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Hardback. In this work, Hans and Vidmar review the historical evolution of the trial jury, the contemporary role of the jury in the American criminal justice system, and future prospects for the jury as an institutional force. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306422553
- ISBN
- 9780306422553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; LAF; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306455643
- ISBN
- 9780306455643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardback. Offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. This title presents a model that helps mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law. Series: Perspectives in Law and Psychology. Num Pages: 562 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; JMK; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2140.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306473432
- ISBN
- 9780306473432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 269.55
€ 269.55
Paperback. Offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies that is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that improves the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. Series: Perspectives in Law and Psychology. Num Pages: 562 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; JMK; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1740.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 562
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306473449
- ISBN
- 9780306473449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 257.84
€ 257.84
Hardback. The contributors to this book explore the most important features of the adversary process as it works in the Japanese criminal justice system. Topics include the right to remain silent, wire tapping, the role of defence counsel, plea bargaining and the power of prosecutors. Series: Advances in Political Science. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPVH1; LNAA; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333920602
- ISBN
- 9780333920602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardcover. Most people believe that criminal justice in Colombia is rife with impunity and corruption. Elvira Maria Restrepo delves beneath such beliefs to reveal a system driven at a fundamental level by fear and distrust from outside the system itself. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JPH; JPV; LNAA; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333921630
- ISBN
- 9780333921630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Hardback. Focusing on the language of the courtroom during the O.J. Simpson trial, Janet Cotterill examines the trial as the site of linguistic power and persuasion in representing and reconstructing the crime. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CF; LNAA; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333969014
- ISBN
- 9780333969014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardback. In this volume, linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as expert witness or in legal language reform. Editor(s): Cotterill, Janet. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; JKV; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333969021
- ISBN
- 9780333969021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardback. Illustrated with cases from medicine, psychiatry, and law, this volume examines the common moral ground that links these usually separate domains, and relates forensic ethics to larger concepts of morality and justice. It analyzes ethical dilemmas expert witnesses commonly encounter in the courtroom. Editor(s): Szanton, Andrew. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387353807
- ISBN
- 9780387353807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.02
€ 132.02
Hardback. Focusing on PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and chronic pain (and grounding readers in salient US and Canadian case law), this title sets out a multifactorial causality framework to facilitate admissibility of psychological evidence in court. It also examines issues concerning malingering, as are clinical gray areas that can jeopardize validity. Num Pages: 660 pages, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: LNAA; MMH; MMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1094.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 660
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387364353
- ISBN
- 9780387364353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.97
€ 131.97
Hardback. This work seeks to provide answers on tort reform where thus far there have mainly been just questions. A number of post-reform studies have demonstrated that tort reform may not have the desired effects. This important work takes an empirical approach to addressing the issues. Editor(s): Bornstein, Brian H.; Wiener, Richard L.; Schopp, Robert; Willborn, Steven. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LNAA; LNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387744889
- ISBN
- 9780387744889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.68
€ 72.68
Instructors of judicial process and judicial policymaking will find the book, along with the materials and resources on its accompanying website, readily adaptable for classroom use. Editor(s): Peabody, Bruce. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4, 4 figures. BIC Classification: JP; LNAA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897719
- ISBN
- 9780801897719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.58
€ 73.58
Paperback. Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 2003, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: LNAA; LNHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817945220
- ISBN
- 9780817945220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.68
€ 14.68
Hardback. A highly original and empirically-informed study of the performance of judicial authority in the lower criminal courts, bringing together extensive socio-legal research and interviews with magistrates, judges and court staff to offer up a more varied and nuanced analysis of the legitimacy of judicial decision-making. Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: LAF; LAT; LNAA1; LNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137521583
- ISBN
- 9781137521583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; JPSD; JPSN; LB; LNAC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288946
- ISBN
- 9781349288946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Using original empirical data and critiquing existing research, Samia Bano explores the experience of British Muslim woman who use Shari'ah councils to resolve marital disputes. She challenges the language of community rights and claims for legal autonomy in matters of family law showing how law and community can empower as well as restrict women. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPA; LAFD; LNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349306985
- ISBN
- 9781349306985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. "Law and Markets examines the interaction between legal rules, market forces and prices. It emphasises the economic effects of legal rules on individual incentives in both market and non-market settings, and draws on cases and materials from a wide variety of legal jurisdictions to illustrate economic principles"-- Num Pages: 400 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCB; KCC; KCP; LNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320318
- ISBN
- 9781349320318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Paperback. Examining the 'Conciliation in Equity' program in Colombia, this book provides a dramatic, cross-cultural example of community justice and a model for developing alternative methods of resolving crime and conflict. Num Pages: 213 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; JP; LAB; LNAC5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444496
- ISBN
- 9781349444496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book addresses an experiment in funding money damage claims in England from 2000 to 2013. The model - recoverable conditional fees - was unique and has remained so. It covers the development, amendment and effective abolition of the model, as well as the process of policy development and the motivation and objectives of the policy makers. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFM; KFFN; LAFD; LNAC; LNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349484836
- ISBN
- 9781349484836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.46
€ 126.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403972408
- ISBN
- 9781403972408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21