Product Description: The criminal trial is under attack. Traditional principles have been challenged or eroded. In England and Wales, the right to trial by jury has been restricted and rules concerning bad character evidence, double jeopardy, and the right to silence have been substantially altered to "rebalance" the system in favor of victims...read more

Product Description: What are the aims of a criminal trial? What social functions should it perform? And how is the trial as a political institution linked to other institutions in a democratic polity? If we understand a criminal trial as calling a defendant to answer to a charge of criminal wrongdoing and, if he is judged to be responsible for such wrongdoing, what follows to account for his conduct? A normative theory of the trial-an account of what trials ought to be and of what ends they should serve-must take these central aspects of the trial seriously, but they raise a number of difficult questions...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays tackle a range of issues about the criminal law's "special part"--the part that defines specific offences. Topics include the scope of the criminal law: to what extent should it include offenses of possession, or endangerment? Regulatory offences and more specific offences such as murder, rape, domestic violence, bribery, theft and other property offences are also discussed...read more

Product Description: The trial is central to the institutional framework of criminal justice. It provides the procedural link between crime and punishment, and is the forum in which both guilt and innocence and sentence are determined. Its continuing significance is evidenced by the heated responses drawn by recent British government proposals to reform rules of criminal procedure and evidence so as to alter the status of the trial within the criminal justice process and to limit the role of the jury...read more

Product Description: Today, juvenile justice is more controversial than ever. Should our treatment of young offenders differ from that of adult offenders? What role should ideas of punishment play? Should our goals be rehabilitative and educative rather than punitive? Should we divert young offenders from the criminal justice system altogether, opting for "restorative" rather than "retributive" justice? These questions are addressed in this interdisciplinary volume, which brings together criminologists, educationalists, psychologists and philosophers...read more

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Product Description: This book reflects the belief that a careful study of the Law of Attempts should be both interesting in itself, as well as being a productive route into a number of larger and deeper issues in criminal law theory and in the philosophy of action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why we punish, who we punish and how we punish are central elements of any discussion of the role of law in modern society. In this impressive and timely collection, two leading experts on the theory of punishment have selected a range of articles which have made important and influential contributions to the ways in which punishment is understood in contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a transatlantic, interdisciplinary perspective on the crisis in penal policy facing the governments of both Britain and the United States. Some of the issues addressed include: sentencing guidelines; the organization of prisons and their function; the use of non-custodial sentences and "informal justice"; and women and the criminal justice system...read more

Product Description: This philosophical work on punishment includes coverage of retributivisms, moral education and reform, consequentialism and rights, sentencing and how to make the punishment fit the crime, abolitionism and sociological perspectives.