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The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform (Hardcover): Michael O'Hear The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform (Hardcover)
Michael O'Hear
R2,065 Discovery Miles 20 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains at an unprecedented high level. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and explains why they have proven to be ineffective. 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 federal level since 2000, identifying common themes among seemingly disparate changes in sentencing policy and highlighting recent reform efforts that have been more successful and may point the way forward for the nation as a whole. In The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform, author Michael O'Hear exposes the myths that American prison sentencing reforms enacted in the 21st century have failed to have the expected effect because U.S. prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent drug offenders as a result of the "war on drugs," and because of new laws that took away the discretion of judges and corrections officials. O'Hear then makes a convincing case for the real reason sentencing reforms have come up short: because they exclude violent and sexual offenders, and because they rely on the discretion of officials who still have every incentive to be highly risk-averse. He also highlights how overlooking the well-being of offenders and their families in our consideration of sentencing reform has undermined efforts to effect real change. Clearly identifies the real reasons that the wave of post-2000 sentencing reform has had minimal impact on reducing national imprisonment rates Explains why reforms must target the excessive sentences imposed on violent and sexual offenders, even though the members of these offender groups are considered "justifiably punished" by long prison terms in the public eye Enables readers to understand why increased consideration for the well-being of offenders and their families is likely a prerequisite to the acceptance of more fundamental changes to the U.S. sentencing system

Defending the Devil - My Story As Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer (Hardcover, Reprint; Revised, Updated ed.): Polly Nelson Defending the Devil - My Story As Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer (Hardcover, Reprint; Revised, Updated ed.)
Polly Nelson
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! (Hardcover): Robert E. Burns I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! (Hardcover)
Robert E. Burns
R2,509 Discovery Miles 25 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This classic book tells the harrowing and inspirational story of Robert Elliott Burns' imprisonment on a chain gang in Georgia in the 1920s, his subsequent escape from the chain gang (twice, no less!), and the public furor that developed across the nation. The book was immediately turned into a famous movie, sparking outrage about prison conditions and involuntary servitude that led to major reforms. This memoir is also simply a very interesting read. Originally issued in 1931 as a six-part serial in the pages of True Detective Mysteries magazine, and printed by the Vanguard Press the following year, this is an autobiographical account - written while in hiding, probably somewhere on the East Coast - of the author's painful adventures in the Georgia penal system, beginning with his arrest for stealing $5.80 from an Atlanta grocer in 1922. Burns' candid intent was to expose the brutality and corruption of the chain gang system, and he succeeded: the book created an instant furor upon publication and became a bestseller for its publisher. It served as the basis for the Mervyn LeRoy film released later in 1932, starring Paul Muni in the role of Robert Elliott Burns. The film heralded a new genre - the prison drama -and won three Oscars including a Best Actor Award for Muni. It is an enduring classic of its time and remains a compelling and timeless memoir.

The Trap - A gripping revenge thriller that you won't be able to put down (Hardcover): Evie Hunter The Trap - A gripping revenge thriller that you won't be able to put down (Hardcover)
Evie Hunter
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Brand new from the bestselling author of The Fall. Callie Devereux has it all - a successful career, a beautiful home and an attentive, loving partner. Until one day, she wakes up to discover that the man she thought she loved has taken everything from her, leaving her penniless. Desperate to get answers, Callie goes after the man she once trusted and discovers a world built on secrets and lies... Jack Carlisle has never heard of the man Callie Devereaux claims to have once loved, but he has a good idea who it is - his business partner and old friend, Logan Armitage. Jack can't believe Logan would steal, but as he helps Callie to find his old friend, Jack discovers money missing too... But with Logan missing without trace, there is only option left to catch this thief - to set a trap. A gripping revenge thriller, perfect for fans of Gemma Rogers!

When Justice Fails - Now I Lay Me Down My Heart (Hardcover): Bonnie Clark Douglass When Justice Fails - Now I Lay Me Down My Heart (Hardcover)
Bonnie Clark Douglass
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17 when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it," after the family was told Poncho fell off the bridge, and that was not what the Pathologist's report concluded. "I'd say he was beaten. When a person falls, you expect to see trademark injuries, especially to the hands and face." Sheriff Pollard said that if he did not know better, he would guess that someone put Poncho on a rack and stretched him. (Telegraph Journal, February 6, 1999, Calvin Pollard, with 25 years combined experience as a sheriff and coroner). George and Dr. Bonnie dug up every piece of information they could find. This included old RCMP records retrieved from the New Brunswick Archives, and news articles from 1981. A comprehensive written report was submitted to the N.B. RCMP Major Crime Unit and, in 1999, the RCMP announced that the case was being opened. After George's violent death in 2007, Dr. Bonnie knew that one day she had to tell George's story, because of his tenacity and courage in the face of a system that seemed dead against him. George remained the eye of the storm, no matter what he came up against. After starting a Facebook site, miraculously, 10 pages of tips came in. The truth about that fateful night and what happened on the catwalk began to unravel. Who would ever believe how the truth surfaced because of social media? A loyal group of people, who ravaged the storm and fought to honor George's vow for justice, are revealed in the story.

