This paper examined and discussed the sundry controv the nature, sources and interpretations of Islamic law. The study was engendered by the fact that differences in views and attitudes to these variables have contributed in no mean way to political and religious unrests in many parts of t Middle East where Islam has much stronghold. This paper considered it expedient to engage in the study so ...

The role of criminological theory should be to inform practice. Program developers should start with a recognized theory about the causes of crime and then design interventions that target factors identified in that theory. Unfortunately, the link between theory and practice is not always apparent. In this paper, a number of prominent developmental theories of crime are considered. These theori...

Over the past decade, a growing body of literature has emerged under umbrella narrative criminology. We trace origins this field to scholarship in social sciences more broadly and review recent history criminological engagement field. then contemporary developments, paying particular attention research around desistance victimology. Our highlights most important critiques challenges for crimino...

Building on the insights of late Roy Bhaskar and Roger Matthews, as well some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces delineates core intellectual contours a Critical Realist Criminology (CRC) based principles of: The ‘emergent,’ stratified ontology crime offender;the full critical realist account dialectics being becoming, including spiritual turn realism, app...

Criminology is widely accepted to be an interdisciplinary subject. However, evolutionary approaches are conspicuous by their absence in mainstream criminological contexts. Although the reasons for this theoretical lacuna are no doubt varied, we argue that the time is apposite for a measured consideration of the role of evolutionary explanations in criminology. By drawing on the idea of vertical...

• Option Essays In each of Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, students were required to take two optional seminar courses (out of a choice of three in Michaelmas and four in Hilary). These were examined by essays, the titles of which were posted on Friday of 6 week, to be submitted by noon on Friday of ninth week. Each essay was to be no less than 3,500 and no more than 5,000 words, including footnot...

Loza, N. & El Nawawi, M. (2012) Mental health legislation in Egypt. BJPsych International, 9, 64–66. Pearl, A. L. (2013) Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the legal capacity of disabled people: the way forward? Leeds Journal of Law and Criminology, 1, 1–30. Available at http://criminology.leeds.ac.uk/ editions/2013-edition (accessed 5 Mar...

In today’s security conscious environment, the primary concern of security professionals and police departments is to protect the lives and property of citizens. Any act that causes loss of lives and harms people is called as crime. Crime analysis, a part of criminology, is a task that includes exploring and detecting crimes and their relationships with criminals. Presently there are several cr...