Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
From guns to gavels	Bill Neal	"Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provi…	OL11994666W
The daughters of Juárez	Teresa Rodríguez	For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of th…	OL12281070W
Privilege or punish	Daniel Markel	This work answers two basic questions: how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And how should a defendant's family status be recognized in a criminal justic…	OL13648848W
The new international policing	Beth K. Greener	Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This booknbsp;explores thenbsp;phenomenon of a new intern…	OL13656986W
Let's get free	Paul Delano Butler	Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight. It was those years on the front lines that convinced him that the A…	OL13691684W
Im Namen der Anklage	Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic	Von der Wirtstochter aus einem kleinen Ort im Tessin hin zur international gefürchteten Anklägerin: Carla Del Ponte schildert überraschend offen ihren ungewöhnlichen Werdegang und ihren resoluten Kam…	OL13757051W
EU criminal law and justice	Fletcher, Maria LL. B., LL. M.	This title seeks to provide a comprehensive, accessible yet analytically challenging account of one of the most dynamic and controversial fields of EU action.	OL13763197W
The new Jim Crow	Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander	This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race…	OL13826369W
Crime	John Muncie	Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches, the books illuminate the different ways in which crime is constructed, conceived and controlled. International case studies are u…	OL15457320W
Sovereign power and the law in China	Flora Sapio	In China the coexistence of arbitrary detention and a transition towards a rule of law is either seen as an oxymoron, or as an aberration. This book analyses under-researched institutions and practic…	OL15537737W
International crime and justice	Mangai Natarajan	"International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines…	OL15538029W
Criminal justice and neoliberalism	Emma Bell	"This book explores the origins of the so-called "punitive turn" in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates how the context of neoliberalism has informed penal …	OL15884069W
Courtroom 302	Steve Bogira	This book is the story of one year in one courtroom in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. We see the system through the eyes of the men and women…	OL16027371W
Georgia's criminal justice system	Deborah Mitchell Robinson	xxi, 258 p. : 23 cm	OL16191402W
The Central Park Five	Sarah Burns	An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino …	OL16261038W
The Rehnquist court and criminal justice	Christopher E. Smith,Christina DeJong,Michael A. McCall	"This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (198…	OL16451058W
Criminal justice essentials	Sue Titus Reid	"Revised and updated to reflect recent research and statutory changes, the Ninth Edition of Sue Titus Reid's Criminal Justice Essentials represents the most comprehensive yet concise overview of the …	OL16461492W
Policing and justice	Dirk Flint	"Discusses the media treatment of conflicts and wars worldwide, including issues of media pressure, biases, propaganda, and scandals"--Provided by publisher.	OL16470052W
The steps to the Supreme Court	Peter H. Irons	"The Steps to the Supreme Court follows two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system from initial charges and complaints all the way up to the Supreme Court. Ste…	OL16728731W
Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict states	United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights	This publication explores how hybrid courts can receive the mandates and the political support required to be more effective in building capacity and bestowing an enduring legacy upon the justice sys…	OL16919194W