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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first broad-scale study of the factors that influence American lawyers' pro bono work, including an original empirical survey of over 3,000 lawyers and a comparative analysis of public service by other professionals and by lawyers in other countries.Trade Review"Rhode's book offers a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of pro bono. The book has it all: it explores the arguments for pro bono, the debate over whether it should be mandatory, the social psychology of giving, pro bono in other nations and other professions - and, as a bonus, it reports the results of a comprehensive study spearheaded by Rhode of why lawyers do pro bono. Written with Rhode's characteristic clarity, grace, erudition, and wit, Pro Bono in Principle and Practice stands out as the one indispensable book on pro bono service." -- David Luban,Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy"Public Service and the Professions is an important treatment of the problem of pro bono legal service. This book presents new empirical research on current practice by lawyers, law firms, and law schools in performing and promoting pro bono legal services. No other work combines thoroughness, currency, and such an empirical base." -- Geoffrey Hazard"This is an excellent, impeccably researched book, which makes an important, original contribution to the scholarly literature of pro bono work. It will deservedly receive a great deal of attention and be the basis for future studies and discussions." -- Erwin Chemerinsky * Duke Law School *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Chapter 1. The Bar's Pro Bono Responsibilities 000 @toc3:Introduction 000 Historical Background of Court-Appointed Counsel for the Poor 000 Constitutional Challenges to Court Appointments 000 The Evolution of Voluntary Pro Bono Contributions and Bar Ethical Rules 000 The Extent of Pro Bono Work 000 The Development of Law School Pro Bono Programs 000 @toc2:Chapter 2. The Rationale for Pro Bono Responsibilities 000 @toc3:Society's Justifications for Pro Bono Service 000 The Profession's Justifications for Pro Bono Service 000 Opposition to Pro Bono Service 000 Moral Objections to Mandatory Pro Bono Service 000 Practical Objections to Mandatory Pro Bono Service 000 Compromise Proposals 000 The Rationale for Law School Pro Bono Programs 000 Mandatory Pro Bono Service in Law Schools 000 @toc2:Chapter 3. Altruistic Behavior 000 @toc3:Definitions of Altruism 000 The Benefits of Altruism 000 The Frequency of Charitable Behavior 000 The Influences on Charitable Behavior 000 Community Service and Service Learning 000 Implications of Altruism Research for Pro Bono Programs 000 @toc2:Chapter 4. Public Service in Comparative Perspective 000 @toc3:Medicine 000 Engineering 000 Business 000 A Comparative Assessment 000 @toc2:Chapter 5. Pro Bono Service in an International Context 000 @toc3:The Evolution of Pro Bono Service 000 The United Kingdom 000 Australia 000 China 000 Connecting the Cultures 000 @toc2:Chapter 6. An Empirical Analysis of Pro Bono Service Among American Lawyers 000 @toc3:Survey Methodology 000 Personal Characteristics and Motivations of Surveyed Lawyers 000 Pro Bono Policies and Practices 000 Strategies for Change 000 Major Findings 000 @toc2:Chapter 7. An Empirical Analysis of Law School Pro Bono Programs 000 @toc3:Attitudes Toward Public Service 000 Law School Culture and Public Service 000 Pro Bono Policies 000 Strategies for Change 000 Major Findings 000 @toc2:Chapter 8. An Agenda for Reform 000 @toc3:Reporting, Requiring, and Rewarding Service 000 Strengthening Pro Bono Programs 000 Pro Bono in Perspective 000 @toc4:Appendices 000 Notes 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisHovenkamp confronts not only the problems of poorly designed, overly complex, and inconsistent antitrust rules but also the current disarray of antitrust’s rule of reason, offering an antitrust policy faithful to the consumer welfare principle and more readily manageable by the federal courts and other antitrust tribunals.Trade ReviewHovenkamp defends the antitrust status quo in accessible and wonderfully jargon-free prose. The book succeeds in offering profound insights for antitrust specialists while remaining accessible to lay readers… Regardless of where the law heads next, The Antitrust Enterprise is valuable simply on its own terms—as a compact and authoritative exposition of U.S. antitrust law. It is most interesting, however, as the archetypal defense of this era of antitrust modesty. Only with the benefit of hindsight—perhaps forty or fifty years from now—will scholars be able to understand fully this epoch in context. It is a safe bet, however, that The Antitrust Enterprise will be considered the classic work of this era. -- Daniel A. Crane * Michigan Law Review *Hovenkamp applies his considerable expertise to an objective study of the relationship between microeconomic theory and court interpretation of US antitrust laws. He argues that, in spite of a history of conflicting goals, there is currently a consensus that the purpose of antitrust is to promote consumer welfare… This work will be of value to scholars and practitioners alike, as well as anyone interested in antitrust enforcement. -- D. F. Sheets * Choice *Herbert Hovenkamp is that rare lawyer who combines a solid knowledge of history with a broad command of law and economics. His new book, The Antitrust Enterprise, is the fruitful product of this synergy, and promises to be this generation’s version of Robert Bork’s Antitrust Paradox. Clear, informative and up-to-date, it offers a sophisticated synthesis of economic theory and legal practice in the post-Chicago era that has seen a marked upsurge in antitrust activity, both as it relates to the coordinated activities of multiple firms and the unilateral practices of individual ones. Every lawyer, social scientist, or layperson with an interest in this field will want to have this book at his or her side. -- Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School and the Hoover InstitutionThe Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution exemplifies again why Professor Hovenkamp is one of the most cited and highly regarded authorities on antitrust today. The writing is interesting, thoughtful and thought-provoking, sprinkled with useful examples, and is easy to read. In his simple yet highly analytical style, Professor Hovenkamp analyzes, criticizes, and offers solutions to some of the main problems faced by antitrust doctrine and enforcement today. Should courts and enforcement agencies choose to follow at least some of the solutions suggested in the book, this would undoubtedly enhance the efficient and effective enforcement of antitrust. -- Michal S. Gal, University of Haifa and NYU Center for Law and BusinessThe Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution is an excellent book, by an author who is both knowledgeable and balanced in his views of antitrust law and antitrust policy. It is aimed at a broad constituency of readers rather than specialists in the field, and its presentation is very clear, avoiding technical jargon and methodology. It is the best book of its genre that I have read. -- Daniel Rubinfeld, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I. Limits and Possibilities 