Criminal Law & Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Evidence in Context

   3rd Edition

   By Jonathan Doak, Claire McGourlay

   Evidence in Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader social and theoretical contexts. It informs students of the major debates within the field, providing an explanation as to how and why the law has...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Transnational Crime and Human Rights

   Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion

   By Susan Kneebone, Julie Debeljak

   Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Criminal Laws Northern Territory

   2nd Edition

   By Stephen Gray

   For decades the Northern Territory’s criminal law has stood at the jurisprudential frontier of Australia: grappling with a unique set of circumstances, almost entirely dominated by the situation of its Aboriginal people. This 2nd edition deals in detail with the sweeping changes introduced in 2005...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Federation Press
5. Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment

   Edited by Stephen Farrall, Richard Sparks, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough

   Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Online Child Sexual Abuse

   Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World

   By Elena Martellozzo

   Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Genocide, State Crime, and the Law

   In the Name of the State

   By Jennifer Balint

   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. Discussing a series of case studies of genocide – in Armenia, Nazi Germany,...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Money Laundering – An Endless Cycle?

   A Comparative Analysis of the Anti-Money Laundering Policies in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada

   By Nicholas Ryder

   This book provides a detailed examination of anti-money laundering policies and legislative frameworks in a number of jurisdictions and considers how successful these jurisdictions have been in implementing international measures to combat money laundering. Looking at the instruments and proposals...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System

   By George T. Patterson

   The criminal justice system, with its complex policies and procedures and its focus on deterrence, punishment, and rehabilitation, can be a difficult system to understand. Social Work Practice in the Criminal Justice System presents an overview of the criminal justice system, exploring the network...

   Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Child Pornography

    Law and Policy

    By Alisdair A. Gillespie

    Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognized as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

    Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish