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Criminal Law: A Primer is a companion to those going through criminal prosecutions. This book will explain each step of the criminal process, and help you to understand what is happening so you can feel confident throughout the journey. Chapters walk you through your rights, how to navigate contact with police, what mitigation might help you, and what the trial and appeals process is like. Also included are some games to keep you busy at court and...
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An Easy to Understand, Entertaining, and Critically Important Read
The #1 guide for understanding, when using force to protect yourself is legal.
Carry with confidence, knowing you are protected from predators AND predatory prosecutors
Correct the common myths you may think are true, but get people in trouble
Many interesting, if sometimes heart-wrenching, true-life examples
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Daniel Baum's guides to Canadian law have become essential legal guides for topics ranging from young offenders to first responders. Whether for law professionals of citizens who need to understand their legal rights, the books of the Understanding Canadian Law series are indispensable. Now, the first three instalments of the series are available in an ebook-exclusive bundle. Includes Youth and the Law What's the law? What does it mean? If the law...
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Newly elected circuit Superior Court Judge Thompson travels the State of North Carolina from the mountains to the Sandhills. His first year is a baptism of fire: three potential death cases, a first degree murder case, a second degree murder case, and a bizarre rape case in Durham. Trials are for and about people. The victim has or had his or her own life story. The defendant has his. And the family's lives of both are changed forever. And then there...
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The Criminal Defense Lawyer. Redefined.
Martin H. Ehrengraf, dapper and diabolical, may be Lawrence Block's darkest creation. He's the defense attorney who never sees the inside of a courtroom, because all his clients are innocent-no matter how guilty they may seem. Some even believe themselves to be guilty: they remember pulling the trigger, or wiring the dynamite to their spouse's car, or holding the bloody blade. But things have a way of working...
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El segundo volumen de Derecho Penal de Principios se dedicado al análisis de los principios fundamentales. Constituye una reflexión incisiva y práctica sobre tres principios fundamentales del Derecho Penal: legalidad, proporcionalidad y culpabilidad.
YVAN MONTOYA VIVANCO es Doctor en Derecho penal y Derechos Humanos por la Universidad de Salamanca (España). Es profesor principal en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú donde imparte docencia...
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Looking Back, A Police Story tells the story of Law Enforcement Professionals (LEPs) who are embedded in the US Military Forces and who are assisting with the War on Terrorism. Since the attacks of 9-11 the military has had to adjust to not only fighting this war on the battlefields but also in the court rooms. Individuals, who are identified as terrorists or who are captured on the battlefields are eventually prosecuted in civilian and military courts....
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Este primer volumen de Derecho Penal de Principios, se analiza la función punitiva del Estado en el marco del respeto de parámetros interpretativos y de bienes jurídicos tutelados.
YVAN MONTOYA VIVANCO es Doctor en Derecho penal y Derechos Humanos por la Universidad de Salamanca (España). Es profesor principal en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú donde imparte docencia en los cursos de Derecho penal a nivel de pregrado y posgrado....
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Mientras que las sociedades son cada vez más multiculturales, la población de las cárceles continúa siendo notoriamente homogénea. ¿Cómo entender este desajuste? Más que atribuirlo a una supuesta tendencia natural al delito entre los sectores más vulnerables, cabe pensar que la ley penal aplica un sesgo sistemático y discriminatorio y que, al hacerlo, protege un orden injusto. Como lo que está en juego aquí es el uso del aparato coercitivo...
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"The Hemp Handbook: Understanding the Laws of Hemp, CBD, and Marijuana" is an enlightening guide penned by renowned attorney Mark Nicholson. With his legal experience, Nicholson navigates the complex landscape of laws governing hemp, CBD, and marijuana.
The book serves as a vital resource for anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of the rapidly evolving cannabis industry. From growers and consumers to entrepreneurs and investors, Nicholson's...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 I loved working at the butcher's shop as a young girl. I learned about tendons and blood vessels, how to remove the confluence of structures at the hilum of the kidney, and how to open the joint between two bones to reveal the glassy, viscous fluid of the synovial joint space.
#2 The first experience of a dissecting room is intimidating for everyone. It is a reminder that everyone...
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This book is a practical manual of driving under the influence. What DUI means, how to avoid doing it, how to avoid getting caught if you do it, how to avoid a conviction if you do get caught. Told by one of the nation's leading DUI specialists, with over thirty years of legal experience, this is a book with solid practical advice on every page. Tom Hudson uses clear explanations and easy to understand charts and graphs to explain many of the "unspeakable...
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This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives...
14) Injustice by Law
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Being a colored woman living in public housing, I dealt with the dilemmas of injustice from the law. I became a victim from my abuser, only to be victimize by the Department of Children Services. I was fighting against all odds in order to get my daughters back home. I didn't get a chance to heal from my kidnapping and abuse. I had no help from the police department in the beginning of my disappearance. My family begged for help from the law but was...
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Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity-criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has...
16) In The Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article "The Aims of the Criminal Law"
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America's criminal codes are so voluminous that they now bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Our courthouses are so clogged that there is no longer adequate time for trials. And our penitentiaries are overflowing with prisoners. In fact, America now has the highest per capita prison population in the world. This situation has many people wondering whether the American criminal justice system has become dysfunctional....
17) Marijuana Law
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Over a million people in the United States regularly smoke marijuana. Approximately 400,000 defendants each year are charged with the use, possession, sale, or cultivation of marijuana. MARIJUANA LAW describes how people can reduce the probability of arrest and defend themselves from prosecution if arrested. Readers will learn when a police officer can legally stop them; when they can be searched; when they have to be read their rights; what to do...
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La obra recoge aspectos fundamentales de la teoría del Delito y de su evolución, desde la óptica del profesor Urs Kindhäuser. Entre los temas expuestos en este trabajo se presentan algunas cuestiones sobre los delitos de peligro y un estudio sobre la culpabilidad penal en el Estado democrático, así mismo se dedican algunos capítulos a la lógica de la construcción del delito, a la forma y contenido del consentimiento en el derecho penal, y...
19) Problemas actuales de derecho penal económico, responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, c
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"Los avances y transformaciones geopolíticos, económicos, tecnológicos, industriales y financieros de las sociedades contemporáneas se han ido desarrollando paralelamente con diversas modalidades delictivas que cada vez son más sofisticadas y complejas, lo que ha puesto a prueba la eficacia de los Estados para comprender los fenómenos criminales, prevenirlos, combatirlos y gestionarlos.
Procesos corruptos con alcance transnacional, como el soborno...
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Este es un libro breve que busca exponer de manera asequible y con lenguaje sencillo los contenidos fundamentales del derecho penal: ley penal y teoría del delito. Ofrece al lector conocimientos básicos en la materia, pero especialmente recuerda que el ejercicio del poder penal debe respetar en forma irrestricta a la persona humana en todas sus manifestaciones, como se expresa en la parte dedicada a los límites al poder penal.
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