Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
A Watched Pot
How We Experience Time
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...
Trials Without Truth
Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need to Do to Rebuild It
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...
TV or Not TV
Television, Justice, and the Courts
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...
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
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...
Revoking Citizenship
Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
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....
Notes of a Racial Caste Baby
Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action
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...
Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism
The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America
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.
The Technology of Policing
Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control
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,...
Lives in the Balance
Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security
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...
To Serve and Protect
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
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...
by Nancy E. Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
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...
Passions and Emotions
NOMOS LIII
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...
Leaving Prostitution
Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work
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...
Discrimination by Default
How Racism Becomes Routine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Much as we “select” computer settings by default-reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options—we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default...