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  • Risk Topography

    Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling

    Edited by Markus Brunnermeier, Arvind Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models in which the financial sector plays a greater role.Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy have assembled contributions from leading academic ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Deadly Justice

    A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty

    by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Marty Davidson, Colin Wilson, Kaneesha Johnson, Frank Baumgartner ...
    In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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    by Bryan Stevenson ...
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  • Incarceration Nations

    A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

    by Baz Dreisinger ...
    In this crucial study, named one of the Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2016 and now in paperback, Baz Dreisinger goes behind bars in nine countries to investigate the current conditions in prisons worldwide.Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the ... Read more

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  • Jury Nullification

    The Evolution of a Doctrine

    by Clay S. Conrad ...
    The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent can a jury be? How much power does a jury have to not only judge a defendant’s actions, but the merits of the law? What happens when jurors decide ... Read more

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  • Behind the Walls

    Inmates and Correctional Officers on the State of Canadian Prisons

    by Michael Weinrath ...
    Series series Law and Society
    In this system, you can’t trust anybody. Like, even on the streets, I’ve never trusted my own brother. But now, in Ni-Miikana, I’m starting to get that trust back. You just gotta be careful what you say in here, and you’ll be all right.Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada’s prison population is on the rise, and outbreaks of ... Read more

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  • The Wrong Carlos

    Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution

    by James S. Liebman, The Columbia DeLuna Project ...
    A Columbia Law School team's in-depth examination of one man's 1989 wrongful conviction and execution for murder.In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students chose to investigate his case and found ... Read more

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  • Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

    Transforming Crime and Punishment

    by William Kelly ...
    Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers ... Read more

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  • Sentencing Fragments

    Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Restorative Justice

    Agency and Accountability in the Criminal Process

    by Dr David O'Mahony, Dr Jonathan Doak ...
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  • After the Doors Were Locked

    A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform

    by Daniel E. Macallair ...
    The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities, California boasted the nation’s third highest youth incarceration rate. Now, with only 800 ... Read more

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  • Out of Order

    by Mary Corcoran ...
    This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was notable as ... Read more

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