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CRIMINAL LAW
CRIME & JUSTICE: A GUIDE TO
CRIMINOLOGY, 4TH EDITION
Marmo, de Lint and Palmer
Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology has
been for many years a leading Australian
textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate
students approaching this subject for the first
time. The contributors are well known researchactive
academics in Australia who contribute
to the criminological debate at a national and
international level.
Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition
offers a comprehensive guide to criminal justice
and criminology that is well suited to a twosemester
approach. It covers a wide range of
topics including: different forms of crimes –
from street crime to state crime and international
crimes; who commits crimes and who are the
victims of crimes; and how society responds
to crime. This book offers a balance between
the critical and administrative criminological
traditions, adding to the discourse on crime
and justice in the 21st century.
September 2011, Softcover
Code: 978 0455 228 600
Price: $95.00 incl. GST
new
EDition
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND
PROCEDURE: THE LAW IN VICTORIA
Christopher Corns and Steven Tudor
An indispensable and accessible guide for
law students, lawyers, police and non-police
investigators, and government policy advisors.
This book provides:
• clear and concise expositions of the relevant
law, with case and legislative authorities
succinctly identified;
• focused analysis of selected issues of policy
and principle; and
• comprehensive coverage of all stages of the
criminal process: investigation, prosecution,
trial, sentencing, and appeal.
As the investigation stage is vital to the
unfolding of the criminal process, this work
places particular emphasis on the laws and
principles governing criminal investigations.
Detailed yet accessible coverage is given to
arrest and bail, questioning, search and seizure
powers, fingerprinting and forensic procedures,
and covert investigations.
Throughout the book, relevant rights pertaining
to the Victorian Charter of Human rights and
Responsibilities are identified so that the law of
criminal investigation and procedure in Victoria
is clearly placed into its human rights context.
July 2009, Softcover
Code: 978 0455 225 821
Price: $89.00 incl. GST
CRIMINAL PROCESS IN QUEENSLAND
AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Douglas, Everton-Moore, Harbidge and Levy
This well-researched and clearly written book
covers the spectrum of criminal process in
Queensland and Western Australia, including
areas often neglected by other texts, beginning
with police investigation procedures, police
accountability and charge and bail, through
to pre-trial processes, trial, sentencing and
appeal. The book also includes a discussion
of the role of and response to victims in the
criminal justice process.
New material in this edition includes:
• the operation of trials by judge alone;
• discussion of the Queensland Moynihan Review;
• expanded analysis of disclosure;
• examination of recent High Court decisions on
the admissibility of confessions made to police;
• inquiry into reversing the onus of proof;
• the change of approach to Attorney-General
appeals following R v Lacey; Ex parte Attorney-
General; and
• the change in victim compensation under the
victim assistance scheme in Queensland.
With its clear and well-structured analysis and
easily accessible socio-legal approach, this
book will be of great assistance to students,
practitioners and those working in related
government and non-government organisations.
June 2010, Softcover
Code: 978 0455 227 993
Price: $99.00 incl. GST
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