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Incorporating full references to the Magistrates'' Court Sentencing Guidelines, it offers all you need in one trustworthy source.Covering all the key aspects of magistrates'' court practice, the book focuses on the areas most likely to arise at short notice requiring an instant response from the advocate, as well as on those offences most frequently experienced at court, such as assault, public order, dishonesty, drugs, weapons, driving, criminal damage, and sexual offences.Blackstone''s Magistrates'' Court Handbook''s easy-to-use pocket-sized format facilitates quick reading and instant decision-making. Tables, flow-charts, and a clear system of icons aid comprehension and speedy navigation. Cross-referencing to Blackstone''s Criminal Practice 2023 provides you with easy access to in-depth commentary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart A Procedure and Evidence Chapter A1 Abuse of Process Chapter A2 Adjournments Chapter A3 Admissibility and Exclusion of Evidence Chapter A4 Allocation and Plea before Venue Chapter A5 Amending Charge Chapter A6 Appeals and Reopening Chapter A7 Bad Character Chapter A8 Bail Chapter A9 Binding Rulings Chapter A10 Case Management Chapter A11 Civil Orders Chapter A12 Commencing Proceedings: Time Limits Chapter A13 Costs Chapter A14 Court- Appointed Legal Representatives Chapter A15 Custody Time Limits Chapter A16 Disclosure Chapter A17 Hearsay Chapter A18 Identification Evidence Chapter A19 Legal Aid Chapter A20 Mental Disorder Chapter A21 Misbehaviour at Court Chapter A22 Presence of Defendant and Prosecutor in Court Chapter A23 Pre- Charge Hearings Chapter A24 Remand Periods Chapter A25 Reporting Restrictions Chapter A26 Sending and Transfer for Trial Chapter A27 Special Measures and Vulnerable Witnesses Chapter A28 Submission of No Case Chapter A29 Transfer\/ Remittal of Criminal Cases Chapter A30 Video\/ Live Links Chapter A31 Witnesses, Issue of Summons, or Warrant Part B Youths in the Adult Court Chapter B1 Age of Offender and the Position of Those Attaining 18 Chapter B2 Bail Chapter B3 Breach of Orders, and New Offences Committed during an Order Chapter B4 Jurisdiction of the Adult Magistrates Court over Youths Chapter B5 Managing the Case Chapter B6 Remittal to the Youth Court for Trial\/ Sentence Chapter B7 Reporting Restrictions Chapter B8 Sentencing Part C Offences Chapter C1 Animal Offences Chapter C2 Breach Offences Chapter C3 Administration of Justice Chapter C4 Communication Network Offences Chapter C5 Computer Misuse Chapter C6 Criminal Damage Chapter C7 Drugs Chapter C8 Harassment Offences Chapter C9 Immigration and Document Offences Chapter C10 Prison Offences Chapter C11 Public Order Chapter C12 Road Traffic Offences Definitions Chapter C13 Road Traffic Offences Chapter C14 Sexual Offences Chapter C15 Dishonesty and Offences against Property Chapter C16 Offences against the Person Chapter C17 Weapons Offences Part D Sentencing Chapter D1 Alteration of Sentence Chapter D2 Banning Orders (Football) Chapter D3 Breach of Post-sentence Supervision Chapter D4 Committal for Sentence Chapter D5 Community Orders: Imposition and Breach Chapter D6 Compensation Order Chapter D7 Confiscation: Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Chapter D8 Criminal Behaviour Orders Chapter D9 Custodial Sentences Chapter D10 Dangerous Offenders Chapter D11 Deferment of Sentence Chapter D12 Deprivation Order Chapter D13 Detention in Young Offender Institution Chapter D14 Discharges: Conditional and Absolute Chapter D15 Discounts for Early Plea Chapter D16 Disqualification from Driving Chapter D17 Fines Chapter D18 Forfeiture Order Chapter D19 Mental Health Disposals Chapter D20 Minimum Sentences Chapter D21 Newton Hearings Chapter D22 Notification Requirements Chapter D23 Offences Taken into Consideration (TICs) and the Totality Principle Chapter D24 Penalty Points for Driving Offences Chapter D25 Pre- Sentence Reports Chapter D26 Prevention Orders Chapter D27 Prosecution Costs Chapter D28 Racially and Religiously Aggravated Crimes; Sexual Orientation, Disability, or Transgender Identity Chapter D29 Restraining Order Chapter D30 Sentencing Guidelines Chapter D31 Suspended Sentences Chapter D32 Time on Remand or Qualifying Curfew Chapter D33 Victim Surcharge Order","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732606759255,"sku":"9780192869142","price":58.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192869142.jpg?v=1719997623"},{"product_id":"criminology-9780199691296","title":"Criminology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCriminology is a broad-ranging and stimulating introduction that is ideal for undergraduates approaching the subject for the first time. Each chapter is written by an expert in their field and includes a range of learning features designed to help students engage with the material covered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA first-rate resource with which to study and debate current issues within the subject. * Anna Markovska, Anglia Ruskin University, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol 46 No 4, September 2007 *\u003cbr\u003eGiven its scope and the inclusion of study questions, further reading and web links, lecturers will inevitably find this a useful core textbook. * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThe editors bring together an excellent group of contributions, making this a fascinating read. 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For what offenses and under what conditions should a just legal system offer forgiveness? This is a legal minefield through which \u003cem\u003eWhen Should Law Forgive?\u003c\/em\u003e provides an indispensable guide.\" -- Stephen Greenblatt","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864548847959,"sku":"9780393531749","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393531749.jpg?v=1722272425"},{"product_id":"blind-injustice-a-former-prosecutor-exposes-the-psychology-and-politics-of-wrongful-convictions-9780520287952","title":"Blind Injustice A Former Prosecutor Exposes the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book I’ve read on the criminal justice system since Michelle Alexander’s \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This is the rare book that looks at criminal justice from the perspective of culture. And Godsey has the chops to tell it.\" * Daily Kos *\u003cbr\u003e“The book, which is in part a confessional, looks at how innocent people can become the victims of faulty eyewitness testimony, bad forensics, and a variety of blinding cognitive biases on the part of law-enforcement personnel, prosecutors, and judges, and why the system so tenaciously defends the status quo, even when it’s guilty of railroading innocent citizens. With so much attention rightly focused on racial injustice in recent years, Godsey’s book offers another important piece of the puzzle.” * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mark Godsey's] book is about how his career change also changed his outlook, by showing up 'problems in the system that I, as a prosecutor, should have seen, but about which I had simply been in denial'. . . . Mr Godsey’s work is memorable because he is able to show precisely how these flaws work in action.\"\u003cbr\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\"A breathless page-turner, especially for true crime readers, drawing together Godsey and his indefatigable staff as they relentlessly power through volumes and volumes of evidence in pursuit of the truth.” * Salon *\u003cbr\u003e“Mark Godsey, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Ohio Innocence Project, examines the causes of wrongful convictions, from faulty eyewitness identifications to investigator tunnel vision, while drawing on a depressingly vast array of shocking examples. He graciously allows that the police, prosecutors, and judges whose ‘unreasonable and intellectually dishonest positions’ have led to unjust convictions and avoidable suffering acted not out of malice but out of the abundant capacity for human error.” - OUR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 * The Progressive *\u003cbr\u003e“Passionate and readable, this book provides meaningful support for the Innocence movement and startling insights into the justice system while admitting the reality of systemic racism but omitting its direct discussion.” * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e is worth the read. Give a copy to your favorite prosecutor. And maybe to your neighbor.\" * GAMSO - for the Defense *\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent resource for psychology and law courses. . . . Highly recommended\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e, instructive and passionate, is an excellent introduction to major wrongful conviction themes. It is an accessible book for laypersons and criminologists who are new to the subject. It would make a lively text in a wrongful conviction course. One wishes that it would be read by prosecutors across America. If they did, perhaps like the author, they would say, as the hymn \u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e has it— 'was blind but now I see.' . . . An attention-grabbing book that powerfully instructs.\" \u003cbr\u003e * Social Science Research Network *\u003cbr\u003e\"Godsey’s book is splendid. Everyone who cares the least bit about justice must read it. Parts will make you shake your head in amazement, parts will give you a sense of elation, and parts will make you cry. . . . There have been, over the past dozen or so years, several excellent books examining the failings of the American criminal justice system. A skeptic might wonder what there is new to say about the problems that infect the system. But that skepticism melts almost instantly when one opens Godsey’s book. Mark Godsey brings a unique perspective to bear on the problem of convicting the innocent.\" * Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law *\u003cbr\u003e“If, like me, you enjoyed the Netflix ‘docudrama’ Making A Murderer, you will be right at home with this excellent exposé of certain problematic features of the American criminal justice system. Former prosecutor, now professor, Mark Godsey takes his readers through a multitude of cases in which he acted as legal counsel, and where wrongful convictions emerged at the end of the day. The fact that this leading light in the Ohio Innocence Project was on the ‘other side’ of the justice ‘coin’ for many years, employing the same tactics that are likely to give rise to mistakes, gives his writing the credibility that other ‘justice system in crisis’ or ‘criminal injustice system’ books simply do not have.