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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. Race and Policing examines recent incidents of minorities being mistreated or dying in police custody, delving into the historical institutions and laws that underpin today's system and exploring what police departments and the communities they serve are doing to improve communication and relationships. Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,070 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This hard-hitting and emotional series chronicles the life and crimes of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, an elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes. Dedicated Detective Olivia Benson, a seasoned veteran of the unit who has seen it all, heads up the department.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 231 pages : 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions together-written by a leading authority on bail reform and social movements"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
467 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the last 60 years, more has been done in Oakland to reform policing than any other American city-and yet, Oakland has failed to reign in the tendencies of its police to prey upon, rather than protect, its communities. Why is this, and what does it mean both for Oakland, and for America? THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT will be the first authoritative account of the Oakland Police Department's troubling history of violence, secrecy, and mismanagement,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (7 hr., 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1990s Boston, an assistant district attorney and a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran work together to take on a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston.
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English
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"Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit's east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan's...
51) The murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless: an honest sheriff and the exoneration of an innocent man
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 292 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. 18-year-old Josh Kezer was arrested and charged for her murder -- even though he was in a different state at the time, as proven by witnesses -- and spent the next 16 years of his life in prison. How was Josh imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit? The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless by Stephen R. Snodgrass with Joshua...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,085 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The men and women striving to bring justice to the streets of New York in 24 enthralling episodes, including the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit crossover, Entitled. A roster of cases that includes a murderous rampage in Central Park, a sinister insurance scam involving Holocaust victims, and an academically successful college student who is leading a double life.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible. Cordell takes you into her chambers where she haggles with prosecutors and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done?...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--
58) Wrongly accused
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
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57 pages : illustrations (color), chart ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"One of the things the U.S. criminal justice system is designed to do is convict criminals, but sometimes innocent people are wrongfully accused and sentenced. Some are cases of mistaken identity. Others are due to poor police work. Many of these individuals live for years behind bars before being freed. Some have even died before having their names cleared. What would you do if you were wrongly accused?" -- back cover.
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English
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"Seldom does a book have the impact of The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been the winner of numerous awards and has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been cited in judicial decisions, read in countless faith-based and secular book clubs, and adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads. Most important, it has inspired artists, philanthropists, policymakers, community leaders, and a...
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