Transforming Culture and Behaviors for Law Enforcement
Many times, the police are the first to respond to an individual in crisis. We've made strides shifting the response from an attitude of control to one of compassion. This book serves as a reliable and accessible reference for those intent on bringing change to the vital effort of diversion.
Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice provides a holistic analysis of modern criminal justice issues, encompassing the pre-trial, investigative, and post-conviction stages of criminal justice in legal settings across the world.
Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy
James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for exploring the connection between the murder of his own mother, when he was ten years old, and his troubled adolescence and early adulthood struggles with ......
The Case for a Defender General of the United States
In these times of reckoning--at last--with America's original sin of slavery and racist policies, with police misconduct, and with mass-incarceration, many in our country ask, "What can we do?" In this powerful and insightful book, Andrea D. Lyon explicates what is wrong with the criminal justice system through clients' stories and historical ......
The Case for a Defender General of the United States
Through clients' stories and historical perspectives, Andrea D. Lyon explicates what's wrong with the criminal justice system and makes a compelling case that the United States needs a Defender General. Someone who represents the poor and disenfranchised, who is part of any discussions of policy, funding, or the administration of justice.
Sexual offences pose severe violations of human rights that necessitate criminal law intervention in every democratic society. This edited collection analyzes sexual offences throughout multiple jurisdictions in terms of attrition rate.
Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictions Jailhouse informants-witnesses who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some incentive-are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a crime while they were ......
Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictions Jailhouse informants-witnesses who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some incentive-are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a crime while they were ......
