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Book SynopsisA critical examination of the wrongdoing underlying the 2008 financial crisisAn unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks settled securities fraud claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. But a corporation cannot commit fraud except through human beings working at and managing the firm. Rather than breaking up these powerful megabanks, essentially imposing a corporate death penalty, the government simply accepted fines that essentially punished innocent shareholders instead of senior leaders at the megabanks. It allowed the real wrongdoers to walk away from criminal responsibility. In The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, Mary Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A. Ramirez examine the best available evidence about the wrongdoing underlying the financialTrade Review"This is an informative and at its heart very angry book, and is fascinating...reading for everyone whos still smarting from the crash." * Publishers Weekly *"The Ramirezes have unleashed a powerful condemnation of governments weak-kneed response to corporate crime in their impressive new studyThe Case for the Corporate Death Penalty...[This]book helps us not only understand the scale of criminality among Americas financial elites, but also the dynamics which propel elites like Trump into office. If action is not taken to rein in the lawlessness which the Ramirezes so thoroughly reveal, the economic and social implications for America are terrifying." * Popmatters.com *"Despite there being hundreds of books and articles written on the subject, only a few have directly tackled the issue of why the prosecutorial response was so anemic, and even fewer still with as much vigor or scope… For anyone trying to understand how the crisis originated and then filtered throughout the financial system, this book is an invaluable resource." -- Political Science Quarterly"In detailing the cases of Countrywide Financial, AIG Financial Products Group, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman, Sachs, among others, Ramirez and Ramirez find ample evidence to proceed with criminal indictments." * Choice *"The Case for the Corporate Death Penaltyprovides an inspired and thoughtful roadmap for knowing the new lawlessness, reviving the old rule of law, and reclaiming our democratic nation in the process." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Its abundantly clear that law enforcement on Wall Street is woefully broken. In the wake of the financial crisis, not one senior bank executive has been held accountable for the pervasive wrongdoing that brought our economy to its knees, undermining confidence in the fairness of our legal system as well as deterrence against future misconduct. The authors confront this troubling reality head on and in stark detail, leading readers into a fulsome debate about what is to be done to restore the rule of law to our financial markets." -- Phil Angelides,Chairman, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (2009-2011)"The incontrovertible value of this book lies in the fact that while it informs average Americans about the details of potentially criminal conduct, it also provides policy discussions that include specific proposals for reformers. Mary Kreiner Ramirez and Steven A. Ramirez are excellent storytellers who expertly use salient narratives to support their theses." -- Cheryl Wade,Harold McNiece Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law"Exciting, well written, and potentially explosive an extremely timely topic and one that may well prove to be controversial and garner national and international attention. The topic is critically important, as I have not before seen this subject dealt with as forthrightly or marshalled as effectively as here. To truly understand that, unlike the Enron-era scandals or the Savings & Loans scandals, the government has failed to bring criminal charges against any of the individuals responsible for the financial market crisis of 2007-09 defies logic and comprehension." -- André Douglas Pond Cummings,Professor of Law, Indiana Tech Law School"The authors were among the regulators and prosecutors with the spine to stop and jail financial frauds of the 1980s. Wall Street's criminal elites so feared the crackdown that they unleashed their political allies to turn the regulatory leaders into invertebrates. The authors show how to regrow our spines, restore the rule of law on Wall Street, and reclaim our Nation." -- William K. Black,Associate Professor of Economics and Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth study of the U.S. v. IBT, beginning with Giuliani's lawsuit and the politics surrounding it, and continuing with an incisive analysis of the controversial nature of the ongoing trusteeshipTrade Review"Breaking the Devils Pact tells the compelling story of the government's Herculean effort to break La Cosa Nostra's stranglehold over a notorious union. It will shock and surprise you, proving once again that the truth really is stranger than fiction" -- Randy Mastro,Litigation Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and former federal prosecutor"Court-ordered reform of a private organization is more easily prescribed than implemented. Breaking the Devils Pact is an intriguing account of a continuing, decades-long struggle to rid a powerful union of corrupt influences. It will certainly appeal to specialists in organized crime and labor relations. Moreover, it will be of interest well beyond a North American readership. Regulatory scholars around the world will note the very real limits to what they call & enforced self-regulation. Democratic theorists will recognize the challenge of voter apathy. Sociologists of organizations will see an extreme example of inertia. Political scientists will be heartened by the apolitical nature of reform efforts over four successive presidential administrations, but disappointed with the slow pace of change. Metaphorically speaking, Breaking the Devils Pact is a mansion with many fascinating rooms." -- Peter Grabosky,FASSA, Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University"This book should be of interest to all those interested in racketeering law, organized crime, and the role of the government in addressing entrenched organized crime and corruption in private organizations." -- Jay Albanese * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review *"This is a stunning book not only for what it says about the dramatic battle against corruption in the nation's most powerful labor union, but as well for what it says about the role of courts in effecting changes in large-scale private organizations in modern America. It is a & must read for all law and politics scholars" -- Malcolm M. Feeley,Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at BerkTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations Preface U.S. v. IBT Timeline Principal Names 1 Introducing the Litigants and the Judge 2 The Civil RICO Complaint and Settlement 3 IBT Resistance and Judge Edelstein's Resolve: July 1989 - September 1992 4 Establishing New Disciplinary Machinery: July 1989 - September 1992 5 An Insurgent's Triumph: The IBT's 1991 Election 6 General President Carey and the IRB: 1992 - 1997 7 The 1996 Election Scandal 8 The 1998 Rerun Election and the Emerging Dominance of James P. Hoffa 9 The 2001 Election, the Demise of Project RISE, and the IRB's Third Term 10 The 2006 Election, the IRB's Fourth Term, and the Lead-Up to the 2011 Election 11 Lessons, Reflections, and Speculations Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE AwardThe consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcementIn a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence. This is just a glimpse into a future where software predicts future crimes, algorithms generate virtual most-wanted lists, and databanks collect personal and biometric information. The Rise of Big Data Policing introduces the cutting-edge technology that is changing how the police do their jobs and shows why it is more important than ever that citizens understand the far-reaching consequences of big data surveillance as a law enforcement tool. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reveals how these new technologies viewed as race-neutral and objectivehave been eagerly adopTrade Review"The case Ferguson makes is inherently interesting and increasingly urgent." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Important and relevant, this book will be indispensable to [anyone] interested in the practice of policing . . . Valuable for the critical civil rights and constitutional issues it raises." * Library Journal *"Andrew Ferguson has written a path-breaking book about a crucial civil rights struggle of our time. The more law enforcement automates its work, the more minority communities are getting caught in a pernicious web of surveillance and punishment. Ferguson's work is as comprehensive as it is illuminating. A must read." -- Danielle Keats Citron,Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law"Ferguson has an incredible command of the many subjects that fall under the 'big data' umbrella, and his writing is at its best when social, cultural, and technological dynamics coalesce into one story. The book is particularly strong when Ferguson takes on how classism and racism shape smart policing datasets, which epitomize how 'big data' policing is held back by the many limitations of larger legal structures but is presented as the solution to that very problem." * Gizmodo *"In this timely, informative and at times disturbing book, Andrew Ferguson exposes the promises and perils of big data for policing and privacy. This critically important work provides a comprehensive account of how big data can help police solve crime and enhance police accountability and oversight. However, the book simultaneously exposes how the use of big data to inform policing practices can mask, reify and reinforce racial bias under the cloak of objectivity. The Rise of Big Data Policing is a must read for judges, policymakers, advocates, activists, and anyone else who wants to understand what big data is and how it is transforming our criminal justice institutions, the law, and our privacy expectations in surprising and disturbing ways that should concern us all." -- L. Song Richardson,Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of California, Irvine"The first-ever comprehensive overview, The Rise of Big Data Policing strikes an adept balance in covering both the promise and the peril of predictive policing. . . . Fergusons legal expertise serves well as he addresses the dilemma of translating predictions based on data into police remedies and it serves well throughout the other varied topics of this multi-faceted, well-researched book." -- Eric Siegel * Big Think *"This is the perfect time to educate the public about the field of predictive policing. The predictive policing methods used today are in adolescence rather than infancy, so they beg for thoughtful reflection and public discussion. Andrew Ferguson is the ideal person for the job!" -- Jane Bambauer,Professor of Law, University of Arizona"The Rise of Big Data Policing shifts our frame of reference on modern policing from the celebration of aggressive patrol tactics to urgent questions of the role new police technologies in the production of security, the risks to freedom, and the levers of social control in the expanding surveillance state. Andrew Ferguson opens a window to define, categorize, understand, and showcase the transformation and digital deregulation of policing, and its implications for liberty and security. Ferguson teaches us not only the fault lines in how police watch us, but how we can turn the tables to use new algorithms to watch the police. At stake is nothing less than individual liberty and the democratic control of policing." -- Jeffrey Fagan,Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia University"A valuable foundation for understanding how prediction has suffused policing, in much the same way it has suffused the rest of society. Ferguson's criticisms are cogent, but more importantly he communicates clearly a broad factual picture of the situation as it stands today." * The Washington Free Beacon *"In an important book that goes to the heart of issues at the forefront of contemporary life, Ferguson examines how police departments are now using supposedly 'objective'data-driven surveillance technologies to work more effectively in a budget-cutting era and to avoid claims of racial bias. In this engaging, well-written narrative, based on studies and a deep understanding of policing, [Ferguson] describes the growing police use of shareddata, its effects on how and where police work, and its usefulness in predicting future criminals . . .Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how technology is changing American policing." * STARRED Kirkus Review *

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Book SynopsisShows how, while most prosecutors aim to do justice, only some hit that target consistently.Trade Review"Prosecution Complexchallenges us all to work towards changes that can be more likely to result in genuine justice, rather than the comfortable feeling that comes simply from putting somebody behind bars." -- Scott Renshaw * City Weekly *"Prosecution Complexis an enlightening book that tackles an issue many tend to shy away from." -- Shelby Scoffield * Desert News *"The book should be required reading by all prosecutors, and by all law students who would seek to practice criminal law." -- Maurice Possley * Los Angeles Daily Journal *"Wrongful convictions will continue until prosecutors are one day held accountable for their deliberate misconduct. Prosecution Complex examines their misbehavior and the tragic consequences. It also shows us how to fix the problems." -- John Grisham,New York Times best-selling author of The Litigators"Professor Daniel Medwed has written a compelling book entitled Prosecution Complex. The book offers inside knowledge based on his experience as a litigator and serious scholar of miscarriages of justice in the criminal justice system. Anybody concerned with fairness and examining the role of prosecutors at every stage of our criminal justice process will find this book absorbing, sobering, and informative. I strongly recommend it to anyone who is looking at our American legal system and seeking reforms. This is a must read!" -- Charles J. Ogletree,Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice""Daniel Medwed provides a fascinating ethical, legal, and psychological perspective on the work of prosecutors, the power-players in our criminal justice system.With gripping accounts from real criminal cases gone wrong, he shows how the best-intentioned prosecutors can convict the innocent while racing to convict the guilty. Prosecutors can fall prey to cognitive biases that we all share in our everyday lives, but with nearly-absolute discretion, they lack adequate checks and safeguards to correct for such bias. This book simply must be read by all who care about the past and the future of criminal justice." -- Brandon L. Garrett,Roy L. and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law, University of Virginia"One value of Medwed's book is his even-handed, clear-headed explication of all the ways prosecutors can contribute to the conviction of innocent defendants. There is also value in his suggested reforms." * Rutgers *"Highly recommended for general readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above." * CHOICE *"Daniel S. Medwed has put together a book that appeals to both academics and anyone interested in gaining knowledge about many of the intricate details of prosecution." * Criminal Justice Review *"Medweds discussion of particularly horrific cases of injustice and particularly groundbreaking reforms is illuminating . . . [The author] reminds his readers that the goal of doing justice and achieving accurate outcomes is not hopelessly naive, nor is it necessarily an issue about which the defense and the prosecution should disagree. For better or worse, he also seems to suggest that much of the potential for reforming prosecutorial practices lies with prosecutors own commitment to doing honorable work." * Appeal and Habeas blog *"Medwed engages in a scholarly conversation with those who, like him, work or have worked in the criminal justice system and understand how seemingly small legal changes can seriously affect how cases are tried, won, and lost" * Boston Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Fair Play? Prosecutorial Behavior Prior to Trial 1 Charging Ahead 2 In the Interest of Full Disclosure: Discovery in Criminal Cases 3 Plea Bargaining Pitfalls Part II. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? Reasons to Doubt Prosecutorial Conduct during Trial 4 Preparation and Examination of Witnesses 5 Test Tubes on Trial: Prosecutors and Forensic Evidence 6 Closing the Door on Innocence: Improper Summations by Prosecutors Part III. The Fallacy of Finality: Prosecutors and Post-Conviction Claims of Innocence 7 Prosecutorial Resistance to Post-Conviction Claims of Innocence 8 A Closer Look: Prosecutors and Post-Conviction DNA Testing 9 In Denial: Prosecutors' Refusal to Accept Proof of an Inmate's Innocence Conclusion Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTerrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada analyses the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, the challenge of Canadian foreign fighters and far-right extremism, key counterterrorism policies and practices, and their consequences for Canadian society.Trade Review"This collection is certainly educational and enlightening on several fronts pertaining to the Canadian context of terrorism and counterterrorism." -- Paul F. McKenna, Dalhousie University * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Jez Littlewood, Lorne L. Dawson, and Sara K. Thompson Terrorism 2. A Survey of Terrorism in Canada: 1960–2015 Nicole Tishler, Marie Ouellet, and Joshua Kilberg 3. Canadian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq, 2012–2016 Lorne L. Dawson and Amarnath Amarasingam 4. Breaking Free: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Canadian Freemen-on-the-Land Movement David C. Hofmann 5. Jihadism in the Digital Era: The Canadian Context and Responses Maxime Bérubé and Benjamin Ducol Security and Counterterrorism 6. Counterterrorism Security Planning in Canada: From Imperialism to International Terrorism Dominique Clément 7. Deterrence or Blowback? The Consequences of Canadian Counterterrorism in Afghanistan Erica Chenoweth and Laura Dugan 8. Social Structure of Extremist Websites Martin Bouchard, Garth Davies, Richard Frank, Edith Wu, and Kila Joffres 9. Terrorist Resourcing: Money and Much, Much More John M. Schmidt Society, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism 10. Intelligence Accountability in Canada Susan Decker 11. Who’s a Terrorist? What’s Terrorism? Comparative Media Representations of Lone-Actor Violence in Canada Barbara Perry and Ryan Scrivens 12. National Security: Exclusion and Isolation among Muslims in Canada Patti Tamara Lenard and Baljit Nagra 13. When “Soft Security” is Smart: On the Importance of Building Strong Community-Police Relationships in the Context of National Security Sara K. Thompson and Sandra Bucerius 14. Conclusion Jez Littlewood, Lorne L. Dawson, and Sara K. Thompson Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHigh-profile legal cases involving individuals with mental health challenges often address complex issues that confront previous decisions of the courts, influence or change existing social policies, and ultimately have a profound impact on the daily practice of mental health professionals and the lives of their patients. Providing in-depth context into milestone cases in forensic mental health, this book addresses issues such as the confidentiality of mental health records, criminal responsibility, fitness to stand trial, the right of individuals to refuse mental health treatment, and the duty of mental health practitioners to warn and protect individuals who may be at risk of harm at the hands of a patient. The authors explore the social and political context in which these cases occurred, incorporating court decisions, contemporaneous media articles, and legal reviews in the analysis. Graham Glancy and Cheryl Regehr, who are experts in the field of forensic psychiatry, draTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Landmark Cases and Canadian Law 2. Expert Testimony 3. The Insanity Defence 4. Criminal Responsibility 5. Clarifying Wrongfulness 6. Voluntariness and Intent 7. Fitness to Stand Trial 8. Access to Treatment Records 9. Duty to Warn and Protect 10. Consent to Treatment 11. Assessing Damages References Case Index General Index

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Book SynopsisTerrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada analyses the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, the challenge of Canadian foreign fighters and far-right extremism, key counterterrorism policies and practices, and their consequences for Canadian society.Trade Review"This collection is certainly educational and enlightening on several fronts pertaining to the Canadian context of terrorism and counterterrorism." -- Paul F. McKenna, Dalhousie University * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Jez Littlewood, Lorne L. Dawson, and Sara K. Thompson Terrorism 2. A Survey of Terrorism in Canada: 1960–2015 Nicole Tishler, Marie Ouellet, and Joshua Kilberg 3. Canadian Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq, 2012–2016 Lorne L. Dawson and Amarnath Amarasingam 4. Breaking Free: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Canadian Freemen-on-the-Land Movement David C. Hofmann 5. Jihadism in the Digital Era: The Canadian Context and Responses Maxime Bérubé and Benjamin Ducol Security and Counterterrorism 6. Counterterrorism Security Planning in Canada: From Imperialism to International Terrorism Dominique Clément 7. Deterrence or Blowback? The Consequences of Canadian Counterterrorism in Afghanistan Erica Chenoweth and Laura Dugan 8. Social Structure of Extremist Websites Martin Bouchard, Garth Davies, Richard Frank, Edith Wu, and Kila Joffres 9. Terrorist Resourcing: Money and Much, Much More John M. Schmidt Society, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism 10. Intelligence Accountability in Canada Susan Decker 11. Who’s a Terrorist? What’s Terrorism? Comparative Media Representations of Lone-Actor Violence in Canada Barbara Perry and Ryan Scrivens 12. National Security: Exclusion and Isolation among Muslims in Canada Patti Tamara Lenard and Baljit Nagra 13. When “Soft Security” is Smart: On the Importance of Building Strong Community-Police Relationships in the Context of National Security Sara K. Thompson and Sandra Bucerius 14. Conclusion Jez Littlewood, Lorne L. Dawson, and Sara K. Thompson Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHigh-profile legal cases involving individuals with mental health challenges often address complex issues that confront previous decisions of the courts, influence or change existing social policies, and ultimately have a profound impact on the daily practice of mental health professionals and the lives of their patients. Providing in-depth context into milestone cases in forensic mental health, this book addresses issues such as the confidentiality of mental health records, criminal responsibility, fitness to stand trial, the right of individuals to refuse mental health treatment, and the duty of mental health practitioners to warn and protect individuals who may be at risk of harm at the hands of a patient. The authors explore the social and political context in which these cases occurred, incorporating court decisions, contemporaneous media articles, and legal reviews in the analysis.Graham Glancy and Cheryl Regehr, who are experts in the field of forensic psychiatry, drawTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Landmark Cases and Canadian Law 2. Expert Testimony 3. The Insanity Defence 4. Criminal Responsibility 5. Clarifying Wrongfulness 6. Voluntariness and Intent 7. Fitness to Stand Trial 8. Access to Treatment Records 9. Duty to Warn and Protect 10. Consent to Treatment 11. Assessing Damages References Case Index General Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of case studies illustrates how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases and the criminal justice process in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Brief History of Clinical Forensic Psychology in Canada (with Preet Banga) 1. What’s Wrong with Mr. Big? False Confessions The Case of Nelson Hart (with Christopher J. Lively and Ethan Draper) 2. "What Life?" Eyewitness Testimony The Case of Anthony Hanemaayer (with Elle Lévesque, Juliana Khoury, and Christopher J. Lively) 3. Trial by Media: Pretrial Publicity The Case of Dennis Oland (with Ethan Draper, Elle Lévesque, and Christopher J. Lively) 4. Fault Lines in the "Rock of Ages": Trial by Jury The Cases of Donald Marshall, Cindy Gladue, and Colten Boushie (with Ethan Draper) 5. Privilege or Punishment? Jury Service, Secrecy, and Stress The Case of Tori Stafford (with Ryanne Chisholm) 6. Médecin sans conscience? Filicide by Father The Case of Guy Turcotte, MD (with Tamara Speth and Marie-Claire Leclerc) 7. Partners or Pawns: The Role of Women in Co-offending Violent Couples The Case of Karla Homolka (with Angelina MacLellan and Claire Keenan) 8. Mad, Bad, and/or Sad? Homicide in Custody The Case of Ashley Smith (with Jessica Doyle and C. K MacLean) 9. Great White Sharks and Black Widow Spiders: Two Unlikely Serial Killers The Cases of Russell Williams and Melissa Shephard (with Jessica Doyle and C.K MacLean) 10. April Is the Cruelest Month: Spree Killing in the Midst of a Pandemic The Case of Gabriel Wortman (with Jessica Doyle and Laura Mackay) Index

