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  • The Tenth Justice

    Judicial Appointments, Marc Nadon, and the Supreme Court Act Reference

    Series series Landmark Cases in Canadian Law
    The process by which Supreme Court judges are appointed is traditionally a quiet affair, but this certainly wasn’t the case when Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected Justice Marc Nadon for appointment to Canada’s highest court. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of “the Nadon Reference” – one of the strangest sagas in Canadian legal history.Following the Prime Minister's ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Implied Consent and Sexual Assault

    Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice

    In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the Court rejected the idea that sexual consent could be "implied." Ewanchuk was a landmark ruling, reflecting a powerful commitment to women's equality and sexual autonomy. In articulating limits on the circumstances under which women can be said to ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Prison Gates

    Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933

    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs as Organized Crime Groups

    by Thomas Barker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief covers the unique crime group of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are adult criminal associations composed of “bikers” living a deviant lifestyle that includes individual, group, and club criminal behavior. These groups are sometimes called one percenters, due to the American Motorcycle Association statement that ninety-nine percent of motorcyclists are law abiding ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs

    Philosophy for the White House

    Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Obstructive Marketing

    Restricting Distribution of Products and Services in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare

    In Obstructive Marketing, Maitland Hyslop deals with a very negative kind of activity which embraces activities, legal or otherwise, designed to prevent or restrict the distribution of a product or service, temporarily or permanently, against the wishes of the product manufacturer, service provider or customer. When the author defined this phenomenon as Obstructive Marketing and started to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Cold Case Homicides

    Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition

    by R.H. Walton ...
    Series series Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations
    This book, now in its second edition, is the first and most exhaustive text covering the still growing popularity of cold case investigations which locate perpetrators and free the innocent. The new edition adds approximately 80 pages of content, including material on clandestine graves and investigating cold gang cases. The book merges theory with practice through the use of case histories, ... Read more

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  • Up Against a Wall

    Rape Reform and the Failure of Success

    by Rose Corrigan ...
    Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Wickedness and Crime

    Laws of Homicide and Malice

    by Penny Crofts ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of crime and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Punishment and Incarceration

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Mathieu Deflem ...
    Series Book 19 - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
    This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels. The book brings together some 14 scholars to contribute their respective chapters, each of the authors drawn from various parts of the world, thus ensuring a global ... Read more

    $194.39 USD

  • Signal Crimes

    Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control

    by Martin Innes ...
    How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing how we think, feel, and act about our security? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Signal Crimes: Social Reactions to Crime, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD