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The Limits of Consent
This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the ways meaningful consent is difficult, if not impossible, in relationships that involve intimate partner violence or family viole…
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- 978-3-031-46622-9
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values
"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…
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- 9780262278577
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- 1 online resource (86 pages).
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DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice
AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262310604
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Command and persuade :crime, law, and the state across history
"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361507
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- 1 online resource
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Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending?
Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, this book discusses such topics as a cost-benefit analysis of additional police hiring, the testing of innovative policy interventions through field experiments, imprisonment and recidivism rates, incentives and disincentives for sports hooliganism and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461944645
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- 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages).
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Get off my neck :Black lives, white justice, and a former prosecutor's quest …
"An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378147
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- 1 online resource
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Waiting to inhale :cannabis legalization and the fight for racial justice
"Tells the stories of those who suffered during the worst social and political failure in the continent's history-the War on Drugs-and what we can do to right the wrongs of the past"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373128
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- 1 online resource
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Victim Healing and Truth Commissions Transforming Pain Through Voice in Solo…
This book intends to contribute to the growing body of transitional justice literature by providing insight into how truth commissions may be beneficial to victims of mass violence, based on data collected in Timor-Leste and on the Solomon Islands. Drawing on literature in the fields of victim psychology, procedural justice, and transitional justice, this study is guided by the puzzle of why…
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- 978-3-319-12487-2
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The Role of Community-Mindedness in the Self-Regulation of Drug Cultures : a …
This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap created by the conventional research in heroin research, which is usually conducted in urban areas and relies on treatment and prison populations. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with twenty-fou…
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- 9789400738614
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- 379p
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- 362.293
Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile
The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent times, been a pioneer in the progressive application and development of international criminal law …
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- 978-94-6265-054-1
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