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What role does race play in the justice system? In THE COLOR OF
JUSTICE: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND CRIME IN AMERICA, Sixth Edition,
you'll read a data-driven and balanced account of criminal behavior
patterns, victimization, immigration and crime, drug use, police
practices, court processing and sentencing, executions under the
death penalty, and the prison system. You'll examine all the
angles, from gender to economic status to race and age as you
uncover the truth about the criminal justice system. Get informed
on this important issue with this enlightening text.
Samuel Walker's SENSE AND NONSENSE ABOUT CRIME, DRUGS, AND
COMMUNITIES was one of the first books to challenge common
misconceptions about crime, and the new Eighth Edition remains
uniquely effective at doing so. Described as a "masterful critique"
of American policies on everything from crime control, to guns, to
drugs, this incisive book cuts through popular myths and political
rhetoric while emphasizing current research and proven practice.
The result is a lucid, research-based work that clearly reveals
what does not work in crime policy while identifying shared
characteristics of successful approaches, including carefully
defined, narrowly focused, problem-oriented programs in policing
and prosecution. This engaging text captures the full complexity of
the administration of justice while providing readers with a clear
sense of its key principles and general patterns.
This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American
presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the
full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of
freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal
protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian
and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and
national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not
protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have
perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic
presidents (Wilson and Roosevelt), moreover, have violated civil
liberties as badly as some Republican presidents (Nixon and Bush).
This is the first book to examine the full civil liberties records
of each president (thus, placing a president's record on civil
rights with his record on national security issues), and also to
compare the performance on particular issues of all the presidents
covered.
This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American
presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the
full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of
freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal
protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian
and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and
national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not
protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have
perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic
presidents (Wilson and Roosevelt), moreover, have violated civil
liberties as badly as some Republican presidents (Nixon and Bush).
This is the first book to examine the full civil liberties records
of each president (thus, placing a president's record on civil
rights with his record on national security issues), and also to
compare the performance on particular issues of all the presidents
covered.
The NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the iconic events in
American sports. In this fast-paced, in-depth account, J. Samuel
Walker and Randy Roberts identify the 1973-74 season as pivotal in
the making of this now legendary postseason tournament. In an era
when only one team per conference could compete, the dramatic
defeat of coach John Wooden's UCLA Bruins by the North Carolina
State Wolfpack ended a decade of the Bruins' dominance, fueled
unprecedented national attention, and prompted the NCAA to expand
the tournament field to a wider range of teams. Walker and Roberts
provide a richly detailed chronicle of the games that made the
season so memorable and uncover the behind-the-scenes maneuvering
that set the stage for the celebrated spectacle that now fixes the
nation's attention every March.
On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home
when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the
phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in
downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like
many of his fellow Americans, was and remains troubled by questions
about the disaster that occurred on 9/11. What were the purposes of
the attacks? Why did US intelligence agencies and the Defense
Department, with annual budgets in the hundreds of billions of
dollars, fail to protect the country from a small band of
terrorists who managed to hijack four airliners and take the lives
of nearly three thousand American citizens? What did responsible
government agencies and officials know about Al-Qaeda and why did
they not do more to head off the threat it posed? What were
American policies toward terrorism, especially under Presidents
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and why did they fall so far short
of defending against a series of attacks? Finally, was the tragedy
of 9/11 preventable? These are the most important questions that
The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 tries to
answer. The Day That Shook America offers a long perspective and
draws on recently opened records to provide an in-depth analysis of
the approaches taken by the Clinton and Bush administrations toward
terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular. It also delivers
arresting new details on the four hijackings and the collapse of
the Twin Towers. J. Samuel Walker covers both the human drama and
the public policy dimensions of one of the most important events in
all of US history, and he does so in a way that is both
comprehensive and concise.
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against
Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind
President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what
was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker
evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In
this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new
research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made
available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic
considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about
whether to invade or continue the conventional bombing of Japan to
Tokyo's agonizing deliberations over surrender and the effects of
both low- and high-level radiation exposure, Walker continues to
shed light on one of the most earthshaking moments in history.
Rising above an often polemical debate, the third edition presents
an accessible synthesis of previous work and new research to help
make sense of the events that ushered in the atomic age.
The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of
expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and
cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of
protection to offensive speech.
How did this free speech tradition develop? "Hate Speech"
provides the first comprehensive account of the history of the hate
speech controversy in the United States. Samuel Walker examines the
issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and
American Nazi groups in the 1930s, tot he famous Skokie episode in
1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990s.
The author argues that the civil rights movement played a
central role in developing this country's strong free speech
tradition. The courts were very concerned about protecting the
provocative and even offensive forms of expression by civil rights
forces. Civil rights groups, therefore, preferred to protect rather
than restrict offensive speech--even if it meant protecting racist
speech.
Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense
rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have
come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball,
J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes
that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's
rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953
and 1972. Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games
and the tensions of bitter recruiting battles without losing sight
of the central off-court questions the league wrestled with during
these two decades. As basketball became the ACC's foremost
attraction, conference administrators sought to field winning teams
while improving academic programs and preserving academic
integrity. The ACC also adapted gradually to changes in the postwar
South, including, most prominently, the struggle for racial justice
during the 1960s. ACC Basketball is a lively, entertaining account
of coaches' flair (and antics), players' artistry, a major
point-shaving scandal, and the gradually more evenly matched
struggle for dominance in one of college basketball's strongest
conferences.
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