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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

The Unpredictable Constitution brings together a distinguished group of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and U.S. Court of Appeals Judges, who are some of our most prominent legal scholars, to discuss an array of topics on civil liberties. In thoughtful and incisive essays, the authors draw on decades...
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A Watched Pot

How We Experience Time

by Michael G. Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999

Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock excruciatingly drawn out. What explains this seeming paradox? Based...
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Trials Without Truth

Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It

by William T. Pizzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998

Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. Louise Woodward: all names that have cast a spotlight on the deficiencies of the American system of criminal justice. Yet, in the wake of each trial that exposes shocking behavior by trial participants or results in counterintuitive rulings—often with...
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TV or Not TV

Television, Justice, and the Courts

by Ronald L. Goldfarb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998

In the last quarter century, televised court proceedings have gone from an outlandish idea to a seemingly inevitable reality. Yet,debate continues to rage over the dangers and benefits to the justice system of cameras in the courtroom. Critics contend television transforms the temple of justice into...
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Personalized Medicine

Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?

by Barbara Prainsack
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the...
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Revoking Citizenship

Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror

by Ben Herzog, Ediberto Román
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015

Reveals America’s long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship and all the rights that come with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes....
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Notes of a Racial Caste Baby

Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action

by Bryan K. Fair
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998

The Constitution of the United States, writes Bryan Fair, was a series of compromises between white male propertyholders: Southern planters and Northern merchants. At the heart of their deals was a clear race-conscious intent to place the interests of whites above those of blacks. In this provocative...
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Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

by Jody David Armour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997

Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.
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The Technology of Policing

Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control

by Peter K. Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008

With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions,...
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Lives in the Balance

Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security

by Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

Although Americans generally think that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is focused only on preventing terrorism, one office within that agency has a humanitarian mission. Its Asylum Office adjudicates applications from people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Lives in the Balance is...
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To Serve and Protect

Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

by Bruce L. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998

In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social...
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by Nancy E. Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000

Most fathers parent less than most mothers. Those fathers who do parent equally or more so than mothers are poorly supported by our society. For children this means a loss of adult care, as well as an ongoing and sharply defined differentiation between fathers and mothers. Fathers are not present...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended passions and emotions as tempering reason and enriching judgment, and there is mounting empirical evidence...
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Leaving Prostitution

Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work

by Sharon S. Oselin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a...
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