Category: Criminal Law

By Alison Dundes Renteln

ISBN-10: 0195154029

ISBN-13: 9780195154023

ISBN-10: 0198035039

ISBN-13: 9780198035039

In what methods and to what volume should still cultural historical past be considered based on felony difficulties? the 1st book-length examine of the subject, The Cultural Defense presents a entire review of the talk surrounding the admissibility of cultural proof within the court docket. Documenting a unprecedented variety of circumstances during which participants have tried to invoke a cultural safeguard, this publication offers an in-depth examine the complexities of invoking cultural arguments within the assorted our bodies of legislations less than which the instances fall. situations thought of comprise murder and rape prosecutions, baby abuse situations, drug use instances, the therapy of animals, and custody battles. Disputing present practices, Renteln contends that the cultural safety should still, in either legal and civil issues, accept formal recognition.

By Norman Baird

ISBN-10: 1138787167

ISBN-13: 9781138787162

Routledge Q&As provide the instruments to perform and refine your examination approach, displaying you the way to use your wisdom to greatest impact in an examination state of affairs. every one publication comprises as much as fifty essay and problem-based questions about the main more often than not tested subject matters, entire with professional information and entirely labored version solutions.

These books give you the talents you wish in your checks by:

• Helping you to be ready: each name within the sequence has an creation proposing rigorously adapted recommendation on tips to technique overview on your topic
• Showing you what examiners are searhing for: each query is annotated with either a quick evaluate on find out how to method your resolution, in addition to footnoted observation that display how version solutions meet marking criteria
• Offering tips on tips on how to achieve marks, in addition to what universal error may perhaps lose them: ‘Aim larger’ and ‘Common Pitfalls’ supply an important advice throughout
• Helping you to appreciate and bear in mind the law: diagrams for every resolution paintings to light up tough felony rules and supply overviews of the way version solutions are dependent

Books within the sequence also are supported through a better half web site that provides on-line essay-writing tutorials, podcasts, bonus Q&As and multiple-choice inquiries to assist you concentration your revision extra effectively

By Julia Davidson

ISBN-10: 0203847431

ISBN-13: 9780203847435

ISBN-10: 0415559804

ISBN-13: 9780415559805

Internet baby Abuse: present examine and Policy offers a well timed review of foreign coverage, laws and criminal administration and therapy perform within the quarter of net baby abuse. net use has grown significantly during the last 5 years, and data expertise now kinds a center a part of the formal schooling process in lots of international locations. there's besides the fact that, expanding proof that the net is utilized by a few adults to entry teenagers and children with a view to ‘groom’ them for the needs of sexual abuse; in addition to to provide and distribute indecent unlawful photographs of youngsters. This e-book provides and assesses the newest and present study on web baby abuse, addressing: its nature, the behaviour and therapy of its perpetrators, foreign coverage, laws and safeguard, and policing. will probably be required examining for a global viewers of teachers, researchers, policy-makers and felony justice practitioners with pursuits during this quarter.

By J. Roberts

ISBN-10: 1137390409

ISBN-13: 9781137390400

How are offenders sentenced in England and Wales? this can be the 1st quantity to examine the empirical and normative elements of sentencing, exploring a variety of vital matters together with the position of past convictions, sentencing girl offenders, criminal regret and the sentencing in situations of a number of crimes. This specified assortment finds how courts during this jurisdiction sentence offenders, offering a portrait of practices within the magistrates and Crown courts from 1996 to the current day.

With specialist contributions from students in felony justice and legislation, this authoritative account provides the most recent info traits in relation to sentencing, in addition to conclusions for coverage and practice.

By Arthur Brown

ISBN-10: 1859413951

ISBN-13: 9781859413951

This publication is a definitive paintings at the legislation and perform with regards to pensions. It comprises modern laws and case fabric, together with the proper provisions of the Finance Act 1996 and the Pensions Act 1995. it is going to help the felony practitioner, yet can also be of curiosity to teachers instructing classes in pensions legislation at universities and better schooling associations during the state. it's going to additionally turn out invaluable to monetary advisers and others who propose on pensions legislation as a part of their day by day regimen. specialist practitioners within the pension box may still locate it a worthwhile aide-memoire during their paintings, and really worth looking for their library as a convenient paintings of reference.

By Andrew von Hirsch

ISBN-10: 0198262418

ISBN-13: 9780198262411

ISBN-10: 0585162263

ISBN-13: 9780585162263

Andrew von Hirsch addresses a few rising conceptual questions in regards to the proportionality of legal sentences, an method that's gaining impact all over the world together with in England the place the legal Justice Act of 1991 made proportionality the first criterion for settling on sentences. This examine offers with how the assumption of penal censure justifies proportionate sentences, how a penalty scale might be "anchored" on the way to decrease total punishment degrees, how non-custodial consequences can be graded and used, and the way political pressures impinge on sentencing rules. It deals a coherent and humane means of allocating punishments, applicable for a society that treats convicted offenders as electorate whose rights and offerings may still remain revered.

By Neil Boister

ISBN-10: 0199605386

ISBN-13: 9780199605385

The suppression of cross-border illegal activity has turn into a big worldwide obstacle. An creation to Transnational felony Law examines how states, performing jointly, are responding to those different types of illegal activity via a mix of foreign treaty responsibilities and nationwide felony legislation. Multilateral 'suppression conventions' oblige states events to criminalize a wide diversity of actions together with drug trafficking, terrorism, transnational equipped crime, corruption, and cash laundering, and to supply for various kinds of overseas procedural cooperation like extradition and mutual felony counsel in regard to those offences. often considered as a sub-set of overseas legal justice, the program of legislations is starting to obtain better consciousness as an issue in its personal correct because the scale of the legal danger and the complexity of synergizing the felony legislation of other states is extra absolutely understood.

The ebook is split into 3 elements. half A asks and makes an attempt to respond to what's transnational crime and what's transnational felony legislations? half B explores a variety of major transnational crimes from piracy via to cybercrime. half C examines the most procedural mechanisms fascinated about constructing jurisdiction after which the workout of jurisdiction throughout the powerful research and prosecution of transnational crimes. ultimately, half D seems to be on the implementation of transnational felony legislation and the customers for transnational felony justice. until eventually lately the program of legislation has been mostly the area of execs. An creation to Transnational legal Law presents a finished creation designed to fill that gap.

By Wolfgang Mitsch

ISBN-10: 3540591591

ISBN-13: 9783540591597

ISBN-10: 3662097044

ISBN-13: 9783662097045

Das Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht wird als Randfach des Strafrechts in Lehre und Studium immer noch unterschätzt. Dies steht in krassem Gegensatz zu der hohen Praxisrelevanz, die dieses Rechtsgebiet für Rechtsanwälte, Richter und Staatsanwälte, vor allem aber für die vielen mit Bußgeldsachen befassten Beamten ohne volljuristische Ausbildung in den Behörden hat. Erfreulicherweise wurde in den letzten Jahren damit begonnen, den Nachholbedarf auf dem Gebiet der Ausbildungsliteratur zum Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht allmählich zu befriedigen. Der am Erlernen des Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht Interessierte kann inzwischen aus einer Reihe von Lehrbuchtiteln wählen. Die überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage des vorliegenden Lehrbuchs vollzieht die Gesetzesentwicklung der seit der 1. Auflage vergangenen eight Jahre nach und paßt den textual content dem aktuellen Stand in Rechtsprechung und Wissenschaft an. Großer Wert wurde darauf gelegt, das Buch noch leserfreundlicher und lernerfolggerichteter zu gestalten. So wurde die Zahl der Fallbeispiele und der Kontrollfragen am Ende der Kapitel deutlich erhöht. Neu eingefügte Schaubilder, Übersichten und Schemata sollen das Erfassen der Materie, das Begreifen der Zusammenhänge und den systematischen Überblick fördern und erleichtern. Inhaltlich wurde der verfahrensrechtliche Teil erheblich erweitert und vertieft. In allen seinen Teilen sucht der textual content die Nähe zum Strafrecht, zeigt dabei

By R. A. Duff

ISBN-10: 019826268X

ISBN-13: 9780198262688

This publication displays the idea cautious learn of the legislation of makes an attempt could be either attention-grabbing in itself, in addition to being a efficient course right into a variety of better and deeper matters in felony legislations conception and within the philosophy of motion. via selecting the criminal doctrines which courts and legislatures have built or followed, the writer is going directly to ask no matter if and the way they are often rationalized or rendered persuasive. Such an strategy includes paying unique recognition to instances. The booklet is additionally strange in that it grapples with English, Scots and US legislations, exhibiting nice breadth of analysis in addition to philosophical sophistication. this can be a paintings that's more likely to develop into a seminal examine and a huge contribution to the examine of legislations and felony philosophy.

By Professor Ian Ayres

ISBN-10: 0300106750

ISBN-13: 9780300106756