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“michael davitt doyle”

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  • Kenneth Allen McDuff: Institutional Failure and Predatory Evil

    by Michael Davitt-Doyle ...
    The criminal record of Kenneth Allen McDuff, spanning from the mid-1960s to his execution in 1998, represents a critical intersection of psychopathy, institutional corruption, and tectonic shifts in American jurisprudence. McDuff holds a singular and grim distinction in the history of the United States legal system as the only individual to be sentenced to death on three separate occasions for ... Read more

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  • The Bonecrusher: Murder, Ash, and the Invisible Women of Peoria

    by Michael Davitt-Doyle ...
    The Bonecrusher: Murder, Ash, and the Invisible Women of PeoriaBetween July 2003 and October 2004, Larry Dean Bright, known to forensic investigators and the press as "The Bonecrusher", murdered eight women in and around Peoria, Illinois, operating undetected for fourteen months in one of the most disturbing serial homicide cases in Midwestern American history. His victims were Black women from ... Read more

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    Forensic Criminology gives students of criminology and criminal justice an introduction to the forensic realm and the applied forensic issues they will face when working cases within the justice system. It effectively bridges the theoretical world of social criminology with the applied world of the criminal justice system. While most of the competing textbooks on criminology adequately address the ... Read more

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  • Criminal Justice

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    The criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest research and current practices from a number of different countries around the world. Focusing on the adversarial model of justice found in common law countries such as the United States, United ... Read more

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  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
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    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

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  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

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    by Asongwe N. Thomas ...
    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

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  • Principles of Criminology

    by Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology. ... Read more

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  • Criminal (In)Justice

    What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

    by Rafael A. Mangual ...
    In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—a dangerously false ... Read more

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  • The Proof

    Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else

    by Frederick Schauer ...
    Winner of the Scribes Book Award“Displays a level of intellectual honesty one rarely encounters these days…This is delightful stuff.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal“At a time when the concept of truth itself is in trouble, this lively and accessible account provides vivid and deep analysis of the practices addressing what is reliably true in law, science, history, and ordinary life. The Proof ... Read more

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  • Gun Violence in American Society

    Crime, Justice and Public Policy

    Edited by Lisa A. Eargle, Ashraf Esmail ...
    Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society’s major social, public health and political concerns—death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms. Contributors employ a variety of theoretical, methodological, and data analysis frameworks to address different gun violence issues. They explore ... Read more

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  • When Brute Force Fails

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    by Mark A. R. Kleiman ...
    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

    by Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine, Russell M. Gold ...
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    The power of the modern prosecutor arises from several features of the criminal justice landscape: widespread use of law and order political rhetoric and heightened fear of crime among voters; legislatures' embrace of extreme sentencing ranges to respond to such concerns; and the uncertain or limited accountability of prosecutors to the electorate, the bar, or other political and professional ... Read more

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