Criminal Law

From bootlegger Al Capone to “ Teflon Don” John Gotti, mobsters have long frightened and fascinated the public. Their sometime flamboyant but almost always violent lifestyles have inspired popular movies such as The Godfather and hit television shows like The Sopranos, but these romanticized dep... More

New Page 1 In the preparation of this handbook, every effort was made to provide the pathologist in training with an up-to- date, concise manual detailing the many varied aspects of forensic pathology. Specialized areas, such as forensic anthropology and forensic pathology, have been mentione... More

Dedicated to Ruskin Bond, who has resisted growing up for many years, the stories in this collection are a tribute from a spectrum of creative writers to the grand young man of Indian fiction. Conceived in the course of  a writer's retreat in Landour, deep in the wooded hills of Garhwal, in Nor... More

On 9 August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and d... More

Nancy Drew Girl Detective: Crime Fighter 3 in 1The Demon of River HeightsThe Girl who wasn't ThereThe Charmed Bracelet... More

As national governments struggle to cope with the complex threat of masscasualty terrorist attacks, there is an ongoing debate about the best approaches to counterterrorism policy. The authors of How States Fight Terrorism explore the dynamics of counterterrorism policy development in Europe and Nor... More

One of the greatest challenges encountered by those in the forensic sciences is anticipating what the state and federal courts will - "or will not "- allow as valid physical evidence. With this in mind, the author of Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law, Second Edition analyzes and explai... More

Is your community prepared for a biological terrorism incident? While no community is fully equipped or funded for a major attack, it is possible to develop and implement effective local response plans, protocols, and guidelines. New from Delmar, Preparing for Biological Terrorism contains vitally i... More

This new text will encourage students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. Part One offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice... More

Best-selling AMERICA'S COURTS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM focuses on the dynamics of the court by introducing the concept of the "courthouse workgroup" and the interrelated relationship of the three main actors-judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney-thus illustrating the law in action, not just... More

This second edition aims to explore and define the emerging component of Juvenile Justice in the United States and the special challenges facing juvenile justice in the 1990s.Bartollas and Miller focus on the control, correction and treatment of both juvenile offenders and delinquents. The book desc... More

What's it like to have official sanction to shoot and kill? In this brilliantly written, controversial, and compelling book, author David Klinger--who himself shot and killed a suspect during his first year as an officer in the Los Angles Police Department--answers this and many other questions abou... More

Will police work change the person you love? Are police marriages destined to fail? What are the chances of your loved one being killed in the line of duty? Since its publication nearly a decade ago, I Love a Cop has earned high praise from family members and police departments worldwide for providi... More

The purpose of this book is to explain the need for a global network approach to counter-terrorism, and to elaborate how it could be formed. As the authors see it, the world is changing today far more rapidly than ever before, and current public and private institutions cannot keep up with this new ... More