This slim volume offers a comprehensive survey of the major criminological and delinquency theories, including their philosophical foundations, policy implications, empirical support, and criticisms. A PRIMER ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY THEORY can be used as a primary text or as a supplement for other ..
The right to keep and bear arms was considered a fundamental, individual right in the original 14 states (the 13 colonies and Vermont) from the pre-Revolutionary period through the adoption of the federal Bill of Rights in 1791. A Right to Bear Arms is the first book to demonstrate the deprivation o..
The second edition of this efficient and effective guide takes difficult subject matter and makes it accessible and easy to remember. Professor Paula Franzese, a nationally renowned teacher and scholar, sets forth understandable techniques for mastering estates in land and future interests (includin..
Provides law students with a way of organizing and thinking about their coursework and about the cases, laws, and regulations they confront every day. a concise, accessible text designed to aid all law students regardless of subject matter based on the premise that despite the law's complexity,..
This unique self-teaching Guide facilitates the understanding of complex materials from Property courses. Chronologically organized material familiarizes students with basic concepts and necessary technical vocabulary. The authors graphically explain complex concepts, and provide extensive problem a..
Crime and punishment are social and cultural manifestations; they are closely bound up with people's perceptions of morality, norms and values. In this book, Nils Christie argues that crime is a fluid and shallow concept - acts that could be construed as criminal are unlimited and crime is therefore..
This is a very concise, easy to read, reference to critical aspects of school law for any pre-service or in-service teacher. It can be used to discuss current legal issues in public schools, as a basic text or a supplemental text. The text is formatted to allow for flexible teaching strategies inclu..
This book outline's Philip Soper's theory that legal systems must serve the interests of the community, instead of using coercion to force ideas on a community. Author: Soper, Philip Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674880250 ISBN-13: 9780674880252..
This book represents a major new statement on the issue of property rights. It argues for the justification of some rights of private property while showing why unequal distributions of private property are indefensible. Author: Munzer, Stephen R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Binding: Paper..
Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the ..
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to developing and writing graduate level research. It takes the reader on a step-by-step journey through the entire thesis process from initial ideas to a completed product or even a published article. Examples from actual student theses provide concrete illust..
Containing the results of a cross-national research project on abortion politics in eleven democratic states (between the 1960s and 2000), this volume marks major progress in abortion research. It develops a comprehensive research design to examine whether or not women's policy agencies (institution..
In this unique and extraordinary book, Michael G. Santos helps others learn about the abnormal way of life behind the walls and fences of prisons. To provide readers with a more complete and realistic picture of the growing subculture that exists in prison, the author provides both his own experienc..
Accident Reconstruction Author: James C. Collins Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0398039070 ISBN-13: 9780398039073..
This book provides a clear and concise explanation of corporations, agency and partnership, and the other subjects addressed in most Business Associations courses. To accompany its explanations, the guide utilizes a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask and issues they..
This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their ow..
This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their ow..
This product presents in checklist format the series of issues that must be understood in order to identify and resolve the range of legal issues presented in an examination question. Checklists are provided for all topics generally covered in the basic criminal procedure course. Author: Abramson, L..
A great checklist presents the series of issues that must be understood in order to identify and resolve the range of legal issues presented in an examination question. This book gives students this resource by providing checklists for all topics generally covered in the basic criminal procedure cou..
Acing Federal Income Tax is a new study aid from Professor Samuel A. Donaldson of the University of Washington School of Law. Using the innovative format of the Acing Series, this cutting-edge title uses a detailed checklist format to help students navigate systematically through the provisions of t..
This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses outline-like checklists that are designed to lead students through the analytical steps necessary to evaluate and resolve property issues. Each chapter begins with a review and explanation of the important rules, concepts ..
This study aid provides candidates with a complete guide to the bar exam from pre-planning considerations through bar review and sitting for the exam. Every aspect of the process is explained in detail and by example. The bar exam is deconstructed, section by section, where candidates are led thro..
This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their ow..
To which institutions or social practices should we grant authority When should we instead assert our own sense of what is right or good or necessary In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by some of our most important thinkers and writers-including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela, a..
Here are the stories of innocent men and women-and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Now updated with new information, Actual Innocence sheds light on “a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators” (Salt Lake Tribune)-reveal..