epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Simon [Simon, Jonathan]

5 Places of Extreme Peril Coleman-Plata v. Schwarzenegger and California’s Prisons in the Era of Chronic Hyper-Overcrowding Tough-on-crime politics have increased the population of California’s prisons dramatically while making necessary ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Malcolm K. Sparrow

Wrong Level of Focus Social scientists focus on subtle effects at high (aggregate) levels; problem solving focuses on much more obvious effects but at lower levels. Social scientists (and economists) ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Scott Helman

CHAPTER 13 DISQUIET In a silent city, the hunt begins anew Dawn broke Friday on a still-life city. Streets empty. Sidewalks lonely. Stoops vacant. Businesses dark. Houses closed up. A ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Leo, Richard A., Thomas, George C. & Richard A. Leo

I was in Philadelphia the other day. I found that a cab driver who had been cruelly murdered and robbed, and the man who murdered and robbed him had confessed ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-22 | Author:Thane Rosenbaum [Rosenbaum, Thane]

SEVEN WHEN SELF-HELP IS PERMISSIBLE Vengeance and justice are commonly understood as sharing the tortured history of sibling rivals. Justice is the wise child; vengeance is the wicked one. Justice ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Baz Dreisinger [Dreisinger, Baz]

5. Solitary and Supermaxes | Brazil In order to reform them, they had been submitted to complete isolation; but this absolute solitude, if nothing interrupts it, is beyond the strength ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Joel F. Harrington

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveler by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fred Rosen

Ten August 26, 1998 The task force’s existence was finally made public. The press and, in turn, the public, was let in on the secret. There were now five cops ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:J. S. Law [Law, J. S.]

Chapter 18 Sunday Lunchtime – 28th September 2014 The scent of lunch seemed to have permeated through the ventilation system and as Dan finished up another interview, she imagined that ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Lutz, John [Lutz, John]

No one answered when Nudger rang Ray’s doorbell. Nudger had heard a snatch of a Cubs game broadcast on WGNU cable. The TV’s volume had fallen silent after the ring ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Bryan Stevenson

I arrived at the courthouse early the next morning to visit Walter in his basement cell before the proceedings began. When I headed upstairs, I was confused to see a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Barry Siegel

CHAPTER 16 Playing Long Shots JUNE 2003–JULY 2008 Since launching the Justice Project, Larry Hammond had watched class after class of volunteer law students go from failure to failure, despite ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Kleiman, Mark A. R. [Kleiman, Mark A. R.]

SKETCH OF A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS How do the three main categories of criminal-justice expenditure—on policing, on incarceration, and on community corrections—stack up against one another as ways of spending public ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Peter Moskos

If prisons are broken, then so, too, is prison reform. With the exception of a few Supreme Court decisions in their favor, prison reformers have an awfully bad track record ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Alexander, Michelle [Alexander, Michelle]

Boxed In Aside from figuring out where to sleep, nothing is more worrisome for people leaving prison than figuring out where to work. In fact, a study by the Vera ...