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  • Law without Justice

    Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve

    If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that cases with ... Leer más

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  • Tilted

    The Trials of Conrad Black, Second Edition

    de Steven Skurka ...
    It was the trial that captivated observers on both sides of the Atlantic. Media titan Conrad Black, by turns respected and reviled for decades in Canada and around the world, faced off with U.S. prosecutors on charges of criminal fraud stemming from his activities with Hollinger International.As the only Canadian writer to attend the trials of Conrad Black, lawyer Steven Skurka delivers a thorough ... Leer más

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  • Guilty by Reason of Insanity

    A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

    A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them.From a juvenile ... Leer más

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  • Canadian Criminal Records

    And how to start fresh

    It is easy to get a criminal record. Simply being accused of a crime will lead to police making a record (usually called incident or occurrence report) of the event, even if no charges are laid. And if police do decide to lay charges, which they will do if they have the slightest belief that the person is guilty, fingerprints and photographs are taken. These become a criminal record, even if the ... Leer más

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  • Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine

    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Forensic medicine covers an amazing range of different subjects and no single individual can expect to be an expert in all of them. The Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine provides comprehensive coverage of all areas within this complex discipline. Written for specialists and non-specialists alike, it will appeal to practising forensic scientists, as well as lawyers, police officers, and forensic ... Leer más

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  • A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning

    This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists; and what legal reasoning is from the view of a social scientist epistemologist or humanities specialist.Geoffrey Samuel begins by identifying the main institutional focal points of legal reasoning (ius, regulae iuris, ... Leer más

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  • Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression

    Series series Routledge Research in International Law
    Since the Nuremberg trial, the crime of aggression has been considered one of the gravest international crimes. However, since the 1940s no defendants have been charged with this crime, with some states actively opposing the notion of punishing aggression. The option of trying an individual for aggression is expressly included in the statute of the International Criminal Court. In 2010 the ... Leer más

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  • Snitching

    Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

    Winner of the 2010 American Bar Association Honorable Mention for BooksAlbert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After being released by Chicago prosecutors, Darryl Moore—drug dealer, hit man, and rapist—returned home to rape an eleven-year-old girl.Such tragedies are ... Leer más

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  • 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 ... Leer más

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  • The State and the Body

    Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy

    This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body ... Leer más

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  • Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method. The contributions address topics such as the general methodology for evaluating public policy, preparing criminal statistics, and analyzing costs, cost-effectiveness and cost benefits. Additionally, the work explores the state of affairs in various ... Leer más

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  • Restorative Community Justice

    Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities

    An anthology of original essays, this book presents debates over practice, theory, and implementation of restorative justice. Attention is focused on the movement’s direction toward a more holistic, community-oriented approach to criminal justice intervention. ... Leer más

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