1. The Legal and Economic Structure of the Antitrust Laws 2. The Design of Antitrust Rules 3. The Promises and Hazards of Private Antitrust Enforcement 4. Expert Testimony and the Predicament of Antitrust Fact Finding Part II. Traditional Antitrust Rules 5. Unreasonable Exercises of Market Power 6. Combinations of Competitors 7. Dominant Firms and Exclusionary Practices 8. Antitrust and Distribution 9. The National Policy on Business Mergers Part III. Regulation, Innovation, and Connectivity 10. Antitrust under Regulation and Deregulation 11. The Conflict between Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights 12. Network Industries and Computer Platform Monopoly Epilogue: Antitrust Reform Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCole excavates the forgotten global history of criminal identificationfrom photography to exotic anthropometric systems based on measuring body parts, from fingerprinting to DNA typing. He reveals how fingerprinting ultimately won the trust of the public and the law after a long battle against rival identification systems.Trade ReviewFor most of the century since it made its courtroom debut, fingerprinting has enjoyed an impeccable reputation for identifying criminals. What jury would acquit a suspect if his prints matched those found at the scene of a crime? …Simon Cole…is one of a small group of people that has started looking at the technique which, above all others, gave forensic ‘science’ its scientific status. And, surprisingly, he has found it is scientifically and statistically wanting. * The Economist *For almost a century, fingerprinting remained one of the most respected tools of forensic science. Only in the early nineties did faith in its reliability begin to erode. In [Suspect Identities], Simon A. Cole recounts how a number of cases involving the New York State Police revealed tampering with fingerprint evidence, as well as the incompetence of many police labs. -- William Cohen * New Yorker *[A] fascinating, thought-provoking book. * Science *Simon A. Cole's well-written and interesting book is a cultural, social, and scientific history of fingerprint identification. It makes the intriguing argument that scientific merit had nothing to do with the acceptance of fingerprints as uniquely good identification evidence. -- Adina Schwartz * New York Law Journal *Cole's treatment of fingerprinting is...commendable...[He] shows that...court cases...were not quite as singular in ascendancy of fingerprinting over the Bertillon system, but rather added weights that finally tipped the scales in favor of fingerprinting; he is also cautionary about its claim to absolute reliability. * Booklist *Cole weaves the intriguing tale of how and why people were identified as who they claimed to be. This history begins in the era where identification was largely unnecessary because people did not travel very far and were known in their own communities. As both travel and criminal behavior increased, the need to identify people grew...Cole describes the ancient use of fingerprints up through time until they became commonplace for use in identifying criminals. He presents an excellent account of the problems and controversies surrounding the use of fingerprints for identification, ending with the current issues of using DNA for identification. The illustrative stories are excellent, making this a fascinating trip through identification history. -- J. A. Brown * Choice *Cole's comprehensive...book investigates the tangled intersections of scientific identification and law enforcement...[with] rigorous detail and attention to historical ambiguities...This well-wrought history will be admired by scholars and serious lay readers. * Publishers Weekly *Cole's Suspect Identities is far more than a masterly and detailed chronicle of the journey from the anonymous mobile stranger in the seventeenth century to today's DNA-fingerprinted sex offender whose moves are tracked via the Internet. It is also an astute analysis of the social, political, and economic forces that explain why the journey took certain paths. This book sets the high benchmark for scholarship in this area. -- Troy Duster, New York UniversitySuspect Identities is a fascinating account of an important subject. In his history of identification techniques from fingerprints to DNA, Simon Cole tells the story of our recurring attempts to forge reliable links between bodies, persons, and crimes. As Cole shows in these pages, the aim of these techniques, from Martin Guerre to O. J. Simpson, is not just to link persons with criminal acts. It is to link persons to themselves, to establish their identities with the certainty of science, and to use these identifiers for bureaucratic and diagnostic purposes. And therein lies their danger, as well as their usefulness, as critics of 'DNA fingerprinting' are beginning to discover. Written with intelligence, wit, and insight, this book will stand as the definitive account for a long time to come. -- David Garland, author of The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Late ModernitySuspect Identities shows that a fascinating journey through the history of science can illuminate current controversies. This well-written book teaches us as much about the problems facing forensic scientists today as it does the history of fingerprinting. -- Barry Scheck, Co-Director, The Innocence ProjectTable of ContentsPrologue: Jekylls and Hydes 1. Impostors and Incorrigible Rogues 2. Measuring the Criminal Body 3. Native Prints 4. Degenerate Fingerprints 5. Fingerprinting Foreigners 6. From Anthropometry to Dactyloscopy 7. Bloody Fingerprints and Brazen Experts 8. Dazzling Demonstrations and Easy Assumptions 9. Identification at a Distance 10. Digital Digits 11. Fraud, Fabrication, and False Positives 12. The Genetic Age Epilogue: Bodily Identities Notes Credits Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment revisits Professor Christopher D. Stone's iconic 1972 article, and features an introduction by Professor Philippe Sands QC, a set of elegant and thought-provoking reflections on the original article by Baroness Mary Warnock, Professor Ngaire Naffine and Professor Lorraine Code, and an equally elegant and thought-provoking response to their reflections from Professor Stone himself. This thoughtful collection of essays will be a valuable addition to contemporary debates concerning the crucial search for new relationships between humanity and the living world and between human rights and the environment. The renowned contributors offer rich reflections on questions of legal standing, legal subjectivity and epistemology raised by Stone's article, and which have greater salience than ever as we face the environmental and human challenges of the 21st century. Contributors: L. Code, A. Grear, N. Naffine, P. Sands, C.D. Stone, M. WarnockTable of ContentsContents: Editorial Should Trees Have Standing: 40 Years On? Anna Grear Foreword On Being 40: A Celebration of ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’ Philippe Sands Articles Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects Christopher D Stone Should Trees Have Standing? Mary Warnock Legal Personality and the Natural World: On the Persistence of the Human Measure of Value Ngaire Naffine Ecological Responsibilities: Which Trees? Where? Why? Lorraine Code Response to Commentators Christopher D Stone

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Book SynopsisStephen Neff tells the story of how international law has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from ancient times to the present. He avoids technical jargon in this survey of doctrines from natural law to feminism, and of practice from the Warring States of China to international criminal courts today.Trade ReviewJustice among Nations is by far the best general survey of the history of international law to date. It will be mandatory reading for both students and scholars in the field. -- Randall Lesaffer, author of European Legal History: A Cultural and Political PerspectiveLike Vattel’s 1758 Law of Nations, this sparkling and intelligent history is intended for a broad audience. Vattel reached his audience: George Washington and other Founding American Fathers are known to have possessed copies. Their vision for the new United States in the world was plainly influenced by it. Neff’s Justice among Nations refreshes Vattel for our time and our even more pressing need to understand what international law is and what it can accomplish for our common humanity. -- Mary Ellen O’Connell, author of The Power and Purpose of International Law: Insights from the Theory and Practice of Enforcement

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. In this carefully drafted work, Ernst Hirsch Ballin uncovers the foundations of legal research methods, an area of legal scholarship distinctly lacking in standardisation. Offering a critical overview of the theories underlying methodological research, as well as the methods themselves, the book explores how such methods differ along critical, empirical, and fundamental lines, and how, by building on these approaches, legal research may contribute to well-considered developments in the law. Such explorative research, the author argues, is crucial in overcoming crises and restoring trust in the law. Key features include: an exploration of the common object of legal research: law in the sense of legal rules, decisions, principles and values special emphasis on the legal-grammatical category of personhood and on constitutional foundations a consideration of law as a normative language intended to guide behaviour a consideration of the theoretical underpinnings of legal research methods. This Advanced Introduction will greatly benefit legal scholars who seek to understand the object and methods of their work, as well as law and philosophy students looking to grasp the theoretical and methodological foundations of law and legal development.Trade Review'In this wonderfully succinct yet always rigorous volume, Ernst Hirsch Ballin models the very open-mindedness that he rightly identifies as essential to pushing beyond traditional jurisprudence. The result is an excellent introduction to various methodological and theoretical approaches to legal scholarship--what we might call semantic-behavioural, critical-discursive, genealogical-historical, empirical-social scientific--which together show the rich potential of law as an innovative discipline. We owe Hirsch Ballin a debt of gratitude for offering this always fair-minded and insightful take on a perennially challenging and contested topic.' --Peter L. Lindseth, University of Connecticut, School of Law, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Common object of legal research 2. Critical angles in legal research 3. Empirical legal research 4. Fundamental research 5. Humans in law’s grammar 6. Explorative research 7. Epilogue: horizons of legal research Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property (IP) is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we identify and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of power is it, and what does it do? Building on the work of Michel Foucault, Gordon Hull examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy: as law, as promotion of public welfare, and as promotion of neoliberal privatization. He argues that intellectual property policy is moving toward neoliberalism, even as that move is broadly contested in everything from resistance movements to Supreme Court decisions. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the struggle to conceptualize IP matters.Trade Review'Tracing the shifting logic of intellectual property over the centuries, Gordon Hull demonstrates that neoliberalism is less concerned with markets or freedom than it is with the economization of everyday life. This groundbreaking genealogy combines Foucauldian theory of biopower with a rich empirical analysis to illuminate how norms and technologies of ownership are now at stake in the shaping of our very subjectivity.' William Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London and author of The Limits of Neoliberalism'A fascinating and richly detailed examination of contested and changing conceptions of intellectual property in the context of shifting regimes of biopower. A must-read for anyone interested in biopolitics and American law.' Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond and author of Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-AmericaTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing intellectual property; 3. Copyright; 4. Trademark; 5. Patents; 6. Conclusion: politics was already in the way; 7. Works Cited.

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Book SynopsisRich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renée Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. Framed by gripping narratives from midwives across the country, she parses out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must engage—seeking formal professionalization, advocating for reproductive justice, and resisting state-centered approaches. Currently, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their practice in 32 states and illegal in eight, where their practice could bring felony convictions and penalties that include imprisonment. In the remaining ten states, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated, but nominally legal. By studying states where CPMs have differing legal statuses, Cramer makes the case that midwives and their clients engage in various forms of mobilization—at times simultaneous, and at times inconsistent—to facilitate access to care, autonomy in childbirth, and the articulation of women's authority in reproduction. This book brings together literatures not frequently in conversation with one another, on regulation, mobilization, health policy, and gender, offering a multifaceted view of the experiences and politics of American midwifery, and promising rich insights to a wide array of scholars, activists, healthcare professionals alike. Trade Review"A beautifully written narrative weaving together passionate, sometimes harrowing stories from midwives, activists, and mothers. This book is a significant legal intervention and a brave, innovative, and sophisticated exploration." -- Eve Darian-Smith * University of California, Irvine *"Integrating an impressive array of qualitative data, rich personal stories, sophisticated theoretical analysis, exquisite writing, and a compassionate authorial voice, this splendid book is a great read and a major addition to the sociolegal scholarship on law and social movements." -- Michael McCann * University of Washington *"Engaging and compassionate. A must-read for every social movements scholar, it is written so as to be accessible and relevant to the undergraduate reader as well. Birthing a Movement is a book that I plan to cite and assign for years to come." -- Sarah Hampson * University of Washington *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States chapter abstractThe introduction tells the story of Gina, a midwife working illegally at the time of our interview. Using Gina's story as a frame of reference, the introduction explains the varying legal status for midwives in the United States and distinguishes certified professional midwives from other professionals who attend labor and delivery. The introduction also provides the theoretical and scholarly context for the rest of the book, focusing on legal pluralism, legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and the limits of law as it is implemented. Finally, the introduction explains my methodology in both researching and presenting the data and argues that we need to tell stories about law and society that are embodied, integrative, and holistic—much like the care provided by midwives to their clients. 1History and Status of Midwives in the United States chapter abstractChapter 1 begins with a story from Missouri after Ophelia, a certified professional midwife, attends a birth that brings her to the attention of the police. The chapter asks how we got to a place where a safe, qualified, trained birth attendant can fear prosecution for a good-outcome birth. The history of midwifery in the United States is one that combines medicalization and professionalization of birth, imperatives of nation-building through reproduction, and a renaissance in care that brought the profession of non-nurse midwifery back from the brink of extinction. Chapter 1 provides a version of that history, stressing that this version is the one told by advocates and midwives as they seek to expand access to care. 2Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives chapter abstractChapter 2 demonstrates that, in the name of professionalization, midwives have engaged in seeking legitimization of non-nurse midwifery via national organizations, 3Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status chapter abstractChapter 3 explores the multiple ways that midwives and advocates use politics to mobilize for legal status. Focusing on the success stories in South Dakota and Missouri, it highlights how the long-term activism in both states, combined with "happy accidents" or contingencies, facilitated the passage of legalization bills. Midwives and advocates use traditional and social media, letter-writing to legislators, and consistent presence in the statehouse to get their bills passed. They also engage in novel attention-seeking activities like making quilts and calendars, designing T-shirts, and handing out M&M cookies (for "moms and midwives"). 4Rights, Rules, and Regulation chapter abstractThis chapter begins with the unusual story of how lawyers needed to defend the constitutionality of the Missouri bill against claims by the Missouri Medical Association, as a way to frame the examination the legal mobilization undertaken on behalf of midwives nationwide. This mobilization includes criminal defense of their practice and lawsuits brought on behalf of victims of obstetric violence. It also includes seeking regulatory governance in rulemaking, defining the scope of practice for midwives, and articulating access to the state as a goal for the movement. 5Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law chapter abstractChapter 5 examines the various ways that midwives experience their daily practices and finds that, even in states where they are legal and regulated, the law limits and shadows how CPMs work. This limiting of the law is related to cultural disapprobation of out-of-hospital birth and the ways that that disapprobation is reinforced by friends, family, and hospital staff. Chapter 5 shares the stories of midwives who find constraints on their practice from the expressions of these norms and details the difficulties they have finding insurance, finding back-up physicians, and even knowing what the law is. It also shares stories of midwives and mothers who "catch hell" when they discuss their out-of-hospital birth plans or must transfer a client to the hospital for emergency care. 6Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time chapter abstractThis chapter examines the multiple ways that midwives and advocates seek to change birth culture in any given locale, from hosting movies and picnics to thinking through the proper role of hospital and state in labor and delivery. It moves from eco-feminist midwifery advocacy in Berkeley, California, to emergency childbirth classes in rural South Dakota, highlighting the ways that locale shapes approaches to thinking about midwifery care. Chapter 6 also focuses on the contradictions and tensions within the pro-midwifery movement—around issues like abortion, vaccination and homeschooling, rights-seeking, partisan politics, and the decision to seek government intervention and approval at all. The goal in all of these conversations is to facilitate expanded access to midwifery care and the extension of reproductive justice to all who labor and deliver. Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge chapter abstractThe conclusion offers closing thoughts on the relationship between disciplinarity and regulation—seeing both as simultaneously emancipatory and constraining. The conclusion examines the tensions within midwifery communities, and within sociolegal scholarship, and argues that sitting with those tensions in an embodied, interdisciplinary, authoritative epistemology is the way to do good work in both settings.

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Book SynopsisIn Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains oTrade Review“A mesmerizing exploration of the more-than-human dimensions of later modern war that is never less than deeply human. Linguistically inventive, analytically sobering—you keep wondering why it has taken us so long to see like this—Joseph Pugliese's vision of forensic ecology initiates an arrestingly novel critique of military violence. At once profoundly political and deeply ethical, this is a magnificently vital achievement.” -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia“Joseph Pugliese’s reconfiguration of biopolitics does not simply take the politics of populations and life and extend its range to include the more-than-human; the very threshold between the human and ‘other’ life-forms falls away. What is revealed is a new political-legal ethics entirely: not a question of how ‘we’ humans grant rights to others, but of how the more-than-human offers itself as an imperative to rethink the anthropocentrism of European law. Exploring Indigenous and non-Western cosmologies provides a way to think about life, value, and politics that does not rely on the dignity of the human and its concomitant violence for all that is other-than-human. It is rare to read a book that combines such theoretical dexterity with fascinating empirical analysis of some of our most pressing ethical issues.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *"Pugliese’s book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical legal studies, critical security studies, and geopolitical ecology. . . . He admirably weaves a decolonial lens with new materialism and draws effectively on Indigenous cosmoepistemologies to expand the way we conceptualize, perceive, and feel these forms of more-than-human violence.” -- Michael J. Albert * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *"Pugliese's retheorization of biopolitics offers new ways of understanding military violence by attending to the different technologies used to manage life and death. . . . Pugliese's interventions powerfully unearth the 'forensic ecologies of saturated violence,' their more-than-human witnesses, and their possibilities for resistance." -- Nicole Nguyen * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human contributes to debates on violence and conflict in environmental politics on whether and why Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and US toxic militarism should be challenged as environmental justice problems. Moreover, this book helps educators to teach Foucauldian discourse, biopolitics, and power relations through a critical postcolonial lens via a life and death example that is still occurring every single day." -- Rezvaneh Erfani * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39 2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81 3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124 4. Drone Sparagmos 166 Afterword 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 255 Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues, defining critical terms and reviewing the history of intelligence as practiced in the United States. Designed in a practical sequence, the book begins with the basics of intelligence, progresses through its history, describes best practices, and explores the way the intelligence community looks and operates today. The authors examine the pillars of the American intelligence systemâcollection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operationsâand demonstrate how these work together to provide decision advantage. The book offers equal treatment to the functions of the intelligence worldâbalancing coverage on intelligenTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions:'The authors, all proven educators on national security issues, have effectively delivered on their objective...provides the student a clear understanding of the complexity of intelligence gathering and analysis.'-- Security ManagementTable of Contents1. An Overview of Intelligence 2. History of Intelligence in the United States 3. The IC Today 4. Collection 5. Barriers to Analysis 6. Analytical Methods 7. Putting It All Together: The Intelligence Cycle 8. Counterintelligence 9. Covert Operations 10. Constitutional Mandates—Overview of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Roles 11. Writing and Briefing for the Intelligence Community 12. Military Intelligence 13. Criminal Intelligence and Crime Analysis 14. Threats and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century 15. Future of Intelligence

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Book SynopsisLegal Environment of Business, A Managerial Approach: Theory to Practice emphasizes bridging the gap between understanding legal doctrines that impact the business environment and how business owners and managers use legal insight to limit liability and manage risk. Its distinct approach focuses on using teaching features, simulations, case studies, examples, and case law that is accessible and engaging because it is specifically tailored for business students. 

