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Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationa……続きを見る

International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law. It complements the usual accounts of the substantive law of those internati……続きを見る

Research Methods for Forensic Psychologists is an accessible and comprehensive textbook that introduces students to the research process in forensic psychology. Adopting a problem-based learning app……続きを見る

Convicted sex offenders released from custody at the end of their criminal sentences pose a risk for re-offense. In many US states, Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) laws have been enacted that allow ……続きを見る

Au cours des dernières années, la participation criminelle s’est vue questionnée sous différentes facettes : la détermination des modes de participation (corréité et complicité), la participation pa……続きを見る

La force majeure est un concept juridique bien ancré dans notre droit. Il n’est pas rare de la rencontrer en droit pénal, en droit civil ou encore en droit du travail. Ses conditions et cas d’applic……続きを見る

[...] me limitarei a tentar a justificação do mais saliente, aliás, talvez o menos importante deles – o abuso e a extensão das citações –, pela necessidade de apoiar a contradita oferecida a doutrin……続きを見る

In November 1973, William J. Wright, a former patient and trustee of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, brutally murdered two teenage boys, Edmund Keen and Paul Freach, in Lackawa……続きを見る

This book challenges the assumptions of modern criminal law that insanity is a natural, legally and medically defined phenomenon (covering a range of medical disorders). By doing so, it paves the wa……続きを見る

In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century,African Americans made up approximately twelve percent ofthe United States population but close to forty percent of the United States pr……続きを見る

Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal jus……続きを見る

Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, ot……続きを見る

In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sen……続きを見る

Código da Execução das Penas e Medidas Privativas da Liberdade - CEPMPL - (Portugal) ed. de 2015. Lei n.º 115/2009, de 12 de Outubro, actualizada (Junho 2015). Conté……続きを見る

Prison Law is the leading text in its field. It offers comprehensive coverage of the substantive law, the Prison Rules, and the remedies available to prisoners, including complaints procedures, civi……続きを見る

Some parts of this publication are open access, available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Chapters 2, 4, 10, 47 and 49 are offered as a free PDF download from OUP and sel……続きを見る

The vast and mysterious world of criminals, from ancient times through the 21st century, is vividly captured in The Great Pictorial History of World Crime. This unique and staggering reference work ……続きを見る

Código Penal (Portugal) ed. de 2015. DL n.º 48/95, de 15 de Março, actualizado (Junho 2015). Contém as redacções anteriores. Todas as alterações assinaladas de modo bem visível (texto antigo a verme……続きを見る

Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a……続きを見る

This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading together experiences of organizational spaces, routes taken through the city ……続きを見る

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset……続きを見る

In the years since 9/11, counter-terrorism law and policy has proliferated across the world. This handbook comprehensively surveys how the law has been deployed in all aspects of counter-terrorism. ……続きを見る

The role of the policeman in the community and attitudes towards the police are now matters of active public concern. In this important and enlightening study, first published in 1973, Maureen Cain ……続きを見る

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research from around the world, this book brings together renowned international scholars to explore life-course perspectives on women’s imprisonment. Instead……続きを見る

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt ‘would-be-criminals’ and predict future crime. Although the term is borrowed from science fiction, the drive to predict and pre-empt crime is a present-day reality. This bo……続きを見る

A Malayan White Mischief. ‘On Sunday, 23 April 1911, Ethel Proudlock attended Mass at St Mary’s Church in Kuala Lumpur. She was well-liked at St Mary’s. She helped with jumble sales and had recently……続きを見る

Obra de pensamiento penalista en la que Concepción Arenal se dirige al visitador de presos, abordando en cada capítulo conceptos como el delito, el delincuente, el arrepentimiento, la enmienda o la ……続きを見る

Siendo director general de establecimientos penales, Antonio Mena y Zorrilla nombró a Concepción Arenal visitadora de prisiones de mujeres. Fruto de los deberes que le impuso el nombramiento son est……続きを見る

Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). T……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social control th……続きを見る