Seventeen years after she was born to a prison inmate, Deja agrees to raise her newest half-sister for the first six months, until their mother's next release, but despite the help of friends and relatives and a support program at school, caring for a baby proves to be a monumental task.
The true-life account of two young lawyers journey through the dark heart of death row and child prosecution in the corrupt and victimising legal systems of Louisiana, Belize, and the UK. In 2006 Aika Stephenson and Shauneen Lambe established Just for Kids Law. Shauneen, an attorney and barrister had previously represented death row defendants in the US and Aika had become a lawyer after working with the youth offending team and remand prisoners at Feltham Young Offenders Institution. They set...
Do Police Abuse Their Power? (Issues in Society)
by William Dudley
Disscusses police shootings and other questionable acts of misconduct, including topics like accountability for abuse of power, body camera use, and racism.
Entomology and Palynology (Solving Crimes With Science: Forensics)
by Maryalice Walker
"Television programs and feature films present criminal psychology and profiling as a blend of psychic visions, supernatural intuition, and evidence analysis. The reality, however, is quite different. Using true-crime case studies from history and the present, examples from current and former FBI profilers, and informative sidebars, Criminal Psychology & Personality Profiling explores the many roles and responsibilities criminal psychologists and profilers fill as they support other professional...
Jobs in the Corrections System (Do You Want a Career in Criminal Justice?)
by Kathleen A Klatte
Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul play, and in Victorian England, officials used cr...
Gangs (Opposing Viewpoints (Paperback)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Library))
Slavery Today (Groundwork Guides)
by Kevin Bales and Rebecca Cornell
Forced to work in back-breaking, under- or unpaid jobs from agricultural work to prostitution, slaves today men and women, old and young are trapped in the same spiral of brutality and control they have endured for centuries, with one crucial difference: a collapse in the price of human beings. Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverished people has pushed the human pri...
Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream
by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro
Every Vote Matters: The Power of Your Voice, from Student Elections to the Supre (Teens & the Law)
by Thomas A Jacobs