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  • Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and the Constitution

    Toward Ending the “Awful but Lawful” Era

    by Charles E. MacLean, James A. Densley ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed “lawful” by courts, are undeniably “awful” and unethical. From police officers employing deceit to extract confessions or consent to search, to prosecutors manipulating innocent individuals to relinquish their rights and plead guilty, to excessive force by law enforcement, these practices erode public trust in the criminal legal ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Punishment Without Crime

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $15.99 USD

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  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    by Asongwe N. Thomas ...
    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail

    by Malcolm M. Feeley ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminal Justice Ethics

    Theory and Practice

    by Cyndi L. Banks ...
    Criminal Justice Ethics, Sixth Edition examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens by identifying ethical issues in practice and theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and offering suggestions for resolving ethical issues and dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Bestselling author Cyndi Banks draws readers into a unique discussion of ethical issues by exploring moral ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Courting Death

    The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

    by Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution

    by Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine, Russell M. Gold ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The power of the modern prosecutor arises from several features of the criminal justice landscape: widespread use of law and order political rhetoric and heightened fear of crime among voters; legislatures' embrace of extreme sentencing ranges to respond to such concerns; and the uncertain or limited accountability of prosecutors to the electorate, the bar, or other political and professional ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice

    Practice and Process

    by Kenneth J. Peak, Tamara D. Herold ...
    A practical and applied introduction to Criminal JusticeIntroduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process shows students how to think practically about the criminal justice system by offering them a proven, problem-based approach to learning. Bestselling authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara D. Herold draw on their many years of combined practitioner and academic experience to explain the ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Wrongful Convictions

    Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Justice Abandoned

    How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration

    by Rachel Elise Barkow ...
    An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of its prisoners, America indisputably has a mass incarceration problem. How did it happen? Tough-on-crime politics and a racially loaded drug war are obvious and important culprits, but another factor ... Read more

    $28.69 USD