Crimes of the Middle Classes (Yale Studies on White-Collar Crime)
by David Weisburd and etc.
In this major study of convicted white-collar offenders in America, Weisburd, Wheeler, Waring, and Bode show that, contrary to public assumption, the majority of white-collar criminals are not wealthy but come from the middle classes and that judges are not more lenient with these offenders but often punish them more harshly than less socially privileged criminals.
Lord Jim (Picador Books) (Serie Aventures de Joseph Conrad, #4)
by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1900): Jim is one of Conrad's most complex creations, and Conrad explores, along the vast horizon of this gorgeous novel, the phenomena of shame, guilt, retribution -- and redemption. How right it is for our times!Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. V.S. Pritchett wrot...
Employment Discrimination
by Andrew J. Maikovich and Michele D. Brown
Zwangsvollstreckung in Das Unbewegliche Vermögen (Guttentagsche Sammlung Deutscher Reichsgesetze, #43)
by I Krech and O. Fischer
The contemporary world has become so unravelled that the Congress of the United States, with nothing better to do, has felt the necessity of passing a Defense of Marriage Act. We are all being treated to daily media coverage of the same-sex marriages and programming which would make the devil blush. We are being told that the weird is just fine. Will the children of the man-women unions see this deviation as normal? Some critics blame society's depravation on the legions of spent politicians wre...
Discusses the author's work on the Ways and Means Committee.
Mississippi Environmental Law Handbook
by Daniel Coker Horton, Bell, Chris, Jackson H Ables, III, David B Stevenson, and Larry D Moffett
Personalized Guide to Legal Issues (Dental Practical Management S.)
by Randall K. Berning and Michael A. Johnson
AIDS and the Law is the first comprehensive survey of the legal issues encountered by anyone dealing with the disease, providing a crucial--and accessible--overview of the ways our society, through its laws, can and should respond to this rapidly widening epidemic.
Modern Real Estate Practice (Modern Real Estate Practice)
by Fillmore W Galaty, Wellington J. Allaway, and Robert C. Kyle
The Rights of Students (An American Civil Liberties Union handbook)
by Janet R Price, Alan H Levine, and Eve Cary
The laws affecting students are complex, controversial, and in a constant state of flux.Price, Levine, and Cary seek to define how much power school officials have to regulate students lives and what responsibilities they have to provide students with appropriate services and protections.Racial discrimination, a subject so enormous and important that it requires a book of its own, is considered only as it affects various other topics, such as due process and corporal punishment.The author s make...
Traces the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, explains why it failed to pass, and assesses its chances for future passage.
Lehrbuch Der OEkonomischen Analyse Des Zivilrechts (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Hans-Bernd Schafer and Claus Ott
Die Grundlagen der oekonomischen Analyse des Zivilrechts werden in diesem Buch anschaulich eroertert. Die Autoren des einzigen deutschen Lehrbuchs zu diesem Thema berucksichtigen dabei das Delikts-, Vertrags- und Sachenrecht, das Immaterialguterrecht sowie das Insolvenzrecht und Grundzuge des Unternehmensrechts. Ein neuer Schwerpunkt der umfassend aktualisierten 5. Auflage ist der Einfluss der verhaltensoekonomischen Forschung auf diese Analyse. Zudem werden die Europaisierung des Rechts und die...