Gathering ideas from a wide range of literature, this book argues that there is no magic answer to corporate power, to issues of personal safety, and their inter-relationship with criminal law and justice. This edition has been revised and updated, taking account of the burgeoning scholarly literature. Yet, it remains distinctive in combining legal analysis and discussion of law reform debates with a theoretical account of the relationship between legal institutions and the role of risk and blame in shaping criminal law and the practices of the criminal justice system.
Gathering ideas from a wide range of literature, this book argues that there is no magic answer to corporate power, to issues of personal safety, and ...
High profile miscarriages of justice have become focus of much recent writing on criminal justice. Such literature ignores an important paradox: when justice is contested and uncertain, how can we speak meaningfully of miscarriage of justice? This book addresses this question and finds an answer to it in the relationship between the legal construction of criminal justice and the reporting of it in the media.
High profile miscarriages of justice have become focus of much recent writing on criminal justice. Such literature ignores an important paradox: when ...
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...
This book considers the law relating to child abuse across the legal disciplines of family, criminal, tort and evidence law, as well as law and practice relating to the investigation of complaints of child abuse. It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the reponse of each legal framework to allegations of child abuse, and places this analysis in the context of innovative legal policies and practices of other similar jurisdictions (most notably Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand). The book is unique in its analysis of such a wide range of legal frameworks within their...
This book considers the law relating to child abuse across the legal disciplines of family, criminal, tort and evidence law, as well as law and practi...
Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of original essays offers new insights into the doctrines that make up the general part of the criminal law. It sheds theoretical light on the diversity and unity of the general part and advances our understanding of such key issues as criminalisation, omissions, voluntary actions, knowledge, belief, reckelssness, duress, self-defence, entrapment and officially-induced mistake of law.
Written by leading philosophers and lawyers from the United States and the United Kingdom, this collection of original essays offers new insights into...
This volume aims to provoke reflection on the English conception and treatment of prisoners' rights, through juxtaposition with the conception of prisoners' rights in Germany. First, the German and English understandings of prisoners' legal status are examined; secondly these understandings are placed against the background of broader social, political, and legal factors; and thirdly, the methodological problems of comparative law are addressed.
This volume aims to provoke reflection on the English conception and treatment of prisoners' rights, through juxtaposition with the conception of pris...
This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at white collar criminal offenses from the perspective of moral and legal theory. Focussing on the way in which key white collar crimes such as fraud, perjury, false statements, obstruction of justice, bribery, extortion, blackmail, insider trading, tax evasion, and regulatory and intellectual property offenses are shaped and informed by a range of familiar, but nevertheless powerful, moral norms.
This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at white collar criminal offenses from the perspective of moral and legal theory. Focussing on the...
Child sexual abuse prosecutions are often brought following a substantial delay of some years after the alleged abuse. This delay poses a variety of problems for the prosecutions. The book will examine the problems associated with criminal prosecutions commenced many years after the abusive incidents were alleged to have occurred, the response of the criminal justice system to such cases, and how the system should respond in order to ensure that the defendant receives a fair trial, while recognising the reasons why complainants may delay reporting abuse for many years.
Child sexual abuse prosecutions are often brought following a substantial delay of some years after the alleged abuse. This delay poses a variety of p...
This important new book demonstrates the significant limitations of the prevailing approach to the problems faced by vulnerable witnesses within the adversarial criminal process. Drawing upon modern psychological, socio-linguistic, and victomological study across common law jurisdictions, it provides a systematic critique of the special measures of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
This important new book demonstrates the significant limitations of the prevailing approach to the problems faced by vulnerable witnesses within the a...
If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial? Should the prosecution be allowed to tell the jury about the previous conviction as evidence that the defendant is more likely to have committed burglary? Should the judge give the defendant a longer sentence because he has a previous conviction? These are the fundamental questions examined in Character in the Criminal Trial. Including an in-depth analysis of the character evidence provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, this...
If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his ...