"The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices from British colonial rule through military dictatorship to the present day, Cheesman calls upon political and legal theory to explain how and why institutions animated by a concern for law and order oppose the rule of law. Empirically grounded in both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents, Opposing the Rule of Law offers the first significant study of courts in contemporary Myanmar. It sheds new light on the politics of courts during dark times and sharply illuminates the tension between the demand for law and the imperatives of order"--
Study Guide to Accompany Introduction to Criminal Justice, Third Edition, by Donald J. Newman, School of Criminal Justice, State University...
United States , 168 U.S. 532 , the Court held that “ [ i ] n criminal trials , in the courts of the United States ... Haynes v . Washington , 373 U.S. 503 . The marked shift to the federal standard in state cases . . . reflects ...
The Police Function: Reprinted from Miller, Dawson, Dix, and Parnas' Cases and Materials on Criminal Justice Administration (second Edition)
Chapter 8 THE EVOLUTION OF OFFENDER ELECTRONIC MONITORING: FROM RADIO SIGNALS TO SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY MATTHEW E. ... As Emma Anderson (2014) reports as part of her NPR discussion on electronic monitoring, “With overcrowded jails and the ...
American System of Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice Series
This book, which is intended to be used as a textbook in an introductory course in criminal justice in America, covers the criminal justice process, the police, the courts, corrections, and the juvenile justice system.
Broad coverage of the facts, uncompromising scholarship, an engaging writing style, and compelling delivery of current events make THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 13E, International Edition one of the best books available for an in ...
Instructor's Manual for The American System of Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice in America: For University of Wisconsin-Madison
... 354 , 357-359 Bazemore , G. , 225 , 250 , 455 Beasely , Thomas W. , 351-352 Beccaria , C. , 187 Beck , A. , 169 , 189 Beck , A.J. , 286 , 288 , 295 Beck , J.L. , 231 Becker , F. , 190 Becker , G.S. , 188 Becker , H.S. , 309 Becker ...