This volume brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors consider the challenges faced by the exoneration movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems asso..
Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuro-science, this book reveals some startling truths about the criminal law, its history and the fundamental doctrines that underpin the attribution of criminal fault. While this has important implication..
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Scholarly interest in the history of crime has grown dramatically in recent years. Adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth century, this collection explores ..
The increase in internet service delivery speeds from 56kb to 56mb per second combined with greater accessibility to digital environments helped give birth to a completely new generation of purely internet-related cybercrimes. The articles in this volume cover the years of change 2002-2007, and exam..
Victims of crime are still marginalized in criminal law practice, even though a number of legislatures have introduced reforms on their behalf. This collection of papers from some of the leading experts in the field provides a better understanding of the problems associated with restorative justice,..
Victims of crime are still marginalized in criminal law practice, even though a number of legislatures have introduced reforms on their behalf. This collection of papers from some of the leading experts in the field provides a better understanding of the problems associated with restorative justice,..
This book presents a detailed review of the range of what are generally classified as crimes against the state or against the government- rebellion, treason, mutiny, espionage, sedition, terrorism, riot and unlawful assembly - in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia. The volum..
This book examines the nature, policy aspects and interrelationship of Sudanese criminal law and law reform in the context of an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society. In so doing, it situates current developments in Sudan in the broader debate of international human rights, ru..