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  • Victims' Rights

    A Documentary and Reference Guide

    par Douglas E. Beloof ...
    Collections series Documentary and Reference Guides
    This invaluable one-stop reference source supplies students and general readers with historical and current information on the victims' rights revolution in the United States, providing analysis on everything from human rights reports to Supreme Court cases that allows the reader to fully understand these documents.Victims' rights represent the greatest change in the criminal justice system within ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Making Our Democracy Work

    A Judge's View

    par Stephen Breyer ...
    The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    par Hugo Adam Bedau;Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Case Against the Supreme Court

    par Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred yearsMost Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense and always has been. The Court is made up of fallible individuals who base decisions on their own biases ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

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  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    par Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    par Alexandra Natapoff ...
    From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $20.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

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  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    par Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

    par Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    Over the last few decades, the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have undergone a dramatic shift to the right, the result of a determined effort by right-wing lawmakers and presidents to reinterpret the Constitution by reshaping the judiciary. Conservative activist justices have narrowed the scope of the Constitution, denying its protections to millions of Americans, exactly as the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court

    A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

    par Rolando V. del Carmen, Craig Hemmens ...
    In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police procedure with regard to search and seizure is a real and significant issue in the criminal justice ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE: An Overview of the System

    par Adam J. McKee ...
    This book provides an overview of the criminal justice system of the United States. It is intended to provide the introductory student a concise yet balanced introduction to the workings of the legal system as well as policing, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice. Six chapters, each divided into five sections, provide the reader a consistent, comfortable format as well as providing the ... En savoir plus

    $7.04 CAD

  • Scalia

    A Court of One

    par Bruce Allen Murphy ...
    “[Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time.Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

    par Michael J. Graetz, Linda Greenhouse ...
    A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservative—and it shaped today’s constitutional landscape. It is an “important book…a powerful corrective to the standard narrative of the Burger Court” (The New York Times Book Review).When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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