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  • The Victim Shall Benefit

    by Elwyn Meyer ...
    The DEATH PENALTY DOES NOT FEATURE in this campaign at all.Highlights from the eBook:- The victim will receive monthly compensation for the duration of the perpetrators' sentence.- If there are two perpetrators, the victim will receive additional compensation per month.- The Budget for Correctional Services will not be affected.- Recidivism will decrease to about 1% from the present 37%.- School ... Read more

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  • Dispensing with the Truth

    The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

    by Alicia Mundy ...
    Semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardIn 1996, a terrible epidemic began killing young American women. Some died quickly, literally dropping in their steps. Others took more time, from a few months to a few years. Those who weren't killed suffered damage to their lungs and hearts, much of it permanent and reparable only with major surgery. Doctors suspected what the killer was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Too Big to Jail

    How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations

    by Brandon L. Garrett ...
    American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.Federal prosecutors benefit from expansive statutes ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Why Torture Doesn’t Work

    The Neuroscience of Interrogation

    by Shane O'Mara ...
    Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does.In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. ... Read more

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  • In Doubt

    by Dan Simon ...
    Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Three Strikes and You’re Out!

    The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law

    by Mike Reynolds, Bill Jones, Dan Evans ...
         This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.      It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering by consistently soft-on-crime, liberal politicians in an effort to eviscerate the law, and it’s the story of the ultimate ... Read more

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  • Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression

    by Patrycja Grzebyk ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Law
    Since the Nuremberg trial, the crime of aggression has been considered one of the gravest international crimes. However, since the 1940s no defendants have been charged with this crime, with some states actively opposing the notion of punishing aggression. The option of trying an individual for aggression is expressly included in the statute of the International Criminal Court. In 2010 the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Judges Against Justice

    On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack

    by Hans Petter Graver ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Guantanamo Files

    The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

    by Andy Worthington ...
    In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo ... Read more

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  • The Social Contexts of Criminal Sentencing

    by Martha A. Myers, Susette M. Talarico ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Historically, the announcement and invocation of criminal penalties were public spectacles. Today, fear of crime and disaffection with the criminal justice system guarantee that this public fascination with punishment continues. In the past decade, virtually every legislature in the country has undertaken sentencing reform, in the hope that public concern with crime would be allayed and dispari ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Locating Deviance

    Crime, Change and Organizations

    by Gerald Mars ...
    Series series New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
    This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts such as 'organizational perversion', 'tyranny' and 'organizational capture'. Exploring the effects of change and environmental influences such as globalization, new technologies and trade-cycles on the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • No Boundaries

    Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement

    by Tom Diaz ...
    "Tom Diaz has worn out some shoe leather, much like a good detective, in gathering facts, not myths or urban legends. As a result he has produced an accurate and comprehensive look at a grave and present danger to our society."---From the foreword by Chris Swecker, former Assistant Director of the FBI and former head of the FBI's Criminal Investigative DivisionNo Boundaries is a disturbing account ... Read more

    $22.29 USD