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Book SynopsisThis book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. That's not my fingerprint, your honor,said the defendant,after FBI experts reported a 100-percentidentification.The FBI was wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validatethe basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100-percentcertainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percentmatch? Where is the quality control at the crime scenes and in the laboratories? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods?Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.Trade Review“Autopsy of a Crime Lab forcefully reminds us that despite what we see on CSI, even airtight evidence must first be interpreted by boastful and fallible humans.” * Vanity Fair *"Garrett shatters illusions that forensics are always scientifically accurate, and that experts brought in to testify always know their subject. Autopsy of a Crime Lab provides resources to move forward and fix forensics, to ensure that human and scientific errors are kept to a minimum." * CHOICE *"Autopsy of a Crime Lab argues that judges should take their responsibility as gatekeepers of scientific and technical evidence more seriously." * Reason *“Autopsy of a Crime Lab offers in its form as well as its content a convincing argument against the current state of forensic science, as well as promising solutions for the way forward. This book would be an excellent resource for academics but would also be a great starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about the problems inherent within forensics.” * True Crime Index *"In Autopsy of a Crime Lab, Brandon Garrett has produced the best overview for a general audience to date of the legal-scientific problems at the heart of this controversy." * Law & Society Review *"Autopsy of a Crime Lab is an important first step in bringing the forensic system 'back to life' by tackling both the science itself, and how it should be understood and implemented in the criminal-legal system." * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books *"This book is a must-read for any person involved in justice at any level. Failure to understand the basic science behind forensics is to court miscarriage of justice on a grand scale. Judges and lawyers would be well advised to read this book and to keep it close at hand." * South Africa Law Review *"Its analysis of the shortcomings of most forensic sciences is nothing short of devastating." * Judicature *Table of ContentsPart I The Crisis in Forensics Introduction 1. The Bite Mark Case 2. The Crisis in Forensics Part II Flawed Forensics 3. False ID 4. Error Rates 5. Overstatement 6. Qualifications 7. Hidden Bias 8. The Gatekeepers Part III Failed Labs 9. Failed Quality Control 10. Crime Scene Contamination Part IV The Movement to Fix Forensics 11. The Rebirth of the Lab 12. Big Data Forensics 13. Fixing Forensics Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMit seiner Allgemeine Staatslehre reiht sich Hans Kelsen in eine spezifisch deutschsprachige Tradition ein - und doch begründet er mit ihr etwas grundstürzend Neues. Denn das in der prominenten Reihe "Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft" erschienene Werk markiert nicht nur die Auftaktschrift für den sog. Weimarer Richtungs- und Methodenstreit in der Staatsrechtslehre, die Carl Schmitt, Rudolf Smend und Hermann Heller ihrerseits zu Verfassungs- respektive Staatslehren provozieren wird. Sie stellt darüber hinaus - neun Jahre vor der 1934 publizierten Erstauflage der Reine Rechtslehre - die erste zusammenhängende Darstellung der von Kelsen begründeten und gemeinsam mit seinen Schülern ausgeformten "Reinen Rechtslehre" dar. Sie zeigt den 43jährigen Kelsen auf dem Zenit seines Wiener Wirkens und seine "Jungösterreichische Schule der Rechtstheorie" am Ende ihrer Formationsphase.Auf der Grundlage einer "durch Kants Vernunftkritik" bestimmten Methode legt Kelsen dar, dass die herkömmlich unter dem Sammelbegriff der Allgemeinen Staatslehre behandelten disparaten Fragestellungen "durchgehend Probleme der Geltung und Erzeugung einer spezifischen [Rechts-]Ordnung", sprich: Rechtsprobleme sind. Während er die Geltungsfragen, sozusagen den Staat in der Ruhelage, der (Nomo-)Statik zuschlägt, behandelt er die Erzeugungsfragen, also den Staat in der Bewegung, unter dem Aspekt der (Nomo-)Dynamik. Und während die früheren Monografien seine normativistisch-positivistische Lehre nur mittelbar, nämlich durch das Diapositiv der Dekonstruktion der tradierten Staatsrechtslehre erkennen ließen, präsentiert sie Kelsen hier erstmals als vollgültigen Gegenentwurf.

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Book SynopsisSave BIGGER THAN EVER with this fully updated edition of the classic tax-saving guide!Tax whiz Jeff Schnepper has been helping ordinary taxpayers dramatically lower their tax bills for decades. Now, Schnepper brings his classic guide up to date for the coming tax season.Presented in language anyone can understand, How to Pay Zero Taxes 2020-2021 delivers everything you need to take full advantage of the newest tax lawsâand pay the IRS less than ever before. Schnepper uncovers hundreds of sanctioned deductions, shelters, credits, and exemptions and provides invaluable tax tips youâll only find here. Youâll learn how to navigate the tax code like a pro and save the maximum legal amounts on:â   Capital gains and dividendsâ   IRA and retirement plansâ   Converting personal expenses into deductible business expensesâ   Charitable deductionsâ   Child care and elder careâ&nbspTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1Tax Insanity CHAPTER 2Is It Legal? CHAPTER 3How Our Tax System Works CHAPTER 4Exclusions—Tax-Free Money A Alternatives to “Earned Income” 1. Hospitalization Premiums 2. Group Life Insurance Premiums 3. Group Legal Services Plans 4. Accident and Health Plans 5. Employee Death Benefits 6. Merchandise Distributed to Employees on Holidays 7. “Expenses of Your Employer” 8. Meals and Lodgings 9. Employee Discounts 10. Workers’ Compensation 11. “Cafeteria” Plans and Flexible Spending Accounts 12. Dependent Care Assistance Program 13. Employer Educational Assistance 14. Employee Awards 15. Clergy Housing Allowance 16. Miscellaneous Fringe Benefits & nbsp; B Donative Items 17. Gifts, Bequests, and Inheritances 18. Scholarships and Fellowships 19. Prizes and Awards 20. Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) C Investors 21. Interest on State and Municipal Obligations D Benefits for the Elderly 22. Public Assistance Payments 23. Social Security and Other Retirement Benefits 24. Annuities 25. Sale of Your Home E Miscellaneous Individual Exclusions 26. Carpool Receipts 27. Damages 28. Divorce and Separation Arrangements 29. Life Insurance 30. Qualified State Tuition (§529) Programs 31. Your Home—The Mother of All Tax Shelters! 32. Disabled Veteran Payments 33. Exclusion of Income for Volunteer Firefighters andEmergency Medical Responders 34. Unemployment Benefits 35. Homeowner Security &n bsp; 36. Reimbursed Costs to Parents of Children with Disabilities 37. Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration 38. Restitution Payments 39. Frequent Flier Miles 40. Hurricane Sandy 41. Cancellation of Indebtedness 42. Medicaid Payments for Foster Care of Related Individuals 43. ABLE Accounts 44. Foreign Earned Income Exclusion F Schedule of Excludable Items CHAPTER 5Credits—Dollar-for-Dollar Tax Reductions A Estimated Tax and Withholding Exemptions B Credits 45. Refundable The Earned Income Credit 46. Excess Social Security Tax 47. The Child and Dependent Care Credit 48. Credit for the Elderly or Permanently and Totally Disabled C Special Credits 49. Work Opportunity Credit (Formerly Targeted Jobs Tax Credit) 50. Welfare to Work Credit 51. Research Tax Credit 52. Orphan Drug Tax Credit 53. Adoption Assistance 54. Hope Scholarship Credit 55. American Opportunity Tax Credit ; 56. Lifetime Learning Credit 57. Child Tax Credit 58. Disability Credits 59. Health Insurance Credit 60. Saver’s Credit

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Book SynopsisExamines how modern Orthodox Christian thinkers have answered political, legal, and ethical questions. This book discusses the teachings of Orthodox Christian intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also underscores the various ways Orthodox Christian intellectuals have shaped modern debates over the family and society.Trade ReviewRarely have the riches of modern theology and theological anthropology been so incisively analyzed for their insights into the fundamentals of our modern political condition. -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Crisp, informative, even-handed, and, above all, interesting. It is a joy to learn what riches there are in modern times in the major Christian traditions. -- Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley A useful resource and a powerful inspiration. -- Rebecca S. Chopp, President, Colgate University; Former President, American Academy of Religion Extraordinary and exciting book, which deserves a wide audience. -- Adam A.J. DeVille Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian StudiesTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by John Witte Jr. and Frank S. Alexander Introduction to the Modern Orthodox Tradition, by Paul Valliere Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) Nicholas Berdyaev (1874-1948) Vladimir Nikolaievich Lossky (1903-1958) Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993) Copyright Information Index to Biblical Citations General Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of established evidence-based interventions for the problems inherent in parental alienation. The book focuses on helping families and ensuring the needs of the child are met. Increasing attention has been given to the subject of parental alienation in recent years, as divorce rates have increased and more children are being brought up in the context of ongoing parental conflict, risking significant emotional harm. Chapters point to the application of numerous evidence-based interventions that are already available and detail how to identify, assess and intervene effectively with families where parental alienation has been identified.This text will be of interest to those working in the family courts, particularly expert witnesses, clinical psychologists, therapists, social workers, guardians and other legal professionals, in addition to researchers with an interest in parental alienation. Trade ReviewThis thoroughly-researched book offers valuable practical guidance on the pervasive problem of parental alienation. It deserves a place in the library of every family practitioner and judge.Sir Reg Weir, formerly Presiding Judge (Family Division) of the High Court of Northern Ireland.This important book shines a light on parental alienation and its devastating impact on families. The author, a knowledgeable and skilled clinician, demystifies the concept providing insight and guidance on interventions that will facilitate remediation and resolution. This is a ‘must read’ for all those involved in the process, both personally and professionally.Susan Young, PhD, Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Psychology Services Ltd, London, England; Honorary Professor, Reykjavik University, IcelandA comprehensive, valuable resource informed by up-to-date scientific evidence and wisdom borne of professional experience. The book’s outstanding breadth and depth of knowledge makes it an excellent guide for both the novice and experienced professional who deal with parental alienation issues. Dr. Richard A. Warshak, author of Divorce Poison: How To Protect Your Family from Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing, past Clinical Professor, UT Southwestern Medical CenterTable of Contents1- Understanding Parental Alienation; 2 – Why is it important and what does it look like?; 3 – Mild, Moderate and Severe Parental Alienation; 4 – Fallacies, Hybrid Cases and Justifiable Estrangement; 5 – The alienating parent; 6 – Targeted parent; 7 – The Alienated child; 8 – 'Typical Cases and Insights from Clinical Experience; 9 – The Assessment; 10 – Existing Approaches to Intervention; 11 – What Other Psychological Interventions May be Helpful in Parental Alienation?; 12 – What did we learn?

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Book SynopsisThe concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.Trade Review'An illuminating and important book [that] covers a great deal of ground.' Harvard Law Review. 'Slovic brings fresh insights on how others think of 'risk'. Risk Management Reports 'An invaluable collection of articles for those seeking an in-depth analysis of risk perceptions.' Food, Nutrition and Agriculture 'Everyone, whether a fan of the (extended) psychometric paradigm or not, will like to have in its own library this book as a handy reference.' Journal of Socio-Economics 'superb...I hope Paul Slovic is already working on a sequel that will fill in the few remaining blanks in his brilliant career.' Jason Zweig, Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, 2001. 'Superior' Torbjorn Malmfors, Amazon. 'Paul Slovic is a prolific and persuasive contributor to the literature on risk, with a well-defined perspective, which has informed an incremental and solid output of research and publication.' Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 'Essentially academic, but very relevant for anyone interested in taking risk seriously' Long Range PlanningTable of ContentsDecision Processes, Rationality and Adjustment to Natural Hazards * Cognitive Processes and Societal Risk Taking * Preference for Insuring Against Probable Small Losses: Insurance Implications * Accident Probabilities and Seat Belt Usage: A Psychological Perspective * How Safe Is Safe Enough? A Psychometric Study of Attitudes Toward Technological Risks and Benefits * Rating the Risks * Weighing the Risks: Which Risks are Acceptable? * Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk * Response Mode, Framing and Information-processing Effects in Risk Assessment * The Nature of Technological Hazard * Informing and Educating the Public about Risk * Perception of Risk from Automobile Safety Defects * Perception of Risk * The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework * The Perception and Management of Therapeutic Risk * Perception of Risk from Radiation * Perceived Risk, Trust and the Politics of Nuclear Waste * Intuitive Toxicology: Expert and Lay Judgments of Chemical Risks * Perceived Risk, Trust and Democracy * Adolescent Health-threatening and Health-enhancing Behaviors: A Study of Word Association and Imagery * Technological Stigma * Probability, Danger and Coercion: A Study of Risk Perception and Decision-making in Mental Health Law * Do Adolescent Smokers Know the Risks? * Insensitivity to the Value of a Human Life: A Study of Psychophysical Numbing * Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics and Science: Surveying the Risk-assessment Battlefield * The Affect Heuristic in Judgments of Risks and Benefits*

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Book SynopsisV. R. Reddy, a prominent figure in the legal community, made significant contributions to legal education and served in various high-ranking positions. His memoir recounts his journey from rural beginnings to practicing law at the Supreme Court, highlighting his personal and professional experiences with candor and warmth.

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Book Synopsis*Provides a clear, yet panoramic analysis of how the concept of social control has been used by different theoretical traditions in the social sciences.*Connects contemporary changes in areas such as policing, penal systems and surveillance, with wider and deeper changes in the constitution of society.*Employs empirical examples to illustrate key conceptual points.*Develops an innovative argument about the nature and scope of social control in late-modern societies.Understanding Social Control investigates how the concept of social control has been used to capture the ways in which individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour. In so doing, the book demonstrates how an appreciation of the meanings of the concept of social control is vital to understanding the dynamics and trajectories of social order in contemporary late-modern societies. Through an analysis of a range of different modes of social control including: policTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordThe argumentA history of the idea of social controlA history of social control practiceEveryday orderPolicingPunishingSurveillanceThe architecture of social controlRisk, regulation, auditConclusionIndex.

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Book Synopsis"Although the topics dealt with are complex, the author has been very successful in presenting and exploring them clearly. Students may find particularly helpful the summary at the end of each chapter of the main points covered in that section.The Legal Executive"...the real strength of this book lies in the critical thinking that arises from the juxtaposition of two very much unfinished debates: the question of how victims are treated by the justice system, and the practices and implications of restorative justice."...I feel this book is particularly important because it reframes a whole series of debates and practices which, otherwise, might be in danger of getting 'stuck'. That this is also undertaken by someone who is extremely knowledgeable about the subject matter and perceptive in relation to key issues is an added bonus."VistaTwo of the principal and most influential developments within criminal justice policy - taking in a variety of commTable of ContentsSeries editor’s foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1Victims, Victimization and Victimology 2Victim focused policy-making: ‘the welfare approach’ 3Victims and the criminal justice system 4Restorative justice and what it might mean for victims 5Evaluating restorative justice from a victim perspective: empirical evidence 6Assessing restorative justice: the broader picture

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Book Synopsis"This is an exceptional book that comprehensively covers the interface between psychology and criminology regarding an empirical understanding of crime. It is written in an engaging and accessible manner, nicely linking key themes in order to situate the contribution of psychology to theories of criminal behaviour, strategies for informed practice, and contemporary challenges. It should prove to be an incredible resource for students, but also be of interest to researchers and clinicians. I cannot recommend this text more heartily."Dr Ralph Serin, Carleton University, Canada"James McGuire is one of the leading international experts on what works in reducing reoffending, and he has written an extremely valuable and accessible textbook on psychology and crime. The book is a clearly written, well-researched and up-to-date survey of important contributions of psychology to key criminological issues. It is especially noteworthy for its illuminating reviews of cognitivTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordWhy psychology?Accounting for crimePsychological processes in crimePathways to offending behaviourIndividual factors in crimePreventing and reducing crimeCrime and Punishment: a psychological viewApplications and valuesGlossaryIndex.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible text takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring issues surrounding domestic violence. It draws on contemporary research findings, policy developments, innovative practice and case studies to explore new directions in professional and voluntary sector responses to domestic violence. Centred on the United Kingdom, but located in a context of global change, the book discusses and critically evaluates new criminal justice and multi-agency initiatives such as domestic violence courts and risk assessment conferences, as well as assessing how far these initiatives improve the safety of women and children.Harne and Radford aim to disseminate ideas about best practice in relation to dealing with this sensitive and still controversial issue. They use real-life case studies from professionals, including the police, health services and Womenâs Aid, and are inclusive of the experiences of a wide range of survivors, in order to enable an understanding of the need for apprTable of Contents1.The Nature and Extent of Domestic Violence2.Impacts, Coping and Surviving Domestic Violence 3.Legal Responses to Domestic Violence4.Policing, Prosecution and the Courts 5.Preventing Domestic Violence6.Community Responses to Domestic Violence

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Book Synopsis"Bennett and Holloway's Understanding Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime isthe best, most up-to-date and comprehensive examination for theUnited Kingdom of interactions among drugs, alcohol, and crime. Theauthors exhaustively and authoritatively survey current knowledge inthe UK, and from many other countries, on drug and alcohol use ascause, and consequence, of crime, and the effects of law enforcementand treatment responses. Clearly written, unfailingly lucid, andadmirably accurate, this book will be the indispensable work onBritish drug policy for many years to come."Professor Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Law School, USA"What makes this book particularly interesting is the refreshingly non judgmental presentation which conveys the essence of very important issues in contemporary society. Therefore, this is an ideal text not only for students but also for policy makers, drugs and alcohol counsellors, treatment agencies and everyone interested in Table of ContentsPreface Series editor's forewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: The nature of the problemChapter 2: Policy context: from defining to reducing harm Chapter 3: Extent of drug misuse Chapter 4: Types of drug misuse Chapter 5: Explaining the drugs-crime connection Chapter 6: The statistical association: just coincidence? Chapter 7: The causal connection: more than coincidence? Chapter 8: The effectiveness of interventions Chapter 9: The nature of the solutionReferences Index

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Book SynopsisâœFew people can talk about prisons with the authority and experience thatAndrew Coyle brings to his subject. A former prison governor, an academicauthor, an international activist and a practical reformer, Professor Coyleknows prisons inside and out, home and abroad, past and present. InUnderstanding Prisons he uses his impressive expertise to guide researchersthrough the changing world of the English prison. The result is an accessible,up-to-date, and highly informative book that will be welcomed by studentsand practitioners alike.âDavid Garland, NYU, author of The Culture of ControlâœAndrew Coyle has drawn on his lifelong experience of governing prisons inScotland and England and, as the former Director of the International Centrefor Prison Studies, Kings College, London, studying prisons worldwide. Hehas written a comprehensive account of the use of imprisonment and thecharacter of prisons. He persuasively argues that our continued, extensiveuse ofTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The political context 2. The history of the modern prison 3. The organization of the prison system 4. The prisoners 5. Prison staff 6. What happens in prison 7. Order and control 8. Beyond prison 9. The future of the prison

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Book Synopsis"...the clarity in which the wide range of relevant issues are presented throughout the book makes this must-reading for new entrants to this field and for students."International Review of VictimologyThis book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequence of those changes but also concerns itself with the ability of victimology to help make sense of this change. Written in the post 9/11 context this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the problems and possibilities posed by criminal victimisation understoodTable of ContentsWhy are we all victims now? Theory and Victimology Structuring Criminal Victimisation Victimisation, risk and fear Victimisation, politics and policy Local victim; global context The rhetoric of victimhood and the role of the state

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Book Synopsis Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled following punishment has been remarkable. Once a marginal topic in criminology, it is now a central topic of research and theorising amongst those studying criminal careers. This book is both an introduction to research on desistance, and the report on a follow-up of two hundred probationers sentenced to supervision in the late 1990s. The reader is introduced to some of the wider issues and debates surrounding desistance via a consideration of the criminal careers of a group of ex-offenders. This lively engagement with both data and theoretical matters makes the book a useful tool for both academics and students. The book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics studying criminology, criminalTable of ContentsPreface & AcknowledgementsDramatis PersonaeChapter One: Getting to Grips with DesistanceChapter Two: Life After ProbationChapter Three: The Long-term Impacts of Probation SupervisionIntermezzo: The Impact of ImprisonmentChapter Four: The Existential Aspects of DesistanceChapter Five: The Emotional Trajectories of DesistanceChapter Six: Citizenship Values and DesistanceChapter Seven: Criminal Victimisation and Desistance from CrimeChapter Eight: Understanding Desistance from CrimeMethodological Appendix: Relocating our SampleBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories."Anne Rees, University of Portsmouth, UK What does contemporary criminological theory look like? What impact, if any, does it have on policy? The new edition of this bestselling text updates a key title in the Crime and Justice series, whilst maintaining it's trademark theory-intensive approach to Criminology. In this third edition, the author pays particular attention to the development of the policy agenda under New Labour. The book examines the development of criminological theory over the past twenty five years, with detailed analysis of the relationship between criminological theorizing, criminal justice, social justice, and politics. It also provides: A detailed examination of the role of the media in relation to the fear of crime Expanded discussion of classical criminology, adding discussion of cultural criminology Special referenceTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Understanding some key features of criminology Perspectives in criminological theory Understanding 'right realism' Understanding 'left realism' Gendering the criminal Crime, politics and welfare Criminal victimization, politics and welfare Conclusions: New directions for criminology Glossary ReferencesIndex

