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  • The Eurogang Paradox

    Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the U.S. and Europe

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The Eurogang Paradox is the first comprehensive collection of original research reports on the status of street gangs and problematic youth groups in Europe, as well as a set of special, state-of-the-art reports on the current status of American street gang research and its implications for the European gang situation. Seven American papers are joined with reports from England, Norway, Sweden, ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Stalling for Time

    My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

    de Gary Noesner ...
    **The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post**In Stalling for Time, the FBI’s chief hostage negotiator takes readers on a ... Leer más

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  • Death Penalty Cases

    Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

    de Barry Latzer ...
    Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Acting White?

    Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America

    What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu ... Leer más

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  • Debating the Death Penalty

    Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

    Edición de Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Leer más

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  • Arbitrary Justice

    The Power of the American Prosecutor

    What happens when public prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving well-to-do victims often prosecuted more vigorously than those involving poor victims? Why do wealthy defendants frequently enjoy more lenient plea bargains than the disadvantaged? In this eye-opening work, Angela J. Davis shines a much ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

    de Mike Presdee ...
    Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit ... Leer más

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  • Illicitly Obtained Evidence at the International Criminal Court

    de Petra Viebig ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This work deals with the exclusion of illicitly obtained evidence at the International Criminal Court. At the level of domestic law, the so-called exclusionary rule has always been a very prominent topic. The reason for this is that the way a court of law deals with tainted evidence pertains to a key aspect of procedural fairness. It concerns the balancing of the right to a fair trial with the ... Leer más

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  • Crimes of Terror

    The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions

    de Wadie E. Said ...
    The U.S. government's power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions provides a comprehensive and uniquely up-to-date dissection of the ... Leer más

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  • Restorative Justice and the Law

    Edición de Lode Walgrave ...
    Restorative justice has developed rapidly from being a barely known term to occupying a central role in debates on the future of criminal justice. But as it has become part of the mainstream of debate, so new tensions and issues have emerged. One of the most crucial issues is to find an appropriate combination of restorative justice, based essentially on informal deliberation, and the law. The ... Leer más

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  • Why Prison?

    Edición de David Scott ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Prison studies has experienced a period of great creativity in recent years, and this collection draws together some of the field's most exciting and innovative contemporary critical writers in order to engage directly with one of the most profound questions in penology - why prison? In addressing this question, the authors connect contemporary penological thought with an enquiry that has received ... Leer más

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  • The Private Sector and Criminal Justice

    Edición de Anthea Hucklesby, Stuart Lister ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice. The private sector has become an increasingly important ‘partner’ in contemporary criminal justice with the unprecedented growth of public sector ‘outsourcing’ arrangements. This has resulted in an increasingly pluralised and marketised landscape ... Leer más

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