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Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
From the Publisher: "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous...
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Series
Routledge frontiers of criminal justice volume 10
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Through the lens of a new interpretation of criminal justice history Sectarian Order in Bahrain focuses on a cache of colonial criminal cases dated 1924 to 1940. It outlines major shifts in notions of the social order, highlighting a sectarianism modus operandi within the colonial criminal justice system.
14) Corrections
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Covers the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty.
19) Criminal justice
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Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Criminal Justice: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--