Kenny Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia
Author: John Devereux
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780409339796
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Criminal Laws in Australia
Author: David Lanham
Publisher: Federation Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9781862875586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to present a unified picture of the core aspects of Australian criminal law.
The Western Codification of Criminal Law
Author: Aniceto Masferrer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-09
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 3319719122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Understanding Violent Crime
Author: Jones, Stephen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Published: 2000-12-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0335204171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* How widespread is violence? * Why do people engage in various forms of violence? * What can be done to reduce the level of violence? Understanding Violent Crime provides a concise yet thorough and extensive account of the main explanations of violent behaviour. It draws upon sociological and psychological perspectives on violence as part of a coherent approach to the study of a phenomenon that raises wide public concern. There is also a focus on the ways in which violence is considered by the criminal justice system. Definitions of the main violent offences, including violent sexual offences, are discussed and some indication of the levels of sentencing in particular cases is provided. The final chapter then considers ways in which offenders are able to confront their violent behaviour within the criminal justice system. Frequent references to the definitions and treatment of violence in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA give the book a distinctive comparative perspective. The result is a wide-ranging and essential undergraduate text and a key reference for researchers in the field.
Comparing Tort and Crime
Author: Matthew Dyson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 1316352250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fields of tort and crime have much in common in practice, particularly in how they both try to respond to wrongs and regulate future behaviour. Despite this commonality in fact, fascinating difficulties have hitherto not been resolved about how legal systems co-ordinate (or leave wild) the border between tort and crime. What is the purpose of tort law and criminal law, and how do you tell the difference between them? Do criminal lawyers and civil lawyers reason and argue in the same way? Are the rules on capacity, consent, fault, causation, secondary liability or defences the same in tort as in crime? How do the rules of procedure operate for each area? Are there points of overlap? When, how and why do tort and crime interact? This volume systematically answers these and other questions for eight legal systems: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia.
Cuts and Criminality
Author: Professor Theodore Bennett
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-05-28
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1472445112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how they are conceptualised within legal discourse. The body alterations that are addressed include sadomasochistic injuries; female genital modification and male circumcision; cosmetic surgery, body modification and healthy limb amputation; and sex reassignment surgery and genital ‘normalisation’ surgery. The author analyses the techniques and processes by which some body alterations are discursively constructed as legitimate and legally approved whilst other body alterations are discursively constructed as illegitimate and legally sanctioned.
Kenny Criminal Law in Queensland and Western Australia
Author: John Devereux
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780409331981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides students and practitioners with a comprehensive and current guide to the fundamentals of the criminal law in Queensland and Western Australia. John Devereux, University of Queensland. Meredith Blake, University of Western Australia.
The Australian Criminal Justice System
Author: Duncan Chappell
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharleton and McDermott's Criminal Law and Evidence
Author: Peter Charleton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 1654
ISBN-13: 1526518171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of what was in 1999 an acclaimed work, has been completely rewritten. In approaching this, the authors have considerably increased the analysis of the theoretical aspects of criminal law and strengthened citations of academic literature and comparative case law while keeping the narrative concise and focused for easy use by practitioners. Key benefits to readers include a complete overview of criminal law theory; a new series of chapters on the law of evidence as it applies in the fraught circumstances of a criminal trial; a much more analytical approach to the general part and to criminal defences; and the comprehensive coverage of all the major, and many minor, areas of indictable crime. Since the last edition, commentary and case law on sexual offences has proliferated as have legislative interventions; a completely new scheme for dealing with property offences was necessitated by a series of recent statutes; company law and competition offences have assumed a greater significance; and the range of offences covered has had to be increased in order to ensure a comprehensive coverage of this most sensitive and politically charged aspect of law.
