Crime is a source of endless fascination and fear. Yet behind the apparent consensus that crime must be fought, there is considerable conflict about what should or should not be treated as criminal, and even the most shocking crimes can inspire divisive debate.
Offering a comprehensive overview of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, this book guides readers through a diverse range of legal perspectives. It covers both traditional theories like Natural Law and contemporary approaches including Feminist Theory, Economic Analysis of Law, and Foucault's insights on law. The structured course of study is designed to make complex concepts accessible, making it an ideal resource for those seeking to understand the evolution and breadth of legal thought.
Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly.
This book covers the history of the police, the sociology of policing, and the law and politics of the police. From Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry to Life on Mars, Robert Reiner explores the highly-charged debates that surround policing and analyses the proposals for reform.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers provides guidance on how managers need to change their business practices to address innovations such as biotechnology, information technology, the Internet, and advanced material. George S. Day (Philadelphia, PA) is the Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Marketing.
Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison population and the rising force of penal severity, seem unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime. But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, globalisation has left many of the key institutional differences between national systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences in the capacity for penal tolerance in otherwise relatively similar societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within particular systems.
In this substantially revised edition of a classic work first published 30 years ago, she portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society, including: seasonal customs deriving from Celtic festivals; Her seminal work is Pagan Celtic Britain and she has also published Druids - Preachers of Immortality with Tempus Publishing. schovat popis
This book strips away modern myths about the Druids
Irish English has been extensively studied across various linguistic levels, yet research on its pragmatic aspects remains limited. This volume addresses this gap by offering empirical data on language use in Ireland across private, official, and public spheres, while also examining Irish English as a reflection of socio-cultural interaction norms. The contributions explore a wide range of pragmatic phenomena using diverse analytical frameworks, ultimately presenting a coherent picture of language use conventions in Ireland. Notably, features such as indirectness and formal heterogeneity characterize Irish English. This work represents the first comprehensive examination of the pragmatics of a national variety of English, potentially paving the way for a new field, variational pragmatics, which intersects pragmatics and dialectology. It is particularly valuable for researchers and students in pragmatics, variational linguistics, Irish English, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), cross-cultural communication, and discourse analysis. The pragmatic insights offered are also beneficial in the context of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Ireland. Additionally, the volume is relevant for professionals engaged with Ireland and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Irish culture.