Social Law

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of los...

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has no...

EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Mar...

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approac...

From the ancient beginnings of Western legal tradition, law has been conceived as traversed by a fundamental tension between power (will) and reaso...

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, t...

In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis f...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

The Routledge Handbook of IIliberalism is the first authoritative reference work dedicated to illiberalism as a complex social, political, cultural...

This book on Medical Jurisprudence & Clinical Forensic Medicine addresses the evolving nature of law and medicine. It updates the medicolegal (...

This book examines the little or not previously researched roles and contributions of non-legal professionals in Japanese criminal justice against ...

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreati...

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions...

First Published in 2004: Effective Expert Witnessing, Fourth Edition broadens the scope of previous editions by featuring case studies and examples...

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This f...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

This book addresses the use of biometrics including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition in the criminal justice...

The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in todays China and offers an in-depth analysis of t...

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have do...

Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Fi...

Peaceful legal and political changing of the guards is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively n...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

This title was first published in 2001. The D-Notice system is a voluntary arrangement between the government and the media whereby the media agree...

This title was first published in 2001. The D-Notice system is a voluntary arrangement between the government and the media whereby the media agree...

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that aris...

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Cour...

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier. Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biologi...

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorp...

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numero...

This book discusses the extent to which the UK Human Rights Act successfully balances protection of rights and democracy. It explores the claim tha...

This title was first published in 2003. The fulfilment of health care rights in a world where resources are scarce is a prominent issue. In this vo...

In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, re...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

In Philip K. Dicks short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed ...

Neoliberalism has been studied as a political ideology, an historical moment, an economic programme, an institutional model, and a totalising polit...

This book breaks new ground in interpreting how identity informs the judgements of State workers, as normative orientations coincide with identitie...

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implicat...

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics. Reflect...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

First published in 1976, this book studies the impact of a uniquely unpopular tax on English rural communities. It examines the tithe system during...

Over time there has been a miscommunication between mainstream economics and human rights that has paved the way to a justificatory ideology that v...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use. At its heart ...

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, ...

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical...

This title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional ord...

First published in 1999, Making Foreign People Pay deals with the recovery of monetary claims in cross-border legal relations and contains the resu...