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The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation brings together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on investigation of homicides.

In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice? Through the critical examination of original stenographic data, this book demonstrates how an English Magistrates' courthouse often pursued managerial efficiency to the detriment of social justice and procedural due process values. Given that these courts process more than 95% of all criminal cases, this 'over-efficiency' problem has the capacity to cause significant social harm. Yates' work concludes by providing socio-legal and criminological readers with ways to fix this over-efficiency problem. This accessible work is of value to policy makers and post-graduate students alike.

Why would an innocent person ever confess to a crime they did not commit? Academia has conducted a great deal of research into this question and have routinely concluded that the actions of law enforcement officers and their interrogative tactics are largely responsible for these false confessions. Through the claims of academic researchers, expert witnesses, wrongful conviction advocates, defense attorneys, and even Hollywood producers, an ethos has been created which suggests that American law enforcement officers routinely overbear the will of criminal subjects and will stop at nothing in order to obtain a confession; even a false confession. This book finally brings balance to these flawed assertions by providing insights from real-world law enforcement officers who specialize in the field of criminal interrogation. This book also highlights the anti-law enforcement bias present within the academic community; the flawed and unrealistic research designs utilized to study the false confession phenomenon; and the rise of the lucrative false confession expert witness industry. In what can only be described as 'apoplectic, ' academics have already equated the positions in this book to "arguing against the existence of climate change" and have pleaded that it "should never see the light of publication." At last, a book has been written that reconsiders the false confession phenomenon from a law enforcement perspective and ultimately paints a drastically different picture of what takes place inside of America's interrogation rooms. This book promises to offer a different take on what many so-called experts would have you believe about criminal interrogation; and it's one they don't want you to hear.

Der Naturrechtsgedanke erlebte nach 1945 eine "Renaissance". Die überwiegende Zahl wissenschaftlicher Beiträge setzt sich mit damaligen Diskussionen über Naturrecht innerhalb rechtsphilosophischer und kirchlicher Kreise auseinander. Aber wie stand es um die Rechtspraxis, die über konkrete Taten und Täter zu entscheiden hatte? Hannah Toprak analysiert wann, wo, mit welchen juristischen Instrumenten und mit welchen Folgen man sich bei der Aburteilung von NS-Verbrechen auf Argumente des Naturrechts stützte. Umfassend berücksichtigt sie hierbei den historischen, rechtsdogmatischen und philosophischen Kontext. Die Autorin zeigt unter Einbeziehung von rund 200 einschlägigen Entscheidungen auf, dass die Zwecke, Effekte und Gründe der Heranziehung des Arguments vielseitig und konträr, überwiegend aber ernüchternd bis erschütternd sind.