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Godsey offers a fresh viewpoint\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\"An easy and interesting read. . . . It is Godsey’s experience as a former prosecutor that gives this book its power. His story of transformation is one that every lawyer could learn from. I will certainly be buying copies for my students who begin their careers in prosecution.\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About This Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. EYE OPENER\u003cbr\u003e 2. BLIND DENIAL\u003cbr\u003e 3. BLIND AMBITION\u003cbr\u003e 4. BLIND BIAS\u003cbr\u003e 5. BLIND MEMORY\u003cbr\u003e 6. BLIND INTUITION\u003cbr\u003e 7. BLIND TUNNEL VISION\u003cbr\u003e 8. SEEING AND ACCEPTING HUMAN LIMITATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864899137879,"sku":"9780520287952","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520287952.jpg?v=1722273270"},{"product_id":"when-brute-force-fails-9780691148649","title":"When Brute Force Fails","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults - a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. This book explains how we got into the trap and how we can get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Economist's Best Books for 2009 \"One way to make apprehension and punishment more likely is to spend substantially more money on law enforcement. In a time of chronic budget shortfalls, however, that won't happen. But Mr. Kleiman suggests that smarter enforcement strategies can make existing budgets go further. The important step, he says, is to view enforcement as a dynamic game in which strategically chosen deterrence policies become self-reinforcing... It is an ingenious idea that borrows from game theory and the economics of signaling behavior... Revolutionary.\"--Robert H. Frank, New York Times \"Mass incarceration was a successful public-policy tourniquet. But now that we've stopped the bleeding, it can't be a permanent solution... [I]t requires a more sophisticated crime-fighting approach--an emphasis, for instance, on making sentences swifter and more certain, even as we make them shorter; a system of performance metrics for prisons and their administrators; a more stringent approach to probation and parole. (When Brute Force Fails, by the U.C.L.A. law professor Mark Kleiman, is the best handbook for would-be reformers.)\"--Ross Douthat, New York Times \"'Big cases make bad laws' is a criminological axiom, and one with which Mark A. R. Kleiman agrees, in When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment. Kleiman blames big cases and bad laws for another distinctive feature of American life: 2.3 million people are currently behind bars in the United States... At what point, Kleiman wonders, will incarceration be a greater social ill than crime? He proposes, for lesser offenders, punishments that are swift and certain but not necessarily severe: a night in jail, instead of a warning, for missing a meeting with a parole officer, say, and ten nights the next time.\"--Jill Lepore, New Yorker \"From Kennedy and Kleiman to Alm and Meares, the judges and scholars developing new deterrence strategies are changing the way we think about parole, probation, gang violence and drug markets.\"--Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Magazine \"In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.\"--David Von Drehle, TIME Magazine \"Mark Kleiman's new book, When Brute Force Fails, draws on the bedrock of economic logic--rational actors using incentives to make optimal decisions--to arrive at a sweeping overhaul of how we deter, punish and sentence... Kleiman says we can have more effective deterrence by becoming more efficient in the use of resources to control crime... Kleiman's theory of 'dynamic concentration' is the best example of economic logic used cautiously and innovatively to address a social problem... If you want a no-nonsense guide to using incentives to build a better mousetrap, this is the book for you.\"--Sudhir Venkatesh, Forbes \"Absolutely buy this book and dedicate some time to it... This is the most important social science book I've read in many years.\"--Reihan Salam, Bloggingheads.tv \"In ... When Brute Force Fails, Kleiman argues that such capricious enforcement undermines efforts to reduce crime, and moreover that tough penalties--such as the long sentences that have contributed to clogged prisons--don't do much to help, despite their high cost. The alternative, Kleiman suggests, is a paradigm called 'swift and certain' justice, first proposed by Cesare Beccaria in the 18th century: immediate, automatic penalties--though not necessarily severe ones--doled out by credible, identifiable figures... [I]t seems likely that the invasive surveillance model, combining tracking technology and the Kleiman\/Alm paradigm of 'swift and certain' justice, could offer an alternative to much of the waste--in human as well as economic terms--of our current, dysfunctional system.