Criminology and Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Policing Sex

   Edited by Paul Johnson, Derek Dalton

   This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Law in Context

   4th Edition

   By Stephen Bottomley, Simon Bronitt

   This fourth edition of Law in Context not only updates the text by reference to the latest thinking and developments in the broad area of law in context, but also introduces readers to the wider social, political and regulatory contexts of law. Bottomley and Bronitt, as in previous editions, expose...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Federation Press
3. 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
4. No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames

   Monologues for Drama Students

   By Donna Abela, Vanessa Bates, Hilary Bell, Noelle Janaczewska, Verity Laughton, Ned Manning, Catherine Zimdahl

   Every HSC drama student who undertakes ‘Performance’ must do an IP (Individual Performance) as part of their final exam. Playwrights’ company 7-On has created a collection of self-contained performance texts conceived with Higher School Certificate students in mind. The 21 monologues are...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Managed Investment Schemes

   By Alan Jessup

   Managed Investment Schemes examines the current status of the managed investment scheme taking into account the history and evolution of the scheme and the current law and regulation as well as examining possible future reforms. However this is done not only from a jurisprudential but also from a...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Federation Press
6. The High Court and the Constitution

   5th Edition

   By Leslie Zines

   Published March 7th 2012 by Federation Press
7. Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

   Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

   By Caroline Braunmühl

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Judge Advocate - Ellis Bent

   Letter and Diaries 1810-1811

   Edited by Paula Byrne

   Ellis Bent was the son of a London merchant trading to the West Indies. He was appointed Judge Advocate to the colony of New South Wales in 1809 and travelled with Governor Macquarie and the 73rd Regiment on board the Dromedary troop ship to the colony. On board ship he kept a journal, wrote...

   Published February 19th 2012 by Federation Press
9. Intellectual Property

   Text and Essential Cases

   By Rocque Reynolds, Natalie Stoianoff, Angela Adrian, Alpana Roy

   Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of the cases and legislation which comprise modern intellectual property law. This edition adds resale royalty rights for visual artists to its coverage of the major IP topics: copyright,...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Federation Press
10. Tomorrow's Federation

    Reforming Australian Government

    Edited by Paul Kildea, Andrew Lynch, George Williams

    This book is a major work on federalism and intergovernmental relations in Australia. It moves beyond familiar discussions about reforming the federal system to address the practical means by which reform can be achieved. The book adopts a hard-headed approach to the question of how reform is being...

    Published February 9th 2012 by Federation Press