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Arrest

Here are entered works on the apprehension of suspects in criminal cases. Works on long-term detention as a correctional measure against habitual criminals, and as a precautionary measure against those considered likely to commit crimes are entered under the heading Preventive detention.

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• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal procedure
• Detention of persons
• Imprisonment
• Provisional remedies

• Arrest -- France
• Arrest -- United States

• Pretrial detention

• Human Rights and Pre-Trial Detention: A Handbook of International Standards Relating to Pre-Trial Detention (professional training series #3; 1994), by United Nations Centre for Human Rights and United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Les Lettres de Cachet: "Prisonniers de Famille" et "Placements Volontaires" (in French; Gand: A. Vander Haeghen, 1912), by Paul Sérieux and Lucien Libert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), ed. by Christian M. de Vos, Sara Kendall, and Carsten Stahn, contrib. by Deirdre Clancy, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Peter Dixon, Jennifer S. Easterday, Laurel E. Fletcher, Judy Gitau, Matias Hellman, Pascal Kambale, Jeremy Kelley, Mark Kersten, David Koller, Patryk Labuda, Frédéric Mégret, Méndez Juan E., Njonjo Mue, Michael A. Newton, Stephen Oola, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Ruti G. Teitel (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Law and Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #37; London: Stevens and Sons, 1985), by Ralf Dahrendorf (PDF in the UK)
• Third Parties: Victims and the Criminal Justice System (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Leslie Sebba (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)
• An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (second American edition; Philadelphia: P. H. Nicklin, 1819), by Cesare Beccaria, trans. by Edward D. Ingraham (multiple formats at Google)

• African Guide to International Criminal Justice (2008), ed. by Max Du Plessis (PDF at issafrica.org)
• The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context: Development and Challenges (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Charles C. Jalloh, Kamari Maxine Clarke, and Vincent Obisienunwo Orlu Nmehielle (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• A Cover-Up Exposed: The 1994 AMIA Bombing Case Hits the Wall (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 2004), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajc.org)
• A Tangled Road to Justice: The AMIA Trial Nine Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2003), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• A Glimmer of Hope: The AMIA Bombing, Five Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• Le Crime de la Rue des Hirondelles (l'Affaire Van Calck à Bruxelles): Étude de Police Criminelle (in French; Paris: L. Frank, 1909), by Louis Frank
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Controlling Crime in California: Report of the Governor's Select Committee on Law Enforcement Problems, Submitted to the California Legislature by Governor Ronald Reagan (1973), by California Governor's Select Committee on Law Enforcement Problems, contrib. by Ronald Reagan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Controlling Crime in California: Report of the Governor's Select Committee on Law Enforcement Problems, Submitted to the California Legislature by Governor Ronald Reagan (1973), by California Governor's Select Committee on Law Enforcement Problems, contrib. by Ronald Reagan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Ace of Spades (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1961), by Dell Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case Pending (New York: Harper and Bros., c1960), by Dell Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)

• Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Crime and Civil Society: Can We Become a More Law-Abiding People? (c2005), by David G. Green, Emma Grove, and Nadia A. Martin (PDF at Civitas)

• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)

• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Crime and Civil Society: Can We Become a More Law-Abiding People? (c2005), by David G. Green, Emma Grove, and Nadia A. Martin (PDF at Civitas)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Simple Justice (c2005), by Charles A. Murray, ed. by David Conway, contrib. by Robert Allen, John Cottingham, Christie Davies, J. C. Lester, Tom Sorell, and Vivien Stern (PDF at Civitas)
• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)
• Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World (Hamlyn Lectures, #54; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by Helena Kennedy (PDF in the UK)

• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Jyoti Puri
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2008), by Viviane Saleh-Hanna (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Mapping Progress, Charting the Future: Restorative Justice in South Africa (2006), by Ann Skelton and Mike Batley (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Criminal Justice, New Technologies, and the Constitution (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Wrong Then, Wrong Now: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11, 2001 (Washington: Leadership Conference Education Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 2003), by Carlos T. Angulo and Ronald Harris Weich (HTML and PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Combating Violent Crime: 24 Recommendations to Strengthen Criminal Justice (1992), by United States Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, contrib. by William Pelham Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentencing in Time (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2017), by Linda Meyer (HTML and PDF with commentary at Amherst (providing personal information is optional))
• The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences (2014), by National Research Council Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, ed. by Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, and F. Stevens Redburn (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Case for More Incarceration (1992), by United States Department of Justice Office of Policy and Communications, contrib. by William Pelham Barr, Steven R. Schlesinger, and Edward Himmelfarb (PDF with commentary at ojp.gov)
• The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (Hamlyn Lectures, #59; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2008), by Nicola Lacey (PDF in the UK)
• Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Melissa Barden Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for a Field Research Program for Driver's License Law Enforcement: User Guidelines and Handbook (DOT HS-800 842; Washington: US Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1973), by John P. McGuire (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mediatization of the O. J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation (Media Studies v102; Bielefeld: Transcript, 12023), by Tatjana Neubauer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.