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  • Taking Control

    Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

    by Philip Cunliffe, George Hoare, Lee Jones, Peter Ramsay ...
    Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe’s elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU is a ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Insecurity State

    Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law

    by Peter Ramsay ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
    The Insecurity State is a book about the recent emergence of a 'right to security' in the UK's criminal law. The Insecurity State sets out from a detailed analysis of the law of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order and of the Coalition government's proposed replacement for it. It shows that the liabilities contained in both seek to protect a 'freedom from fear'and that this 'right to security' explains ... Read more

    $136.99 USD

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  • Watching Out

    reflections on justice and injustice

    by Julian Burnside ...
    ‘When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result. The legal system is designed to produce justice. We call it the justice system — sometimes un ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Overcriminalization

    The Limits of the Criminal Law

    by Douglas Husak ...
    The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact and enforce penal offenses. The book urges the weight and relevance of this topic in the real world ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs

    Philosophy for the White House

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The State and the Body

    Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy

    by Elizabeth Wicks ...
    This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such autonomous choices about the human body ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Modern Criminal Law of Australia

    by Jeremy Gans ...
    Modern Criminal Law of Australia, 2nd edition is a comprehensive guide to interpreting and understanding every statutory offence provision in every Australian jurisdiction. The text takes a unique approach to explaining Australian criminal law, emphasising the importance of statutory interpretation, official discretion, element analysis and sentencing, in order to appreciate the meaning and effect ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Liberal Criminal Theory

    Essays for Andreas von Hirsch

    Edited by Antje du Bois-Pedain, Professor Dr. Dr.h.c Ulfrid Neumann, Professor A P Simester ...
    This book celebrates Andreas (Andrew) von Hirsch's pioneering contributions to liberal criminal theory. He is particularly noted for reinvigorating desert-based theories of punishment, for his development of principled normative constraints on the enactment of criminal laws, and for helping to bridge the gap between Anglo-American and German criminal law scholarship. Underpinning his work is a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Law, Ideology and Punishment

    Retrieval and Critique of the Liberal Ideal of Criminal Justice

    by A.W. Norrie ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is about 'Kantianism' in both a narrow and a broad sense. In the former, it is about the tracing of the development of the retributive philosophy of punishment into and beyond its classical phase in the work of a number of philosophers, one of the most prominent of whom is Kant. In the latter, it is an exploration of the many instantiations of the 'Kantian' ideas of individual guilt, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Modern History of German Criminal Law

    by Thomas Vormbaum ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Justice for Victims of Crime

    Human Dignity as the Foundation of Criminal Justice in Europe

    by Albin Dearing ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim. To remedy this problem, the book calls for abandoning the concept of crime as an ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Wickedness and Crime

    Laws of Homicide and Malice

    by Penny Crofts ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of crime and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD