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A concise, authoritative guide to civil liberties issues in
American society, from freedom of speech and religious liberty to
due process, equal protection, and privacy. Is racial profiling
permissible for a good cause? Why shouldn't schools display the Ten
Commandments on their walls? Should the terminally ill in Oregon be
allowed to end their lives without federal interference? Is hate
speech protected under the law? America's civil liberties have a
storied past and uncertain future. Written for a general audience,
this work clearly defines civil liberties and explains their legal
basis in the Bill of Rights, state constitutions, legal statutes,
and administrative regulations. full range of civil liberties
issues: the First Amendment, due process, equal protection, and
privacy. In addition to extensive material on past controversies,
such as the Scopes trial and the internment of Japanese Americans
during World War II, the book discusses important contemporary
issues, such as censorship on the internet and drug testing. The
coverage also examines conflicting civil liberties issues such as
hate speech, which pits one person's freedom of expression against
another's right to equal protection. The book contains extensive
bibliographic references to books and articles and a long list of
web site links to organizations active on all sides of today's
civil liberties controversies.
It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists
of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors,
judges, and other officials. Analyzing the origins, nature, and
impact of various efforts to control discretion, Taming the System
is the first comprehensive history of the reform attempts in the
past forty years. Of enormous value to scholars, reformers, and
criminal justice professionals, Walker's book approaches the
discretion problem through a detailed examination of four decision
points: policing, bail setting, plea bargaining, and sentencing. In
a field which largely produces short-ranged "evaluation research",
this study, in taking a wider historical approach, distinguishes
between the roles of administrative bodies (the police) and
evaluates the longer-term trends and the successful reforms in
criminal justice history. Serving as an "interim report" on what
does and does not work in the system, Taming the System concludes
that not only has the effort to control discretion been a unifying
theme in criminal justice history, but that there have actually
been some successes, resulting in reducing disparities in race and
social class.
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.
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.
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.
The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights. This "Rights Revolution" is currently under attack by both mainstream conservatives and intellectual liberals as undermining traditional values of community. In replying to the critics, Samuel Walker details the history of the rise of rights in American society, from the birth of the civil rights movement to today, and provides a spirited defense of its success in actually enlarging and enriching our sense of community in the USA.
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