Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Black women in marginalized communities is at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. This book shows that the threat of violence to black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.
In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately ......
Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.
Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.
Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate
Today's white supremacist activism originated in carefully cultivated homes, parties, rituals, music festivals, and digital media and went on to reshape the U.S. political landscape. With powerful case studies, interviews, and first-person accounts, the third edition of American Swastika guides readers through these hidden enclaves of hate to link ......
The sensational story behind one of the first criminal investigations to use forensic analysis. On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of ......
What Police, Prosecutors, and Courts Aren't Doing to Protect America's
Abetting Batterers reveals the troubling patterns of inattention and incompetence that compromise the safety of women in the US. It looks at how the criminal justice system responds to the ever-growing problem of domestic violence, what preventative strategies and training have been developed and put in place, and why most are still failing.
A provocative exploration of how the legal system's response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to change it.
A provocative exploration of how the legal system's response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to change it.
This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence, and provides a framework for evidence-informed state juvenile justice systems: The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders.
Ted Bundy withheld his darkest secrets from police, journalists, and psychologists. While on death row he shared these hidden insights with his closest friends in the Florida State Prison. Finally, a way to make sense of the mysteries regarding all of Bundy's perversions, his biggest influences, his secret dump sites, and what happened to his ......
