In this text, legal and mental health experts explore the ramifications of the controversial sexual predator commitment laws, registration and community notification laws, and chemical castration laws that have come into existence since 1990.
This book addresses specific issues surround ing wrongful convictions, and their implications for society . It provides detailed analyses of the major factors associa ted with wrongful conviction & recommendations for reducing their occurrence. '
This is one of the first books to focus on the use of qualitative research in each component of the criminal justice system. It provides varied examples of qualitative research methods applications for the study and analysis of the field. Each chapter of Qualitative Approaches to Criminal Justice has an overview that discusses the qualitative ......
The Criminal Justice System and the Case of Alvin Ford
Based on the case of Alvin Ford, an American death row inmate, this thought-provoking book focuses on the issues raised when the criminal justice system attempts to apply the death penalty to the mentally impaired. Issues addressed include: the definition of mental illness for the purposes of exemption from execution; the evaluation of competence for execution by mental health professionals; the consequences of disagreements among health professionals about a defendant's mental status; and the fate of prisoners who are exempted. Ford's unique case leads the authors to examine more general issues such as the involvement of health professionals in modern capital sentencing, as well as the administration of the death penalty in the United States today.
Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill
Written to help remedy today's dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of 17 experts who focus on the psychiatric perspective of this tragic cause of infant death.
Explores the interaction of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. Bell includes in her work the experiences of detectives who are women, Black, Latino, and Asian American, exploring the impact of the racial identity of both the hate crime victim and the officers' handling of bias crimes.
This work challenges one of Western culture's most deeply-help assumptions: that violence against women is different from violence against men. It argues that this type of violence is rarely the result of sexism or hatred against women and that sexism may actually inhibit violence against women.
Discusses First Amendment freedom of expression versus government attempts to limit the availability of erotic materials. This book raises questions about federal abuse of power, the effects of pornography, archaic laws that attempt to regulate sexuality between consenting adults, and the interplay between sex and religion.
The "Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law" provides a commentary on and analysis of emerging issues in a field of global significance. The latest volume includes: essays on the Palestinian "right of return", the Lockerbie trial, the Islamic law principle of "just exchange", and special issues in Ismaili, Saudi, and UAE law; ......