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Book SynopsisClinical forensic psychology is defined by the application of clinical psychology – assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and consultation – in legal contexts. The term captures the integration of clinical psychology as an applied professional discipline and forensic psychology as an experimental discipline.Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology offers a series of case studies that allow readers to take an up-close and personal look at the criminal justice system in Canada. Clinical forensic psychologist Margo C.Watt examines the particulars of each case, including the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and legal factors. The book takes an evidence-based approach and highlights how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases: police investigative techniques, eyewitness testimony, pretrial publicity, jury selection and decision-making, forensic evaluations, psychological autopsies, mental health in corrections, Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Brief History of Clinical Forensic Psychology in Canada (with Preet Banga) 1. What’s Wrong with Mr. Big? False Confessions The Case of Nelson Hart (with Christopher J. Lively and Ethan Draper) 2. "What Life?" Eyewitness Testimony The Case of Anthony Hanemaayer (with Elle Lévesque, Juliana Khoury, and Christopher J. Lively) 3. Trial by Media: Pretrial Publicity The Case of Dennis Oland (with Ethan Draper, Elle Lévesque, and Christopher J. Lively) 4. Fault Lines in the "Rock of Ages": Trial by Jury The Cases of Donald Marshall, Cindy Gladue, and Colten Boushie (with Ethan Draper) 5. Privilege or Punishment? Jury Service, Secrecy, and Stress The Case of Tori Stafford (with Ryanne Chisholm) 6. Médecin sans conscience? Filicide by Father The Case of Guy Turcotte, MD (with Tamara Speth and Marie-Claire Leclerc) 7. Partners or Pawns: The Role of Women in Co-offending Violent Couples The Case of Karla Homolka (with Angelina MacLellan and Claire Keenan) 8. Mad, Bad, and/or Sad? Homicide in Custody The Case of Ashley Smith (with Jessica Doyle and C. K MacLean) 9. Great White Sharks and Black Widow Spiders: Two Unlikely Serial Killers The Cases of Russell Williams and Melissa Shephard (with Jessica Doyle and C.K MacLean) 10. April Is the Cruelest Month: Spree Killing in the Midst of a Pandemic The Case of Gabriel Wortman (with Jessica Doyle and Laura Mackay) Index

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Book SynopsisInternational crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.Trade Review"The concepts of international crime and international justice, and the global documents, laws and institutions that aim to put these ideas into practice, are typically promoted as a moral good, a sign of humanity's progress towards a global community. Imagining the International lucidly and convincingly shows why these 'captivating' and 'beautiful' ideas are an ambivalent gift. Through a series of compelling case studies, Nesam McMillan explores the unanticipated effects of international crime and justice—the hierarchies of universal versus local, the legacies of colonialism and the sacrifice of local concerns to an international agenda. Questioning the idea of grounding international solidarity in criminal justice, she urges us to think in more complex and demanding ways about the nature of global interconnection and how it can be fostered in ways that genuinely benefit local communities. This is a timely and provocative book which provides both a map and a critique—it will be valued by scholars and students alike."—Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University"This insightful book is a much-needed corrective antidote to the nostrums of internationalism. Nesam McMillan unwraps how violence that crosses the gaze of international law becomes appreciated but also appropriated and othered at the same time. This book is a compelling call for inclusiveness and a powerful exhortation for globality to transcend post-coloniality."—Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University"Imagining the International is an innovative, compelling and much-needed intervention. Forcing us to rethink our assumptions, McMillan questions how certain crimes are established as globally important and others not, and explores the ethical, cultural, and political implications of creating hierarchies of suffering delinked from human experience."—Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine"Instead of the idealized discourse about exceptional crimes as a spectacle that objectifies the victims, the global justice project needs to be newly conceptualized from the positions of equality and solidarity. McMillan's book is an important step in this direction."—Katarina Ristic, ConnectionsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ideas of "International" Crime and Justice 1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community 2. "Rwanda": The Production of a Global Event 3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics 4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section. Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender. NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category). Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. The criminal courts are the crucial gateway between police action on the street and the processing of primarily black and Latino defendants into jails and prisons. And yet the courts, often portrayed as sacred, impartial institutions, have remained shrouded in secrecy, with the majority of Americans kept in the dark about how they function internally. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors and enters the hallways, courtrooms, judges' chambers, and attorneys' offices to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago–Cook County, and based on over 1,000 hours of observation, she takes readers inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Judges fall asleep on the bench. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to "save" and which they will sacrifice. Sheriff's officers cruelly mock and abuse defendants' family members. Delve deeper into Crook County with related media and instructor resources at www.sup.org/crookcountyresources. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Defendants find themselves thrust into a pernicious legal world where courtroom actors live and breathe racism while simultaneously committing themselves to a colorblind ideal. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.Trade Review"Gonzalez Van Cleve's account of the American criminal justice system, based on thousands of hours of careful observation behind the doors of the Chicago–Cook County courthouse, reveals the paradoxes and pain of our modern legal culture, including the effects on the punished and punishers alike. As Van Cleve's investigation so startlingly lays bare, just because legal institutions profess to be colorblind does not make it so. Reading Crook County helps us see the difference."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University"Beautifully written and keenly insightful, Crook County is a horror story I couldn't put down. May Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's masterful book do for the Chicago criminal court what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did to the meat packing industry: clean it up. Powerful, disturbing and paradigm shifting, Crook County is ethnography at its best."—Paul Butler, Georgetown Law, author of The Chokehold: Policing Black Men"Crook County is a searing account of how criminal courts serve as the gateway to racialized punishment. Turning a spotlight on the everyday actions of prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys, Gonzalez Van Cleve reveals a court culture that dehumanizes and discriminates against defendants, victims, and family members. Her eye-opening analysis forces us to confront the possibility [or reality] that mass incarceration results from mass wrongful convictions of black and brown people forced into a devastating charade."— Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of LibertyUrgent and important, Crook County is a powerful, eye-opening account of the code of the big-city court system. Carefully dissecting this crucial step of the 'school to prison pipeline,' Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve illustrates just how the scales of justice are cynically stacked against black and brown inner city young people, undermining their faith in our criminal justice system. Crook County is a must-read."—Elijah Anderson, Yale University, author of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy"This book is public sociology at its best. It is theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and innovativeIn sharp detail, the book shows how the crisis of racism is routinized in the daily functions of formal institutions of justice. There are lessons in this book, then, for any criminologist or sociologist of crime, law or deviance. It transcends geographic boundaries and at once provides seminal insights into future ethnographic research Gonzalez Van Cleve demonstrates the power of ethnography in the best possible sense."—Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, British Journal of Criminology"Van Cleve's book is nothing less than a tour de force, and a clarion call for bringing egalitarian principles of racial and social justice to our most overlooked of criminal justice institutions, the courts. It forces us to confront 'the everyday miscarriages of justice' that pervade today's courts, asking us what has become of Gideon's trumpet in the age of spatially and racially concentrated 'mass incarceration.' The book is destined to become a classic, and ought to be on the mandatory reading list for citizens, law and society scholars and all sentient social scientists."—Thomas E. Reifer, Law and Society Review"In a groundbreaking new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court, Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve adds an important, novel dimension to this problem. She exposes the deeply flawed operation of the criminal justice system by focusing on how felonies are processed in Cook County, Illinois...Van Cleve's important ethnography brings to light the hidden and pernicious workings of the criminal justice system that often operates in the shadows."—L. Song Richardson, Yale Law Journal"Through her meticulous methodological approach that draws on field notes, over one thousand hours of court observations by court watchers, and interviews with judges, private attorneys, public defenders, and prosecutors, Van Cleve outlines a legal habitus allowing individual actors to appear blameless in the practice of racialized justice....Reading Crook County, it becomes clear that the court system is a mere charade of what it is meant to be."––Amy Baumann Grau, ContextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Opening the Courthouse Doors 1. Separate and Unequal Justice 2. Of Monsters and Mopes: Racial and Criminal "Immorality" 3. Race in Everyday Legal Practices 4. There Are No Racists Here: Prosecutors in the Criminal Courts 5. Rethinking Gideon's Army: Defense Attorneys in the Criminal Courts Conclusion: Racialized Punishment in the Courts: A Call to Action

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Book SynopsisInternational crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.Trade Review"The concepts of international crime and international justice, and the global documents, laws and institutions that aim to put these ideas into practice, are typically promoted as a moral good, a sign of humanity's progress towards a global community. Imagining the International lucidly and convincingly shows why these 'captivating' and 'beautiful' ideas are an ambivalent gift. Through a series of compelling case studies, Nesam McMillan explores the unanticipated effects of international crime and justice—the hierarchies of universal versus local, the legacies of colonialism and the sacrifice of local concerns to an international agenda. Questioning the idea of grounding international solidarity in criminal justice, she urges us to think in more complex and demanding ways about the nature of global interconnection and how it can be fostered in ways that genuinely benefit local communities. This is a timely and provocative book which provides both a map and a critique—it will be valued by scholars and students alike."—Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University"This insightful book is a much-needed corrective antidote to the nostrums of internationalism. Nesam McMillan unwraps how violence that crosses the gaze of international law becomes appreciated but also appropriated and othered at the same time. This book is a compelling call for inclusiveness and a powerful exhortation for globality to transcend post-coloniality."—Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University"Imagining the International is an innovative, compelling and much-needed intervention. Forcing us to rethink our assumptions, McMillan questions how certain crimes are established as globally important and others not, and explores the ethical, cultural, and political implications of creating hierarchies of suffering delinked from human experience."—Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine"Instead of the idealized discourse about exceptional crimes as a spectacle that objectifies the victims, the global justice project needs to be newly conceptualized from the positions of equality and solidarity. McMillan's book is an important step in this direction."—Katarina Ristic, ConnectionsTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ideas of "International" Crime and Justice 1. On International Crime, Justice, and Community 2. "Rwanda": The Production of a Global Event 3. International Crime as Spectacle: Scale, Subjectivity, Ethics 4. The Ideal of International Criminal Justice: Transcendence, Otherness, Myth Conclusion: Community Beyond Crime: Untethering International Crime, Justice, and Community

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Book SynopsisHow one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movement In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours before a government shutdown. It was one of few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move toward reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to revolutionary reform, in Reform Nation, Colleen P. Eren investigates it as a symbol for the larger movement's trajectory. Its unlikely passage during a period of political polarization was testament to the power of a new constellation of advocates, stakeholders, and strange bedfellow alliances. These intriguing and complex dynamics are indicative of a longer, twenty-year shift in which the movement became nationalized and mainstreamed. Using in-depth interviews with major players in the national movement, formerly incarcerated activists, celebrities, and donors, this is the first book to turn the mirror back on the criminal justice reform movement itself—the frames used, the voices heard, the capital activated among elite participants, and the bitter controversies. This snapshot in time raises much larger questions about how our democratic processes inform criminal justice policy, and where we are going in the decades to come.Trade Review"A critical look behind the scenes at the way 'criminal justice reform' has blossomed into not just a movement but also, at times, a kind of industry. Eren's book is vital to our understanding of how change happens—and doesn't."—Baz Dreisinger, author, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World"Reform Nation is well-timed for the current moment in criminal justice reform. Colleen Eren captures the political and social dynamics of recent years and lays out a compelling set of issues and challenges for the reform movement moving forward."—Marc Mauer, Senior Advisor, The Sentencing Project"Reform Nation is an invaluable and timely gift. This lively, behind-the scenes narrative brilliantly documents the emergence of a broad, bipartisan, and highly effective justice reform coalition. Energized by the leadership of justice-impacted individuals, this coalition brings together business leaders, philanthropists, civil rights advocates, religious organizations and strange-bedfellow politicians. By comparing this political development with other social movements, and contrasting this consensus with the realities of our deeply divided democracy, Eren elevates her narrative to that rare scholarly voice that speaks to the challenges of the moment. Reform Nation offers reasons for hope and caution at a time when our forward momentum faces new winds of opposition. This book should serve as a new guide for the justice reform movement in the next chapter of a long struggle."—Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Justice Lab at Columbia University, President Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice"Eren's book is a masterful account of how grassroots activism on a cause that very few people really cared about blossomed into a win for not just better treatment of people convicted of certain crimes but a better use of tax dollars. She blends original interviews with major players in the reform movement with great storytelling and a sociological framework that illuminates the complexities of all reform efforts."—Nick Gillespie, ReasonTable of Contents1. The First Step Act Puzzle 2. Mainstreamization and the Movement 3. Billionaires, Philanthropy, and Reform 4. Celebrity Activism and Reform 5. Reform®: Corporate Social Activism and Reform 6. Strange Bedfellows 7. Formerly Incarcerated Activists and the Future of Criminal Justice Reform

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Book Synopsis"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime TV that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call "crimesploitation": spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting "real" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog: The Bounty Hunter, and To Catch a Predator, as well as newer examples like Making a Murderer and Don't F**K with Cats, Kaplan and LaChance highlight the troubling nature of the genre: though it presents itself as ethical and righteous, its entertainment value hinges upon suffering. Viewers can imagine themselves as deviant and ungovernable like the criminals in the show, thereby escaping a law-abiding lifestyle. Alternatively, they can identify with law enforcement officials, exercising violence, control, and "justice" on criminal others. Crimesploitation offers a sobering look at the depictions of criminals, policing, and punishment in modern America. Trade Review"Insisting that the consumption of other people's pain is a defining feature of the neoliberal carceral state, Crimesploitation will not let us meaninglessly 'escape' into our true crime media streaming and listening. Instead, Kaplan and LaChance move us toward a critical reckoning with the exploitative forms of (un)freedom that media's spectacle of crime and punishment have conjured. A powerful dose of thoughtful accountability, this volume points the way to getting truly 'real' about—and intervening in—the suffering that a culture of punishment has produced. I cannot wait to cite, teach, and buy copies of this book for friends and family."—Michelle Brown, The University of Tennessee"Kaplan and LaChance show that crimesploitation programs help to maintain the status quo of the neoliberal carceral state. Crimesploitation's focus on individual pathology as a cause of crime and 'law and order' as the solution to crime steers viewers away from important structural causes of crime and the need for reform in the criminal justice system and society-at-large. They do so while exploiting people in their worst moments, showing a 'reality' of crime that carefully avoids being too real."—Andrew J. Baranauskas, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"[Crimesploitation] presents a well-grounded, readable argument for rethinking crime and justice reality television. It is unhesitantly recommended."—Ray Surette, Criminal Justice Review"Kaplan and LaChance provide excellent and easily digestible accounts of the politics of reality TV crimesploitation, and their emphasis on connecting media representations of crime and punishment to existing social, political, and economic inequalities in the neoliberal era will provide political scientists, sociologists, and media scholars with abundant resources to continue exploring the relationship between popular culture and the practices and ideologies of policing in America."—Emma Cytrynbaum, Law, Culture, and HumanitiesTable of Contents1. Humiliation, Inc.: Policing the Criminal on Primetime 2. Watching the Night Creatures: Crimesploitation and Boredom 3. Cuffs of Love: Punishment and Redemption in Crimesploitation 4. Middlebrow Crimesploitation Epilogue: W(h)ither Crimesploitation?

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Book SynopsisSex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights.Trade Review"Thusi's compelling research provides unprecedented insights into the world of policing sex work, and supports arguments for decriminalizing sex work so that women may pursue options deemed beneficial, including selling sex." —Cathi Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand"Policing Bodies offers a fascinating, entirely unique analysis of the policing of prostitution within multiple street and indoor venues. A major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of prostitution and its control."—Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University"In this well-crafted examination of the sex industry in Johannesburg, Thusi heightens our understanding of the complex reality of sex work and the evolving nature of its policing. Not only does the book provide an excellent analysis of the situation, it is a really good read!" —Frances M. Shaver, Concordia University"With its numerous footnoted references and studies providing both support and additional bibliographic research opportunities, Policing Bodies is a unique scholarly consideration that should be considered a mainstay not in just South African libraries, but in any collection strong in social and legal issues in general and sex work and law enforcement in particular."—Diane C. Donovan, Midwest Book Review"What [Policing Bodies] clearly shows is the complexity of relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, and how criminalizing sex work is counterproductive. It makes an important and novel contribution to our understanding of the thorny issues around policing and sex work, as well as the state's obligation to protect the rights of sex workers while at the same time regulating their behavior."—Amanda Gouws, Signs: Journal of Women in Culutre and SocietyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. POLICING AND SEX WORK IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. MAPPING THE POLICING OF SEX WORK 3. INFORMAL POLICING IN ROSEBANK 4. POLICING BEAUTY 5. SEX WORK, FEMINISM, AND POLICY CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisSex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights.Trade Review"Thusi's compelling research provides unprecedented insights into the world of policing sex work, and supports arguments for decriminalizing sex work so that women may pursue options deemed beneficial, including selling sex." —Cathi Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand"Policing Bodies offers a fascinating, entirely unique analysis of the policing of prostitution within multiple street and indoor venues. A major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of prostitution and its control."—Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University"In this well-crafted examination of the sex industry in Johannesburg, Thusi heightens our understanding of the complex reality of sex work and the evolving nature of its policing. Not only does the book provide an excellent analysis of the situation, it is a really good read!" —Frances M. Shaver, Concordia University"With its numerous footnoted references and studies providing both support and additional bibliographic research opportunities, Policing Bodies is a unique scholarly consideration that should be considered a mainstay not in just South African libraries, but in any collection strong in social and legal issues in general and sex work and law enforcement in particular."—Diane C. Donovan, Midwest Book Review"What [Policing Bodies] clearly shows is the complexity of relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, and how criminalizing sex work is counterproductive. It makes an important and novel contribution to our understanding of the thorny issues around policing and sex work, as well as the state's obligation to protect the rights of sex workers while at the same time regulating their behavior."—Amanda Gouws, Signs: Journal of Women in Culutre and SocietyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. POLICING AND SEX WORK IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. MAPPING THE POLICING OF SEX WORK 3. INFORMAL POLICING IN ROSEBANK 4. POLICING BEAUTY 5. SEX WORK, FEMINISM, AND POLICY CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisIn Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways. Trade Review"Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference powerfully explores how legal, economic, and cultural forces in Texas have undermined criminal defense attorneys' efforts to save their mentally ill clients from execution. Surveying over one hundred years of cases, Chloé Deambrogio offers a vital and harrowing account of why jurists, lay people, and even psychiatrists themselves have made mercy for the mentally ill the exception rather than the rule."—Daniel LaChance, Emory University"Chloe Deambrogio's engaging and insightful account sheds new light on the ways in which changing paradigms in psychiatry and law influenced outcomes in Texas trial courts in capital cases over the course of the twentieth century. Among its many strengths is its careful exposure of underlying assumptions about race, gender and sexuality in diagnostic and trial processes."—Nicola Lacey, The London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. Heredity, Environment, and the Doctrine of Civilization 2. Biology, Insanity, and the Criminal Courts 3. Psychoanalysis, the Insanity Defense, and the Family-Centered Ideology 4. Psychoanalysis and the Construction of the Criminal Psychopath 5. The "New" Scientific Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Future Dangerousness 6. The Abused and Neglected as a "Continuing Threat to Society" Epilogue: Forensic Psychiatry and Trial Practices in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisA thorough and engaging look at an unexpected driver of changes in the American criminal justice system Driving is an unavoidable part of life in the United States. Even those who don't drive much likely know someone who does. More than just a simple method of getting from point A to point B, however, driving has been a significant influence on the United States' culture, economy, politics – and its criminal justice system. Rules of the Road tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the steadily rising prominence, and now established supremacy, of the automobile. Spencer Headworth brings together research from sociology, psychology, criminology, political science, legal studies, and histories of technology and law in illustrating legal responses to changing technological and social circumstances. Rules of the Road opens by exploring the early 20th-century beginnings of the relationship between criminal law and automobility, before moving to the direct impact of the automobile on prosecutorial and criminal justice practices in the latter half of the 20th century. Finally, Headworth looks to recent debates and issues in modern-day criminal justice to consider what this might presage for the future. Using a seemingly mundane aspect of daily life as its investigative lens, this creative, imaginative, and thoroughly researched book provides a fresh perspective on the transformations of the U.S. criminal justice system.Trade Review"Rules of the Road provides a comprehensive, and necessary, account of the automobile's inextricable connection to the U.S. criminal legal system. It also challenges us to reimagine that relationship and our society's car dependence. This book is an essential read for anyone who cares about transforming policing, criminal laws, and American justice."—Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School"This deeply researched book elegantly lays out how cars and roads reflect broader social and legal choices about belonging, governance, punishment, and surveillance. After reading Rules of the Road, you will see the automobile everywhere and at every stage in the criminal legal system – even though it's always been hiding in plain sight."—Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark"Drawing on a wide array of secondary literature, the book's provocative discussion of the automobile's pervasive and profound impacts on the United States will likely appeal to readers interested in any of the interconnected issues of crime and punishment, individual independence, equality of opportunity, mobility, public health and spaces, the environment, and social justice."—Thomas J. Davis, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revolutions per Minute: The Automobile and a National Transformation 2. Calling All Cars: Police Modernization and Communication 3. Fifths and the Fourth: Prohibition and Searches 4. The Automotive Age of Majority: Youth, Driver's Licenses, and Legal Responsibility 5. City Planning, Suburbanization, and Vehicle Patrol 6. Discretion and Disparities in Car-Based Criminal Justice 7. Interstate Crime: Federalism, Highways, and Criminal Justice 8. MADD Prosecutors? Drunk Driving and Prosecutorial Discretion 9. Roadblocks: Collateral Consequences and Driving Privileges 10. Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Limits of the Criminal Law 11. Watching the Wheels 12. Monitoring Mobility Conclusion: Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

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Book Synopsis"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime TV that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call "crimesploitation": spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting "real" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog: The Bounty Hunter, and To Catch a Predator, as well as newer examples like Making a Murderer and Don't F**K with Cats, Kaplan and LaChance highlight the troubling nature of the genre: though it presents itself as ethical and righteous, its entertainment value hinges upon suffering. Viewers can imagine themselves as deviant and ungovernable like the criminals in the show, thereby escaping a law-abiding lifestyle. Alternatively, they can identify with law enforcement officials, exercising violence, control, and "justice" on criminal others. Crimesploitation offers a sobering look at the depictions of criminals, policing, and punishment in modern America. Trade Review"Insisting that the consumption of other people's pain is a defining feature of the neoliberal carceral state, Crimesploitation will not let us meaninglessly 'escape' into our true crime media streaming and listening. Instead, Kaplan and LaChance move us toward a critical reckoning with the exploitative forms of (un)freedom that media's spectacle of crime and punishment have conjured. A powerful dose of thoughtful accountability, this volume points the way to getting truly 'real' about—and intervening in—the suffering that a culture of punishment has produced. I cannot wait to cite, teach, and buy copies of this book for friends and family."—Michelle Brown, The University of Tennessee"Kaplan and LaChance show that crimesploitation programs help to maintain the status quo of the neoliberal carceral state. Crimesploitation's focus on individual pathology as a cause of crime and 'law and order' as the solution to crime steers viewers away from important structural causes of crime and the need for reform in the criminal justice system and society-at-large. They do so while exploiting people in their worst moments, showing a 'reality' of crime that carefully avoids being too real."—Andrew J. Baranauskas, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"[Crimesploitation] presents a well-grounded, readable argument for rethinking crime and justice reality television. It is unhesitantly recommended."—Ray Surette, Criminal Justice Review"Kaplan and LaChance provide excellent and easily digestible accounts of the politics of reality TV crimesploitation, and their emphasis on connecting media representations of crime and punishment to existing social, political, and economic inequalities in the neoliberal era will provide political scientists, sociologists, and media scholars with abundant resources to continue exploring the relationship between popular culture and the practices and ideologies of policing in America."—Emma Cytrynbaum, Law, Culture, and HumanitiesTable of Contents1. Humiliation, Inc.: Policing the Criminal on Primetime 2. Watching the Night Creatures: Crimesploitation and Boredom 3. Cuffs of Love: Punishment and Redemption in Crimesploitation 4. Middlebrow Crimesploitation Epilogue: W(h)ither Crimesploitation?

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Book SynopsisWith a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters' commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain. This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable, inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe lethal injection's flaws. What was once touted as America's most humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large, today. Trade Review"This book does more to unmask lethal injection's everyday cruelty than any other book that I know. Sarat writes with clarity and compassion, and anyone interested in justice would be well advised to read his words."—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking"Macabre and painstakingly detailed, this book puts to rest any illusions that lethal injection is clean, safe or painless. This little book doesn't let us get away with abstract debates and intellectual complacency. It lands like a gut punch."—Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-8),"This enormously readable book uncovers the troubled history and failed promise of lethal injection, and is sure to help change our national conversation about capital punishment."—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times-bestselling author"Sarat vividly delineates the historical, social, legal, and ideological forces governing capital punishment and their implications and ramifications for individuals, the criminal justice system, and society. In a highly charged political era, this book is a timely education in capital punishment, executions, law, race relations, and social and legal reform—a must-read for all people interested in better understanding the application of the death penalty and those vested in positive transformation. Highly recommended."—M. G. Urbina, CHOICE"Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Executionchronicles a significant, comprehensive, and insightful analysis of the history and evolutionary process of lethal injection executions in the United States, as well as the false promise of the perceived humanity of this method of execution. This ground-breaking book provides a thoughtful analysis including: the origins of lethal injection in this country, collapse of the original protocol of three-drugs (at issue in theBaze v. Reescase), a decade of botched executions from 2010-2020, state responses to these flagrant errors, and implications for futile reform and the future of capital punishment itself."—Talia Roitberg Harmon, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of Contents1. One Week in the World of Lethal Injection 2. The Origins of Lethal Injection 3. The Collapse of the Original Paradigm 4. A Decade of Mishaps 5. State Responses 6. Failure, Reform, and the Future

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Book SynopsisA thorough and engaging look at an unexpected driver of changes in the American criminal justice system Driving is an unavoidable part of life in the United States. Even those who don't drive much likely know someone who does. More than just a simple method of getting from point A to point B, however, driving has been a significant influence on the United States' culture, economy, politics – and its criminal justice system. Rules of the Road tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the steadily rising prominence, and now established supremacy, of the automobile. Spencer Headworth brings together research from sociology, psychology, criminology, political science, legal studies, and histories of technology and law in illustrating legal responses to changing technological and social circumstances. Rules of the Road opens by exploring the early 20th-century beginnings of the relationship between criminal law and automobility, before moving to the direct impact of the automobile on prosecutorial and criminal justice practices in the latter half of the 20th century. Finally, Headworth looks to recent debates and issues in modern-day criminal justice to consider what this might presage for the future. Using a seemingly mundane aspect of daily life as its investigative lens, this creative, imaginative, and thoroughly researched book provides a fresh perspective on the transformations of the U.S. criminal justice system.Trade Review"Rules of the Road provides a comprehensive, and necessary, account of the automobile's inextricable connection to the U.S. criminal legal system. It also challenges us to reimagine that relationship and our society's car dependence. This book is an essential read for anyone who cares about transforming policing, criminal laws, and American justice."—Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School"This deeply researched book elegantly lays out how cars and roads reflect broader social and legal choices about belonging, governance, punishment, and surveillance. After reading Rules of the Road, you will see the automobile everywhere and at every stage in the criminal legal system – even though it's always been hiding in plain sight."—Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark"Drawing on a wide array of secondary literature, the book's provocative discussion of the automobile's pervasive and profound impacts on the United States will likely appeal to readers interested in any of the interconnected issues of crime and punishment, individual independence, equality of opportunity, mobility, public health and spaces, the environment, and social justice."—Thomas J. Davis, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revolutions per Minute: The Automobile and a National Transformation 2. Calling All Cars: Police Modernization and Communication 3. Fifths and the Fourth: Prohibition and Searches 4. The Automotive Age of Majority: Youth, Driver's Licenses, and Legal Responsibility 5. City Planning, Suburbanization, and Vehicle Patrol 6. Discretion and Disparities in Car-Based Criminal Justice 7. Interstate Crime: Federalism, Highways, and Criminal Justice 8. MADD Prosecutors? Drunk Driving and Prosecutorial Discretion 9. Roadblocks: Collateral Consequences and Driving Privileges 10. Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Limits of the Criminal Law 11. Watching the Wheels 12. Monitoring Mobility Conclusion: Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

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Book SynopsisA magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between law enforcers and troublemakers. Digital networks have provided a profitable arena for vigilantes, who use social media to build a following and publicize their work, as they debase the bodies of the accused for purposes of edification and entertainment. It is this unabashed pride to punish, and the new punitive celebrations that actualize, publicize, and commercialize it, that this book brings into focus. Recounted in lively prose, Proud to Punish is both a global map of rough justice today and an insight into the deeper nature of punishment as a social and political phenomenon.Trade Review"Proud to Punish offers a brilliant, compelling analysis of contemporary vigilantism and the politics of extrajudicial punishment. The authors offer innovative insights into crimefighting discourses, retributive violence, its public reception, and responses from law enforcement authorities; and vividly illustrate how these factors become implicated in local and global vigilante configurations."—Atreyee Sen, co-editor of Global Vigilantes: Perspectives on Violence and Justice"Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer lead us on a visceral journey across the globe to understand contemporary vigilantism. With a rare blend of theoretical sophistication and empirical grounding, Proud to Punish asks us to confront the fact that vigilantism is neither a relic of the past, nor a product of failed states, but rather a broadly embraced force of the present."—Harel Shapira, The University of Texas at Austin"Proud to Punish is a must-read for all interested in global vigilantism and lynching. Admirably capacious in ranging across space and time, the book offers significant insights on the rough justice impulse in a wide variety of contemporary and historical contexts."—Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching

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Book SynopsisHow one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movement In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours before a government shutdown. It was one of few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move toward reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to revolutionary reform, in Reform Nation, Colleen P. Eren investigates it as a symbol for the larger movement's trajectory. Its unlikely passage during a period of political polarization was testament to the power of a new constellation of advocates, stakeholders, and strange bedfellow alliances. These intriguing and complex dynamics are indicative of a longer, twenty-year shift in which the movement became nationalized and mainstreamed. Using in-depth interviews with major players in the national movement, formerly incarcerated activists, celebrities, and donors, this is the first book to turn the mirror back on the criminal justice reform movement itself—the frames used, the voices heard, the capital activated among elite participants, and the bitter controversies. This snapshot in time raises much larger questions about how our democratic processes inform criminal justice policy, and where we are going in the decades to come.Trade Review"A critical look behind the scenes at the way 'criminal justice reform' has blossomed into not just a movement but also, at times, a kind of industry. Eren's book is vital to our understanding of how change happens—and doesn't."—Baz Dreisinger, author, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World"Reform Nation is well-timed for the current moment in criminal justice reform. Colleen Eren captures the political and social dynamics of recent years and lays out a compelling set of issues and challenges for the reform movement moving forward."—Marc Mauer, Senior Advisor, The Sentencing Project"Reform Nation is an invaluable and timely gift. This lively, behind-the scenes narrative brilliantly documents the emergence of a broad, bipartisan, and highly effective justice reform coalition. Energized by the leadership of justice-impacted individuals, this coalition brings together business leaders, philanthropists, civil rights advocates, religious organizations and strange-bedfellow politicians. By comparing this political development with other social movements, and contrasting this consensus with the realities of our deeply divided democracy, Eren elevates her narrative to that rare scholarly voice that speaks to the challenges of the moment. Reform Nation offers reasons for hope and caution at a time when our forward momentum faces new winds of opposition. This book should serve as a new guide for the justice reform movement in the next chapter of a long struggle."—Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Justice Lab at Columbia University, President Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice"Eren's book is a masterful account of how grassroots activism on a cause that very few people really cared about blossomed into a win for not just better treatment of people convicted of certain crimes but a better use of tax dollars. She blends original interviews with major players in the reform movement with great storytelling and a sociological framework that illuminates the complexities of all reform efforts."—Nick Gillespie, ReasonTable of Contents1. The First Step Act Puzzle 2. Mainstreamization and the Movement 3. Billionaires, Philanthropy, and Reform 4. Celebrity Activism and Reform 5. Reform®: Corporate Social Activism and Reform 6. Strange Bedfellows 7. Formerly Incarcerated Activists and the Future of Criminal Justice Reform

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Book SynopsisAgainst the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library (Black Panthers, LA Chapter; the Coalition Against Police Abuse; Urban Policy Research Institute; Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods), it builds upon theories of the archive to examine carcerality as the dominant mode of state governance over Black populations in the United States since the 1960s. Each chapter takes up an element of the carceral archive and its destabilization, destruction, and containment of Black life: its notion of the human and the production of “pejorative blackness,” the intimate connection between police and military in the protection of racial capitalism and its fossil fuel–based economy, the role of technology in counterintelligence, and counterinsurgency logics. Importantly, each chapter also emphasizes the carceral archive’s fundamental failure to destroy “Black communal logics” and radical Black forms of knowledge production, both of which contest the carceral archive and create other forms of life in its midst. Concluding with a statement on the reckoning with the radical traditions of thought and being which liberation requires, Sojoyner offers a compelling argument for how the centering of Blackness enables a structuring of the mind that refuses the violent exploitative tendencies of Western epistemological traditions as viable life-affirming practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Human and the Carceral Archival Project | 17 2 Police and the Carceral Archival Project | 32 3 Technology and the Social Sciences as Synergistic Violence | 42 4 Environmental Instability | 59 5 Policing Health and Safety | 72 6 Liberation | 81 Conclusion | 93 Acknowledgments | 103 References | 107

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Book SynopsisAgainst the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library (Black Panthers, LA Chapter; the Coalition Against Police Abuse; Urban Policy Research Institute; Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods), it builds upon theories of the archive to examine carcerality as the dominant mode of state governance over Black populations in the United States since the 1960s. Each chapter takes up an element of the carceral archive and its destabilization, destruction, and containment of Black life: its notion of the human and the production of “pejorative blackness,” the intimate connection between police and military in the protection of racial capitalism and its fossil fuel–based economy, the role of technology in counterintelligence, and counterinsurgency logics. Importantly, each chapter also emphasizes the carceral archive’s fundamental failure to destroy “Black communal logics” and radical Black forms of knowledge production, both of which contest the carceral archive and create other forms of life in its midst. Concluding with a statement on the reckoning with the radical traditions of thought and being which liberation requires, Sojoyner offers a compelling argument for how the centering of Blackness enables a structuring of the mind that refuses the violent exploitative tendencies of Western epistemological traditions as viable life-affirming practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Human and the Carceral Archival Project | 17 2 Police and the Carceral Archival Project | 32 3 Technology and the Social Sciences as Synergistic Violence | 42 4 Environmental Instability | 59 5 Policing Health and Safety | 72 6 Liberation | 81 Conclusion | 93 Acknowledgments | 103 References | 107

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Book SynopsisThe Crime That Pays is a study of higher-level drug syndicates and organized criminals who have achieved huge incomes and status in their deviant occupation. Based on interviews with drug couriers, drug investigators, and 70 higher-level drug traffickers, the book describes the characteristics of offenders, their modus operandi, the entrepreneurial aspects of organized crime, and the significance of friendship, kinship, race, and ethnicity in the development of criminal networks.Most of the dealers in this study operated at the wholesale level for years, had realized huge profits, and lived extravagant lifestyles. For many, their arrest occurred only after the police had undertaken a sophisticated and proactive criminal investigation that took years to complete. Included in the text are an analysis of the police strategies used to combat drug trafficking and the social policy implications from this and other research studies.The book includes original research both on the RCMP and on higher-level drug trafficking. Also included are analyses of Canadian drug laws and a critique of social policy relating to drug use and drug trafficking.Trade ReviewThe Crime that Pays is a thorough and thoughtful analysis of an area that for too long been dominated by sensationalist journalism and political hyperbole. Desroches’s book should be studied carefully by criminologists, policy planners and anyone else interested in a sober assessment of how high-level drug markets operate in this country."" - Dr. Vince Sacco, Professor of Sociology at Queen’s UniversityTable of Contents Chapter 1: Drug Trafficking: The Crime That Pays Chapter 2: Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Canadian Legislation and Case Law Chapter 3: Organized Crime and Higher-Level Drug Trafficking Chapter 4: The Motivation and Lifestyle of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers Chapter 5: The Modus Operandi of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers: Marketing, Organization, and Security Chapter 6: The Modus Operandi of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers: Fronts, Debts, and Violence Chapter 7: Police Investigations of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers Chapter 8: Higher-Level Drug Trafficking in Canada: Social Policy Implications

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Book Synopsis“A snake handler convicted of the attempted murder of his wife by means of serpent bite is serving ninety-nine years in prison. The reader is gradually pulled into an increasingly complex story as Thomas Burton allows the many individuals involved in this event to tell their stories. Readers are less likely to find themselves concerned with what “really” happened than with larger issues they too will become involved in. this is more than a story about the headline ‘preacher tries to murder wife – with rattlesnakes!” it is a story of individuals struggling with their faith and their fate under the steady gaze of their God.” —Ralph W. Hood Jr., winner of the American Psychological Association’s William James Award in the psychology of religionIn this comprehensive, multilayered set of narratives, the story of Glenn Summerford’s fall from grace is told by its participants, through interviews, court documents, and other primary sources. Free of either prejudice against or romanticizing about the snake-handling Holiness religion, this book presents an absorbing story of a fascinating group of people, while allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about Summerford’s guilt or innocence. The Serpent and the Spirit is a startling commentary on truth and its representation, religion and its expression, humanity and its flaws.Thomas Burton is professor emeritus of English at East Tennessee State University. He is the winner of the Appalachian Consortium Laurel Leaves Award.