The Criminal Brain - Understanding Biological Theories of Crime (Paperback): Nicole Rafter The Criminal Brain - Understanding Biological Theories of Crime (Paperback)
Nicole Rafter
R703 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R49 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

aThe Criminal Brain will have an important impact on social, political, and moral debates as biological criminology becomes increasingly prominent in coming years.a
--Simon A. Cole, author of "Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification"

What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, a trait inherent in the offenderas brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists and self-deluded charlatans, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk for theft, violence, and sexual deviance. If that is so, we may soon confront proposals for genetically modifying aat riska fetuses or doctoring up criminals so their brains operate like those of law-abiding citizens. In The Criminal Brain, well-known criminologist Nicole Rafter traces the sometimes violent history of these criminological theories and provides an introduction to current biological theories of crime, or biocriminology, with predictions of how these theories are likely to develop in the future.

What do these new theories assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed aborna criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology? Enhanced with fascinating illustrations and written in lively prose, The Criminal Brain examines these issues in light ofthe history of ideas about the criminal brain. By tracing the birth and growth of enduring ideas in criminology, as well as by recognizing historical patterns in the interplay of politics and science, she offers ways to evaluate new theories of the criminal brain that may radically reshape ideas about the causes of criminal behavior.

Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls (Hardcover): Dani V. McMay, Rebekah D. Kimble Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls (Hardcover)
Dani V. McMay, Rebekah D. Kimble
R7,044 Discovery Miles 70 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Numerous studies indicate that completing a college degree reduces an individual's likelihood of recidivating. However, there is little research available to inform best practices for running college programs inside jails or prisons or supporting returning citizens who want to complete a college degree. Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls examines program development and pedagogical techniques in the area of higher education for students who are currently incarcerated or completing a degree post-incarceration. Drawing on the experiences of program administrators and professors from across the country, it offers best practices for (1) developing, running, and teaching in college programs offered inside jails and prisons and (2) providing adequate support to returning citizens who wish to complete a college degree. This book is intended to be a resource for college administrators, staff, and professors running or teaching in programs inside jails or prisons or supporting returning citizens on traditional college campuses.

Eternity at the End of A Rope (Hardcover) (Hardcover): Clifford R. Caldwell, Ron DeLord Eternity at the End of A Rope (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Clifford R. Caldwell, Ron DeLord
R1,455 R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Save R222 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
How to Reform Our Prison System (Hardcover): H. J. B. Montgomery, England) Humanitarian League (London How to Reform Our Prison System (Hardcover)
H. J. B. Montgomery, England) Humanitarian League (London
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Better To Reign In Hell - Serial Killers, Media Panics & the FBI (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Stephen Milligen Better To Reign In Hell - Serial Killers, Media Panics & the FBI (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Stephen Milligen
R375 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the serial sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture. In a decade marked by conservative politics and fundamental Protestantism, the serial killer was accused of attacking the traditional values underpinning American society and was used to manipulate public fear for political gain.

Using government reports, trial transcripts, and correspondence, "Better to Reign in Hell" examines the people and events that led to and perpetuate this panic, notably President Ronald Reagan, the New Right, the FBI, and the media.

As well as detailing high-profile cases such as those of Son of Sam and Ted Bundy, the book features interviews with law enforcement officers and convicted serial killers.

Reading Japanese Newspaper Articles - A Guide for Advanced Japanese Language Students (Hardcover): Stephen Smith Reading Japanese Newspaper Articles - A Guide for Advanced Japanese Language Students (Hardcover)
Stephen Smith
R542 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Keeping Religious Institutions Secure (Paperback): Jennie-Leigh McLamb Keeping Religious Institutions Secure (Paperback)
Jennie-Leigh McLamb
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Keeping Religious Institutions Secure explores the unique vulnerabilities that churches, synagogues, and mosques face in regards to security, making them attractive to criminals who see them as easy targets. The text illustrates why all places of worship should think about security and the types of breaches that can drive people away. The book focuses on the most frequent security concerns experienced by houses of worship, including embezzlement, vandalism, assault, hate crime, and in rare cases, an active shooter-and how to help prevent them from occurring. Beginning with an overview of the basic security concepts and principles that can enhance the security of any religious facility, it then delves deeply into the particular security concerns of houses of worship, including the use of volunteers, protecting religious leaders, ensuring safety for children and teens, interacting with local law enforcement, handling the media, and much more.

Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice (Hardcover): Liam J. Leonard Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice (Hardcover)
Liam J. Leonard
R5,356 Discovery Miles 53 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world's prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants, in addition to a history of using internment camps and reservations. An overreliance on incarceration has emphasized long-standing and systemic racism in criminal justice systems and reveals a need to critically examine current processes in an effort to reform modern systems and provide the best practices for successfully responding to deviance. Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice is an essential scholarly reference that focuses on incarceration and imprisonment and reflects on the differences and alternatives to these policies in various parts of the world. Covering subjects from criminology and criminal justice to penology and prison studies, this book presents chapters that examine processes and responses to deviance in regions around the world including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Uniquely, this book presents chapters that give a voice to those who are not always heard in debates about incarceration and justice such as those who have been incarcerated, family members of those incarcerated, and those who work within the walls of the prison system. Investigating significant topics that include carceral trauma, prisoner rights, recidivism, and desistance, this book is critical for academicians, researchers, policymakers, advocacy groups, students, government officials, criminologists, and other practitioners interested in criminal justice, penology, human rights, courts and law, victimology, and criminology.

Warden Force - Masters of Destruction and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 88-100 (Hardcover): Terry Hodges Warden Force - Masters of Destruction and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 88-100 (Hardcover)
Terry Hodges
R581 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Blue Lives Matter - The Heart Behind the Badge (Hardcover): Brian P Whiddon Blue Lives Matter - The Heart Behind the Badge (Hardcover)
Brian P Whiddon
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Free Market Criminal Justice - How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law (Hardcover): Darryl K. Brown Free Market Criminal Justice - How Democracy and Laissez Faire Undermine the Rule of Law (Hardcover)
Darryl K. Brown
R2,084 Discovery Miles 20 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Free Market Criminal Justice offers a critique of the ideology behind the US criminal justice system. It argues that the distinctive ideology shaping American criminal processes is a commitment to a set of values in institutional design as divided into two categories - "democracy" and "markets". Here, democracy describes the ideas and practices of politically responsive, popularly accountable governance. Markets refers to norms, premises and mechanisms of private ordering in contrast to public management; competition between private agents acting for self-interest. Arguing against recent attempts to re-invigorate democratic processes in criminal justice, this book claims that there are significant downsides to a criminal justice system that favors democratic processes over legal regulation. The commitment to democracy has undermined the rule of law in American criminal justice resulting in mass incarceration and wrongful convictions, particularly as institutional democracy goes hand in hand with the development of market-inspired mechanisms. This book concludes with proposals for reforms to rebuild the rule of law in the criminal process.

China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property - Implications for Global Distributive Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023):... China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property - Implications for Global Distributive Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Wenting Cheng
R3,335 Discovery Miles 33 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book analyses how China has engaged in global IP governance and the implications of its engagement for global distributive justice. It investigates five cases on China's IP engagement in geographical indications, the disclosure obligation, IP and standardisation, and its bilateral and multilateral IP engagement. It takes a regulation-oriented approach to examine substate and non-state actors involved in China's global IP engagement, identifies principles that have guided or constrained its engagement, and discusses strategies actors have used in managing the principles. Its focus on engagement directs attention to processes instead of outcomes, which enables a more nuanced understanding of the role that China plays in global IP governance than the dichotomic categorisation of China either as a global IP rule-taker or rule-maker. This book identifies two groups of strategies that China has used in its global IP engagement: forum and agenda-related strategies and principle-related strategies. The first group concerns questions of where and how China has advanced its IP agenda, including multi-forum engagement, dissembling, and more cohesive responsive engagement. The second group consists of strategies to achieve a certain principle or manage contesting principles, including modelling and balancing. It shows that China's deployment of engagement strategies makes its IP system similar to those of the EU and the US. Its balancing strategy has led to constructed inconsistency of its IP positions across forums. This book argues that China still has some way to go to influence global IP agenda-setting in a way matching its status as the second largest economy.

