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  • How Judges Judge

    Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making

    by Brian M. Barry ...
    A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge.On the one hand, judges decide by interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judicial decision-making: ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Controversy in the Classroom

    The Democratic Power of Discussion

    by Diana E. Hess ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid controversial issues altogether in preference for "safe" knowledge and "safe" teaching practices. Diana Hess ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Crime, Shame and Reintegration

    by John Braithwaite ...
    Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Multicultural Education

    From Theory to Practice

    by Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu ...
    An Introduction to Multicultural Education provides a balance between the principles and practice of multicultural education in the K-12 classroom, presenting multicultural education as a learner-centered pedagogy. DomNwachukwu's book projects foundational principles and practices that make multicultural education relevant and appealing, while eliminating ideas and practices that produce negative ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Culture of Control

    Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

    by David Garland ...
    The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and "zero-tolerance" policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response to crime and our sense of criminal justice has come to be so dramatically reconfigured? David Garland ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backlash Against the ADA

    Reinterpreting Disability Rights

    Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy

    Crossing Racial Borders

    by Kyle Killian ...
    Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with multiracial children, this volume uniquely explores interracial couples' encounters with racism and discrimination, partner difference, family identity, and counseling and therapy. It intimately portrays how race, class, and gender shape relationship dynamics and a partner's sense of belonging. Assessment tools and intervention ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Silent Sex

    Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

    by Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg ...
    Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Gendered Justice

    Intimate Partner Violence and the Criminal Justice System

    by Venessa Garcia, Patrick McManimon ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence. The book focuses primarily on the role of gender, but also considers socio-economic status, race, age, education, and the relationship between the victim and criminal. Illustrated with case ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Difference without Domination

    Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

    Edited by Danielle Allen, Rohini Somanathan ...
    Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination.Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus