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  • Shooting to Kill

    Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force

    Edited by Professor Simon Bronitt, Ms Miriam Gani, Dr Saskia Hufnagel ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    The present book brings together perspectives from different disciplinary fields to examine the significant legal, moral and political issues which arise in relation to the use of lethal force in both domestic and international law. These issues have particular salience in the counter terrorism context following 9/11 (which brought with it the spectre of shooting down hijacked airplanes) and the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Regulating Preventive Justice

    Principle, Policy and Paradox

    Edited by Tamara Tulich, Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Simon Bronitt, Sarah Murray ...
    Like medicine, law is replete with axioms of prevention. ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has a long pedigree in both fields. 17th century jurist Sir Edward Coke observed that ‘preventing justice excelleth punishing justice’. A century later, Sir William Blackstone similarly stated that ‘preventive justice is ...preferable in all respects to punishing justice’. This book evaluates the feasibility ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cross-Border Law Enforcement

    Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Edited by Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law
    This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each other decreases with every incremental increase in globalisation. The borders under examination ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    How the Post-9/11 Emergency Became Permanent and the Case for Reform

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    North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorize and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge based on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of US citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. The Harbinger Theory demonstrates that extreme measures ... Read more

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  • Unfair

    The New Science of Criminal Injustice

    by Adam Benforado ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston GlobeA child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime ... Read more

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  • Plea Bargaining in National and International Law

    A Comparative Study

    by Regina Rauxloh ...
    Plea bargaining is one of the most important and most discussed issues in modern criminal procedure law. Based on historical and comparative legal research, the author has analysed the wide-spread use of plea bargaining in different criminal justice systems. The book sets out in-depth studies of consensual case dispositions in the UK, examining how plea bargaining has developed and spread in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Evidence Matters

    Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law

    by Susan Haack ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Evil Next Door

    The Untold Stories of a Killer Undone by DNA

    by Amanda Lamb ...
    A brutal murder.An abundance of DNA evidence.A three-and-a-half year search for a killer who was always so close-yet untouchable.After the rape and murder of Raleigh, North Carolina, resident Stephanie Bennett, police had ample DNA evidence. They also had a suspect: the man next door. But for more than three years, he eluded them by refusing to hand over a DNA sample, wiping down anything he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Globalizing Transitional Justice

    by Ruti G. Teitel ...
    Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past. Whether one thinks of ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materials

    Edited by Frieda Mishan ...
    This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hurricane

    The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter

    by James S. Hirsch ...
    In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities from Bob Dylan to Muhammad Ali. He was freed in 1976 pending a new trial, but he lost his appeal -- to ... Read more

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  • Aspects of Law Reform

    An Insider's Perspective

    by Jack Straw ...
    Series series The Hamlyn Lectures
    The British justice system is an ancient one that has continually evolved to meet modern needs. In this set of three essays, originally presented as the Hamlyn lectures in 2012, Jack Straw reviews some of the most important recent reforms to the system of British justice and suggests key areas in need of further reform. He focuses in particular on the criminal courts, human rights, judicial ... Read more

    $33.69 USD