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  • China's Drug Practices and Policies

    Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context

    by Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe, Bin Liang ...
    In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was known for its national addiction to opium, but its ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty in China

    Policy, Practice, and Reform

    Edited by Bin Liang, Hong Lu ...
    Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China's death penalty from the Mao era (1949–1979) through the Deng era (1980–1997) up to the present day. Using empirical data, such as capital offender and offense profiles, temporal and regional variations in capital punishment, and the impact of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Novel Approaches to Studying Basal Ganglia and Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    Edited by XIAO-HONG LU ...
    Series Book 89 - International Review of Neurobiology
    Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board, this important serial publishes both eclectic volumes made up of timely reviews and thematic volumes that focus on recent progress in a specific area of neurobiology ... Read more

    $183.59 USD

  • China’s Death Penalty

    History, Law and Contemporary Practices

    by Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors'treatment ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Development of the Global Film Industry

    Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization

    Edited by Qiao Li, Yanqiu Guan, Hong Lu ...
    Series series
    The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in popularity. How have these trends shaped the global film industry? This book answers this question by ... Read more

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  • Natural Law and Natural Rights

    by John Finnis ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral, and political philosophy from Finnis's distinctive perspective. This new edition includes a ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Lifers

    Ireland's evil killers and how they were caught

    by Barry Cummins ...
    There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons. Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release. Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland's most notorious murderers and their horrific crimes. Lifers covers savage killings going back more than 50 years. This book gives a full ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law. Its coverage includes law’s relation to morality and the moral obligations to obey the law, the main philosophical debates about particular legal areas such as criminal responsibility, property, contracts, family law, law and justice ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

    $2.27 USD

  • Debating the Death Penalty

    Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

    Edited by Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Witness Stand

    A Guide for Clinical Social Workers in the Courtroom

    by Carlton Munson, Janet Vogelsang ...
    Learn reliable techniques to prepare and present effective testimony!“Soon after leaving graduate school I was thrown to the courtroom wolves with no preparation. No social worker should have to go through that,” says Janet Vogelsang, author of The Witness Stand. Few colleges of social work prepare their students for the inevitable involvement with the courts entailed by their profession. This ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Honour, Violence, Women and Islam

    Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Tahir Abbas ...
    Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women in particular. The issue of HRV has become a sensitive subject in many South Asian and Middle Eastern ... Read more

    $77.99 USD