\"--Graeme Wood, Atlantic \"Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at the University of California (Los Angeles), contend[s] that for violent as well as nonviolent offenders, long prison terms--which most potential criminals don't expect to incur--do less to deter crime than would swifter and surer imposition of less onerous penalties. Even probation, Kleiman writes, can be a real deterrent if accompanied by tough conditions and oversight. In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, Kleiman argues that the correct reforms would lead to 'half as much crime and half as many people behind bars 10 years from now.'\"--Stuart Taylor Jr., National Journal \"Kleiman's recommendations appear to work. If they do, every community should be considering how to apply them. The current ways, the tough-sounding sentences, the random zero-tolerance, the throw 'em-in-jail-and-throw-away-the-key approach, feels right. But maybe it's wrong.\"--Royal Oak Daily Tribune \"[Kleiman] brings to his analysis a formidable array of statistics and case studies, which, fortunately for the reader, he uses to illuminate rather than overpower... Having dissected the problem as he sees it, Kleiman offers in his final chapter a series of tips he believes will reduce both crime and the cost of correction and punishment. It is a trenchantly-stated starting point for reformers and fiscal conservatives alike.\"--Edward Morris, ForeWord Magazine \"Offenders are not 'rational actors' in the normal sense, explains UCLA professor Mark A.R. Kleiman in his book, When Brute Force Fails. Their cost-benefit calculations are skewed toward the immediate future, which means a delayed punishment won't feel tied to the offense... Even [James Q.] Wilson, the godfather of 'tough on crime,' has endorsed Kleiman's book. 'This is very good. It's not quite as good as Einstein predicting the shift of light behind Mars ... but it's a step in the right direction,' Wilson said while appearing alongside Kleiman on a panel at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in October.\"--Adam Serwer, American Prospect \"One of the most admired liberal policy books of the season, Mark Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails, argues for reconsidering current law enforcement policy.\"--David Frum, The Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi Introduction e How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment 1 Chapter 1: The Trap 8 Chapter 2: Thinking about Crime Control 16 Chapter 3: Hope 34 Chapter 4: Tipping, Dynamic Concentration, and the Logic of Deterrence 49 Chapter 5: Crime Despite Punishment 68 Chapter 6: Designing Enforcement Strategies 86 Chapter 7: Crime Control without Punishment 117 Chapter 8: Guns and Gun Control 136 Chapter 9: Drug Policy for Crime Control 149 Chapter 10: What Could Go Wrong? 164 Chapter 11: An Agenda for Crime Control 175 Notes 191 Bibliography 207 Index 227","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865524121943,"sku":"9780691148649","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691148649.jpg?v=1722274381"},{"product_id":"just-mercy-9780812984965","title":"Just Mercy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn''t commit. 30,000 first printing.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865983922519,"sku":"9780812984965","price":11.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812984965.jpg?v=1722276499"},{"product_id":"on-crimes-publishments-9780915144990","title":"On Crimes Publishments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885018001751,"sku":"9780915144990","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780915144990.jpg?v=1722534520"},{"product_id":"how-the-police-generate-false-confessions-9781442244641","title":"How the Police Generate False Confessions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the rising number of confirmed false confession cases, most people have a hard time grasping why someone would confess to a crime they did not commit, or even why a guilty person would admit to something that could put them in jail for life. How the Police Generate False Confessions takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people can become suspects and then confessed criminals even when they have not committed a crime. Using real stories, he looks at the inherent coerciveness of the interrogation process and why so many false confessions contain so many of the details that only the true perpetrator would know. More disturbingly, the book examines how these same processes corrupt witness and victim statements, create lying informants and cooperators, and induce innocent people to plead guilty. Trainum also offers recommendations for change in the U.S. by looking at h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking book on the U.S. criminal justice system, Trainum, a former Washington, D.C. police detective, argues for reform of police interviewing and interrogation practices. The confession is considered the gold standard for law enforcement, because 'most people believe that they would never confess to a crime they did not do.' Yet suspects, witnesses, and informants often feel that they have no other option. Trainum carefully demonstrates why in an era of minimum sentences, where the worst-case scenario can be significant jail time, registration as a sex offender, or even the death penalty, prosecutors have breathtaking power to hold a person's life in the balance. The best option for a suspect or witness may be a false confession, informing, or a plea bargain, especially when a long legal fight may drain a family bank account, or when a prosecutor offers a reduced sentence or jailhouse privileges as reward. Without reform, prosecutors, police, and investigators may soon discover that 'harsh and verbally abusive interrogation tactics that focused solely on obtaining confessions... not only [contribute] to false confessions but also to the negative perception of law enforcement by the public.' Using numerous examples and backed by persuasive academic research, Trainum proposes a better way that is already at work in countries with similar criminal justice systems. His book will hit a nerve with a public newly concerned with abuses of police power, and hopefully will influence those tasked with law enforcement and public policy as well. * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe first step to solving any problem is realizing that it exists. This enlightening work by retired Washington, DC, police detective Trainum leaves no doubt that there are complications with false confessions and police interrogation techniques. Trainum walks readers through the steps police are taught to use in the interrogation room and the coercive methods that can lead to contamination of the interview and false confession. His explanations are well supported with relevant and interesting case studies and previous research. He includes information on problems with statements from witnesses and informants and the role played by plea bargains and mandatory sentences. After presenting a thoroughly convincing portrait of the issue, Trainum provides 'a better way' forward, outlining the PEACE method of interrogation and reviewing other safeguards, including videotaping of interviews. His 27 years of experience provide an insider's realistic, practical view, making this an especially important addition on the topic. VERDICT Essential for those working in the criminal justice system. It will also be of interest to the general public concerned with criminal justice issues and reform, as well as fans of police procedurals and true crime. * Library Journal, Starred Review *\u003cbr\u003e[I]f you have an interest in fairness, justice and preventing wrongful convictions, then the new book How the Police Generate False Confessions by former Washington, D.C., homicide detective James Trainum is an important read. It takes you inside the interrogation room to see how investigators extract admissions from innocent people, and how the justice system can fix this persistent problem, seen in high profile cases such as the Central Park Five, the Norfolk Four and the teenaged suspect from Wisconsin in the Netflix series ‘Making a Murderer.’... I [Washington Post reporter Tom Jackman] asked Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who has focused on wrongful convictions, about Trainum’s book. ‘It is such an important new book,’ Garrett said. ‘For decades, we have seen false confession after false confession lead to tragic wrongful convictions of the innocent while serious criminals go undetected. The courts have done little to respond to abuses in the interrogation room; if anything they have eroded constitutional protections, such as the right to remain silent. Trainum explains that for police, there is another way. Overly coercive interrogation techniques not only produce false confessions but they are not good at uncovering good information. In the U.K. and in more agencies in the U.S., police have changed gears, turning from psychologically coercive techniques to information gathering techniques. Trainum and his book are at the forefront of a revolution in police interrogations.’ Now that’s a lot better book review quote than mine. * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eWho could falsely confess to a crime they didn’t do? In this must read book, Trainum gives us the inside story. He shows how shockingly easy it is for police to secure a false confession, even without intending to do so. That confession, though false, may appear to be highly accurate. Trainum concludes by pointing the way towards less coercive interrogation methods. The result will be a revolution in police questioning. -- Brandon L. Garrett, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a book about bad cops; it is a book about a very good cop discovering a process for making himself a great cop: beginning by calmly confronting his own mistakes, using research to understand their lessons, and then sharing those lessons with the justice professions. A tremendous contribution. -- James Doyle, Attorney, Boston, MA; author of True Witness: Cops, Courts, Science and the Battle Against Misidentification\u003cbr\u003eFalse confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions. Jim Trainum, a retired Washington, DC, homicide detective, explores the nature of this problem in his book, How the Police Generate False Confessions, and discusses how the interview process can be improved and reformed. Investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys will all benefit from his experience