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This volume about juvenile delinquency in the United States and
United Kingdom includes a foreword, nine chapters organized in
three parts, and an afterword. Chapters 1 and 2 in Part I describe
juvenile delinquency in both countries and the urgency of the
current crisis. Chapters 3 to 6 in Part II deal with the two
nations' juvenile justice systems, focusing on structural and
ideological obstacles preventing reform. Presented in the final
chapters in Part III are suggestions for reform in school, and
juvenile justice setting that recognize the importance of character
in causing delinquency.
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American Amen (Paperback)
Gary L. McDowell; Edited by J. P Dancing Bear
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Like a man who might go fishing as a diversion only to catch
somethingextraordinary, maybe Gary L. McDowell didn't set out to
write a big fat hymnto the human condition. But he did. The
brilliant American Amen wrestles, body and spirit, with our
belligerent world. It's a tensile poetic line McDowellcasts, in the
many senses of the word: this poetry throws, sheds, exhales,
reckons, sows, shapes, bestows. Part gristle, part faith, American
Amen is abeautiful book, reeling in "something baffling about
adulthood" as it glintsand flexes, alive, into the air.- Amy
NewmanGary L. McDowell's poems shimmer with masterful variety-long
sinuoussequences and short intensifying lyrics; personal narratives
and prayers tosteel, wheat, and corn; family poems, of a father and
of a son, yet poemscapable of rich otherness: "I found my history
in the tiny / bones of ahummingbird." For all this productive
range, the center of McDowell'simpressive first book, American
Amen, is love, whose abiding act is acceptance.That's what the word
amen means-whether in Jewish, Muslim, or Christianusage-and that's
the deepest gift among the many gifts of these poems. Ashe writes
himself, out of loss and gain, out of terror and awe, after all,
"incase of fire, any god will do."- David BakerIn this age of
new-didacticism a reader of poetry might sometimes wish toask
poetry to delight first, then worry about instructing. Gary L.
McDowell'sAmerican Amen does just that, line by gravid line, one
dazzling momentafter another, in poems that are wholly true. A
romance of place andperson continually undergoes scrutiny and comes
out from disillusionmentto wonder, manifold mysteries, and
joy-honest, stunned, self-forgetfulglimpses of the illimitable. An
unsettling yet steadfast vision obtains, of origin, longing,
creation, and departure-all revealed as inevitable yetunpredictable
forces of grace. This is an astonishing collection, a poetry
ofresoundingly human and natural marvels.- William OlsenAmerican
Amen is a moving and remarkably mature debut. In it one finds
aMidwestern Robert Hass-impeccably tuned to birdsong, the
whisperingtrees, the erotic and broken heartbeat of the every day.
The collectionwrestles the unbeatable ghosts of family and manhood;
what kind of manam I, these poems ask, What does love mean? Hiking
through a forest offamilial apparitions the poems yearn to
understand fathers and grandfathers.In gutting a fish they can find
the sublime. Gary L. McDowell's bigshoulderedpoems house both
self-doubt and a bottomless well of kindness.American Amen
wondrously pushes into the dark with "its heart in its fists."-
Alex Lemon
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Justice vs. Law (Paperback)
Eugene Hickok, Gary L. MacDowell
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R455
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A detailed analysis of a child-abuse case reveals all of the
aspects of the judicial system, including the limits of justice,
and makes an argument for judicial restraint.
For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States
Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and
the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed
by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of
interpretation'. Since the end of the nineteenth century, a
radically new understanding has developed in which the moral
intuition of the judges is allowed to supplant the Constitution's
original meaning as the foundation of interpretation. The Founders'
Constitution of fixed and permanent meaning has been replaced by
the idea of a 'living' or evolving constitution. Gary L. McDowell
refutes this new understanding, recovering the theoretical grounds
of the original Constitution as understood by those who framed and
ratified it. It was, he argues, the intention of the Founders that
the judiciary must be bound by the original meaning of the
Constitution when interpreting it.
An international collection of the world's most distinguished
historians and political philosophers takes a fresh look at the
political, legal, and philosophical contributions of Thomas
Jefferson. The insightful essays analyze and illuminate the
sophisticated layers of the political and legal thought of
America's most influential and intellectually complex Founder. With
contributors that include Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Morton Frisch,
Paul Rahe, James Stoner, Robert K. Faulkner, John Zvesper, Howard
Temperly, Robert A. Rutland, Raoul Berger, Colin Bonwick, Peter
Parish, Jeffrey Sedgwick, J. R. Pole, Richard King, and Jean M.
Yarborough, this is essential reading for historians and political
philosophers.
For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States
Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and
the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed
by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of
interpretation'. Since the end of the nineteenth century, a
radically new understanding has developed in which the moral
intuition of the judges is allowed to supplant the Constitution's
original meaning as the foundation of interpretation. The Founders'
Constitution of fixed and permanent meaning has been replaced by
the idea of a 'living' or evolving constitution. Gary L. McDowell
refutes this new understanding, recovering the theoretical grounds
of the original Constitution as understood by those who framed and
ratified it. It was, he argues, the intention of the Founders that
the judiciary must be bound by the original meaning of the
Constitution when interpreting it.
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