Trusts and Equity demystifies this complex subject, without oversimplifying the law, by means of clear explanations and contemporary applications. It also considers recent proposals for reform so that the reader can gain an understanding of the development of the law.

Understanding Criminal Investigation provides a critical examination of investigative practice by focusing on the key issues and debates underpinned by academic literature on crime investigation.

This is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving links between new public management and modernization as well as proposing a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of policies on each criminal justice agency in England and Wales.

How should you choose your dissertation topic? What is the best research method to adopt? What is going to make your dissertation achieve the best grades? This book provides a guide to various stages of the research and writing process for law students, and answers the many questions that face first-time researchers.

This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences.