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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
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
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
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
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
America's courts and the criminal justice system	David W. Neubauer	[This book] examines the history, traditions, and philosophy underlying our system of justice as it is played out in the criminal court.... This book is written for undergraduate courses that deal wi…	OL16985951W
Ethical Justice	Brent E. Turvey,Stan Crowder	This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally black and white, not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or t…	OL17309349W
Introduction to Criminal Justice	Joseph J. Senna,Larry J. Siegel	As fast-paced and vital as criminal justice itself, the Eleventh Edition of Introduction to Criminal Justice is an authoritative, comprehensive, solidly researched bestseller that sparks students' in…	OL17312101W
Crime Policy In America Laws Institutions And Programs	Shahid Shahidullah	"This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in disparate contexts of social and politica…	OL17456823W
Law & disorder	John E. Douglas	"It is mankind's most abominable crime: murder. No one is better acquainted with the subject and its wrenching challenges than John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, and the model fo…	OL17678647W
Unusually cruel	Marc Morjé Howard	The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the…	OL17763839W