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Cover of Ferguson's Fault Lines: The Race Quake That Rocked a Nation
by Kimberly Jade Norwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force and killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male. These incidents have caused dramatic erosion in public confidence in the justice system and America’s promise of equal treatment under the law. Minority...
Cover of The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism: U.S. and Global Issues [3 volumes]
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

In this three-volume set, an international team of experts involved in the research, management, and mitigation of hate-motivated violence examines and explains hate crimes in the United States and around the globe, drawing comparisons between countries as well as between hate crimes overall and domestic...
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Fallen Justice

A Mystery of Truth, Faith, and Reason

by Lee Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018

Lori’s dream of having her own daycare business and caring for her three children is shattered when she is arrested after a toddler in her care suffers a short-distance fall. Suddenly, Lori is thrown into a world unfamiliar to her and a twenty-year fight for freedom against a defective justice system...
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The Death Penalty in Africa

The Path Towards Abolition

by Aimé Muyoboke Karimunda
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Human development is not simply about wealth and economic well-being, it is also dependent upon shared values that cherish the sanctity of human life. Using comparative methods, archival research and quantitative findings, this book explores the historical and cultural background of the death penalty...
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Debating Hate Crime

Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada

by Allyson M. Lunny
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

This unique work will appeal to socio-legal scholars and graduate students interested in hate crime, policy-making, and discursive analysis.
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Interrogating the Perpetrator

Violation, Culpability, and Human Rights

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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018

Set adjacent to "victims" and "bystanders," "perpetrators" are by no means marginalized figures in human rights scholarship. Nevertheless, the extent to which the perpetrator is not only socially imagined but also sociologically constructed remains a central concern in...
Cover of First Year On the Bench
by Mary Nan Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015

Newly elected circuit Superior Court Judge Thompson travels the State of North Carolina from the mountains to the Sandhills. His first year is a baptism of fire: three potential death cases, a first degree murder case, a second degree murder case, and a bizarre rape case in Durham. Trials are for and...
Cover of Comentarios a los Convenios 1ra parte
by Enrique Bolado Muñoz, Iván Díaz-Barreiro H., Karla Paola Flores Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 14, 2019

Presento al lector la primera parte de los ''Comentarios a los convenios para evitar la doble imposición y prevenir la evasión fiscal. (análisis Mexicano)'' y el cual tiene por objeto dar una primera aproximación sobre el contenido y alcance de los convenios fiscales que ha firmado Mexico. Para...
Cover of Primary Theories of Crime and Victimization
by James R. Jones Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

This text examines the primary causes of crime and victimization while exploring criminological and victimization theories. This text is unique because it allows the student to become familiar with theories of crime causation while reviewing relevant research. Four of the chapters of the text are...
Cover of Successful Expert Testimony
by Max M. Houck, Christine Funk, Harold Feder
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

A major revision of the landmark book on expert testimonyFeder’s Succeeding as an Expert Witness, Successful Expert Testimony, Fifth Edition highlights the book’s value to both attorneys and expert witnesses in promoting effective, impactful courtroom testimony. The book outlines the role of expert...
Cover of Drug I.D. & Symptom Guide 6th Edition QWIK-CODE
by Keith Graves, Trinka Porrata
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015

This guide includes information regarding drug paraphernalia, symptoms of influence, effects, duration, methods of ingestion, overdose symptoms, field drug testing procedures, gateway drugs, a street slang glossary and more. It also includes 208 color photos of illicit street drugs including GHB, Rohypnol, ecstasy, jimson weed and spice.
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Policing Humanitarianism

EU Policies Against Human Smuggling and their Impact on Civil Society

by Sergio Carrera, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Jennifer Allsopp
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019

Policing Humanitarianism examines the ways in which European Union policies aimed at countering the phenomenon of migrant smuggling affects civil society actors' activities in the provision of humanitarian assistance, access to rights for irregular immigrants and asylum seekers. It explores the effects...
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Fallen Blue Knights

Controlling Police Corruption

by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005

Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. Fallen Blue Knights provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control....
Cover of Busted At School
by Jim Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013

The first in the five-book BUSTED AT SCHOOL series is about students who are suspended, expelled or criminally prosecuted when they possess, use or sell drugs at school. Presented as a discussion guide for teachers, students and parents, the format of the book encourages all reader groups to discuss...
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