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  • American Criminal Courts

    Legal Process and Social Context

    American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context is an introductory-level text that offers a comprehensive study of the legal processes that guide criminal courts and the social contexts that introduce variations in the activities of actors inside and outside the court. Specifically the text focuses upon: Legal Processes. U.S. criminal courts are constrained by several legal processes ... Leer más

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE: An Overview of the System

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Misdemeanorland

    Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing

    An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City’s dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison. In the early 1990s, New York City launched an initiative under the banner ... Leer más

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  • Twenty Million Angry Men

    The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System

    Today, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon’s eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them? Twenty Million Angry Men provides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of ... Leer más

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  • Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail

    COURT REFORM ON TRIAL is a recognized study of innovation in the process of criminal justice, and why it so often fails—despite the best intentions of judges, administrators, and reformers. The arc of innovation to disappointment is analyzed for such ideas as bail reform, pretrial diversion, speedy trials, and determinate sentencing. A much-maligned system of plea bargaining shifts power to ... Leer más

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  • Crime and Criminal Justice in America

    Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, addresses the major controversial issues in U.S. policing, courts, and the correctional system. This book features unique graphics and contemporary data and research, developed by Joycelyn Pollock, criminologist, and University Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas State University. The text’s question-and-answer model promotes a ... Leer más

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  • Courting Death

    The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

    Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.In the ... Leer más

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  • Ethical Justice

    Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals

    This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally black and white - not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or the gunshot victim; one cannot be a little pregnant or a little shot. Consequently, professional conduct is either ethical or it is not. Unafraid to be the harbingers, Turvey and Crowder set forth the ... Leer más

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  • Sentencing Fragments

    Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025

    de Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Most everyone agrees ... Leer más

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  • Wrongful Convictions

    Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems

    Edición de C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias’ earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways:? (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have ... Leer más

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  • Criminal Courts

    A Contemporary Perspective

    Comprehensive and engaging, Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective deepens your students′ understanding by thoroughly examining the courts and their vital role in the criminal justice system. The Sixth Edition introduces updated content, including discussions on evolving marijuana laws, the balance between victims′ and defendants′ rights, court-administered bail, and domestic violence courts. ... Leer más

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