Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Grace Horse
The Redemption of a Teen Sentenced to Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Grace Horse chronicles Damien Chapman’s journey of repentance, forgiveness, and restoration as he discovers his true identity in the darkness of prison life. In that darkness, he also finds new life in an unexpected place.
Damien courageously shares his painful path from the streets of New...
A Painful Duty
Forty Years at the Criminal Bar
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In his memoir, C.D. Evans reveals insights into the practice and the characters of the Canadian Criminal Bar. Special attention is given to notorious clients and special tributes are given to non-nonsense judges of the early days.
"There have been many bios of colourful trial lawyers, eg....
Previous Convictions at Sentencing
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldestquestions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence? Although there is an extensive literature on the definition and use of criminal history information,...
Predictive Sentencing
Normative and Empirical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices. Predictive sentencing has become so deeply ingrained in Western criminal justice decision-making that despite early ethical discussions about selective incapacitation, it currently attracts little critique....
The Criminal Injustice System
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
This book is the story of a psychotherapist who fell in love with a Death Row inmate who she had met through a newspaper article and the strong urging of God to write to him. It tells about their relationship, some of the problems they had while he was in prison, and how the system helped and failed him.
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
Making Jack Falcone
An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family.
But...
Chokehold
Policing Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)**
A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book
A Kirkus Best Book of 2017
**Butler has hit...
Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
The Death of Punishment
Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances...
by Alfred B. Heilbrun Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
As a punishment for our most serious crime—the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way—the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be. The other view requires execution as justice...
Hard Bargains
The Coercive Power of Drug Laws in Federal Court
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The convergence of tough-on-crime politics, stiffer sentencing laws, and jurisdictional expansion in the 1970s and 1980s increased the powers of federal prosecutors in unprecedented ways. In Hard Bargains, social psychologist Mona Lynch investigates the increased power of these prosecutors in our...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for resistance...
The Financial War on Terrorism
A Review of Counter-Terrorist Financing Strategies Since 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists committed the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in the United States of America. The response from the inter-national community, and in particular the US, was swift. President George Bush declared what has commonly been referred to as either the ‘War on...