Directions and Developments in Criminal Justice and Law
About the Book Series
The ways in which crime is constructed in society is of time-honored interest to criminologists across the globe. The ever-changing landscape of what is criminal and what is not affects scholars and policymakers in their approach to the body of law defining prohibited conduct, how that law evolves, and the modes by which it is administered. Rule of law cannot exist without a transparent legal system, strong enforcement structures, and an independent judiciary to protect against the arbitrary use of power. Critical consideration of the mechanisms through which societies attempt to make the rule of law a reality is essential to understanding and developing effectual criminal justice systems. The Directions and Developments in Criminal Justice and Law series offers the best research on criminal justice and law around the world, offering original insights on a broadly defined range of socio-legal topics in law, criminal procedure, courts, justice, legislation, and jurisprudence. With an eye toward using innovative and advanced methodologies, series monographs offer solid social science scholarship illuminating issues and trends in law, crime, and justice. Books in this series will appeal to criminologists, sociologists, and other social scientists, as well as policymakers, legal researchers, and practitioners.
Wrongful Convictions and the Criminalization of Innocence: International Perspectives on Contributing Factors, Models of Exoneration and Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn M. Campbell, Barak Ariel, Anat Horovitz, Irwin Cotler
September 30, 2025
This edited international collection explores the nature and extent of wrongful convictions, as well as examining the systems in place that attempt to exonerate the wrongly convicted. Inspired by two conventions of legal scholars, jurists, lawyers, and law students gathered to examine miscarriages ...
Prisoners' Vote: A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Martine Herzog-Evans, Jérôme Thomas
August 29, 2025
Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote. By adopting a comparative approach to explore the legal systems of very different...
Racial and Prejudicial Stereotyping by Police: Its Impact on Investigative Interviewing and the Outcomes of Criminal Investigations
1st Edition
By Rashid Minhas
August 29, 2025
This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities. The book examines the under-researched aspect of whether and how negative stereotypes appear to influence the police interviews, investigative ...
Rethinking Online Anti-Gender Hate Speech: Legislation and Public Policy Making
1st Edition
By Moa Bladini, Eva-Maria Svensson
May 20, 2025
Providing an innovative approach to understanding and addressing anti-gender hate speech, this book focuses on its effects on everyday life, how it is handled within legal frameworks, and how it challenges democratic principles. Unlike previous research, which is often limited to currently ...
Transitional Justice and the Criminal Responsibility of Judges
1st Edition
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By Claudia Cárdenas Aravena, Jaime Couso Salas, Florian Jeßberger, Milan Kuhli
May 10, 2025
This collective volume delves into the criminal responsibility of judges under authoritarian regimes, with case studies from Germany, Argentina, and Chile, examining their involvement in criminal human rights abuses and failures to protect victims from such crimes. Through comparative analysis, ...
Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India: A Study on Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015
1st Edition
By Atul Jaybhaye
April 14, 2025
Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyzes the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India. The book compares the juvenile justice systems of the United States, the United Kingdom and China with India to identify causes of juvenile delinquency and the measures to ...
The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining
1st Edition
By Robert Schehr
December 10, 2024
The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law. Across two parts, this book contends that ...
Domesticating International Criminal Law: Reflections on the Italian and German Experiences
1st Edition
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By Florian Jeßberger, Chantal Meloni, Maria Crippa
November 28, 2024
This book provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in particular with regard to the implementation of the ICC Statute. It discusses the most recent proposals for reform of the German Code of Crimes under ...
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens: Transnational Criminal Justice Instruments and the Management of 'Unwanted' EU Nationals
1st Edition
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By José A. Brandariz, Witold Klaus, Agnieszka Martynowicz
November 28, 2024
Forced Mobility of EU Citizens is a critical evaluation from an empirical perspective of existing practices of the use of transnational criminal justice instruments within the European Union. Such instruments include the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), prisoner transfer procedures and criminal ...
Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law
1st Edition
By Ellie Brown
October 08, 2024
Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld. It draws on empirical research, through interviews with staff and prisoners, to understand how law ‘works’ (or not) in a site of ...
A Children’s Rights Assessment of Juvenile Detention in Australia
1st Edition
By Anita Mackay
September 16, 2024
Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children’s rights-violations of recent years, and puts forward strategies for reform. ...
Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come: Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond
1st Edition
By Christos Boukalas
May 27, 2024
What kind of state emerges from the pandemic? The pandemic caused two crises, in biosecurity and in the economy. The state was forced to tackle both; but subduing one inevitably exacerbated the other. Emerging from the impossible task of handling two conflicting crises is a new form of state, the ...