and insights. -- D. Kim Rossmo, Professor, School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University\u003cbr\u003eThe curtain is being drawn back on the interrogation room, and America doesn’t necessarily like what it sees. This is being led by those who are willing to discuss what they know about interrogation practices and the unjust outcomes that happen as a result. Jim Trainum is one of those voices, detailing not only issues related to interrogations and false confessions, but the larger investigative culture that can make changing this situation very difficult. The first step to change is admitting you have a problem. Law enforcement has not come around to this realization. In this book, however, the problem becomes clear. Through historical examples and personal experience as a Detective, Jim takes the reader on a journey through the various ways in which a false confession can happen, and does happen. In the end, the reader is left with the realization that what happens in the interrogation room is in large part a reflection of our criminal justice system itself. As a result of this knowledge, we are faced with the choice about whether we want the system to change, or to remain as it is. In making this decision, the reader comes to realize that the next false confession that is given might very well be your own, and that no one is necessarily immune from the forces of persuasion and coercion that exist in the interrogation. -- Gary C. David, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department Chair; Associate Professor of Information Design and Corporate Communication, Bentley University\u003cbr\u003eBlending his career as a decorated homicide detective with his uncanny academic insights and understanding Jim has given us a book that addresses the complicated issues inherent in police interview and interrogations with piercing precision and unique insights. This is a must-read for practitioners, academicians and anyone interested in what really happens when cops, suspects, policies and the law converge in a pressure-filled interview room. Not to be missed. -- Gregg O. McCrary, FBI, retired\u003cbr\u003eOthers have written books about how police generate false confessions. Richard Ofshe, Saul Kassin, Richard Leo (Laura Nirider and I) and many others frequently lecture about the causes and consequences of false confessions. But it is one thing for social scientists, academics, and defense attorneys to write and talk about these things, it is another for a homicide detective to do so. Jim Trainum's book, How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room, may just turn out to be the most important book on the subject ever written. I learned more about the way police officers investigate homicides and the way tunnel vision and confirmation bias leads to investigative failure from this book than from any other book I have read. The book puts a lie to so many myths about police interrogations that I lost count of them all. But it does so much more. Det. Trainum is not just a critic; he is a reformer, charting a course for the proper way for police officers to investigate cases, interview suspects, witnesses and informants and to obtain reliable information from them. 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An \u003cb\u003eincredibly gripping\u003c\/b\u003e read. -- Will Dean, author of \u003ci\u003eDark Pines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling, intense\u003c\/b\u003e, and breathtakingly \u003cb\u003ebrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Angela Marsons, author of the DI Kim Stone novels\u003cbr\u003eThis book was so \u003cb\u003eheaped with tension, threat and menace\u003c\/b\u003e that I had to read it very quickly! Absolutely \u003cb\u003eengrossing \u003c\/b\u003eand entertaining as well as being a searing indictment of the penal system. \u003cb\u003eThis is an eye-opening, jaw-dropping read that will keep you up to the wee small hours. \u003c\/b\u003e -- Liz Nugent, author of \u003ci\u003eSkin Deep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the very first chapter I was truly captivated... \u003cb\u003eI cannot recommend this book enough\u003c\/b\u003e. Angela Clarke is a force to be reckoned with. -- Caroline Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eSilent Victim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLoved this\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eThe pace never drops\u003c\/b\u003e and the detail of prison life is so \u003cb\u003emoving\u003c\/b\u003e and brutal. -- Claire McGowan, author of the Paula Maguire series\u003cbr\u003eIn a word, \u003cb\u003ebrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e... So \u003cb\u003eengaging \u003c\/b\u003eat times I found it hard to breathe! It kept me up well past lights out several nights in a row. -- James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn explosive story of murder, injustice and sheer survival instincts\u003c\/b\u003e - the fear almost leapt from the page! -- Mel Sherratt\u003cbr\u003eAngela has knocked it out of the park with this book - \u003cb\u003eit's incredible\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDramatic, unputdownable, heart breaking, utterly compelling - and important.