Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Paperback - Alexandra Natapoff

2010 Honorable Mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar AssociationAlbert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit...

DescriptionToo Much, Too Soon? tackles the burning question of how to reverse the erosion of childhood by nurturing young children's wellbeing and ...

The New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic argues that waves of Muslim immigration are transforming sexual politics in Eu...

She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in th...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this gripping expose of our cyber-centric, attention-deficient life, journalist Maggie Jackson argues that we are eroding our capacit...

This Element looks into how politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawin...

Reducere. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-...

Justice for All identifies ten central flaws in the criminal justice system and offers an array of solutions - from status quo to evolution to revo...

Reducere. It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our ...

DescriptionThis book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice an...

Contributor(s): Author: David R. MontgomeryDirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting ou...

Reducere. Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential. -- Ibram X. Kendi Required reading to understand the context of this pandemic. -- Jelani Cobb Carte Blan...

Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship t...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): David S. RudolfNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 36Cover type: Hardba...

Publisher: Akashic Books, U.S.Author(s): M. Chris FabricantIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. Baffled by the stereotypes presented by Hollywood and much historical fiction, many other Americans find the contemporary American Indian an enigma...

Practicing lawyers, students, and informed general readers will learn the general principles of American systems of criminal justice, and will obta...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): William R. (Distinguished and Rogers Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Distinguished and Roge...

Reducere. In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, T...

This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of thos...

This edited collection explores the topic of disclosure in the criminal justice system. The book provides a valuable resource for academics, practi...

A critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillanc...

Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The Africa Research CentreAuthor(s): David HoileNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 47Cover type: Paperbac...

Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth? This book investigates the concept of truth and scruti...

Out-of-Control Criminal Justice shows that our system of criminal justice is broken; it is out of control. The author writes that a research-based ...

This book is valuable to students, scholars, and researchers who are interested in international relations, international criminal justice, peace a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Caoimhe (Queen Mary University of London, UK) McAvincheyNumber of pages: 264Collection: Applied ...

Reducere. Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force...

Poetic Justice is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with the purpose of offering a positive, constructive form of self-expression to those affected ...

Reducere. The nationally recognized credit-by-exam DSST(R) program helps students earn college credits for learning acquired outside the traditional classroo...

Privatising Criminal Justice explores the social, cultural, and political context of privatisation in the criminal justice sector.Publisher: Taylor...

The most straightforward overview available covering the entire criminal justice system. A 'no frills' explanation for beginners.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter A (Seattle University, USA) CollinsIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, ...

This book provides an empirically grounded framework for studying central governance challenges in various areas of international, transnational an...

This book is of interest to international law scholars and practitioners, students of transitional justice, and governance and development scholars...

The legal system is complex, and without appropriate access, many injustices can occur. Deaf people in the criminal justice system are routinely de...

Reducere. What is law? What is deviance? What is justice? How is justice achieved through law, punishment, and criminal justice agencies? Now in its third ed...

DescriptionCriminal justice careers typically fall into one of two categories: law enforcement or legal. But contrary to what many may know about t...

By drawing from her research on ethnic profiling, crimmigration and counterterrorism legislation, Van der Woude aims to illustrate not only the cen...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Michael (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) MaxfieldNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2015Dimensi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rory (UCL Faculty of Laws, UK) KellyNumber of pages: 536Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 170 x 243 ...

DescriptionMost people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the bail am...

Revised edition of the author's Comparative criminal justice, 2015.

Reducere. Rather than providing students with "the answers, " Making Sense of Criminal Justice: Policies and Practices, Third Edition, challenges them to thi...