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Book Synopsis"...what makes the book stand out is the inclusion of real research into various criminal justice institutions that have actually been undertaken by the authors. In doing so, what is produced is a book that stimulates interest and injects research passion, as well as offering research âknow howâ into what can often be a difficult and sometimes dry area of research."Tina Patel, Liverpool John Moores University"This book provides an essential tool for undergraduate students embarking upon their own research projects in Criminology. It provides clear and informative guidance on a range of research methods and designs to assist students in their own criminological endeavours."Jacki Tapley, University of Portsmouth How do criminologists go about studying crime and its consequences? How are programmes for offenders and communities evaluated? How can you collect and analyse criminological material? Research on crime and criminality iTable of ContentsPART ONE:THE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCHChapter 1.The Research Process 1.What is Research?2.Researching Criminology3.Types of Inquiry and Types of Data 4.Research as a ProcessChapter 2.The Principles of Researching Criminology 1.The Research Question2.Choosing a Research Strategy3.Method Selection and Data Collection4.Data Analysis and InferenceChapter 3.Designing Criminological Research1.What is Research Design and Why is it Important?2.Main Types of Empirical Inquiry3.Some Common Kinds of Research Design4.Choosing a Research Design: an example5.Sampling. 6.Researching Criminology EthicallyChapter 4.Criminological Evaluation1.Defining Terms2.The Evaluation Paradigm3.Evaluation and Theory4.Doing Criminological EvaluationPART TWO: COLLECTING AND ANALYSING MATERIALChapter 5.Researching by Reading1.Reviewing the Literature Critically. 2.Analysing Other People’s Data3.Analysing DocumentsChapter 6.Researching by Looking1.Introduction: Watch and Learn2.The Science of Observation? Epistemology and Research Design3.Methodological Decisions4.Data Collection5.Data Analysis6.The Disadvantages of ObservationChapter 7.Researching by Asking and Listening1.Introduction2.Interviewing3.Group Interviews and Focus Groups4.QuestionnairesChapter 8.Analysing Criminological Research1.About Analysis2.Analysing Quantitative Material: An Introduction•Analysing A Single Variable•Analysing Two Variables•Analysing Three or More Variables3.Analysing Qualitative Material: An Introduction•The process of qualitative analysis (coding, categorisation, counting, computer packages)•Interpreting Results, Drawing Conclusions and Presenting FindingsPART THREE: REAL WORLD RESEARCHChapter 9.Researching Offenders and Employment1.Background to the Project, and What it Shows2.Theoretical Basis3.Hypotheses4.Research Design5.Research Methods6.Operationalising the Design and Conducting the Study7.Results8.SummaryChapter 10. Researching the Youth Court1.Background to the Project2.Theoretical Context3.Research Design and Methods4.Analysis5.Results6.CommentsChapter 11.Researching a Community Safety Programme1.Background to the Project2.Theoretical Context3.The Research4.Results5.DiscussionChapter 12.Researching the Fear of Crime1.Background to the Project2.Theoretical Context3.The Research4.Analysis and Results5.Discussion

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The book begins with consideration of what a community profile is, explores the different reasons why community profiles are undertaken and offers tips for planning research. It then looks at methods for collecting, storing and analysing data, and ways of involving the community, concluding with a chapter on ensuring your profile has impact. This book is fully updated throughout and includes: A new chapter on links between community profiling, policy development and practice A new chapter on selecting methods for data collection Bulleted key issues at the end of each chapter Case studies and boxed examples Further reading and a list of additional resources A new appendix for those who want to undertake more complex research A new glossTable of Contents1.What is a community profile?2.Why do a community profile?3.Planning a community profile?4.Involving communities and other stakeholders5.Selecting methods6.Making use of existing information7.Collecting new information8.Analysing the information9.Maximising impact10.Conclusions

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Book Synopsis"This book is something of a 'call to arms'â Towards the end of this carefully-researched and well-argued book there is an exhortation to 'step out', 'be brave', and Scott and Codd have, indeed, written a brave book which deserves to be read widely; not only for the detailed analysis it unfolds on the toxic effects of prison, but also for the energy and passion they bring to bear in exploding the many myths which support its continued use."British Journal of Community Justice, Vol 9, Issues 1 & 2 special issue on the Rehabilitation Revolution"Scott and Coddâs Controversial Issues in Prison is a passionate plea for academics to be 'be brave' and 'step out', and thus to acknowledge that the idea of, for example, an 'healthy prison' being (p.170) 'an oxymoron. Prisons are places of sadness and terror, harm and injustice, secrecy and oppression'. Set over ten chapters, eight of which deal with a 'controversial issue' - mental health problems in prison, wTable of ContentsPrefaceThinking about controversial issues in prisonPrisoners with mental health problemsWomen prisonersChildren and young people in custody 'Race', racism and foreign national prisoners Self inflicted deaths The treatment of people who sexually offendDrug takersPrisoners and their familiesBeyond penal controversies and towards abolitionismBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book is an invaluable reference for those new to the field of criminology, who are looking for a clear outline of the major perspectives and traditions found in criminology. The author has outlined the ideas, concepts and traditions of the key theoretical perspectives that drive contemporary debate. Topics discussed include: Anomie theory Classical criminology Critical criminology Labelling theory Positivism Post-modernism Subcultural theory Key Perspectives in Criminology is not simply a dictionary of criminology, but a welcome introduction for those with a genuine interest in the terms, concepts, themes and debates in the field.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionAbolitionismAdministrative CriminologyAnomie TheoryChicago SchoolClassical CriminologyControl TheoryCrime/DevianceCritical CriminologyCultural CriminologyFeminismLabelling TheoryLeft RealismMasculinitiesPositivismPostmodernismRight RealismSubcultural TheoryReferences

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Book Synopsis"Pepper strikes a number of goals in one text simultaneously. It is a fine tool to assist CSI practitioners with their day-to-day duties; it is also a guide for career development and, in the comprehensive table of relevant statutes, Pepper provides commonly used abbreviations and academic references, all of which establish the book as a solid launch pad for further reading." Timothy G. ShilstonChief Superintendent, Northumbria Police, UKForensic evidence is dynamic in its context and continues to be highly significant in the detection and prosecution of crime. This means that the knowledge, skill and ability of the person who examines the scene of the crime - the Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) - must be thorough and up to date. The second edition of this book guides trainee and newly appointed CSIs through the methods and procedures for the accurate recording and recovery of evidence from the scene of a crime. This step-by-step handbook has been thoroughly updaTable of ContentsAbbreviationsList of tables and figures Introduction The history and contemporary structure of the police, scientific services and crime scene investigation in the United KingdomApproaching the crime scene, packaging the evidence and the documentation requiredThe basics of crime scene photographyTrace evidence: Fibres, glass, hairs, paint and soil Impressions: Footwear marks, instrument marks, glove marks and tyresDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and body fluidsFingerprintsThe investigation of a fire sceneFirearmsTerrorism, mass murder and disaster (major incidents)The leadership and management of the forensic examination of a major crime sceneOther sources of evidence for the crime scene investigatorHealth and safety at a crime sceneThe Criminal Law Courts across the United KingdomOrganizations related to crime scene investigationAnswers to questions ReferencesIndex

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