Every Vote Matters: The Power of Your Voice, from Student Elections to the Supre (Teens & the Law)
by Thomas A Jacobs
What Is the Right to a Trial by Jury? (Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights)
by Jenna Tolli
Guilty? Crime, Punishment, and the Changing Nature of Justice
by Teri Kanefield
Offers an overview of crime and the American criminal justice system, using extensive examples of real cases to illustrate difficult questions about what is considered criminal and what punishment is appropriate for different types of crimes.
When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed left him clinging to life, yet he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. John Busby was scheduled to testify in an upcoming trial against the family of a local criminal with rumoured mob connections. It bec...
Criminal Justice Professionals (Practical Career Guides)
by Kezia Endsley
Welcome to the criminal justice field! If you are interested in a career in criminal justice, you've come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various professions? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these qu...
Violence Against Women (Current Controversies (Paperback)) (Current Controversies (Hardcover))
A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes (History in 50, #0)
by Gale Eaton
The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions—making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding fame, trading an ordinary life for a glamorous one—but they all chose the lowest, fastest road to get there. Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams opera...
Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights (Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights)
This collection of articles pro and con on bullying examines whether bullying is a dangerous and growing problem, the extent to which cyberbullying is a major problem, the types of people targeted for bullying, and how bullying affects older victims.
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they...
Jobs in Law Enforcement (Do You Want a Career in Criminal Justice?)
by Corona Brezina