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  • Twenty Million Angry Men

    The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System

    Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of ... Leer más

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    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edición de Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Leer más

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  • Principles of Criminology

    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. ... Leer más

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  • Judges and Their Audiences

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    What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in ... Leer más

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Leer más

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  • Misdemeanorland

    Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing

    An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City’s dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison. In the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner ... Leer más

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  • Privilege and Punishment

    How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court

    de Matthew Clair ...
    How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment ... Leer más

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  • In Doubt

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • The Evolution of the Juvenile Court

    Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice

    de Barry Feld ...
    Series Libro 4 - Youth, Crime, and Justice
    From one of America's leading experts, an analysis of the history of the nation's juvenile justice system and a look at the future.The juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy, and reflects our changing ideas about children and crime control throughout history. In The Evolution of the Juvenile Court, noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld provides a ... Leer más

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  • Gendered Justice

    Intimate Partner Violence and the Criminal Justice System

    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence. The book focuses primarily on the role of gender, but also considers socio-economic status, race, age, education, and the relationship between the victim and criminal. Illustrated with case ... Leer más

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  • DeathQuest

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

    This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment. It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and ... Leer más

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  • The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior

    de Lawrence Baum ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It ... Leer más

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