Юриспруденция, право
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"Stunning, riveting." –Linda Fairstein"Tanenbaum knows this territory better than anyone." –Linda FairsteinIt was a muggy summer day when Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were murdered in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Months passed before police arrested George Whitmore, Jr., and he confessed to the crime. But his incarceration would entail a host of shocking law enforcement missteps and cover-ups. In this first insider's account, New York Times bestselling author...
| Автор | Robert K. Tanenbaum |
It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas.<br><br>On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer's wife and the mother of a young boy, was found slaughtered on her kitchen floor. Several innocent men were taken into custody before the victim's husband, John, was accused of the crime. He would endure two sensational trials before being acquitted.<br><br>Eighty years later, local historian Diana Staresinic-Deane studied the...
| Автор | Diana Staresinic-Deane |
The ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?—Abraham Lincoln <br><br>* Have you been bailed or cited out or released from custody? <br>* Do you have a criminal case pending against you? <br>* Have you been taken into custody? <br>* Are you the subject of a criminal investigation? <br><br>If so, your freedom and reputation are at risk. You are now charged with making decisions that could forever change your...
| Автор | Ronald D. Hedding |
Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition.McCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was...
| Автор | John A. McCoy |
In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention, only to be buried later in local archives.Journalist Nancy Bartley has conducted extensive research to construct a compelling narrative of the events and characters that make this a unique...
| Автор | Nancy Bartley |
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted sociocultural and legal culture of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
During William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. In one of his most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber industry in a heavily publicized and emotionally fraught battle over the territory of the northern spotted owl, ultimately approving the bird for �threatened species� status and forcing the Forest Service to substantially reduce logging in owl-habitat...
| Автор | William L. Dwyer |
In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland�s law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city�s lucrative prostitution, gambling, and bootlegging operations. Turner and Lambert blew the cover on the Teamsters� scheme to take over alcohol sales and distribution and profit from these fringe enterprises....
| Автор | Robert C Donnelly |
A distinguished jurist provides insights into the judicial role by asking and answering the question, «What is it that I do when I decide a case?» In this legal classic, Benjamin N. Cardozo — an Associate Supreme Court Justice of the United States from 1932-38 — explains a judge's conscious and unconscious decision-making processes.Cardozo handed down opinions that stressed the necessity for the law to adapt to the realities and needs of contemporary life. Famous for his...
| Автор | Benjamin N. Cardozo |
In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses, and two of those arrests triggered federal litigation that had big implications for Indian tribes’ place in the American political system. Tribal governments had long sought to manage affairs in their territories, and their bid for all-inclusive reservation...
| Автор | Alexandra Harmon |
The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating against subjects while simultaneously minimizing such discrimination. Jisoo Kim contends that the state’s recognition of won , or the sense of being wronged, permitted subjects of different...
| Автор | Jisoo M. Kim |
Children have a right enshrined within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to participate in decisions that affect them, and their participation in social care services can have a positive impact on their own self-esteem and confidence, but also the quality of service and decisions made by the social care professionals working with them. Everyone seems to agree on the idea that children have to be heard, but not on how, where and when they can participate, or the organisational...
| Автор | Margaret Bell |
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability. This book takes an international perspective on child welfare, examining how global and national frameworks can be adapted to address the rights and best interests of children. Synthesising the latest international research, experts redefine the concept of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |