Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Criminal Law - Sentencing

Guilty, Until Proven Innocent, the Letter versus the Spirit of the Law, explains how and why the constitution holds the government to the very high burden of proving guilt "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt " It unabashedly identifies some of the injustices that routinely occur due to ignorance, mistakes, prejudice, discrimination, gamesmanship, selfish ambitions and other ulterior and improper motives of Police Officers, Judges, Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys. Such injustices include, but are by no means limited to false accusations from alleged victims (who use the criminal justice system as...

The dissertation focuses on a legal examination of 213, 215 of the East German Criminal Code. It continues the work by Mohr on 213, which considered its history through 1968. This study incorporates the entire time period from 1957 to 1990, including high court jurisprudence as well as measures undertaken by the Ministry for State Security (MfS). It is supplemented by an analysis of court records from the Dresden public prosecutor s office.

After many decades of stability, the imprisonment rate in the United States quintupled between 1973 and 2003. Since then, nearly all states have adopted multiple reforms intended to reduce imprisonment, but the U.S. imprisonment rate has only decreased by a paltry two percent. Why are American sentencing reforms since 2000 been largely ineffective? Are tough mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders the primary reason our prisons are always full? This book offers a fascinating assessment of the wave of sentencing reforms adopted by dozens of states as well as changes at the...

Does the possibility of being put to death deter crime? Do the methods of execution matter? Is it possible for a state-ordered execution to be botched? Are innocent people ever sent to death row? Are there racial biases or other prejudices associated with the death penalty? This book examines the history of capital punishment in the United States; describes the significant issues, events, and cases; and addresses the controversies and legal issues surrounding capital punishment, making this important topic accessible to a wide range of readers.

The book presents both sides of...

Why the need for another book on crime, prison overcrowding, drug and alcohol addictions, etc., when hundreds have already been written? This is a book you have not read, written by real people, and these stories are all true. They come from the hearts of real people who have loved ones incarcerated or have been incarcerated. It is written from the only perspective I know, and that is my own life. Of my six children, five sons and one daughter, four of my sons have been incarcerated at one time or another. Our oldest son died in prison.

These are true stories from other...

It isn't enough to celebrate the death penalty's demise. We must learn from it.

When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2014, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences were as rare as lethal lightning strikes. To most observers this national trend came as a surprise. What changed? Brandon Garrett hand-collected and analyzed national data, looking for causes and implications of this turnaround. End of Its Rope explains what he found, and why the story of who killed the death penalty, and how,...