\u003c\/b\u003e I read it in pretty much one sitting, with my heart in my mouth. Definitely in my Top 3 of the year! -- Louise Voss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book to grip you by the throat and haunt your dreams after you have put it down\u003c\/b\u003e. 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I was caught from the first frightening page and the unflinching look at prison life was \u003cb\u003eshocking, addictive and, at times, very moving.\u003c\/b\u003e The ending left me breathless. -- Kate Helm, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secrets You Hide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbsolutely loved ON MY LIFE - \u003cb\u003ea twisty, involving roller-coaster of a read with a powerful social message at its heart\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Roz Watkins, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Dice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI finished Angela's book in one quick gulp. \u003cb\u003eAn absolute thrill-ride\u003c\/b\u003e. I loved the prison setting and the entire cast. Fabulous pacing. -- Jo Spain, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Confession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTense, touching and claustrophobic\u003c\/b\u003e, Clarke nails the horror of being imprisoned for something you didn't do. \u003cb\u003eA rollercoaster ride of a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Ali Knight, author of \u003ci\u003eBefore I Find You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela Clarke has written a very \u003cb\u003esensitive, moving and sympathetic\u003c\/b\u003e look at incarcerated women in ON MY LIFE. 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And how do juries overcome bias leading them to believe that police and expert witnesses know more than they do about what evidence means? This book sheds a harsh light on the unintentional yet routine injustices committed by those charged with upholding justice. Yet in the end, Godsey recommends structural, procedural, and attitudinal changes aimed at restoring justice to the criminal justice system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book I’ve read on the criminal justice system since Michelle Alexander’s \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This is the rare book that looks at criminal justice from the perspective of culture. And Godsey has the chops to tell it.\" * Daily Kos *\u003cbr\u003e“The book, which is in part a confessional, looks at how innocent people can become the victims of faulty eyewitness testimony, bad forensics, and a variety of blinding cognitive biases on the part of law-enforcement personnel, prosecutors, and judges, and why the system so tenaciously defends the status quo, even when it’s guilty of railroading innocent citizens. With so much attention rightly focused on racial injustice in recent years, Godsey’s book offers another important piece of the puzzle.” * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mark Godsey's] book is about how his career change also changed his outlook, by showing up 'problems in the system that I, as a prosecutor, should have seen, but about which I had simply been in denial'. . . . 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He graciously allows that the police, prosecutors, and judges whose ‘unreasonable and intellectually dishonest positions’ have led to unjust convictions and avoidable suffering acted not out of malice but out of the abundant capacity for human error.” - OUR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 * The Progressive *\u003cbr\u003e“Passionate and readable, this book provides meaningful support for the Innocence movement and startling insights into the justice system while admitting the reality of systemic racism but omitting its direct discussion.” * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e is worth the read. Give a copy to your favorite prosecutor. And maybe to your neighbor.\" * GAMSO - for the Defense *\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent resource for psychology and law courses. . . . Highly recommended\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e, instructive and passionate, is an excellent introduction to major wrongful conviction themes. 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Mark Godsey brings a unique perspective to bear on the problem of convicting the innocent.\" * Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law *\u003cbr\u003e“If, like me, you enjoyed the Netflix ‘docudrama’ Making A Murderer, you will be right at home with this excellent exposé of certain problematic features of the American criminal justice system. Former prosecutor, now professor, Mark Godsey takes his readers through a multitude of cases in which he acted as legal counsel, and where wrongful convictions emerged at the end of the day. The fact that this leading light in the Ohio Innocence Project was on the ‘other side’ of the justice ‘coin’ for many years, employing the same tactics that are likely to give rise to mistakes, gives his writing the credibility that other ‘justice system in crisis’ or ‘criminal injustice system’ books simply do not have.