Reform & Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System
ISBN: 9780195057379 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When the deplorable conditions in Alabama's prisons were revealed at trial in 1975, Judge Frank Johnson declared the prison system as a whole to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment. He then issued an elaborate decree specifying improvements that must be made to satisfy constitutional standards. In this study, Larry W. Yackle describes the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through constitutional litigation in the federal courts and surveys the process that produced Johnson's decree, and subsequent efforts to enforce his order in the face of...
When the deplorable conditions in Alabama's prisons were revealed at trial in 1975, Judge Frank Johnson declared the prison system as a whole to const...
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546,84 zł |
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
ISBN: 9780195130539 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments, among other topics. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries provides a range of scholars and students excellent cross-national knowledge of sentencing laws and practices, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects.
This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Co...
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841,68 zł |
Restorative Justice & Responsive Regulation
ISBN: 9780195136395 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well designed restorative justice processes will restore victims, offenders, and communities better than existing criminal justice practices. Counterintuitively, he also shows that a restorative justice system may deter, incapacitate, and rehabilitate more effectively than a punitive system. This is particularly true when the restorative justice system is embedded in a responsive regulatory framework that opts for...
Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical ...
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817,11 zł |
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
ISBN: 9780195138610 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments, among other topics. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries provides a range of scholars and students excellent cross-national knowledge of sentencing laws and practices, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects.
This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Co...
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222,46 zł |
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
ISBN: 9780195177367 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy defendants frequently enjoy more lenient plea bargains than the disadvantaged? In this eye-opening work, Angela J. Davis shines a much-needed light on the power of American prosecutors, revealing how the day-to-day practice of even the most well-intentioned prosecutors can result in unequal treatment of defendants and victims. Ranging...
What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases i...
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497,70 zł |
Judicial Discretion and Criminal Litigation
ISBN: 9780198255673 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Surveying the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts at both the Crown Court and Magistrates Court level and discretion in the criminal appellate process, this book provides a theoretical framework with which to assess discretions, examines the evidential and procedural discretions whose existence is recorded in cases, statutes, and the reports of law reform bodies, and lists the known principles by which these discretions should be exercised.
Surveying the discretions exercised by criminal trial courts at both the Crown Court and Magistrates Court level and discretion in the criminal appell...
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583,70 zł |
Mental Conditions Defences in the Criminal Law
ISBN: 9780198259954 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Mental condition defenses have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. indeed, mental abnormality is increasingly an important yet complex source of defense within the criminal trial process.
The author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defenses within the Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defense. Topics covered include: the defenses of automatism, insanity, diminished responsibility, and infanticide; self-induced incapacity; and the doctrine of fault. It also includes a chapter... Mental condition defenses have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. indeed, mental abnormality is incr...
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829,40 zł |
Laundering and Tracing
ISBN: 9780198261018 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The legal difficulties arising out of the growing number of "money-laundering" cases reaching the courts are the subject of a burgeoning literature. Certainly there is much debate among practitioners, judges, and academics as to what the civil courts can do to assist plaintiffs seeking to recover funds in the UK and overseas. This collection of essays, the first on the subject, throws important fresh light on the solutions offered by the common law and equity, and considers the judicial reasoning in recent landmark cases.
The legal difficulties arising out of the growing number of "money-laundering" cases reaching the courts are the subject of a burgeoning literature. C...
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Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory: Essays in Honour of Andrew Von Hirsch
ISBN: 9780198262565 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice series covers all aspects of criminal law and procedure including criminal evidence. The scope of the series is wide, encompassing both practical and theoretical works.
This volume is a thematic collection of essays on sentencing theory by leading writers. The essays consider several issues affecting the discipline including the underlying justifications for the imposition of punishment by the State, areas of sentencing policy that have given rise to particular difficulty, such as the sentencing of drug offenders, the rationale for... The Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice series covers all aspects of criminal law and procedure including criminal evidence. The scope of th...
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841,68 zł |
Responses to Crime: Volume 4: Dispensing Justice
ISBN: 9780198298441 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This final volume in Lord Windlesham's magnificent collection contains detailed commentaries on the controversy over access to jury trial, the not yet completed reform of criminal legal aid, and the policy imperative of strengthening the enforcement of community penalties. It also includes a comparative study of the development of public defender systems for indigent persons charged with criminal offenses in the United States.
This final volume in Lord Windlesham's magnificent collection contains detailed commentaries on the controversy over access to jury trial, the not yet...
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428,90 zł |
Rethinking English Homicide Law
ISBN: 9780198299042 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The law of homicide is probably the most high-profile area of the criminal law, and yet in recent years it has been relatively neglected by law reform agencies. Rethinking English Homicide Law brings together six top English criminal lawyers to discuss the future shape of the English law of homicide and deals with such important topics as the definition of murder, the relevance of mental abnormality provocation, unintentional killings, defenses, and sentencing.
The law of homicide is probably the most high-profile area of the criminal law, and yet in recent years it has been relatively neglected by law reform...
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632,84 zł |
Rethinking English Homicide Law
ISBN: 9780198299158 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The law of homicide is probably the most high-profile area of the criminal law, and yet in recent years it has been relatively neglected by law reform agencies. Rethinking English Homicide Law brings together six top English criminal lawyers to discuss the future shape of the English law of homicide and deals with such important topics as the definition of murder, the relevance of mental abnormality provocation, unintentional killings, defenses, and sentencing.
