Criminal Law & Practice

Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book considers historical and contemporary influences such as coloniali..

Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book considers historical and contemporary influences such as coloniali..

Focusing on the transition between juvenile offending and adult crime, this book examines research based on Dutch, European and North-American studies on the persistence and discontinuity of offending between late adolescence and early adulthood. Presenting empirical studies showing why persistence ..

`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences between these explanations, whilst providing a gender reading of the ways in whic..

`The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences between these explanations, whilst providing a gender reading of the ways in whic..

This book analyses plea bargaining in different families of law, and drawing on these findings asks to what extent this practice should be developed in international criminal law. The book sets out in-depth studies of consensual case dispositions in the UK, setting out how plea bargaining has develo..

This book analyses plea bargain in different families of law, and drawing on these findings asks to what extent this practice should be developed in international criminal law. _x000D_ The book sets out in-depth studies of consensual case dispositions in the UK, setting out how plea bargaining has d..

This new collection is a contribution to the literature on police ethics, specifically the philosophical literature on ethical issues that arise in police enforcement of the law...

This book is one of the first to document the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. Thematically organized and oriented towards those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as police account..

This book is one of the first to document the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. Thematically organized and oriented towards those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as police account..

This book explores the framework in which migration control operates as policing. It empirically examines migration as policing in five Australian migration control contexts, then concludes by exploring the potential for conceptualising migration policing beyond the bounded national framework...

This book argues for an understanding of popular culture and law as mutually constitutive discourses. Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism, psychological and literary theories of narrative, and interdisciplinary theories of post-humanism, it is held that works of critical dystopia, part..