Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

of legal language but also tried to understand why legal language is as it is. In their efforts to understand and provide explan ...

debated. One cynical explanation is that the legal profession has an interest in the language remaining specialized and inaccess ...

which relate to the historic language. Gibbons (2003) and Tiersma (1999) both point out that every will is a ‘last will’ and Gib ...

Cotterill, J. (2003) Language and power in court: A linguistic analy- sis of the O. J. Simpson trial.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmi ...

punishment and offenders Punishment involves some form of pain, discomfort, or generally unpleasant experience. It can take many ...

through the streets of the local town, but they may still find the death penalty acceptable, or would think that a community-bas ...

offenders are subject to a punishment that is equal to the crime that they have committed. So, a mugger is not likely to be exec ...

During the early 1990s in the UK, much of sentencing policy was based on this concept of deterrence, rather than the rehabil- it ...

identify, and this makes policing and punishment difficult. Partly due to concern about not identifying the correct perpetrator ...

While highly publicized miscarriages of justice concerning those who have been wrongfully imprisoned are of great concern to the ...

based on the level of organization: the lone vigilante, the semi- organized group and the organized group. The lone vigilanteis ...

Vigilantism may take on a more policing-type function, or the form of distributing what is perceived to be an appropriate pun- i ...

women to control men, ordering his henchmen to drag even girls as young as 12 to a nearby derelict building to be gang-raped. In ...

time could be a target of vigilantism. It is this punishment aspect of vigilantism that often hits the headlines, and which is t ...

the chances of being caught. It is also often felt that offenders should be made to suffer while imprisoned and should not have ...

the method of execution for the nobility in England. It has also been suggested to be quick and painless (this was the reason gi ...

In an attempt to tackle current concerns about crime, a number of Western countries are changing how they deal with offenders. I ...

that the main way this works to reduce reoffending is to make offenders recognize that they have done wrong: if the offender is ...

however, an outcry amongst some members of the community who felt this was much more about humiliation and making offenders stan ...

Foucault, M. (1991) Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison, trans. A. Sheridan. London: Penguin Books Ltd. Guardian, The ...