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A Life and Death Decision
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 26.95With a life in the balance, a jury convicts a man of murder and now has to decide whether he should be put to death. Twelve people now face a momentous choice. Bringing drama to life, A Life and Death Decision gives unique insight into how a jury deliberates. We feel the passions, anger, and despair as the jurors grapple with legal, moral, and personal... more...
Corporate Crime Under Attack
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 47.95In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits... more...
Christie
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableOn the morning of 7 November 2011, Tracey Marceau lived every mother's worst nightmare. A young man entered her home, pushing Tracey to the side before kicking and repeatedly stabbing her daughter. Christie died in her mother's arms. Christie's killer, Akshay Chand, was released on bail just a month earlier for kidnapping Christie, during which he... more...
The Trial
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom?and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt?s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of... more...
Picking Cotton
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 15.99Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was... more...
The Framework of Judicial Sentencing
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 50.00A cognitive analysis of judicial sentencing in multiple-offence cases, with important policy implications. more...
The Boundaries of the Criminal Law
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 99.99Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take. Developing a normative theory of criminalization, the six volumes will tackle the... more...
Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 2013
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 69.99This new edition of the bestselling Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook provides a complete practical guide for the busy magistrates' court advocate. Incorporating essential extracts from the Magistrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines, Andrew Keogh offers all you need in one trustworthy source. Covering all the key aspects of magistrates'... more...
Organising Neoliberalism
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 99.00This collection of essays explores the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. more...