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Book SynopsisAn argument for more judicial discretion in sentencing childrenTrade Review"The book reveals Judge Corriero's passion for justice and due process through his daily experiences, supported by extensive research; it is both personal and academic, instructive and moving. It is political and philosophical." Justice Emily Jane Goodman, The New York Law Journal "Corriero deserves much praise for his thoughtfully critical challenge to the policy of prosecuting children as adults. At the least, Corriero's strong embrace of a revised legal structure for juvenile justice, planted firmly in the soil of judging children as children, should foment interest in further exploration of this thorny legal terrain. Criminologists, child advocates, criminal justice experts, child development specialists, judges, lawyers, public policy makers, legislators, social workers, behavioral scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists are among those who professionally may benefit greatly from scrutiny of the information and ideas put forth by Corriero." Metapsychology Online, 27th January 2009Table of ContentsPrologue 1 The Proposition; 2 The Nature of Adolescence; 3 The Criminal Responsibility of Juveniles; 4 Sentencing Children Tried in Adult Courts; 5 Our Hardest to Love Children; 6 Interactive Justice; 7 Fridays in the Youth Part; 8 The Experiment that Failed; 9 Creation of the Youth Part; 10 The Youth Part Model; 11 A Model Juvenile Justice System; 12 Juvenile Justice Policy Reform

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Book SynopsisA cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictionsTrade Review"An important step in showing that even the best criminal justice systems occasionally convict the innocent. Huff and Killias, two of the world’s most accomplished criminologists, have given us a collection of essays that are both first-rate and truly sobering"—Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, and author of In Spite of InnocenceTable of ContentsPart I: Cross-National Perspectives and Issues 1. Introduction 2. Wrongful Conviction and Moral Panic: National and International Prespectives on Organized Child Sexual Abuse 3. Judicial Error and Forensic Science: Pondering the Contribution of DNA EvidencePart II: North American Perspectives and Issues 4. Wrongful Convictions in the United States 5. The Adversary System and Wrongful Conviction 6. Fatal Errors: Compelling Claims of Executions of the Innocent in the Post-Furman Era 7. The Fallibility of Justice in Canada: A Critical Examination of Conviction ReviewPart III: European and Israeli Perspectives and Issues 8. Wrongful Convictions in Switzerland: The Experience of a Continental Law Country 9. The Vulnerability of Dutch Criminal Procedure to Wrongful Conviction 10. Criminal Justice and Miscarriages of Justice in England and Wales 11. A Comparative Analysis of Prosecution in Germany and the United Kingdom: Searching for Truth or Getting a Conviction? 12. Wrongful Conviction in France: The Limits of "Pourvoi en Revision" 13. The Sanctity of Criminal Law: Thoughts and Reflections on Wrongful Conviction in Israel 14. Wrongful Convictions in Poland: From the Communist Ero to the Rechtstaat ExperiencePart IV: Conclusions 15. Wrongful Convictions: Conclusions from an International OverviewContributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhen I walked through the office door each day, I knew that almost every decision I made would make someone unhappy…In Frank & Fearless Nicholas Cowdery QC takes us behind the scenes of the toughest cases that defined his 16 ½ years as the Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales. The headline-grabbing cases of Gordon Wood, Keli Lane and Christopher Gilham (tried for the 1992 murder of his brother and parents) are examined with forensic precision, along with the DPP’s decision not to prosecute artist Bill Henson and members of The Chaser. During his tenure, Cowdery was also well-known for his support for realistic drug and death with dignity laws, and for the need to decriminalise abortion.Frank & Fearless is a gripping and forthright account of the difficult and often contentious decisions Nicholas Cowdery made to maintain the rule of law during his time as a gatekeeper of the criminal justice system.

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Book SynopsisThis is a groundbreaking book that delves deep into the intricate world of financial crime amidst a global economic crisis. Authored by experts in the field, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the various forms of financial crime and provides valuable insights into the strategies and technologies used to combat them. From money laundering to fraud and cybercrime, the book uncovers the hidden risks and challenges faced by financial institutions and regulatory bodies.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to Financial Crime Chapter 2 Risk, Recklessness, and Policing the Financial Markets Chapter 3 Credible Deterrence and Consumer Protection Through the Imposition of Financial Penalties Chapter 4 LIBOR Manipulation: The Limits and Potential of Corporate Criminal Liability Chapter 5 Corruption, Money Laundering, and Societal Responsibility of Banks Chapter 6 The Good, the Bad and the Fraud: Securitization and Financial Crime in Light of the Global Financial Crisis Chapter 7 Virtual Currency in a Virtual World

