Product Description: Who should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies become regulated by outside agencies...read more

Product Description: Written by two experienced litigators, the new Second Edition of Prosecuting and Defending Health Care Fraud Cases is the only book of its kind in the marketplace that covers the subject of health care fraud through two distinct means: first by the applicable law, and second, by the federal criminal process for health care fraud cases...read more

Product Description: Strategies for Prosecuting Internet Pornography Cases is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the key methods for investigating Internet crime cases involving pornographic material and bringing these cases to court. Featuring two of the nation's leading Internet crime prosecution experts, this book guides the reader through the process of prosecuting an Internet pornography case, from uncovering technological evidence of possession of child pornography on a computer to effectively presenting this evidence in court...read more

Product Description: Book by Watkins, Christine

Product Description: This handbook explores every aspect of the prosecutor’s multiple roles, relating them to commonly encountered real-world situations, and giving pragmatic guidance for dealing with those situations. It investigates the history, theory, and philosophy of prosecution and provides the student with a conceptual framework for employing sound techniques of ethical prosecutorial advocacy...read more

Product Description: Child sexual abuse prosecutions are often brought following a substantial delay of some years after the alleged abuse. This delay poses a variety of problems for the prosecutions. The book will examine the problems associated with criminal prosecutions commenced many years after the abusive incidents were alleged to have occurred, the response of the criminal justice system to such cases, and how the system should respond in order to ensure that the defendant receives a fair trial, while recognising the reasons why complainants may delay reporting abuse for many years...read more

Essays discuss contrasting views of juvenile offenders being tried as adults, including the disproportionate respresentation of minority youth in adult court and the belief that the juvenile justice system is too lenient on violent offenders.

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Product Description: Straight talk on all aspects of health care fraud investigations and prosecutions. The job of the health care attorney, whether prosecutor or defense counsel, is a complex one. The issues for a provider under investigation are similarly complex—and the liabilities and penalties can be quite severe...read more

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While most believe that white-collar crime is prosecuted only by federal agencies, local prosecutors are playing an increasingly important role in the social control of corporate violators. Yet many are reluctant to take legal action at the local level because such cases often entail unique challenges and difficulties. Michael L. Benson and Francis T. Cullen present exhaustive research that combines quantitative data on cases with qualitative information on the procedural and legal constraints facing local enforcement. Drawing on extensive interviews, they investigate how local prosecutors respond to corporate crime (or whether they do at all) within a community context. As watchdogs of community morals, district attorneys and others decide which lawbreakers to pursue, but as elected public servants they may hesitate to indict companies on whose stability the community depends. Factors such as population size, region, crime rate, economic conditions, and legal culture influence a community's attitude toward corporate crime, which, in turn, influences the decision to prosecute. The authors also show that questions concerning jurisdiction, resource allocation, or appropriate punishment may dissuade local prosecutors from pursuing some cases. They address the limitations of the federal government in prosecuting corporate crime and offer suggestions to facilitate more positive action at the local level, including better access to laboratories, more information exchange and networking, and improved training. An insightful work on a too-long neglected aspect of white-collar crime, this is essential reading not only for students of criminal justice and public administration butalso for practitioners who confront these special problems and obstacles every day. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The number of allegations concerning sexual abuse of children continues to rise, but there has been little concrete, systematic information about the legal consequences. Who is sent to criminal court for sexually abusing children? What happens to the cases once they are there? On what basis are jurors making their decisions in these cases? Are they swayed by experts who give information about abused children and their typical behaviors? How reliable is the medical evidence? How do technological advances such as videotaped testimony affect the outcome of a trial? Drawing on the findings of the first national study on child sexual abuse and the courts, Ellen Gray renders the most complete portrait to date of how our criminal justice system deals with child sexual abuse cases...read more

Product Description: This guide to federal criminal practice tries a realistic, hypothetical case to demonstrate the process and reasoning behind the decisions made by the prosecution and the defense. Presents, in chronological order, the strategic and tactical alternatives that face counsel at every step of the process...read more

Product Description: This book will help you learn the steps to prepare for a trial and court proceedings. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

With the aid of doctors, rape crisis counselors, sociologists, and professors, an attorney defines the symptoms of the Rape Trauma Syndrome and explains how its identification can aid in the prosecution of rapists

Product Description: Effigy examines the images of a capital defendant portrayed, by the defense attorneys and the prosecutor, during the guilt and penalty phases of capital trial, the trial tactics used to impart these images, and the consequences that result from the jury's attempt to reconcile contradictory images to place one in permanent record as a verdict...read more