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Murderers or Martyrs by George Skelly 9781904380801
Booksplease Price: $34.71A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool... -
Nipping Crime in the Bud: How the Philanthropic Quest Was Put Into Law by Muriel Whitten 9781904380658
Booksplease Price: $31.73Nipping Crime in the Bud explores the origins and development of the Philanthropic Society (and its influence on contemporary institutions) amid growing alarm about crime levels, Draconian sentences... -
Making Sense of Homicide: A Student Textbook by Adam Lynes 9781909976863
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.78The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide. As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a... -
Fierce Illumination by Martin Chesler 9781939116093
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939116093Author Martin CheslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint -
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation Kirstin Anderson 9781914603464
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37Fifty years ago, a small unit in HM Prison Barlinnie, Glasgow, became a radical experiment whose approach polarised opinion. It encouraged shared decision-making between prisoners and staff, allowed... -
Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women by Judith Bourne 9781909976320
Booksplease Price: $31.15In this first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career, Judith Bourne tells of her fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and open it up to women. The book describes how her... -
Twenty Famous Lawyers by John Hostettler 9781904380986
Booksplease Price: $27.92An entertaining diversion for lawyers and others, Twenty Famous Lawyers focuses on household names and high profile cases. Contains valuable insights into legal ways and means and looks at the... -
Criminal Punishment and Restorative Justice: Past, Present and Future Perspectives by David J. Cornwell 9781904380207
Booksplease Price: $31.15The book provides a refreshing analysis of the inherent divide between punitive and restorative approaches to questions of criminal justice. It looks at matters that serve to restrict more active and... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Reflections of a Forensic Practitioner by Profeesor Herschel A. Prins 9781904380795
Booksplease Price: $20.86In this absorbing account, he traces his personal journey from 'main grade' probation officer, Home Office civil servant, trainer and inspector to top level positions within a number of academic... -
Fine Lines and Distinctions: Murder, Manslaughter and the Unlawful Taking of Human Life by Professor Terence Morris 9781904380665
Booksplease Price: $54.30In this powerful account, the authors show that - from Sir Edward Coke's classic common law definition of murder, through political fixes, poorly thought-out compromises and misguided legislative or... -
Amin's Soldiers: A Caricature of Upper Prison by John Pancras Orau 9781904380962
Booksplease Price: $22.83Following the fall of African dictator Idi Amin, remnants of his army were rounded-up and thrown in jail. John Pancras Orau, a member of Amin's Ugandan Air Force was one of these men. He saw... -
Interpreters and the Legal Process by Joan Colin 9781872870281
Booksplease Price: $26.72Interpreters and the Legal Process is intended for people interested in language, communication, interpreting and translation as they affect legal matters - including for interpreters and legal... -
Why Did You Do It?: Explanations for Offending by Young Offenders in Their Own Words by Jackie Worrall 9781904380740
Booksplease Price: $27.92Setting these stories within the context of an astute knowledge of criminal - and more particularly youth justice - policy she conveys to her readers an understanding of how and why young people... -
Conflict Resolution: A Foundation Guide by Susan Stewart 9781872870656
Booksplease Price: $22.83Conflict Resolution will be of interest to people who deal with disputes - of whatever kind - including through mediation and alternative dispute resolution procedures. Contents What is Conflict?... -
The New Home Office: An Introduction by Bryan Gibson 9781904380498
Booksplease Price: $29.89This timely publication explains the duties and responsibilities of the Home Office following its reorganization in 2007. The New Home Office provides an accessible introduction but with sufficient... -
So You Think You Know Me? by Allan Weaver 9781904380450
Booksplease Price: $27.35Hence, a never-ending escalation of his violent activities, creating tensions for his family, friends and often dubious associates in the seaside town where he grew up. "So You Think You Know Me?" is... -
Three False Convictions, Many Lessons: The Psychopathology of Unjust Prosecutions by David C. Anderson 9781909976351
RRP: $29.03Booksplease Price: $27.92A new perspective on why false charges occur, proceed and persist which looks at the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias, false confessions, the media and internet among other causes. Puts... -
The English Riots of 2011: A Summer of Discontent by Daniel Briggs 9781904380887
Booksplease Price: $28.37From Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and gossip to hard facts, research and empirical investigation, this outstanding collection looks at the nature and causes of the English Riots of 2011 one year... -
The Man They Couldn't Hang: A Tale of Murder, Mystery and Celebrity by Michael Crowley 9781904380641
Booksplease Price: $20.86A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author. The story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a... -
Covert Human Intelligence Sources: The 'unlovely' Face of Police Work by Roger Billingsley
Booksplease Price: $31.15A unique insight into the hidden world of informers and related aspects of covert and undercover policing. Edited by Roger Billingsley, head of the Covert Policing Standards Unit at New Scotland... -
Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice by John Hostettler
Booksplease Price: $31.97Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex in 1760 and called to the Bar in 1783. He was the dominant figure at the Old Bailey from 1783 to 1793, later becoming an MP, Solicitor-General,... -
Holding a Butterfly: An Experiment in Miracle-Making by Lynn Woodland 9781939116659
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939116659Author Lynn WoodlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint -
Cesare Beccaria: The Genius of 'On Crimes and Punishments' by John Hostettler 9781904380634
Booksplease Price: $27.92A brand new book by eminent legal biographer and historian John Hostettler. Hard on the heels of his acclaimed work with Richard Braby on Sir William Garrow, comes a further text on one of crime and... -
Fifty Year Stretch: Prisons and Imprisonment 1980-2030 by Stephen Shaw 9781909976085
Booksplease Price: $18.33Shaw deals with key events, issues and developments and the book will be invaluable to anyone wishing to cut through the mass of fine detail and data which can be found in other works in favour of a... -
Police and Policing: An Introduction by Peter Villiers 9781904380467
Booksplease Price: $29.89An ideal introduction for police recruits, criminal justice practitioners, criminologists and general readers. Written in a clear style and based on the experiences of author Peter Villiers who was... -
Children Who Kill: An Examination of the Treatment of Juveniles Who Kill in Different European Countries by Paul Cavadino 9781872870298
Booksplease Price: $26.72An examination of the treatment of juveniles who kill in different European countries. From the tragic Mary Bell and Jamie Bulger murder cases to events world-wide: An expert analysis of what is a... -
The Idiot Boy by Bob Turney 9781909976252
Booksplease Price: $20.86Bob Turney must be the first 'dunce'-and from the wrong side of the tracks-to win a debate at the Oxford Union, to have addressed assembly at Eton College, been welcomed as a guest at No. 10 Downing... -
Solitary: Alone We Are Nothing by Gladys Ambort 9781909976610
Booksplease Price: $27.98As a young student and activist for a different social order, Gladys Ambort fell victim to political repression in the Argentina of the 1970s. Denounced by her college professor, she was incarcerated... -
Making Good: Prisons, Punishment and Beyond by Martin Wright 9781904380412
Booksplease Price: $29.26This is the second edition with additional material by the author, and a new foreword by one of the UK's leading penal reformers. Martin Wright starts by demonstrating that neither the conservative... -
Doing Justice Better: The Politics of Restorative Justice by David J. Cornwell 9781904380344
Booksplease Price: $31.15Escalating resort to prisons, longer sentences, overcrowded and ineffective regimes, high rates of re-offending and eclectic penal policy all combine to fuel this crisis, whilst failing to reduce... -
Criminal Classes: Offenders at School by Angela Devlin 9781872870304
Booksplease Price: $26.72This work examines the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour. It contains the stories of inmates' schooldays told in their own words as they try to answer the question... -
The Politics of Punishment by John Hostettler 9781909976337
Booksplease Price: $31.15A timeless work by one of the UK's leading commentators and now with pointers to key developments in penal politics of the last 20 years. This first paperback version contains a wide-ranging analysis... -
Restorative Justice in Prisons: A Guide to Making it Happen by Kimmett Edgar 9781904380252
Booksplease Price: $27.35Leading edge information and ideas from two of the UK's most respected practitioners and authorities. A handbook for people who want to make a difference when working with prisoners. It suggests the... -
Psychopaths: An Introduction by Professor Herschel Prins 9781904380924
Booksplease Price: $22.83What is a psychopath? How can we tell? Are psychopaths always a risk to the public? How safe are we from criminal psychopaths? This basic guide looks at the history and development of psychopathy. It... -
Pit of Shame: The Real Ballad of Reading Gaol by Anthony Stokes 9781904380214
Booksplease Price: $31.15Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, his last work for publication in 1898 is known the world over for its insight and telling phrases, such as 'bricks of shame', 'souls in pain' and 'that little tent of... -
Garrow's Law: The BBC Drama Revisited by John Hostettler 9781904380900
Booksplease Price: $17.11Takes the lid off the prime-time TV series. A must for lawyers and other viewers. For any of the five million people who saw the prime-time BBC series "Garrow's Law" this is an absorbing book. It is... -
The New Ministry of Justice: An Introduction by Bryan Gibson 9781904380481
Booksplease Price: $29.89This timely publication explains the duties and responsibilities of the Ministry of Justice created in 2007. The New Ministry of Justice provides an accessible introduction but with sufficient detail... -
Justice for William: The Story of Wendy Crompton-mother of a Murdered Son by Helen P. Simpson 9781904380306
Booksplease Price: $20.92This and being kept out of 'the loop' left her anxious, stressed, mistrusting and suspicious of people. This extended to the actions of certain police officers, paramedics and doctors, her... -
The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti by Justin Rollins
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $20.63For those who equate graffiti tagging with the cosy quirkiness of Banksy or the colourful artistry of wasteground murals - this book will be a real eye-opener. 'The Lost Boyz documents Justin's road... -
Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook by David Wilson
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.08A superbly targeted resource for those wanting to learn about serial killings. Deals with and analyses some of the best known (as well as lesser) cases from English criminal history, ancient and...