Law and Criminology

About the Book Considerably expanded and updated, the third edition of this textbook provides a readable and comprehensive introduction to criminal law for undergraduate students. Through the media coverage of high-profile trials we all feel that ...

Company Law is a complete and accessible guide to the legal framework in which companies operate, which does not oversimplify the complex issues involved. Logically structured and with a readable style, this text includes helpful summarles for eac...

From the Back Cover"Britain's empire did not arrive fully formed in India. Haruki Inagaki's superbly-researched, well-argued book traces its emergence in a proliferating set of arguments...[and] offers a compelling account of the real life of empi...

From the Back Cover'The ratification and signing of international human rights conventions are one of the landmark achievements of the twentieth century, signalling the global necessity of respecting human dignity by protecting fundamental entitle...

From the Back CoverThis textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice. It guides students through the concept...

From the Back CoverGlobal Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues, including intergenerational trauma. The scholarship is interdiscipli...

From the Back Cover"Future-Proofing the Judiciary offers a meticulous, fine-grained inquiry into the core, but rarely examined, topic of the demand and supply of judicial officers. Breathing new life into the field of law and demography, Professor...

From the Back CoverThis popular textbook provides a comprehensive overview of family law, along with an understanding of its context, its practical consequences, a focus on what the current debates are that surround the law, and discussion of prop...

From the Back CoverThis book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading research...

From the Back CoverThis book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects. From a range of contributors...

"Legal Method" provides an introduction to both the nature of law and its sources and the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. Now in its fourth edition, it has become a well established text for those who want a clear and acc...

About the Book In this penetrating account of the impacts of risk on everyday life, Gabe Mythen provides a theoretically informed overview of the regulation of crime and security in a globalized world. By explicating the relationships between risk...

About the Book How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice? Drawing on a wealth of contemporary case examples, this handy pocket book demystifies the complex legislation on Looked After Children and de...

Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Is there a duty to obey a law even if it is unjust? Should the law concern itself with the activities of consenting adults in pr...

This is an introductory text for students of law and related business and professional courses, and for those practitioners starting out in property management. Summaries, exercises and workshops concluding each chapter help the reader to make sen...

Intellectual Property Law provides an introduction to the highly complex and technical area of commercial law that covers the world of copyright, patents and trade mark law. Written in a lively and accessible style, it covers the topics comprehens...

"Family Law" provides an account of a rapidly developing subject. New to this edition is a consideration of ancillary relief on divorce, changes to adoption law and child support, reform of the law governing ownership of the home by co-habitants a...

About the Book Today, millions of people are being held in slavery around the world. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. With exposes b...

About the Book Employment law is probably the fastest moving area in the law today, with statutory changes, European decisions and new cases changing the details very quickly. This book is fully updated to include the Disability Discrimination Act...

About the Book Employment law is one of the fastest moving areas in the law, with statuary changes, European decisions and new cases changing the detail very rapidly. This book steers the student through the complexities providing summary points a...

This text provides a readable, comprehensive and accessible introduction to Criminal Law. Through the media coverage of high profile trials we all feel that we know something about criminal law, and this text uses such cases to create a real inter...

This best selling text provides a clear and straightforward account of the basic rules of English contract law. Contract Law introduces the current debates about the nature, scope and functions of the law and discusses the wider controversies whic...

This textbook explores the underlying themes and explains the basic rules of English contract law. It introduces debates about the nature, scope and functions of this law and discusses the wider controversies which surround some of the basic doctr...

Constitutional and Administrative Law provides a comprehensive and very readable introduction to the basic legal principles of the UK constitution. Critical yet accessible, the book places the law in the context of the main political ideas which h...

This volume is a guide to the legal framework in which companies operate. It follows the life of a company from start-up and financing, through directors' duties and the issue of shares, to reconstruction and insolvency, providing a concise and co...

About the Book The findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care systems to safeguard vulnerable older people. In this important text, a team of expert authors brings the focus to how legis...