The law of homicide is probably the most high-profile area of the criminal law, and yet in recent years it has been relatively neglected by law reform...
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335,54 zł |
Human Rights in the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime
ISBN: 9780199214419 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This new book is partly based on an earlier book, Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights (Blackstone's, 2001, life sales 1776), which was published immediately after the Human Rights Act came into force. The subsequent developments in the criminal justice/human rights field have been so numerous, that a new dedicated text on the subject is required as opposed to just a new edition of the authors' previous book.
This new book provides a detailed and practical analysis of the impact of UK human rights law on the investigation and prosecution of crime. It deals systematically with... This new book is partly based on an earlier book, Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights (Blackstone's, 2001, life sales 1776), which was pu...
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448,56 zł |
The Criminal Justice System and Health Care
ISBN: 9780199228294 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines questions of medical accountability and ethics. It analyses how the criminal justice system regulates health care practice, and to what extent it can and should be used as a tool to resolve ethical conflict in health care.
For most of the twentieth century, criminal courts were engaged in matters relating to medicine principally as a forum to resolve ethical controversies over the sanctity of life. However, the judiciary approached this function with reluctance and a marked tendency to defer to the medical profession to define what constituted ethical, and thus lawful... This book examines questions of medical accountability and ethics. It analyses how the criminal justice system regulates health care practice, and to ...
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478,04 zł |
Bail in Criminal Proceedings
ISBN: 9780199264759 / Angielski / Twarda / 822 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The question of bail arises every time a case is adjourned and the accused is remanded. This key text provides a uniquely comprehensive account of the law, practice, and procedure governing bail at every stage in an action from the police station to the House of Lords. It includes the relevant legislation and procedural rules, case law, and also offers guidance on ethics as well as research findings in this area. This new edition has been completely updated to take account of major changes introduced by the forthcoming Criminal Justice Act.
The question of bail arises every time a case is adjourned and the accused is remanded. This key text provides a uniquely comprehensive account of the...
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829,40 zł |
Surveillance and Intelligence Law Handbook
ISBN: 9780199286850 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This handbook, containing annotated materials and case summaries brought together in one volume, is an essential guide for practitioners, police officers, and other investigators alike. Focusing on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) and the Investigatory Powers Tribunal established by the Act, it is a practical tool for use both pre-trial and during trial. The book includes all relevant materials and guidance, case law, codes, rules, and regulations with commentary, footnotes, and cross-referencing to key sections, providing quick and easy access to the law relating to...
This handbook, containing annotated materials and case summaries brought together in one volume, is an essential guide for practitioners, police offic...
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487,87 zł |
Commercial Bail Bonding: A Comparison of Common Law Alternatives
ISBN: 9780275937324 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first comprehensive, international comparison of bail, this book examines how common-law countries condemn or provide alternatives to the American commercial bail bonding system. In his analysis of bail systems in 15 countries, F. E. Devine explains why other common-law countries consider the commercial provision of bail an obstruction of justice, and how they provide effective alternatives. Devine examines the pre-trial release alternatives in detail, arguing that they are at least as effective as commercial bail bonding. Devine provides a complete, comparative analysis... The first comprehensive, international comparison of bail, this book examines how common-law countries condemn or provide alternatives to the Ameri... |
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The Watchful Eye: American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial
ISBN: 9780275951337 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) According to Thaler, the presence of cameras in the courtroom is a pervasive technology that can affect public perceptions of the judicial process, change the behavior and attitudes of trial participants, and ultimately transform the sober process of justice into a media event designed for maximum public exposure. The author has interviewed more than 50 people--prominent journalists, academics, and members of the legal system--and brought together their observations in a fascinating historical and psychological profile of the televised courtroom. Thaler provides a historical overview and... According to Thaler, the presence of cameras in the courtroom is a pervasive technology that can affect public perceptions of the judicial process,... |
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191,10 zł |
Chaos, Criminology, and Social Justice: The New Orderly (Dis)Order
ISBN: 9780275959128 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Chaos theory challenges the presumption that the cosmos is orderly, linear, and predictable--but it does not imply pure randomness and chance events. Rather, chaos-informed postmodernist analysis introduces a new vision by celebrating unexpected, surprise, ironic, contradictory, and emergent elements. Scholars in many disciplines are taking this perspective as an alternative to the entrenched structural functionalism and empiricism rooted in linear science. In the early 1990s studies began to emerge applying chaos theory to criminology, law, and social change. This book brings together... Chaos theory challenges the presumption that the cosmos is orderly, linear, and predictable--but it does not imply pure randomness and chance event... |
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185,59 zł |
The Framework of Judicial Sentencing: A Study in Legal Decision Making
ISBN: 9780521032568 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Austin Lovegrove examines the thinking of judges as they sentence multiple offenders, and identifies the strategies judges have developed to help them apply sentencing law in individual cases, based on their responses when asked to "think aloud" while undertaking sentencing problems. Giving increased specificity to legal analyses of the sentencing process, Dr. Lovegrove enables the appropriateness of the judicial approach to be evaluated, and offers a basis for rule-based and numerical guidelines by making what is currently a largely intuitive process more deliberative.
Austin Lovegrove examines the thinking of judges as they sentence multiple offenders, and identifies the strategies judges have developed to help them...
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284,74 zł |