A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN NEW ZEALAND is designed to be a convenient, practical and portable handbook for anyone working with the new criminal procedure legislation, and associated rules and regulations.
The book also contains invaluable information about sentencing, appeals, counsel's professional and ethical obligations, legal aid and the Public Defender Service, the use of audio-visual links, diversion, jury selection, jury decision ...
For students and general readers, this book tackles the big questions: How can crime be explained? Is crime rising or falling and if so, why? How do the police operate? How do the courts work? What is the meaning of a "life" sentence?
In this major new textbook, leading scholars from criminology, history, journalism, law, psychology, sociology and other fields take students and general readers inside New Zealand’s criminal justice system. The authors...
This is an excellent resource that will become required reading fo law, students, policy analysts, sociologists, Judges and police."--Publisher's description.
The Law of Criminal Investigation in New Zealand
Adams on Criminal Law has been New Zealand's most trusted criminal law reference for over 40 years. The Student Edition looks at the Crimes Act 1961 and Criminal Procedure Act 2011 and offers practical commentary on key sections.
This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years.
Definition and application -- Interpretation, proof and the rule of law -- The actus reus --Mens rea -- Strict and absolute liability -- Secondary participation -- Vicarious and corporate liability -- The inchoate offences -- Infancy -- ...
In the 2016 Hamlyn Lectures, Chief Justice of New Zealand, Dame Sian Elias critiques recent changes in criminal justice systems.