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Godsey offers a fresh viewpoint\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\"An easy and interesting read. . . . It is Godsey’s experience as a former prosecutor that gives this book its power. His story of transformation is one that every lawyer could learn from. I will certainly be buying copies for my students who begin their careers in prosecution.\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About This Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. 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Stevenson explains how deep-rooted racism is, while giving hope that it doesn’t have to exist.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gloria Steinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Our American criminal justice system has become an instrument of evil. Bryan Stevenson has labored long and hard, and with great skill and temperate passion, to set things right. Words such as important and compelling may have lost their force through overuse, but reading this book will restore their meaning, along with one's hopes for humanity.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMountains Beyond Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eJust Mercy \u003c\/i\u003eis as deeply moving, poignant and powerful a book as has been, and maybe ever can be, written about the death penalty, and the failures of the administration of criminal justice … [It] will make you gasp at the inhumanity of humankind.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Raymond Bonner * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Powerful … This book will shock, anger and inspire you.’\u003c\/p\u003e * Sunday Independent (Ireland) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Unfairness in the justice system is a major theme of our age … This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: Stevenson's life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life … You don't have to read too long to start cheering for this man. Against tremendous odds, Stevenson has worked to free scores of people from wrongful or excessive punishment, arguing five times before the Supreme Court … The book extols not his nobility, but that of the cause, and reads like a call to action for all that remains to be done … The message of the book, hammered home by dramatic examples of one man's refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made. \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e will make you upset and it will make you hopeful … Bryan Stevenson has been angry about [the criminal justice system] for years, and we are all the better for it.’\u003c\/p\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Inspiring … A work of style, substance and clarity … Stevenson is not only a great lawyer, he's also a gifted writer and storyteller. His memoir should find an avid audience among players in the legal system — jurists, prosecutors, defense lawyers, legislators, academics, journalists — and especially anyone contemplating a career in criminal justice.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rob Warden * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘After the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., I wrote a couple of columns entitled \u003ci\u003eWhen Whites Just Don’t Get It\u003c\/i\u003e. The reaction to those columns — sometimes bewildered, resentful or unprintable — suggests to me that many whites in America don’t understand the depths of racial inequity lingering in this country. This inequity is embedded in our law enforcement and criminal justice system, and that is why Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America's Mandela … Stevenson, 54, grew up in a poor black neighborhood in Delaware and ended up at Harvard Law School. He started the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., to challenge bias and represent the voiceless. It's a tale he recounts in a searing, moving and infuriating memoir that is scheduled to be published later this month, \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nick Kristof * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, however, is very much alive and doing God’s work fighting for the poor, the oppressed, the voiceless, the vulnerable, the outcast, and those with no hope. \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e is his inspiring and powerful story.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- John Grisham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A distinguished NYU law professor and MacArthur grant recipient offers the compelling story of the legal practice he founded to protect the rights of people on the margins of American society ... 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But at the same time that [Bryan] Stevenson tells an utterly damning story of deep-seated and widespread injustice, he also recounts instances of human compassion, understanding, mercy, and justice that offer hope ... \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable amalgam, at once a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Cole * The New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Stevenson's contributions to social justice have been remarkable. 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