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“john harrison watts”

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  • Policing America's Educational Systems

    Edited by John Harrison Watts ...
    Policing America’s Educational Systems, edited by John Harrison Watts, describes methods of policing modern educational settings, covering both K-12 public school and public or private colleges and universities.Using topical examples, subject-matter experts introduce the history of policing in elementary and high schools, the legal context governing educational institutions, and ways to assess ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Law and Society

    An Introduction

    by John Harrison Watts, Cliff Roberson ...
    In recent years, legal studies courses have increased the focus on contemporary social issues as part of the curriculum. Law and Society: An Introduction discusses the interface between these two institutions and encourages students in the development of new insights on the topic. The book begins by introducing definitions, classifications, and the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Transformative Opinions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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    A collection of US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legal writings spanning her career, featuring her arguments, opinions, and dissents.US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life defying notions about women. She garnered the status of a cultural icon, the "Notorious RBG." Her life story is inspirational, and her work ethic is aspirational. Ginsburg's dissents on behalf of liberal ... Read more

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents

    by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
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    A collection of key dissenting and majority opinions from U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.During her 27 years as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became well known for her strongly worded dissenting opinions against the decisions of the conservative majority. Ginsburg was a fierce supporter of women’s rights whose personal experiences helped shape ... Read more

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  • Judicial Politics in the United States

    by Mark C. Miller ...
    Judicial Politics in the United States examines the role of courts as policymaking institutions and their interactions with the other branches of government and other political actors in the U.S. political system. Not only does this book cover the nuts and bolts of the functions, structures and processes of our courts and legal system, it goes beyond other judicial process books by exploring how ... Read more

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  • Electing Judges

    The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy

    by James L. Gibson ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A revealing and provocative study of the effects of judicial elections on state courts and public perceptions of impartiality.In Electing Judges, leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds to the growing concern that the realities of campaigning are undermining judicial independence and even the rule of law. Armed with empirical evidence, Gibson offers the most systematic and ... Read more

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  • The Policy State

    An American Predicament

    by Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek ...
    The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government’s entire raison d’être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. ... Read more

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  • Decision Making by the Modern Supreme Court

    by Richard L. Pacelle, Jr, Brett W. Curry, Bryan W. Marshall ...
    There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete. This book advances an integrated model of Supreme Court decision making that incorporates variables from each of the three models. In examining the modern Supreme Court, since Brown v. Board of Education, the book argues that decisions ... Read more

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  • Courting Death

    The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

    by Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker ...
    Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.In the ... Read more

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    by Matthew E. K. Hall ...
    Few institutions in the world are credited with initiating and confounding political change on the scale of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is uniquely positioned to enhance or inhibit political reform, enshrine or dismantle social inequalities, and expand or suppress individual rights. Yet despite claims of victory from judicial activists and complaints of undemocratic lawmaking from ... Read more

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    by Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth ...
    This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants: the legal and rational choice. Using the US Supreme Court Data ... Read more

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