Desisting from crime

continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders

This groundbreaking study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. The authors address questions that have been the focus of criminological debate over the last two decades. Are there are multiple groups of offenders in the population with distinct age-crime patterns? Are between-person differences ...

Copyright and free speech

comparative and international analyses

Written by a team of leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of copyright and free speech, this work analyses the potential for interaction and conflict between the two rights. Free speech is the lifeblood of any democracy. As John Stuart Mill stated, "In government ...

The new imperialism

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on ...

Global governance of financial systems

the international regulation of systemic risk

The book sets forth the economic rationale for international financial regulation and what role, if any, international regulation can play in effectively managing systemic risk while providing accountability to all affected nations. The book suggests that a particular type of global governance structure is necessary ...

City government in hellenistic and roman Asia minor

City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous changes in Greek cities during the imperial period ought to be attributed to Roman influence. The ...

Spinoza and spinozism

Stuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Among the great thinkers of modern times, only Spinoza created ...

Human rights in criminal proceedings

Appraising strict liability

Strict liability is a controversial phenomenon in the criminal law because of its potential to convict blameless persons. Offences are said to impose strict liability when, in relation to one or more elements of the actus reus, there is no need for the prosecution to ...

Criminal responsability

This book considers the proper nature and scope of criminal responsibility in the light of its institutional and political role. Tadros begins by providing a general account of criminal responsibility which is based on the relationship between the action that the defendant has performed and ...

The Law of entry, search, and seizure

Now in its fourth edition, this book provides a practical guide to the powers of entry, inspection, search, and seizure available in both criminal and civil proceedings. It offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the powers available to the police and other officials (including ...

The physical geography of Southeast Asia

The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia examines the complex mosaic of physical environments which comprise Southeast Asia, and the current environmental problems and management practices which have arisen in this part of the world. The book is in three sections. The first section introduces the ...

Strategy, economic organization, and the knowledge economy

the coordination of firms and resources

Multinationals and global capitalism

from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy ...

The Oxford handbook of organization theory

meta-theoretical perspectives

ÍNDICE: Five sets of questions are raised in the handbook, each one of which is dealt with in a separate section: 1) What does a science of organizations consist of? What counts as valid knowledge in organization theory and why? How do different paradigms view ...

Beyond continuity

institutional change in advanced political economies

This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories, finding them lacking in the analytic tools necessary to identify the changes occurring at a national ...

Knowledge to action?

evidence-based health care in context

Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knolwedge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement change based on research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational ...

Private sector involvement and international financial crises

an analytical perspective

The book's first part provides a critical synthesis of the literature underpinning the architecture debate. It reviews the traditional distinction between "fundamentals-based" and "sunspot-based" crises before reconciling the two using global game methods. The role of co- ordination problems in sparking costly liquidation and ...

Theory and practice of excise taxation

smoking, drinking, gambling, polluting, and driving

Spatial inequality and development

Understanding capitalism

competition, command, and change

Leading issues in economic development

An outline of the history of economic thought

Revised and updated to take account of new developments in economic thought. Provides a balanced treatment of historical and contemporary theory. Accessible, lucid explanations- suitable for all levels of students. Frames the developments of economic thought within the history of ideas