"An investigation of criminal attempts unearths some of the most fundamental, intriguing and perplexing questions about criminal law and its place in human action. When does attempting begin? What is the relationship between attempting and intending? Do we always attempt the pos…
An investigation of criminal attempts unearths some of the most fundamental, intriguing and perplexing questions about criminal law and its place in human action. When does attempting begin? What is the relationship between attempting and intending? Do we always attempt the poss…
Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters--petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low …
Tried and convicted for robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-born laborers went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. After years of resea…
"An in-depth reexamination with startling new insights into the controversial case It was a bold and brutal crime--robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. Tried for the crime and convicted, two Italian-born laborers, anarch…
An investigative account describing how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in dope trade, tax evasion, and gunrunning.
An investigative account describing how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in dope trade, tax evasion, and gunrunning.
In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe the evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of the core international crimes, the appli…