Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Changing Lenses
A New Focus for Crime and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needsfor accountability, for closure, for healingare also left unaddressed.Such failures are not...
Infinite Hope
How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.
In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed...
Made Men
Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition”...
Intimate Partner Violence
Effective Procedure, Response and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Written by experts with a combined 50 years of experience teaching and researching in the field of domestic abuse, Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response, and Policy provides practical instruction for practitioners and lay people responding to domestic violence, as well as ideas...
Last Chance in Texas
The Redemption of Criminal Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.
While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that...
From Jailer to Jailed
My Journey from Correction and Police Commissioner to Inmate #84888-054
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The controversial New York City police commissioner and New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Son shares the story of his fall from grace and the effects of his incarceration on his views of the American justice system.
Bernard Kerik was New York City’s police commissioner during...
by Salvatore Lupo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones-iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated...
Tilted
The Trials of Conrad Black, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
It was the trial that captivated observers on both sides of the Atlantic. Media titan Conrad Black, by turns respected and reviled for decades in Canada and around the world, faced off with U.S. prosecutors on charges of criminal fraud stemming from his activities with Hollinger International.
As...
Defending the Damned
Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned...
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious...
by Edward Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
False allegations of child sexual abuse are an unfortunate reality in both civil and criminal settings. When the fate of a client turns on the ability to understand organize and integrate complex components of expert testimony you will want to turn to False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Attorney...
Prosecution Complex
America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be—and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...
Death Penalty on Trial
Crisis in American Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong....
Mass Incarceration on Trial
A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns,...