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CSPV fact sheet volume FS009
Publisher
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 digital file ([2] p. : ill.)
Language
English
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Signs of life volume Book 2
Publisher
Rooftop Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
5) With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system"--
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English
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Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement.
Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life was a nightmare of abuse that left her feeling alone and convinced of her worthlessness. In 1986, she took part in a horrific act and was sentenced to 25...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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"Best-selling author, former executive editor of the New York Times, and self-confessed political junkie, Jill Abramson has written a detailed and fascinating book that explains how the highest court in the United States works, who gets to serve on it, which cases have had the greatest impact on the country, and why the US justice system is so vital to democracy"--
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Recounting the January 6th attack on the Capitol building, a Justice reporter for NBC News, in this work of incredible reportage, gets to know the would-be revolutionaries, obsessive online sleuths and FBI agents, shining a light on a justice system struggling to maintain order in our polarized country.
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English
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.
William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this
...12) Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free: and other paradoxes of our broken legal system
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English
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How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact? How can we applaud the Supreme Court's ever-more-limited view of its duty to combat excesses by the president?
The federal judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority...
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English
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"In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime--and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed,...
15) I pick you
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Series
Signs of life volume 3
Publisher
Rooftop Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There are some bad seeds you never want to meet. A year from retirement and still reeling from daughter Leena's kidnapping, Portland PD Detective Wayne Deetz is called upon to check on a domestic violence case. From the moment Deetz and his friend Callie Freeland show up to help Sunny Carlisle, they are blindsided by a lawless, toxic steamroller name Blaine Milligan. At a breakneck clip, things go from bad to worse as Callie is eerily stalked and...
16) Those who know don't say: the Nation of Islam, the black freedom movement, and the carceral state
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Series
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English
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"Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this ... political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination....
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English
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"James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how...
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English
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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"As a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, Shaun King has become one of the most recognizable and powerful voices on the front lines of civil rights in our time. His commitment to reforming the justice system and making America a more equitable place has brought challenges and triumphs, soaring victories and crushing defeats. Throughout his wide-ranging activism, King's commentary remains rooted in both exhaustive research and abundant passion....
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Language
English
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"Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle...
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