In seinem neuen Buch beschreibt Bestseller-Autor Jürgen Roth den skrupellosen Machtmissbrauch einer gesellschaftlich destruktiven Elite: Politiker, die für Parteispenden ihr Veto bei den Strafverfolgungsbehörden einlegen. Wirtschaftsbosse mit schwarzen Kassen und ausgeklügelten …
Zwischen Kassel und Fulda überfährt ein ICE einen Mitarbeiter der Kripo Kassel. Der tragische Vorfall wird als Suizid zu den Akten gelegt. 14 Tage später der nächste Tote: Erneut ein Polizeibeamter, wieder von einem Zug getötet. Kommissar Paul Lenz beginnt an der Selbstmordvaria…
"The 'Europeanisation' of the fight against crime is a broad and much-contested notion. This in-depth analysis of the role of the EU in fighting crime within the area of freedom, security and justice explores the impact of EU policies in the Member States, the progressive conver…
"Drawing on the experience of the Brazilian federal courts since the transition to democracy, Judging Policy examines the judiciary's role in public policy debates. During a period of energetic policy reform, the high salience of many policies, combined with the conducive instit…
The Russian Empire and its legal institutions have often been associated with arbitrariness, corruption, and the lack of a 'rule of law'. Stefan B. Kirmse challenges these assumptions in this important new study of empire-building, minority rights, and legal practice in late Tsa…
"The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian femini…