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  • American Gulag

    de Luanne Bruckner, Lawrence Bruckner ...
    Lawrence and Luanne Bruckner live in Thomson, daily watching the $142M concrete complex sit empty-waiting silently for the 1800 prisoners and 761 correctional officers the State of Illinois promised to the depressed area in 1999.Lawrence is a graduate of Trinity college (CT) earning a BA, and MA in three years.He added a JD degree from the College of William and Mary and practiced law for thirty ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

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  • The End of Policing

    de Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Behind Bars

    Surviving Prison

    de Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Stephen C. Richards Ph.D. ...
    A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It’s time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any time in American history, staying alive and well—both mentally and physically—is tougher than ever.Behind Bars breaks down the bars on prison survival with a hard look at the realities of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The War on Cops

    How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

    de Heather Mac Donald ...
    Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Women Behind Bars

    The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System

    de Silja JA Talvi ...
    More and more women—mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters—are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.Oddly, there's been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here, and why? The answers are in Women Behind Bars, in ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Case Against Lawyers

    How the Lawyers, Politicians, and Bureaucrats Have Turned the Law into an Instrument of Tyranny--and What We as Citizens Have to Do About It

    de Catherine Crier ...
    THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING HOST OF COURT TV’S "CATHERINE CRIER LIVE" DESCRIBES AN AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL – AND FINDS THE LAWYERS GUILTY AS CHARGED.As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a district attorney, private lawyer, and judge herself, she saw firsthand how the U.S. justice system ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Smart on Crime

    A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer

    de Kamala Harris, Joan O'C. Hamilton ...
    The vice president and former San Francisco district attorney presents her vision for smart criminal justice and public safety.Before she became the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris was committed to fighting crime as a prosecutor in San Francisco's Hall of Justice. Originally published in 2009, Smart on Crime shares her insight and offers a new approach designed to end the cycle ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • To Protect and Serve

    How to Fix America's Police

    de Norm Stamper ...
    The police in America belong to the people -- not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege -- misunderstood, unfairly criticized, and scapegoated for society's ills. Is there a fix? Former Seattle Police Chief Norm ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Beyond Incarceration

    Safety and True Criminal Justice

    de Paula Mallea ...
    Series Libro 8 - Point of View
    A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary.Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use. Centuries ago, incarcerating convicts represented progress on society’s part, since it came as a replacement for ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Plague of Prisons

    The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

    de Ernest Drucker ...
    The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post).An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • John Douglas's Guide to Landing a Career in Law Enforcement

    de John Douglas ...
    The ultimate insider’s guide to pursuing a career in one of the hottest, fastest-growing career sectors in AmericaIn a departure from his usual edge-of-the-seat coverage, New York Times bestselling author and legendary FBI profiler John Douglas draws on his 25 years of experience to offer this unique career guide. Written for those interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement but unsure ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • When Prisoners Come Home

    Parole and Prisoner Reentry

    de Joan Petersilia ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD