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Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada
ISBN: 9780786438235 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following the long and heated debate regarding women and capital punishment.
This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed ...
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221,24 zł |
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Prison State
ISBN: 9780521885850 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes and consequences of the prison buildup, often challenging previously held notions from scholarly and public discourse. By examining such themes as social discontent, safety and security within prisons, and impact on crime and on the labor market, Piehl and Useem use evidence to address the inevitable larger question, where should...
Within the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical l...
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265,08 zł |
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Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration
ISBN: 9780521713399 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes and consequences of the prison buildup, often challenging previously held notions from scholarly and public discourse. By examining such themes as social discontent, safety and security within prisons, and impact on crime and on the labor market, Piehl and Useem use evidence to address the inevitable larger question, where should...
Within the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical l...
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163,41 zł |
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Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment
ISBN: 9780804757461 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death penalty. Instead, Dead Certainty contributes to a larger project in contemporary political and legal philosophy:...
Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that val...
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99,92 zł |
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Probation and Parole
ISBN: 9780789037848 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual. Probation and Parole: Current Issues presents leading authorities offering various broad and specific aspects of the controversial topic along with the latest research. This handy source provides illustrative examples of current hot button issues and can be used as an excellent core or complement textbook for a probation and parole class. Issues discussed range broadly from mental health considerations to rehabilitation options. The book...Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual. Probatio... |
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853,61 zł |
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Probation and Parole
ISBN: 9780789037855 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual. Probation and Parole: Current Issues presents leading authorities offering various broad and specific aspects of the controversial topic along with the latest research. This handy source provides illustrative examples of current hot button issues and can be used as an excellent core or complement textbook for a probation and parole class. Issues discussed range broadly from mental health considerations to rehabilitation options. The book...Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual. Probatio... |
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214,58 zł |
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Myth of the Hanging Tree: Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico
ISBN: 9780826343796 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. This study examines several criminal cases that reveal the realities of the role hangings played in the administration of frontier justice.
The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impo...
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77,99 zł |
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The Problem of Punishment
ISBN: 9780521709613 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by...
In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state ...
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131,07 zł |
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The Problem of Punishment
ISBN: 9780521883160 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished. Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the problem and concludes by...
In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally permissible for the state ...
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385,22 zł |
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Capital Punishment in Canada
ISBN: 9780771097942 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chandler has thoroughly researched the Canadian context of the recurring and often emotional discussion of capital punishment.
Chandler has thoroughly researched the Canadian context of the recurring and often emotional discussion of capital punishment.
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170,72 zł |
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Working with Offenders
ISBN: 9781853022494 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Offenders considers the implications for policy and practice of research which has focused upon a range of social work activities including * assessment * intensive probation programmes * community service * reparation and mediation * social work with prisoners * work with sex offenders. It also considers more general issues of effectiveness, race and gender and locates recent developments in practice in the context of the broader policy changes in...
Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Off...
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143,71 zł |
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May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment
ISBN: 9780393334739 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1982, in Grundy, Virginia, a young miner named Roger Coleman was sentenced to death for the murder of his sister-in-law. Ten years later, Coleman's case had become an international cause celebre as a result of the extraordinary efforts of Kitty Behan, a brilliant and dedicated young lawyer who devoted two years of her life to gathering evidence of Coleman's innocence. Despite the mounting demands of the public, the media, and world religious leaders that Coleman's conviction be reexamined, the courts refused to consider new evidence because of a lawyer's mistake: years earlier, an... In 1982, in Grundy, Virginia, a young miner named Roger Coleman was sentenced to death for the murder of his sister-in-law. Ten years later, Colema... |
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96,08 zł |
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Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons: Issues, Challenges, and Policies
ISBN: 9780742563001 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases, prisons struggle to adequately address health care needs in a financially feasible way. Many prisoners enter the system with medical problems that have gone unmet, and the toxic environments inside the prisons further compromise their health, causing serious problems both within the prisons themselves and in society as a whole when the prisoners are released. Health and Health Care in the Nation's Prisons...
The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in co...
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448,76 zł |
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Institutionalizing Restorative Justice
ISBN: 9781843921585 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to explore the key issues and debates surrounding the question of the incorporation and institutionalization of restorative justice within existing penal and criminal justice systems. This book offers conceptual tools and a theoretical framework to he
Aims to explore the key issues and debates surrounding the question of the incorporation and institutionalization of restorative justice within existi...
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165,80 zł |
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Restorative Justice in Context
ISBN: 9781903240847 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference held at the University of Tubingen. Its contributors include many of the leading authorities in the burgeoning field of restorative justice, and they provide a comprehensive review of international practice and directions and the context in which restorative justice practice is developing. The book moves beyond a focus on restorative justice for juveniles to a broader concern with the application of restorative justice in such areas as corporate crime,...
This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference held at ...
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302,37 zł |
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Changing Attitudes to Punishment
ISBN: 9781843920021 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of chapters from leading authorities in the field, is concerned to address this problem, and draws upon research in a number of different countries to address the issues arising from this state of affairs. Its main aims are: to explore the changing and evolving nature of public attitudes to sentencing;...
Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly...
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277,99 zł |
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Alternatives to Prison
ISBN: 9781843921042 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders this book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with using the variety of non-custodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotl
In the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders this book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of the ra...
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234,09 zł |
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Western European Penal Systems: A Critical Anatomy
ISBN: 9780803977211 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please update ISBN's on OBC and imprint page c 978-0-8039-7720-4 p 978-0-8039-7721-1
Please update ISBN's on OBC and imprint page c 978-0-8039-7720-4 p 978-0-8039-7721-1
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312,18 zł |
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Transcendental Meditation(r) in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention
ISBN: 9780789020376 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In contrast to the generally dismal results of various approaches to rehabilitation, these consciousness-based strategies have proven effective in preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders This book will introduce you to a powerful, unique approach to offender rehabilitation and crime prevention. In contrast to the generally dismal results of most rehabilitation approaches, studies covering periods of 1-15 years indicate that this new approach employing the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs reduces recidivism from 35-50%. Transcendental Meditation in Criminal...
In contrast to the generally dismal results of various approaches to rehabilitation, these consciousness-based strategies have proven effective in pre...
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287,74 zł |
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Restorative Justice and the Law
ISBN: 9781903240960 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Restorative justice has developed from a barely known term to a central role in debates on the future of criminal justice. As it has moved into the mainstream so new tensions and issues have emerged as it has become increasingly integrated into normal practice, and become part of broader legal and judicial systems -both in common law countries and those with centralized legal systems. The purpose of this book is to explore this developing relationship between the concepts and practice of restorative justice on the one hand, and the law and legal systems on the other. Amongst the questions it...
Restorative justice has developed from a barely known term to a central role in debates on the future of criminal justice. As it has moved into the ma...
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253,60 zł |
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