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Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag
ISBN: 9781612344874 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In America, 2.3 million people a population about the size of Houston s, the country s fourth-largest city live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America s prisons and shows the real reasons that disproportionate numbers of minorities, the poor, and the mentally ill end up there. Goldman dissects the widespread phenomenon of...
In America, 2.3 million people a population about the size of Houston s, the country s fourth-largest city live behind bars. Sick Justice explo...
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132,39 zł |
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Prisoners' Rights: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9781843928089 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prisoners Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and projected future expansion of the prison population, this work is timely. The discussion in this book is not confined to a formal legal analysis, although it does include discussion of the developing jurisprudence on prisoners rights. It offers a socio-legal rather than a purely black letter approach, and focuses on the... Prisoners Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the adv... |
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231,25 zł |
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Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials
ISBN: 9780754624370 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International sentencing has become significant given the numerous events on the world stage which have focused attention on the justifications and adequacy of punishment for heinous crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. In addition to providing a detailed evaluation of the philosophical and theoretical difficulties raised by this rapidly developing area of international criminal justice, this book provides an integrated socio-legal analysis of the law and process of international sentencing. It considers the rationale and development of international sentencing structures and...
International sentencing has become significant given the numerous events on the world stage which have focused attention on the justifications and ad...
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709,67 zł |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
ISBN: 9780812994520 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. #1 New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Seattle Times - Esquire - Time
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction - Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction - Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award - Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize - Finalist for the Kirkus Reviews Prize - An American Library Association Notable Book A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our... #1 New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Glo...
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132,62 zł |
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Imprisoned by the Past
ISBN: 9780199967933 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey. By highlighting the relation between American history and an individual case, Imprisoned by the Past provides a unique understanding of the big picture of capital punishment in the context of a compelling human story. McCleskey's criminal law case resulted in one of the most important Supreme Court cases in U.S. legal history, where the Court confronted evidence of racial...
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the...
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529,22 zł |
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How to Navigate Through Federal Prison and Gain an Early Release
ISBN: 9780991104147 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH FEDERAL PRISON AND GAIN AN EARLY RELEASE Have you or a loved one been sentenced to serve time in federal prison and have no clue what to expect? The experience doesn't have to be as scary or stressful as you may think. There is a way to overcome this obstacle as quickly as possible and come out on top Let Lisa Barrett teach you the ropes Barrett, a former school teacher and Teacher's Union President sentenced to serve a year in federal prison, utilized her time behind bars to create an invaluable road-map for prisoners. Through her first hand experience, research and...
HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH FEDERAL PRISON AND GAIN AN EARLY RELEASE Have you or a loved one been sentenced to serve time in federal prison and have no cl...
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253,54 zł |
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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
ISBN: 9781620970676 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system? Understanding Mass Incarceration offers the first comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world s largest jailer: the United States.
Drawing on a growing body of academic and professional work, Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative... We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and ...
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83,95 zł |
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Wrongly Charged: A Look at the Legal System
ISBN: 9781942389033 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would you do if you were arrested and wrongly charged with a crime? It can happen in the blink of an eye. It's not supposed to happen in the United States, but it can at any time. After being advised by his attorney in 2013 that his new marketing strategy was legal, Florida locksmith David Merkatz was shocked to learn he was under criminal investigation. Then he was arrested and charged with money laundering and an organized scheme to defraud. With the flip of a switch, he was facing a 20-year prison sentence. He was terrified. Life as he knew it was over, and it happened in an instant....
What would you do if you were arrested and wrongly charged with a crime? It can happen in the blink of an eye. It's not supposed to happen in the Unit...
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83,32 zł |
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Just Mercy
ISBN: 9780812984965 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. #1 New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Seattle Times - Esquire - Time
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction - Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction - Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award - Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize - Finalist for the Kirkus Reviews Prize - An American Library Association Notable Book A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our... #1 New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Glo...