Fall - The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron (Paperback): John Preston Fall - The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron (Paperback)
John Preston
R431 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Saps, Blackjacks and Slungshots - A History of Forgotten Weapons (Hardcover): Robert Escobar Saps, Blackjacks and Slungshots - A History of Forgotten Weapons (Hardcover)
Robert Escobar
R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warden Force - Deadly Intent and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 76 - 87 (Hardcover): Terry Hodges Warden Force - Deadly Intent and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 76 - 87 (Hardcover)
Terry Hodges
R577 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Doctor Broad - A Mafia Love Story (Hardcover): Barbara H Roberts The Doctor Broad - A Mafia Love Story (Hardcover)
Barbara H Roberts
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Holly - Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood (Paperback): Julian Rubinstein The Holly - Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood (Paperback)
Julian Rubinstein
R459 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Hardcover): Ephraim Shoham-Steiner Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
R2,756 R2,466 Discovery Miles 24 660 Save R290 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed. While these accusations were, for the most part, unfounded, in other cases criminal accusations against Jews were not altogether baseless. Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes committed by Jews. A society's attitude toward individuals identified as criminals - by others or themselves - can serve as a window into that society's mores and provide insight into how transgressors understood themselves and society's atttudes toward them. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first section, Shoham-Steiner examines theft and crimes of a financial nature. In the second section, he discusses physical violence and murder, most importantly among Jews but also incidents when Jews attacked others and cases in which Jews asked non-Jews to commit violence against fellow Jews. In the third section, Shoham-Steiner approaches the role of women in crime and explores the gender differences, surveying the nature of the crimes involving women both as perpetrators and as victims, as well as the reaction to their involvement in criminal activities among medieval European Jews. While the study of crime and social attitudes toward criminals is firmly established in the social sciences, the history of crime and of social attitudes toward crime and criminals is relatively new, especially in the field of medieval studies and all the more so in medieval Jewish studies. Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe blazes a new path for unearthing daily life history from extremely recalcitrant sources. The intended readership goes beyond scholars and students of medieval Jewish studies, medieval European history, and crime in pre-modern society.

The Scale and Impacts of Money Laundering (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Brigitte Unger The Scale and Impacts of Money Laundering (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Brigitte Unger
R3,530 Discovery Miles 35 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Money laundering is a problem of some magnitude internationally and has long term negative economic impacts. Brigitte Unger argues that today, money laundering is largely linked to fraud and that it is not only small islands and tax havens which launder, but increasingly, industrialized countries like the US, Australia, The Netherlands and the UK. Well established financial markets and growing economies with sound political and social structures attract launderers in the same way as they attract honest capital. The book gives an interdisciplinary overview of the state-of-the-art of money laundering as well as describing the legal problems of defining and fighting money laundering. It then goes on to present a number of economic models designed to measure money laundering and applies these to measuring the size of laundering in The Netherlands and Australia. The book also gives an overview of techniques and potential effects of money laundering identified and measured so far in the literature. It adds to this debate by calculating the effects of laundering on crime and economic growth. This book will be of great interest to lawyers, financial experts, economists, political scientists, as well as to government ministries, international and national organizations and central banks.

Explorations in Critical Criminology in Honor of William J. Chambliss (Hardcover): Dawn L Rothe, Victoria E. Collins Explorations in Critical Criminology in Honor of William J. Chambliss (Hardcover)
Dawn L Rothe, Victoria E. Collins
R4,329 Discovery Miles 43 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume is in honor of William J. Chambliss who has influenced and provided a foundation for new directions and approaches in sociology, criminology, critical criminology in particular, and the sociology of law. This is to name a few of the many inspirational and foundational ways he has changed the course and methods for generations to come, inspiring not only the editors and contributors of this volume. Each of the chapters detail various ways Bill's work has impacted on our own perspectives and/or research including, but not limited to, the way we understand the value of non-traditional methods, law and power, the very definition of crime, organized crime, and unmasking the power structures and powerful that cause inequality, social ills and pains. Contributors are: Elizabeth A. Bradshaw, Meredith Brown, William J. Chambliss, Francis T. Cullen, Jeff Ferrell, David O. Friedrichs, Mark S. Hamm, Ronald C. Kramer, Teresa C. Kulig, Raymond Michalowski, Christopher J. Moloney, Ida Nafstad, Sarah Pedigo, Gary Potter, Isabel Schoultz.

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