Criminology (Pocket)
avMartin O'Brien, Majid Yar
ISBN: 9780415427944 - UTGIVEN: 2008-06-23Suitable for students of criminology, this guide takes you through the different concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of crime in contemporary society. It covers topics such as: policing, sentencing and the justice system; and, types of crime, including corporate crime,[...]
Murder at the Supreme Court (Inbunden)
avMartin Clancy, Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9781616146481 - UTGIVEN: 201302This is a fascinating and intelligent exploration of some of America's most noteworthy and important capital punishment cases. In 1969, America's Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional. But the Court's resolve soon began to falter. Why? What were the consequences for the ru[...]
Legal Pluralism in Conflict: Coping with Cultural Diversity in Law (Inbunden)
avMartin Clancy, Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9781904385585 - UTGIVEN: 200509Legal Pluralism in Conflict offers a new theoretical perspective for conceptualising and analysing the relationship between ethnic minority laws and the official legal order. Examining the limits of liberal legal thought in light of a contemporary plurality of ethnic identifications and religious be[...]
Atlas of Religion, The (Övrig)
avJoanne O'brien, Martin Palmer
ISBN: 9780520249172 - UTGIVEN: 2007-05-07The world's religions have emerged as one of the greatest geopolitical forces now shaping our lives. Now available in an updated edition, this authoritative atlas is an essential resource for understanding the powerful role of religion around the globe. In an accessible text packed with information,[...]
The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Pocket)
avJohn (EDT) O'Brien, Martin (EDT) Riker, Irving (EDT) Malin
ISBN: 9781564786449 - UTGIVEN: 2011-04The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed.[...]
Zoroastrianism (Inbunden)
avPaula R. Hartz, Joanne (EDT) O'Brien, Martin (EDT) Palmer
ISBN: 9781604131161 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05Zoroastrianism, the smallest of the world's great religions, is also one of the oldest. Founded more than 3,000 years ago by the prophet Zarathustra, it flourished in ancient Persia during the time of the Persian Empire. Scholars have long acknowledged the contributions of Zoroastrianism to other fa[...]
