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  • Unthinkable

    Who Kills Their Grandmother?

    by James W. Marquart ...
    It was a warm, still, July summer night in 2014, when an 85-year-old woman, a beloved grandmother and neighbor, was viciously murdered by someone who slipped quietly into her bedroom and slit her throat and watched her bleed to death in less than a minute.Who committed this awful murder, how, and why? The perpetrator of this horrible crime was the woman's own grandson, an adored and trusted family ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Deadly Consequences

    The Unintended Impact of Sentencing Reforms on California County Jails

    by Jonathan W. Caudill, Chad R. Trulson, James W. Marquart, Matt DeLisi ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book investigates the unintended and deadly consequences of criminal justice reforms through observing the effects of prison depopulation sentencing reform on county jails. This mixed-methods case study explores how California’s sentencing reform efforts in 2011 (Assembly Bill 109) and 2014 (Proposition 47) to depopulate California state prisons impacted California county jail inmate culture ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • First Available Cell

    Desegregation of the Texas Prison System

    by Chad R. Trulson, James W. Marquart ...
    Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court and certain governmental actions struck down racial segregation in the larger society, American prison administrators still boldly adhered to discriminatory practices. Not until 1975 did legislation prohibit racial segregation and discrimination in Texas prisons. However, vestiges of this practice endured behind prison walls. Charting the transformation from ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • An Appeal to Justice

    Litigated Reform of Texas Prisons

    by Ben M. Crouch, James W. Marquart ...
    How does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has been the most significant force in obtaining change.An Appeal to Justice is a critical tudy of how ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Lost Causes

    Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission

    by Chad R. Trulson, Darin R. Haerle, Jonathan W. Caudill, Matt DeLisi ...
    What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through “determinate sentencing,” a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the Texas Youth ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle

    Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990

    by James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Jonathan R. Sorensen ...
    In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas’ traditional reputation as a staunch supporter of capital punishment.This book is the single most comprehensive examination to date of capital punishment in any one ... Read more

    $27.59 USD