| |
How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the “right to remain silent” become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information? What forces determine the laws that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-13
PDF, ePub
|
Two centuries ago, American criminal justice was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials passed moral judgment on crimes, vindicated victims and innocent defendants, and denounced the guilty. But since then, lawyers have gradually taken over the process, silencing victims...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-02-28
PDF, ePub
|
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout.In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-03-16
PDF, ePub
|
New discoveries from neuroscience and behavioral genetics are besieging criminal law. Novel scientific perspectives on criminal behavior could transform the criminal justice system and yet are being introduced in an ad hoc and often ill-conceived manner. Bringing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-16
PDF
|
The rules governing who will be punished and how much determine a society's success in two of its most fundamental functions: doing justice and protecting citizens from crime. Drawing from the existing theoretical literature and adding to it recent insights from the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-09-10
PDF, ePub
|
This book examines questions of medical accountability and ethics. It analyses how the criminal justice system regulates health care practice, and to what extent it can and should be used as a tool to resolve ethical conflict in health care.
For most of the twentieth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-29
PDF
|
What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-04-12
PDF
|
What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-04-12
ePub
|
This is a practical guide for both beginning and established linguists who have been asked by lawyers to address the language issues in their civil and criminal cases. Author Roger W. Shuy deals with issues of how to become an expert, how to start and manage a practice...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-05-25
PDF, ePub
|
The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-05-15
PDF
|
The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-05-15
ePub
|
This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-05-31
PDF
|