Straffrätt & straffprocessrätt

Peter Rätz : nio år som undercoveragent

Sveriges mest framgångsrike infiltratör berättar om sin tid inuti Hells Angels, Bandidos och Brödrarskapet MC. Med nytt slutord. Infiltratörer avslöjas och mördas. Eller försvinner spårlöst. Men Peter Rätz dog inte. Han överlever i nio år på insid...

Introduktion till straffrätten

Vänder sig till den som helt saknar förkunskaper i straffrätt. Här ges en översiktlig framställning av väsentliga delar av straffrätten samt, i viss mån, straffprocessrätten. Vissa straffrättsliga termer och begrepp förklaras, liksom sättet att lä...

Process- och straffrätt för juridisk översiktskurs

Denna väletablerade bok ger genom sin pedagogiska framställning en god överblick över de processrättsliga och straffrättsliga regelsystemen

From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime - Criminal Careers, Justice Policy and Prevention

What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? Edited by two leading authorities in the fields of psychology and criminology, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime examines why the period of transition to adulthood...

Study Skills for Criminology

The new edition of this best-selling study skills book provides a practical guide for success for individuals at every level of their criminology and criminal justice degree. The new edition of this best-sellin

The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 4: Harmless Wrongdoing

This is the fourth and final volume of Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. In it Feinberg examines the philosophical basis for the criminalization of so-called `victimless crimes' such as pornography and consensual s...

Nära döden : om dödsstraffet, Texas, USA - och om oss

USA är inte bara varldens rikaste och mäktigaste land, det är också världens ledande fängelsenation. Nog angår det oss att man möter sociala problem och vapenhandel med vedergällning och avrättningar. På Amnestys hemsida finns en längre intervju m...

The Return of Martin Guerre

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the not...

Crime in an Insecure World

This new book by Richard Ericson explores the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. ...

The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 2: Offense to Others

Offense to Others is the second volume of Joel Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, a four-volume work that addresses the question: what kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonom...

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman...

Defending the Damned - Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System

Award-winning journalist Davis spent a year in Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's office for this look into the American justice system. More than 300,000 cases go through this office--some involving the death penalty--with approximately 600 ...

The Guantanamo Lawyers - Inside a Prison Outside the Law

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eighties from over forty different countrie...

Forensic DNA Evidence on Trial - Science and Uncertainty in the Courtroom

Drawing upon their own groundbreaking research, the authors demonstrate that major assumptions about science influence how forensic DNA evidence is interpreted by police officers, lawyers, forensic scientists, and jurors.

Sex and Punishment - Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

The "raging frenzy" of the sex drive, to use Plato's phrase, has always defied control. However, that's not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidabl...

Three Felonies a Day - How the Feds Target the Innocent

Scraps of Penal Theory

Bokpresentation In 1988 I published - in order to celebrate having survived half a century - a little book called Essays in Criminal Law, containing seven articles. The present sister volume, also containing seven articles, is meant as a celebrati...

Är kulturgenererad grov brottslighet myt eller verklighet? : brottsoffer och gärningsmän vid grova brottmål i Svea hovrätt 2002

Kriminalstatistiken visar att invandrare idag är överrepresenterade vid grov brottslighet i Sverige. Vad beror detta på? Är det så - i dagens mångkulturella samhälle - att avvikande kulturmönster skapar flera offer för den riktigt grova brottsligh...

The Terror Courts - America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guant...

Illustrated Guide To Home Forensic Science Experiments - All Lab, No Lecture

Have you ever wondered whether the forensic science youve seen on TV is anything like the real thing? Theres no better way to find out than to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. This full-color book offers advice for setting up an inexpensiv...

Justice Under Siege - One Woman's Battle Against a European Oil Company

For six long years, the French judge, Eva Joly, investigated the financial scandal of the state-owned petrol giant, Elf Acquitane. Close to two billion pounds had been siphoned off to pay for luxurious lifestyles and bribes. To her great surprise,...

Imperfect Justice - Prosecuting Casey Anthony

Who killed two-year-old Caylee Anthony? From the moment Caylee Anthony was reported missing, and her remains subsequently found in the woods around her Orlando home, America was mesmerized by this shocking case and the behavior of the girl's mothe...

Rites of Execution - Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865

Louis Masur's handsomely written account describes how, in the 1830s, public hangings were abandoned in favour of executions in the seclusion of prison yards. Masur sees attitudes toward state killing from the Revolution to the Civil War as reflec...

The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law

A work of imaginative sympathy that reconstructs George Orwell's life as a Burmese policeman and magistrate, treating his moral dilemmas as a filter through which to pose questions of justice both universal and contemporary. Morris follows each st...

The American Street Gang - Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control

This book reviews what has been known about gangs, and updates that information into the 1990s. It covers reported changes in the structure and crime patterns of gangs, their age, ethnic, and gender characteristics, and their spread into almost al...

Hate Crimes - Criminal Law and Identity Politics

This book is an in-depth critique of the USA's dominant political and legal response to "hate crime". The authors show how the media and politicians have constructed a hate crime epidemic without any solid evidence to support it. They argue that h...

Punishment, Communication, and Community

Part of the Studies in Crime and Public Policy series, this book, written by one of the top philosophers of punishment, examines the main trends in penal theorizing over the past three decades. Duff asks what can justify criminal punishment, and t...

Maconochie's Gentlemen - The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Prison Reform

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transformed what was one o...

Contradictions of American Capital Punishment

Why does the United States continue to employ the death penalty when fifty other developed democracies have abolished it? Why does capital punishment become more problematic each year? How can the death penalty conflict be resolved? In Contradicti...

Getting Even - Forgiveness and Its Limits

We have all been victims of wrongdoing. Forgiving that wrongdoing is one of the staples of current pop psychology dogma; it is seen as a universal prescription for moral and mental health in the self-help and recovery section of bookstores. At the...