Law : Criminal Law

Designed to contribute to the growing field of comparative and international studies of anti-terrorism law and policy. Includes chapters that focus on a particular country or region, as well as overarching thematic chapters that take a comparative approach to particular aspects of anti-terrorism law and policy. more...

Price: $136.00

In the early-1980s, the US Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing punishments for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. more...

Price: $19.95

A number of jurisdictions world-wide have changed or are considering changing their homicide laws. Important changes have been recommended for England and Wales, and this book focuses on these changes. It examines key aspects of the law of homicide. more...

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Prohibitions against offensive conduct have existed for many years, but their extent and use was on the decline. Recently, however, several jurisdictions, including England and Wales, have moved to broaden the reach and severity of measures against incivilities. New measures include expanded targeting of unpopular forms of public conduct, such as begging, and legislation authorising magistrates to issue prohibitory orders against anti-social behaviour. Because these quality-of-life prohibitions can be so restrictive of personal liberties, it is essential to develop adequate guiding and limiting principles concerning State intervention in this area. This book addresses the legal regulation of offensive behaviour. Topics include: the nature of offensiveness; the grounds and permissible scope of criminal prohibitions against offensive behaviour; the legitimacy of civil orders against incivilities; and identifying the social trends that have generated current political interest in preventing incivilities through intervention of law. These questions are addressed by eleven distinguished philosophers, criminal law theorists, criminologists, and sociologists. In an area that has attracted much public comment but little theoretical analysis to date, these essays develop a fuller conceptual framework for debating questions about the legal regulation of offensive behaviour. more...

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Explores and debates the developments in Evidence & Proof scholarship. This book contains essays that cover questions of disciplinary taxonomy, pedagogical method and computer-assisted learning, doctrinal analysis, fact-finding, techniques of adjudication, the ethics of cross-examination, and the implications of behavioural science research. more...

Price: $95.00