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Once a cop
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Corey Pegues |
"New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer--a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they ar… |
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Educating Incarcerated Youth
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Lynette Tannis |
"What happens to school age children when they become incarcerated? Although juvenile justice courts were established in the US more than one hundred years ago, there has been very little research on… |
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Changing Lives
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Peter W. Greenwood |
"One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it. As a result of this almost complete absence of ev… |
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Crime of passion
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Leo Janos |
A why-it-happened account of a double killing, with a clear murderer-as-victim slant that will generate strong pro/con reactions. In September 1969, Geoffrey King, 17 and zonked on acid, stabbed to d… |
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Crossing the Water
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Daniel Robb |
"Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked as a… |
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