"Arctic Justice recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, …
"Why do killers deserve punishment? How should the law decide?" "These are the questions Samuel H. Pillsbury seeks to answer in this important new book on the theory and practice of criminal responsibility. In an argument both traditional and fresh, Pillsbury holds that persons …
Why do killers deserve punishment? How should the law decide? These are the questions Samuel H. Pillsbury seeks to answer in this important new book on the theory and practice of criminal responsibility. In an argument both traditional and fresh, Pillsbury holds that persons des…
Contains chapters on cases such as Harold Shipman, Ruth Ellis, Beverly Allitt, the Kray Twins, Dennis Nilsen and the James Bulger murder.
This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultur…
"The mission of every homicide investigator is to bring justice to the deceased and their surviving families. Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation : Practical and Clinical Perspectives stresses the basics, indicates the practicalities of certain investigative techniques,…