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88,41 zł |
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Blackberry Juice
ISBN: 9781935656371 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Blackberry Juice" by Ralph C. Hamm III, is an impressive collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and a full length play, from a remarkable man who has spent 46 years of his life in prison for a non capital offense when he was 17. It contains a wide range of his writing styles that not only attest to his talent as a writer but also to his insight, vision, and intellect as a leader of stature in the prison reform movement and the black community in general. It is powerful book, not a palliative full of mellifluous words attempting to soften the implications of the harsh truths of racism...
"Blackberry Juice" by Ralph C. Hamm III, is an impressive collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and a full length play, from a remarkable man w...
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98,83 zł |
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Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
ISBN: 9780062347374 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champion of the new monastic movement, popular speaker, and author of the bestselling The Irresistible Revolution offers a powerful and persuasive appeal for the abolition of the death penalty. The Bible says an eye for an eye. But is the state's taking of a life true--or even practical--punishment for convicted prisoners? In this thought-provoking work, Shane Claiborne explores the issue of the death penalty and the contrast between punitive justice and restorative justice, questioning our notions of... In this reasoned exploration of justice, retribution, and redemption, the champion of the new monastic movement, popular speaker, and author of the... |
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92,79 zł |
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Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice
ISBN: 9780199687404 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, providing an authoritative and practical guide to the key issues in health and safety enforcement from two leading specialists in this area. This fourth edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of health and safety inspectors' enforcement powers, the service and appeal of improvement and prohibition notices, and the law relating to health and safety offences, as well as expanded coverage of work-related death investigations,...
Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, ...
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1450,54 zł |
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Almost Home: Turning Hopelessness Into Hope Through the Transformative Power of Love and the Restorative Power of Forgiveness
ISBN: 9781634981811 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost Home is our family's journey to embrace our oldest son Jon's "It-ness." At the age of nineteen, during one of his terms in prison, Jon was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. By the time Jon turned thirty, he had spent half his life in the prison system. It was during this time that we learned to accept the reality of our son's mental condition as well as embrace our parental responsibility to him. We also learned to overcome our own "It-ness" -- the social stigma of having a family member incarcerated. This book is for anyone who has ever been tagged as "It."...
Almost Home is our family's journey to embrace our oldest son Jon's "It-ness." At the age of nineteen, during one of his terms in prison, Jon was diag...
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59,17 zł |
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Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
ISBN: 9780190204686 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 that punishments are too severe, and too many people are in prison. However, the kinds of major changes required to undo mass incarceration and rebuild American sentencing are...
Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Ti...
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227,87 zł |
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Free Market Criminal Justice: How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law
ISBN: 9780190457877 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process. America's unique political development, characterized by skepticism of government power, has restrained the state's role not only in the economic realm but also in key parts of its criminal justice systems. From charging decisions through trials or guilty pleas and appeals, legal safeguards against bias, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishment rely more on politics and laissez-faire economic ideas than on enforceable rules and duties....
Free Market Criminal Justice explains how faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in US criminal process...
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399,74 zł |
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After the Doors Were Locked: A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform
ISBN: 9781442246713 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 youth remaining in a system comprised of just three institutions, California has one of the nation's lowest youth incarceration rate. How did such unprecedented changes occur and what were the crucial...
The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this chang...
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470,35 zł |
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The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance
ISBN: 9781349433995 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
The Scandal of White Complicity and US Hyper-incarceration is a groundbreaking exploration of the moral role of white people in the dispropor...
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195,42 zł |
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Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada
ISBN: 9781459738225 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada. Take a journey through notable cases in Canada's criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada's most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting bootlegger who was the only woman every executed in Alberta. Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in...
Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada. Take a journey through notable cases in Canada's criminal justice history, feat...
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110,47 zł |
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A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780826521606 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death." Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to...
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Caroli...
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624,87 zł |
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A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780826521613 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Carolina native who yearned to be a fiction writer, Marie was thrust by a combination of circumstances--including the murder of her beloved mother-in-law--into a world much stranger than fiction, a world in which minorities and the poor were selected to be sacrificed to what Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun called the "machinery of death." Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to...
There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories. A South Caroli...
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132,39 zł |
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