"This book presents a comprehensive view of the financial and non-financial consequences of criminal behavior, crime prevention, and society's response to crime. Crime costs are far-reaching including medical costs, lost wages, property damage and pain, suffering, and reduced qu…
"[Authors] examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann Pritchett, Glendon Schubert, S. Sidney Ulmer, Harold J. Spaeth, Joseph Tanenhaus, Beverly Blair Cook, Walter F. Murphy, J. Woodward Howard, David J. Danels…
The State versus the People provides the first detailed account of the important role played by law and revolutionary tribunals in securing the Bolsheviks' hold on power after the October Revolution. The study offers a novel perspective on justice and the politics of civil war d…
Theories and perspectives -- Social control : history of the concept / James J. Chriss -- Deviance, social control, and criminalization / Robert F. Meier -- Law as social control / A. Javier Treviño -- Social geometry and social control / Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning -- Di…
"The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in…
This text examines the integral role of religious beliefs and practices in Chinese legal culture.
This volume challenges the conventional wisdom about judicial independence in China and its relationship to economic growth, rule of law, human rights protection, and democracy. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach that places China's judicial reforms and the struggle…
"Court administrators and judges have long acknowledged that culture plays an important role in the function of the nation's 16,000 trial courts. Trial Courts as Organizations provides a comprehensive framework for understanding this organizational culture, along with a set of s…
Chiefly covers Great Britain, but also includes some discussion of several other common law jurisdictions.
Chiefly covers Great Britain, but also includes some discussion of several other common law jurisdictions.
