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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael jacobson”
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  • Designs for Learning Environments of the Future

    International Perspectives from the Learning Sciences

    Edited by Michael Jacobson, Peter Reimann ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Few things are as certain as societal changes—and the pressing need for educators to prepare students with the knowledge and ways of thinking necessary for the challenges in a changing world. In the forward-thinking pages of Designs for Learning Environments of the Future, international teams of researchers present emerging developments and findings in learning sciences and technologies at the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Wood-Based Energy in the Northern Forests

    Edited by Michael Jacobson, Daniel Ciolkosz ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This unique book provides the first comprehensive overview of wood based bioenergy in the northern hardwood forests of the Eastern United States. This includes a holistic look at the topic of wood based bioenergy, as well as focused analyses of key topics. This book is relevant to engineers, project developers, foresters, economists, sociologists, environmental scientists and natural resource ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Discretion, Community, and Correctional Ethics

    by Heather Barr, Audrey J. Bomse, Derek R. Brookes, Todd R. Clear, William C. Heffernan, Zelma Weston Henriques, Michael Jacobson, Kenneth Kipnis, John P. Pittman, Polly Ashton Smith, Joseph V. Williams, Kevin N. Wright ...
    Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Downsizing Prisons

    How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration

    by Michael Jacobson ...
    A convincing argument that mass incarceration neither reduces crime nor ensures safetyOver two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Marketing Madness

    A Survival Guide For A Consumer Society

    by Michael Jacobson ...
    In 1983, Reese's Pieces made their debut on the silver screen, gobbled up by that lovable alien ET, and sales of the candy shot up instantly by 66 percent. Reebok has sponsored the U.S. Olympic team-and the Russian team, as well! The British Boy Scouts sell space on their merit badges to advertisers. Michael Jacobson, founder of the Washington, D.C ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Earth System Science

    From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Changes

    by Michael Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, Henning Rodhe, Gordon H. Orians ...
    Series Book 72 - International Geophysics
    Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the earth's changing climate has become a new science. Earth Systems Science is the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic global change, such as chemically forced global climate change. The work is aimed at those students interested in the emerging scientific discipline.Earth Systems Science is an integrated discipline that ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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  • Punishing Race

    A Continuing American Dilemma

    by Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, and are much less likely to have confidence in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail

    by Malcolm M. Feeley ...
    COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails—despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed for such ideas as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unusually Cruel

    Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism

    by Marc Morjé Howard ...
    The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Sentencing Fragments

    Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025

    by Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Most everyone agrees ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Punishment Imperative

    The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America

    by Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost ...
    Clear and Frost chart the rise of penal severity in the U.S. and the forces necessary to end itOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Corrections

    Foundations for the Future

    by Jeanne B. Stinchcomb ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    **"Jeanne Stinchcomb’s book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession. Stinchomb carefully crafts a balanced perspective that presents a powerful argument for why corrections is an important and necessary part of our criminal ... Read more

    $165.00 USD