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New and Published Books

  1. Sex Trafficking

    A Private Law Response

    By Tsachi Keren-Paz

    Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response examines existing and potential causes of action against sex traffickers, clients and the state and argues for fair and effective private law remedies. Combining a theoretical inquiry about the borders of liability in torts and restitution with a political...

    Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Families of the Missing

    A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice

    By Simon Robins

    Series: Transitional Justice

    Addressing the needs of Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Gender, Violence, and Law

    By Melanie Randall

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Crime and Justice in International Society

    Edited by Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo, Nerida Chazal

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Increasingly, the paradigm of international crime and justice is being used to understand and regulate international society, as evidenced by the growing use of legal discourse to describe and deal with war and conflict, as well as by a recent proliferation of international criminal justice...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice

    By Ralph Henham

    This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment. It argues that there is an increasing gap between what is perceived as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of the criminal courts. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems

    Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition

    Edited by Obi N. I. Ebbe

    Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries. Designed for courses in comparative criminal justice...

    Published May 12th 2013 by CRC Press

  7. Crack Cocaine Users

    High Society and Low Life in South London

    By Daniel Briggs

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Peace Operations and Organized Crime

    Enemies or Allies?

    Edited by James Cockayne, Adam Lupel

    Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

    Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies. The threat posed by organized crime to...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Justice Reinvestment

    Can the Criminal Justice System Deliver More for Less?

    By Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson, Kevin Wong

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Rising prison numbers on both sides of the Atlantic are cause for concern. Justice Reinvestment is a major movement in criminal justice reform in the US that is also attracting lots of interest in the UK. Justice Reinvestment is an approach to addressing the penal crisis that uses the best...

    Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge