Criminal Law & Practice

This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies. In developing arguments in relation to these problems, the authors use international sentencing and the q..

Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the r..

This book explores femicide, and scrutinizes the three key American criminal doctrines usually applied in its cases: provocation; the felony murder rule; self-defence. The book also explores the influence of the American Model Penal Code, and proposes, connected to the various criminal doctrines app..

Criminal law has traditionally been taught and analysed as if the gender of criminals and their victims is irrelevant. It has also been taught and analysed as if criminal law doctrine has no connection with questions of criminalisation,crime detection, decisions to charge and prosecute, lawyers tria..

This book critically analyses fundamental principles of EU law for the control of international economic crime. Discussing how the reporting system and the exchange of information are at the heart of the global anti money laundering regime, the study also looks at the inferential force of financial..

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The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the UK reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent develop..

Genocide, State Crime and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. ..

Genocide, State Crime and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. ..

This book focuses on the consequences of the changes in security governance in Europe from the 1990s, namely the proliferation of ignored insecurities such as the increase of oncological diseases, environmental disasters, shadow economies reproducing neo-slavery and fiscal fraud. The authors argue t..

This book investigates the illegal trade in electronic waste and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime. The author employs a qualitative multi-method research approach combining document analysis, interviews with key informants and field visits, and focusses on the flows ..

Examining the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs, this study investigates the problem of drug control and provides a systematic analysis of the development of the international system of regulation. It identifies the political rationalities tha..