Despite legal reforms, there has been little improvement in police, prosecutor, and court
handling of rape and sexual assault. In the past 15 years in Australia, Canada, England and …

In his 2002 presidential address to the American Society of Criminology, Lawrence Sherman
spoke of an'emotionally intelligent justice, in which the central tools will be inventions for …

Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing
the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of …

In this article, we explore the uniqueness of argumentation within the field of history,
considering whether historians' processes in crafting an interpretive argument from inexact …

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive
collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining …

Plea bargaining in the United States is in critical respects unregulated, and a key reason is
the marginal role to which judges have been relegated. In the wake of Santobello v. New …

Background This article reports qualitative findings from a sample of 31 purposively chosen
injection drug users (IDUs) from Vancouver, Surrey and Victoria, British Columbia …

This book provides a theoretically informed guide to the practice of working with offenders in
different settings and for different purposes. It deals with topics such as offender …

Criminal justice systems are under constant strain. Rising case loads, crowded court
dockets, growing prison populations and high recidivism rates have resulted in growing …

Recent theorising about feminist judging has concentrated on appellate courts and their
judgments. This paper develops a conceptualisation of feminist judging in lower, first …