Flavours of Babylon: A Family Cookbook

Linda Dangoor

Waterside Press

The set text for interpreters looking to work in the courts - at many training institutions. An expert treatment that has relevance anywhere in the world.

Interpreters and the Legal Process

Morris, Ruth

Colin, Joan

Rules & Procedures

Produced with Childrenlaw UK (formerly the British Juvenile and Family Courts Society) this is the definitive collection of contributions from experts about how and why children kill other people - including a special focus on the notorious Mary Bell and Bulger cases, including from leading international author Gita Sereny.

Children Who Kill: An Examination of the Treatment of Juveniles Who Kill in Different European Countries

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

An examination of the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour based on first-hand accounts by prisoners of their early lives - by one of the UK's leading conmmentators: generally regarded as a classic work.

Criminal Classes: Offenders at School

Devlin, Angela

Computers & Technology

A collection of some of the most famous cases in English law - with an explantion of how they changed things - by two leading commentators. Every UK lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the Ã«golden thread of English lawÃ whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial, even in the case of murder. But who was Ã«WoolmingtonÃ and how many people know that he escaped the death penalty at the eleventh hour, or that he was twice tried for murder? Ã«Lords give man back his lifeÃ as the Western Gazette put it. Likewise, in the civil law, how and why did a Mrs. Donoghue come to be drinking a bottle of ginger beer containing the remnants of a snail, an event which would ultimately determine Ã± at the highest level - that Ã«the categories of negligence are never closedÃ? And how did the tranquil market town of Wednesbury come to be legal shorthand for Ã«unreasonablenessÃ. In Famous Cases: Nine Trials that Changed the Law the authors have painstakingly assembled the background to a selection of leading cases in English law. From the Mareva case (synonymous with a type of injunction) to Lord DenningÃs classic ruling in the High Trees House case (the turning point for equitable estoppel) to that of the former Chilean head of state General Pinochet (in which the House of Lords heard the facts a second time) the authors offer a refreshing perspective to whet the appetite of every law student, general reader or seasoned practitioner interested in how English law evolves.

Famous Cases: Nine Trials that Changed the Law

History

Hostettler, John

Block, Brian P

Europe

A basic guide - written with newcomers, lay people and those working within the criminal justice field particularly in mind. Acquaint yourself with some key strands of this literally enormous topic and how it interacts with real life situations by reading the chapters of this book as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Classicism 3. Positivism 4. Strain Theories 5. Control Theories 6. Gender, Subcultures, Labelling and Differential Association 7. Conflict and Radical Criminology 8. Victimology, Fear of Crime, Restorative Justice - and A Look at Some Statistics 9. Criminology: Aspects of Criminal Justice (Criminal Justice Models; Police, Policing and Law and Order; Public Disorder; Bail or Custody; Punishment and Sentencing; Prisons; Crime Prevention and Community Safety; White Collar Crime).

Introduction to Criminology

POND

Pond, Russell

The definitive account of the long road to abolition in the UK by two highly respected commentators - a classic of the genre.

Hanging in the Balance: A History of the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain

BLOCK

Legal History

This text looks at the multiple hazards of discrimination - on the bas is of race, gender and class - faced by black women who come into contact with the criminal justice process. It contains extracts from interviews with black women prisoners, background information about discrimination and disadvantage, and the authors' argument that the agenda should be one of "making things happen."

Black women's experiences of criminal justice: A discourse on disadvantage

Chigwada-Bailey, Ruth

More and more women are being sent to prison: at the time when this book was written UK numbers had doubled over the last five years, and the Prison Reform Trust called this 'a rate of increase without precedent in the modern era.' Indeed, the figures for convicted women shows an even greater increase - 76% according to the National Association of Probation Officers, more than twice the increase for men. Though the media focuses on high profile prisoners like Myra Hindley and Rosemary West, most women become 'invisible' as soon as they pass through the prison gates and are subsumed into a world that is predominantly masculine and insensitive to their very different needs. The author spent the past five years visiting twelve of the 16 prisons that take women, interviewing prisoners and, more unusually, those whose job it is to care for them - prison officers, education, probation and healthcare staff, chaplains and counsellors. In a book that is deliberately accessible to the general reader as well as to the prison professional, she vividly recreates the realities of prison life for a woman at the end of the twentieth century, as conditions worsen with overcrowding, staff shortages and expenditure cuts. Some of Devlin's findings will shock as well as inform: she describes the over-use of medication as a means of control; the violence resulting from drug misuse; the plight of ethnic minority and foreign national women, and the self-mutilation and suicide attempts of women in desperate need of help.

Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons

Geese Theatre Handbook: Drama with Offenders and People at Risk

Best-selling and top practitioner and student work for people who run therapy groups of all kinds, explaining how drama can be used with offenders and similar target groups who find it easier to express themselves in this way - In use across the UK by therapists and groupwork specialists. First-rate reviews. Geese Theatre UK is an associate group of of Geese Theater USA where the method was originally developed by John Bergman.

Baim, Clarke

Brookes, Sally

Baim

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