The Death Penalty (Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints) (Compact Research: Current Issues)
by Lauri S Friedman
Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights (Rosen Verified: The Bill of Rights)
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time Congre...
Jobs in Law Enforcement (Do You Want a Career in Criminal Justice?)
by Corona Brezina
Describes the passage of the 1947 law that helped define the rights of labor and management, and describes the conditions of the labor force before and after the act.
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...
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.
Amendment XIII: Abolishing Slavery (Constitutional Amendments: Beyond the Bill of Rights)
by Jared Zacharias
Prisons (Current Controversies (Library)) (Current Controversies (Paperback))
White-Collar Crime (Opposing Viewpoints (Paperback)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Library))
Cell Phones and Driving (At Issue (Paperback)) (At Issue (Hardcover))