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"Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American...
2) Injustice
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2012
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When successful London barrister William Travers suffers a nervous breakdown, he moves his family and practice to rural Suffolk. Called upon to defend an old friend, he is caught up in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the courtroom. James Purefoy stars in a taut, engrossing thriller from the creator of Foyle's War.
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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously...
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In September 2002, two women were found dead inside the Dolly Madison bakery in Great Bend, Kansas. 20 years later, a filmmaker attempting to shed light on the case finds there might be hidden reasons as to why it has remained unsolved all these years.
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Far too often, teens find themselves caught up in the legal system over actions that didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Unforeseen consequences of small pranks, petty theft, public drinking or urination, simple assault, and trespassing can become too overwhelming for somebody without legal experience, resources, or know-how. This simple guide defines misdemeanors and minor offenses, explains what to do when cited for one, and narrates the court...
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Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.
The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present....
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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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En este trabajo se aborda de manera sistemática en sentido estricto el artículo 227 del CP, que criminaliza el incumplimiento de la pensión de alimentos. El impago de este tipo de pensiones, constituye un motivo de litigiosidad frecuente en los juzgados, evidenciando situaciones de necesidad que a veces derivan en graves problemas de subsistencia de los miembros del núcleo familiar.
Se analizan detalladamente los requisitos para que los Juzgados...
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El órgano judicial penal y el penalista académico, a diferentes niveles de abstracción, persiguen un mismo objetivo. El primero tiene que dar con la mejor solución del caso. El segundo, sin referirlo a un caso en concreto, tiene que ofrecer la regla que proporcione la mejor solución de un grupo de casos. Ahora bien, ¿Cuál es la mejor solución y cómo se construye la mejor regla? Los estudios que se recogen en este volumen responden al intento...
10) 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....
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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...
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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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¿Cómo se llega a ser juez? ¿Son los jueces tal y como creemos? ¿Les afecta personalmente el impacto de sus decisiones en la vida de los ciudadanos? ¿Hasta qué punto están politizados? ¿Quién juzga a los jueces? ¿Mandan los jueces en los juzgados? ¿Existe realmente una justicia patriarcal en nuestro país?
La magistrada Natalia Velilla responde a estas y otras muchas preguntas en Así funciona la Justicia , donde narra con todo detalle la...
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El sistema penitenciario en Colombia en particular, y el sistema jurídico en general, son considerados por legos y expertos como claros ejemplos del divorcio entre lo que dice el papel y lo que se constata en la práctica. A partir de esta historia inédita del surgimiento de instituciones tales como la pena de prisión, el ejercito permanente, la policía, las leyes de orden público y el banco nacional, el autor identifica la estructura de los...
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With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question...
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It is easy to get a criminal record. Simply being accused of a crime will lead to police making a record (usually called incident or occurrence report) of the event, even if no charges are laid. And if police do decide to lay charges, which they will do if they have the slightest belief that the person is guilty, fingerprints and photographs are taken. These become a criminal record, even if the charge may not result in conviction, if the person is...
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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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The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin, many Americans assume repatriation will be easy and the emotional and financial hardships will be few, but in fact the opposite is true. Deportees suffer greatly when they are torn from...
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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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El libro, es una juiciosa y amplia compilación de aportes de trece destacados juristas sobre los retos que afronta actualmente la responsabilidad civil, penal y laboral. Los directores de la publicación, el Dr. Billy Escobar Pérez, Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y la Dra. Mónica Lucía Fernández, docente de la Facultad, han organizado un minucioso documento que integra en un conjunto coherente, el aporte de prestigiosos expertos nacionales...