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Book SynopsisThis is a truly excellent book: wide-ranging, meticulous scholarship, very well written and easy to read. It should be on the desks of every senior civil servant, government lawyer and politician in every African country. After this book, there is no excuse for not having in place the necessary legal framework and equally important, for not using that legal framework to combat corruption.'- Patrick McAuslan, Birkbeck University of London, UKDrawing on numerous recent examples of good and bad practice from around the continent, this insightful volume explores the legal issues involved in developing and enhancing good governance and accountability within African states, as well as addressing the need for other states worldwide to demonstrate the 'transnational political will' to support these efforts.John Hatchard considers the need for good governance, accountability and integrity in both the public and private sector. He studies how these issues are reflected in both the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The book demonstrates that despite the vast majority of African states being party to these conventions, in practice, many of them continue to experience problems of bad governance, corporate bribery and the looting of state assets. It explores how the 'art of persuasion' can help develop the necessary political will through which to address these challenges at both the national and transnational levels.This unique and influential book will be of worldwide interest to those studying law, politics or business, as well as legal practitioners, policymakers, senior public officials, parliamentarians, law reformers, civil society organizations and the corporate sector.Contents: Introduction 1. Setting the Scene: Law and Persuasion 2. Law and Governance in Africa: Supporting Integrity and Combating Corruption 3. Preventive Measures: Maintaining Integrity in the Public Service 4. When Things Go Wrong: Addressing Integrity Problems in the Public Service 5. Constitutions, Constitutional Rights and Combating Corruption: Exploring the Links 6. Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption Related Offences: Challenges and Realities 7. National Anti-corruption Bodies: A Key Good Governance Requirement? 8. Judges: Independence, Integrity and Accountability 9. Combating Corruption: 'Persuasion' and the Private Sector 10. Preventing the Looting of State Assets: Combating Corruption-Related Money Laundering 11. Preventing Public Officials from Enjoying their Proceeds of Corruption 12. Law, Political Will and the Art of Persuasion Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘This is a truly excellent book: wide-ranging, meticulous scholarship, very well written and easy to read. It should be on the desks of every senior civil servant, government lawyer and politician in every African country. After this book, there is no excuse for not having in place the necessary legal framework and equally important, for not using that legal framework to combat corruption.’ -- Patrick McAuslan, Birkbeck University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Setting the Scene: Law and Persuasion 2. Law and Governance in Africa: Supporting Integrity and Combating Corruption 3. Preventive Measures: Maintaining Integrity in the Public Service 4. When Things Go Wrong: Addressing Integrity Problems in the Public Service 5. Constitutions, Constitutional Rights and Combating Corruption: Exploring the Links 6. Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption Related Offences: Challenges and Realities 7. National Anti-corruption Bodies: A Key Good Governance Requirement? 8. Judges: Independence, Integrity and Accountability 9. Combating Corruption: ‘Persuasion’ and the Private Sector 10. Preventing the Looting of State Assets: Combating Corruption-Related Money Laundering 11. Preventing Public Officials from Enjoying their Proceeds of Corruption 12. Law, Political Will and the Art of Persuasion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a truly excellent book: wide-ranging, meticulous scholarship, very well written and easy to read. It should be on the desks of every senior civil servant, government lawyer and politician in every African country. After this book, there is no excuse for not having in place the necessary legal framework and equally important, for not using that legal framework to combat corruption.'- Patrick McAuslan, Birkbeck University of London, UKDrawing on numerous recent examples of good and bad practice from around the continent, this insightful volume explores the legal issues involved in developing and enhancing good governance and accountability within African states, as well as addressing the need for other states worldwide to demonstrate the 'transnational political will' to support these efforts.John Hatchard considers the need for good governance, accountability and integrity in both the public and private sector. He studies how these issues are reflected in both the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The book demonstrates that despite the vast majority of African states being party to these conventions, in practice, many of them continue to experience problems of bad governance, corporate bribery and the looting of state assets. It explores how the 'art of persuasion' can help develop the necessary political will through which to address these challenges at both the national and transnational levels.This unique and influential book will be of worldwide interest to those studying law, politics or business, as well as legal practitioners, policymakers, senior public officials, parliamentarians, law reformers, civil society organizations and the corporate sector.Contents: Introduction 1. Setting the Scene: Law and Persuasion 2. Law and Governance in Africa: Supporting Integrity and Combating Corruption 3. Preventive Measures: Maintaining Integrity in the Public Service 4. When Things Go Wrong: Addressing Integrity Problems in the Public Service 5. Constitutions, Constitutional Rights and Combating Corruption: Exploring the Links 6. Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption Related Offences: Challenges and Realities 7. National Anti-corruption Bodies: A Key Good Governance Requirement? 8. Judges: Independence, Integrity and Accountability 9. Combating Corruption: 'Persuasion' and the Private Sector 10. Preventing the Looting of State Assets: Combating Corruption-Related Money Laundering 11. Preventing Public Officials from Enjoying their Proceeds of Corruption 12. Law, Political Will and the Art of Persuasion Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘This is a truly excellent book: wide-ranging, meticulous scholarship, very well written and easy to read. It should be on the desks of every senior civil servant, government lawyer and politician in every African country. After this book, there is no excuse for not having in place the necessary legal framework and equally important, for not using that legal framework to combat corruption.’ -- Patrick McAuslan, Birkbeck University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Setting the Scene: Law and Persuasion 2. Law and Governance in Africa: Supporting Integrity and Combating Corruption 3. Preventive Measures: Maintaining Integrity in the Public Service 4. When Things Go Wrong: Addressing Integrity Problems in the Public Service 5. Constitutions, Constitutional Rights and Combating Corruption: Exploring the Links 6. Investigating and Prosecuting Corruption Related Offences: Challenges and Realities 7. National Anti-corruption Bodies: A Key Good Governance Requirement? 8. Judges: Independence, Integrity and Accountability 9. Combating Corruption: ‘Persuasion’ and the Private Sector 10. Preventing the Looting of State Assets: Combating Corruption-Related Money Laundering 11. Preventing Public Officials from Enjoying their Proceeds of Corruption 12. Law, Political Will and the Art of Persuasion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProfessor Chang s very thoughtful and impressively researched study of cybercrime in the greater China region is an invaluable contribution to the information and analyses available in this area. It not only provides important, and heretofore unavailable data, about the incidence and nature of cybercrime in this region, it also offers insightful suggestions into how this problem can most effectively be controlled. It belongs in the library of anyone interested in this area.'- Susan Brenner, University of Dayton, US'East Asia is a heartland of the variegated scams of the cybercrime problem. Yao Chung Chang's book is an innovative application of routine activity theory and regulatory theory to cybercrime prevention across the cybergulf between China and Taiwan. The long march through the scams and across the Taiwan Strait is fascinating. Chang leads us to ponder a wiki cybercrime prevention strategy that might work in such treacherous waters.'- John Braithwaite, Australian National University'Very rarely do you read books that impress these days, but for me Cybercrime in the Greater China Region was one of them. Dr Chang is one of a number of young and exciting international academics who are exploring previously unchartered territory in their quest for new understandings about cybercrime. In his book, Dr Chang manages to locate a global policing problem within the sometimes tense political and cultural constraints of regional policing. For me, Professor Grabosky neatly sums up the strengths of the book in his foreword, I can only endorse them.- David S. Wall, University College, Durham University, UK'Lennon's research is an important contribution to the current limited understanding of the cybercrimes and related laws/regulations and incident reporting issues across the straits between the two major economies in the Asia region. A well researched book, and highly informative with practical suggestions for enhancing visibility and cooperation to improve the overall state of cybersecurity in the region, especially between the two economies.- Meng-Chow Kang, Cisco Systems, ChinaCybercrime is a worldwide problem of rapidly increasing magnitude and, of the countries in the Asia Pacific region, Taiwan and China are suffering most. This timely book discusses the extent and nature of cybercrime in and between Taiwan and China, focussing especially on the prevalence of botnets (collections of computers that have been compromised and used for malicious purposes).The book uses routine activity theory to analyse Chinese and Taiwanese legal responses to cybercrime, and reviews mutual assistance between the two countries as well as discussing third party cooperation. To prevent the spread of cybercrime, the book argues the case for a 'wiki' approach to cybercrime and a feasible pre-warning system. Learning from lessons in infectious disease prevention and from aviation safety reporting, Cybercrime in the Greater China Region proposes a feasible information security incident reporting and response system.Academics, government agency workers, policymakers and those in the information security or legal compliance divisions in public and private sectors will find much to interest them in this timely study.Contents: Foreword Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 2. Risk, Routine Activity, and Cybercrime Part II: New Crime in a New Field: Cybercrime in Taiwan and China 3. CybercrimeTrade ReviewProfessor Chang's very thoughtful and impressively researched study of cybercrime in the greater China region is an invaluable contribution to the information and analyses available in this area. It not only provides important, and heretofore unavailable data, about the incidence and nature of cybercrime in this region, it also offers insightful suggestions into how this problem can most effectively be controlled. It belongs in the library of anyone interested in this area.'- Susan Brenner, University of Dayton, US'East Asia is a heartland of the variegated scams of the cybercrime problem. Yao Chung Chang's book is an innovative application of routine activity theory and regulatory theory to cybercrime prevention across the cybergulf between China and Taiwan. The long march through the scams and across the Taiwan Strait is fascinating. Chang leads us to ponder a wiki cybercrime prevention strategy that might work in such treacherous waters.'- John Braithwaite, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 2. Risk, Routine Activity and Cybercrime Part II: New Crime in a New Field: Cybercrime in Taiwan and China 3. Cybercrime Across the Taiwan Strait Part III: Regulatory Responses Against Cybercrime Across the Taiwan Strait 4. Think Global, Act Glocal — ‘Glocal’ Responses to Cybercrime 5. Cooperation between Taiwan and China Part IV: Preventable Measures: Cybercrime as the Infectious Disease in the Virtual World 6. ‘Wiki’ Crime Prevention — Establishing a Pre-Warning System 7. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents cutting-edge research that compares different criminal procedure systems by focusing on the mechanisms by which legal systems seek to avoid error, protect rights, ground their legitimacy, expand lay participation in the criminal process, and develop alternatives to criminal trials, such as plea bargaining, as well as alternatives to the criminal process as a whole, such as intelligence operations. The criminal procedures examined in this book include those of the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Russia, India, Latin America, Taiwan, and Japan, among others.This book explores a number of key topics in the field of criminal procedure: the role of screening mechanisms in weeding out weak cases before trial; the willingness of different legal systems to suppress illegally obtained evidence; the ways legal systems set meaningful evidentiary thresholds for arrest and pretrial detention; the problem of wrongful convictions; the way legal systems balance the search for truth against other values, such as protections for fundamental rights; emerging legal protections for criminal defendants, including new safeguards against custodial questioning in the European Union, limitations on covert operations in post-Soviet states, and the Indian system of anticipatory bail; as well as the mechanisms by which legal systems avoid trials altogether. A number of contributors also examine the impact of legal reforms that have newly introduced lay jurors into the fact-finding process or that now require juries to give reasons for verdicts.The ideal readership for this handbook includes law students, scholars of criminal procedure and comparative law, as well as civil liberties lawyers. Scholars of national security, the European Union, transitional justice, and privacy will also be interested in the volume's contributions to their fields.Contributors include: S.M. Boyne, M. Cohen, S. Fouladvand, E. Grande, J.S. Hodgson, D.T. Johnson, V. Khanna, N. Kovalev, M. Langer, A.D. Leipold, K. Mahajan, J. Mazzone, J.E. Ross, C. Slobogin, S.C. Thaman, J.I. Turner, R. Vogler, T. WenTrade Review'Contemporary criminal procedure may be seen as a global garden in which myriad blossoms - with names like ''lay judges,'' ''anticipatory bail,'' and ''confession bargaining'' - have sprung out of a grafting of old adversarial-inquisitorial roots. In this impressive volume, contributors from England, India, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States examine many facets of these new hybridities. Cross-pollination among national and supranational systems, differences and similarities at various stages of the criminal process, and even efforts to avoid that process altogether, are explored. The result is a comparative analysis that enriches understanding of global criminal procedure.' --Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia School of Law'This enlightening book assembles cutting-edge work from the finest scholars of comparative criminal procedure around the world. It marks a real advance in our knowledge and poses policy challenges that every country in the world will have to face.' --James Q. Whitman, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION: MAPPING DIALOGUE AND CHANGE IN COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Jacqueline E. Ross and Stephen C. Thaman PART II HOLISTIC COMPARISONS 1. Limits on the Search for Truth in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative View Jenia Iontcheva Turner 2. Ensuring the Factual Reliability of Criminal Convictions: Reasoned Judgments or a Return to Formal Rules of Evidence? Stephen C. Thaman PART III DIACHRONIC COMPARISONS A. Screening Mechanisms 3. Anticipatory Bail in India: Addressing Misuse of the Criminal Justice Process? Vikramaditya S. Khanna and Kartikey Mahajan 4. Mechanisms for Screening Prosecutorial Charging Decisions in the United States and Taiwan Tzu-te Wen and Andrew D. Leipold 5. Standards for Making Factual Determinations in Arrest and Pretrial Detention: A Comparative Analysis of Law and Practice Richard Vogler and Shahrzad Fouladvand B. Pretrial Investigation 6. Procedural Economy in Pre-Trial Procedure: Developments in Germany and the United States Shawn Marie Boyne 7. From the Domestic to the European: An Empirical Approach to Comparative Custodial Legal Advice Jacqueline S. Hodgson 8. A Comparative Perspective on the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure Cases Christopher Slobogin 9. Silence, Self-Incrimination, and Hazards of Globalization Jason Mazzone C. Adjudication: Jury Trials 10. Rumba Justice and the Spanish Jury Trial Elisabetta Grande 11. Japan’s Lay Judge System David T. Johnson 12. The French Case for Requiring Juries to Give Reasons: Safeguarding Defendants or Guarding the Judges? Mathilde Cohen PART IV SYNCHRONIC COMPARISONS: ALTERNATIVES TO TRIAL, TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, AND TO THE CRIMINAL PROCESS ITSELF 13. Special Investigative Techniques in Post-Soviet States: The Divide Between Preventive Policing and Criminal Investigation Nikolai Kovalev and Stephen C. Thaman 14. The Emergence of Foreign Intelligence Investigations as Alternatives to the Criminal Process: A View of American Counterterrorism Surveillance Through German Lenses Jacqueline E. Ross V EPILOGUE Strength, Weakness, or Both? On the Endurance of the Adversarial-Inquisitorial Systems in Comparative Criminal Procedure Máximo Langer Index

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