Across the globe, legal protection of animal rights continues to be a significant problem, and the level of protection varies dramatically among countries.
A core text for courses on hate crimes as well as an excellent supplement for any social problems class, Hate Crimes: Typology, Motivations, and Victims brings its singular focus to the growth and evolution in the field of hate crimes and hate studies.
Hawai'i Legal Research was written to fill a gap in the literature that examines Hawaiian legal authorities and the Hawaiian legal system, from the Kingdom era to statehood, from the researcher’s perspective.
Using case law as well as policy documents and key legislation, this book covers a diverse range of legal issues, including constitutional framework, criminal procedure, interrogation and surveillance involving both domestic and involving foreign intelligence subjects, protection and litigation of state secrets and classified information, war powers, civil rights, targeted killings, military justice, international law, detainees, and much more.
How Criminal Law Works provides a conceptual guide to the law by introducing the reader to the special terminology, methods and traditions that inform criminal law. It pays special attention to the language of criminal law and its challenges.
Slavery has not been eradicated. The second edition of Human Trafficking updates the legal, moral and political attempts to contain sex and labor trafficking.
Human Trafficking in the Midwest reveals the existence of the various forms of human trafficking evident in St. Louis, Missouri and the bi-state area, and the efforts that are being made at the community, social service, and legal levels to improve the lives of those who have been identified as victims/survivors of human trafficking.