Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Authoritative, current, and easy to use, this book is an outstanding resource for readers looking to gain an accurate and thorough understanding of American juvenile justice.
• Presents historical and contemporary data in an easy-to-understand fashion that survey the complex history of the...
by Franklin E. Zimring
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Franklin Zimring compiles data from federal records, crowdsourced research, and investigative journalism to provide a comprehensive, fact-based picture of how, when, where, and why police use deadly force. He offers prescriptions for how federal, state, and local governments could reduce killings at minimum cost without risking officers’ lives.
Shadow Lives
The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the...
Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics
Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new...
by Morris Panych
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Upon graduation from an educational institution that provides free room and board and is dedicated to freshman tutorials in applied criminology conducted by its post-graduate students, Gordon aims to build an innovative business with his former cellmate Carl. Then there’s the question of pregnant,...
Life without Parole
America's New Death Penalty?
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as “the new death penalty.” Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together...
Dispensing with the Truth
The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award
In 1996, a terrible epidemic began killing young American women. Some died quickly, literally dropping in their steps. Others took more time, from a few months to a few years. Those who weren't killed suffered damage to their lungs...
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
How did the land of the free become the home of the world’s largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: not the War on Drugs of the Reagan administration but the War on Crime that began during Johnson’s Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.
Security Games
Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is...
Banished to the Homeland
Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological and...
by Mark Hamm, Ramón Spaaij
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the...
Murder Aboard
The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
“An utterly original and gripping story of murder on the high seas.”
— Sebastian Junger
From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his “eye for a good story” comes an account of Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, a tragedy that occurred on the high seas and one involving...
by Ian David Noakes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
A single mother's patience snaps when a delinquent yob crosses the line and breaks into her property in the middle of the night. Instead of calling the police, she ties the insolent terror to a dining chair and attempts to find out why she does the things she does.
Teen Gambling
Understanding a Growing Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Never before in our history have we witnessed such an explosion of worldwide gambling opportunities. Our love affair with gambling points to its widespread appeal as a socially acceptable leisure activity. However, gambling, once thought to be strictly an adult activity, has become an increasingly...