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Criminal Justice
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000; US$ 9.99CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest subjects. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you need a course supplement, help preparing for an exam, or a concise reference for the subject, CliffsQuickReview Criminal Justice can help. This guide... more...
Modern Criminal Law
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 51.95This book provides a clear, concise and highly accessible overview of the key aspects of criminal law doctrine as it applies in England and Wales. The content has been revised and updated, reflecting the constantly evolving nature of the subject. more...
Linguistics in the Courtroom
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 59.99Useful for both beginning and established linguists, this book deals with issues of how linguists first become and then represent themselves as experts. It also talks about how they can manage the practice of consulting on law cases, how they can address important issues of professional ethics, and how they can work most effectively with lawyers. more...
The Trial on Trial: Volume 1
Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 90.00The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice. It provides the procedural link between crime and punishment, and is the forum in which both guilt and innocence and sentence are determined. These essays ask whether and in what sense we can take the discovery of truth to be the central aim. more...
The Trial on Trial: Volume 2
Hart Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 113.40What kind of political theory does a communicative conception of the trial require? Can trials ever actually amount to more than the imposition of state power on the defendant? Addressing such issues, this second volume aims to produce an adequate normative account of the criminal trial and its proper role in a democratic polity. more...
Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining
Hart Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 84.60This book is a study of the social transformation of criminal justice, its institutions, its method of case disposition and the source of its legitimacy. Focused upon the apprehension, investigation and adjudication of indicted cases in New York City?s main trial tribunal in the nineteenth century - the Court of General Sessions - it traces the historical... more...
Fair Trials
Hart Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 84.60The right to a fair trial has become an issue of increasing public concern. This book addresses the issue of the meaning of the right by examining the contemporary jurisprudence in the light of a body of historical literature which discusses criminal procedure in a European context. more...
The Trial on Trial
Hart Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 84.60Seeks to develop a normative theory of the criminal trial as a way of defending the importance of trials in our criminal justice system. more...
Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 61.20This book is set against the background of the 'justice gap' in sexual assault cases - the dramatic gap between the number of offences recorded by the police and the number of convictions. It seeks to examine the attitudinal problems which bedevil this area of law and possible strategies for addressing them. Written by a professor of law and... more...
The European Right to Confrontation in Criminal Proceedings
Europa Law Publishing 2006; US$ 112.00This book investigates the theory and practice of the Right to Confrontation, the right of an accused person to examine witnesses against him. The book tackles the crucial question of what values and interests should allow incursions into this fundamental right. A conceptual analysis is developed in order to define the concept of testimonial evidence... more...









