Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine execution of one of his clients in 1972, Robert Badinter dedicated his life to the abolition of the death penalty. Here, he recounts his efforts to publicly subvert the death penalty system by orchestrating the appeals for a series of notorious...
The Future of Batterer Programs (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Edward W. Gondolf
Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has prompted calls to overhaul or replace such programs. Edward W. Gondolf examines batterer research in light of the push for "evidence-based practice" and advocates a progressive evolution of batterer intervention as it currently stands. Cautioning against the call for programs based on a "new psychology," he argues that...
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense...
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective
Commercial Implications of Native Title
This book focuses on the extensive commercial implications of Mabo, Wik and the 1997 native title legislation. It covers: Australian native title legislation and cases The Wik decision and post-Wik legislative optionsThe government's proposed changes to the Native Title ActCape York and Crescent Head AgreementsThe Century Zinc negotiationsAccounting and auditing implicationsImplications for mining and pastoral companiesFreshwater resources and native titleLeases and native titleNative title nego...
Codes of the Underworld
by Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow Diego Gambetta
The Community Order and the Suspended Sentence Order Three Years on (Community Sentences)
by George Mair and Helen Mills
International Handbook of Criminology
A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminology completes an esteemed trilogy of comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts. Exploring a phenomenon that penetrates cultures of all racial, ethnic, and social classes, this volume continues in the tradition of its predecessors in the
An Inspection of Criminal Justice Social Work Services
Young Fraudsters in Nigeria (Yahoo or G Boys) (Nigerian Youth Challenges, #3)
by Uzochukwu Mike P
American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on the screen but also in the ways movies are made, promoted, and viewed in the United States. Screening the Police explores the history of film's entwinement with law enforcement, showing the role that state power has played in the creation and expansion of a popular medium. For the New Jersey State Police in the 1930s, film offered a meth...
America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed...