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  1. Making People Pay (Routledge Revivals)

    By Paul Rock

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1973, this book offers a fascinating and systematic description of the debt-collection process in 1970s England. Basing his research on the words of creditors, debtors, solicitors and debt-collectors, Paul Rock’s research was conducted when imprisonment for debt was still in...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Public Order and Private Lives (Routledge Revivals)

    The Politics of Law and Order

    By Michael Brake, Chris Hale

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1992, Public Order and Private Lives is a radical examination of the political forces which shaped the law and order debate in Britain at that time. The authors offer a significant and provoking analysis of Conservative policies on crime, showing that, ironically, they created...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Victims of Environmental Harm

    Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

    By Matthew Hall

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Bio-Privacy

    Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics

    By Nancy Liu

    Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology. Focusing particularly on the relationship between the use of this technology and the protection of privacy, this book draws on material...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge

  5. Victimology (Routledge Revivals)

    The Victim and the Criminal Justice Process

    By Sandra Walklate

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. The study of victims of crime is important to academics, the wider community...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Official Discourse (Routledge Revivals)

    On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State

    By Frank Burton, Pat Carlen

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book...

    Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Defendants in the Criminal Process (Routledge Revivals)

    By A. Bottoms, J. McClean

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1976, this book examines the practical workings of the English criminal court system, focusing on the defendant’s experiences of the system and the decisions he takes as he passes through it. Indeed, the defendant in a criminal case is in a unique position to experience the whole...

    Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centers

    Money laundering and offshore banking

    By Mary Alice Young

    Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

    This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide

    The Cat's Paw

    By Hazel Cameron

    Britain’s Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity, in violation of international criminal laws during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Re-reading Foucault

    On Law, Power and Rights

    Edited by Ben Golder

    Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century’s ‘theory’ academics. His work continues to animate a range of different...

    Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge