we can reduce crime or we can play politics. For far too long, government officials have chosen to play politics by enacting so-called "tough on crime" slogans such as "three strikes and you're out" or "you do the adult crime, you do the adult time." As appealing as these policies may sound, their impacts range from a negligible reduction in crime to an increase in crime. Over the past 40 years, federal criminal laws and policies have led to a dramatic increase in the number of people prosecuted and incarcerated federally, the length of their...
When it comes to crime policy, we have a choice - we can reduce crime or we can play politics. For far too long, government officials have chosen to p...
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99,71 zł |
The War Report: Armed Conflict in 2014
ISBN: 9780198766063 / Angielski / Twarda / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The War Report provides detailed information on every armed conflict which took place during 2014, offering an unprecedented overview of the nature, range, and impact of these conflicts and the legal issues they created.
In Part I the Report describes its criteria for the identification and classification of armed conflicts under international law, and the legal consequences that flow from this classification. It sets out a list of armed conflicts in 2014, categorizing each as international, non-international, or a military occupation, with estimates of civilian and military casualties.... The War Report provides detailed information on every armed conflict which took place during 2014, offering an unprecedented overview of the nature, r...
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Making the Modern Criminal Law: Civil Order and Criminalization
ISBN: 9780199568642 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focusing on the principles that might guide decisions about what kinds of conduct should be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the series tackles the key questions at the heart of the issue: what principles and goals should guide legislators in deciding what to criminalize? How should criminal wrongs be classified and differentiated? How should law enforcement officials apply the law's specifications of offences?
The... The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focusing on the principles that might guide decisions a...
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611,74 zł |
Body Dump: Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
ISBN: 9781504023009 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home.
In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women's nomadic lifestyles, which many people condemned, few in the town noticed they were gone besides their families and Lieutenant Bill Siegrist, who suspected that a serial killer was behind the disappearances. Local prostitutes described a strange man lurking around, leading Siegrist to Kendall Francois, an... The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home.
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The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute
ISBN: 9780198739777 / Angielski / Twarda / 1688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Established as one of the main sources for the study of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, this volume provides an article-by-article analysis of the Statute; the detailed analysis draws upon relevant case law from the Court itself, as well as from other international and national criminal tribunals, academic commentary, and related instruments such as the Elements of Crimes, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and the Relationship Agreement with the United Nations. Each of the 128 articles is accompanied by an overview of the drafting history as well as a bibliography of...
Established as one of the main sources for the study of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, this volume provides an article-by-artic...
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The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
ISBN: 9781137591487 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the dispropor...
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Sanctions Law
ISBN: 9781509900145 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wrongful Convictions: True Murder Cases Unbelievable Miscarriages of Justice
ISBN: 9781517040864 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Astonishingly Wrongful convictions that led to rethinking capital punishment Ever since DNA evidence started exonerating death row inmates, public concern about wrongful executions has been on the rise. It has been such a source of worry that some states have abolished the death penalty entirely. Although we want to believe that the criminal justice system designed to protect us is infallible, mistakes can be and are made. The ultimate tragedy is when an innocent person is executed for a crime that he or she didn't commit. Inside find three stories of wrongful...Astonishingly Wrongful convictions that led to rethinking capital punishment Ever since DNA evidence started exonerating death row inma... |
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Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?
ISBN: 9781573026666 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Crime and Justice, Volume 45, 45: Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
ISBN: 9780226440774 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julian V. Roberts and Andrew Ashworth on the evolution of sentencing policy and practice in England and Wales from 2003 to 2015; Jacqueline Hodgson and Laurene Soubise on understanding the sentencing process in France; Anthony N. Doob and Cheryl Marie Webster on Canadian sentencing policy in the twenty-first century; Arie Freiberg on Australian...
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime an...
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Treatise on International Criminal Law: Volume III: International Criminal Procedure
ISBN: 9780199665617 / Angielski / Twarda / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This three-volume treatise on international criminal law presents a foundational, systematic, consistent, and comprehensive analysis of the field. Taking into account the scholarly literature, not only sources written in English but also in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, the book draws on the author's extensive academic and practical work in international criminal law.
This third volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the... Since the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998, international criminal law has rapidly grown in importance. This t...
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The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making
ISBN: 9780199338801 / Angielski / Twarda / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of...
Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and...
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673,52 zł |
The Politics of Punishment
ISBN: 9781909976337 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic work which surveys the length and breadth of English legal development and shows how punishment and politics have always been intertwined.
A classic work which surveys the length and breadth of English legal development and shows how punishment and politics have always been intertwined.
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The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection
ISBN: 9780198758402 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection contributes to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context, filing a significant gap in criminological literature, by investigating how extra-legal protectors-corrupt public officials and street gangsters-emerge, evolve and operate in a rapidly changing society.
China's economic reforms have been accompanied by a surge of social problems, such as ineffective legal institutions,... Utilising individual interviews and focus group discussions, primarily from two Chinese cities, The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, an...
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How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room
ISBN: 9781442244641 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How Police Generate False Confessions explores the research on and controversy around false confessions and helps the reader understand what really happens in the interrogation room.
How Police Generate False Confessions explores the research on and controversy around false confessions and helps the reader understand what really ha...
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Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780190653002 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey. By highlighting the relation between American history and an individual case, Imprisoned by the Past provides a unique understanding of the big picture of capital punishment in the context of a compelling human story. McCleskey's criminal law case resulted in one of the most important Supreme Court cases in U.S. legal history, where the Court confronted evidence of racial...
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the...
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189,12 zł |
Imprisonment of the Elderly and Death in Custody: The Right to Review
ISBN: 9781138554832 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law
ISBN: 9780198737858 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a theoretical examination of the rise and expansion of preventive criminal offences that has gained momentum in Anglo-American criminal justice since the late-twentieth century. It shows how recent transformations in criminal law and justice are intrinsically related to and embedded in the way liberal society and liberal law have been imagined, developed and conditioned by their social, political and historical contexts. The book starts by identifying a tension, within contemporary criminal law, between the importance given to the expression of individual autonomy and...
This book presents a theoretical examination of the rise and expansion of preventive criminal offences that has gained momentum in Anglo-American crim...
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456,06 zł |