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History With Academic Rigour and Real Literary Worth

Reflective Writing
What is real? How do we really judge other people? How do we know what we know? How do perceptions influence social interactions? These are the kinds of reflective questions this book causes you to think about.
A look at Joe Everyman from southern France in 1560
Davis gives us the story of how in the mid 16th century, a man named Arnaud du Tihl impersonated the long departed well-to-do peasant named Martin Guerre, took over his identity, his wife and family, and his property.Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Du Tilh, Arnault,    3. Early works to 1800    4. Europe - General    5. France    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: American    9. History: World    10. Imposters and imposture    11. Impostors and imposture    12. Medieval    13. Trials (Impostors and impostur    14. Trials (Impostors and imposture)    15. Trials, litigation, etc    16. d. 1560    17. Europe    18. European history: c 1500 to c 1750    19. European history: c 500 to c 1500    20. History / General    21. Hoaxes & deceptions   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminal justice, Administration of    3. Criminology    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. United States    8. Crime & criminology    9. Law / Criminal Law    10. USA   

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Courtroom 302
This book is a candid look at life in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse. It covers the day-to-day actions of accused criminals, court officers, public defenders, prosecutors and judges from inside the courthouse and lockups.
A good read but also depressing.
I found this book to be a good book to read but it also made me realize more than ever how unjust our justice system can be.The author portrays the people involved in the criminal justice system as being so mechanical at their jobs that justice just doesn't seem to enter the picture very often.Sadly the book is probably an accurate account of the Chicago court system, or any other court system in our country, but reading it made me wonder, if all this injustice is so evident to everyone involved, why is it being allowed to continue.These people who have other peoples futures and freedom in their hands seem to just find it easier to follow their routine than to do the right thing and create a criminal justice system that really does protect us and consider everyone innocent until proven guilty.This book definitely reaffirms the sad state that our court systems have become.

Courtroom 302 not the television perspective of the courtroom
A must read for anyone remotely connected to or interested in the criminal justice system.It is at once informative and depressing.What makes it so valuable is that you get the back story of each participant (judge, DA, PD and defendent).The reality of a system that treats defendents with disdain and offers justice for a price should open a few eyes. I made it required reading this summer for my students doing internships in the court system. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Chicago    2. Courts    3. Courts - General    4. Criminal Justice Administration    5. Criminal Law    6. Criminal Law - General    7. Criminal courts    8. Criminal justice personnel    9. Criminal justice, Administration of    10. Illinois    11. Law    12. Legal Reference / Law Profession    13. Law / Courts   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminal law    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminology    3. Juvenile delinquency    4. Juvenile justice, Administrati    5. Juvenile justice, Administration of    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - General    10. United States    11. Crime & criminology    12. Law / Criminal Law   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminal law    3. Law    4. United States   

Subjects:  1. Corporation law    2. Criminal Law - General    3. Criminal liability of juristic    4. Criminal liability of juristic persons    5. Criminal provisions    6. History & Theory - General    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Business ethics    11. English law: company law    12. Political Science / History & Theory   

Subjects:  1. Crime    2. Criminal Law - General    3. Criminal justice, Administration of    4. Criminal law    5. Encyclopedias    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. United States    9. Crime & criminology    10. USA   

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The consensual crimes reference book
This book is THE definitive guide to consenual crimes and why laws against them are a bad idea.
On my "must read" list
A thoughtful response to the laws that make criminal various consenual acts in our culture, why they exist, and challenges us to consider the cost to our country of incarcerating people for non-violent crimes. I picked up the book especially for his well-thought discussions on sex and sex crimes. Sadly, McWilliams lost a battle to use medical marijuana as an anti-nausea drug to balance out the regime of medication he was taking for AIDS and cancer. Despite growing his own marijuana in a state where it was legal to do so, the federal government raided his house, and a federal judge refused to hear his case. Without the marijuana to ease his nausea, McWilliams choked on his own vomit and died in 2000, a victim of the War on Drugs.

Pretty good...
Perhaps I received an earlier version of the book, but the edition I read contained a myriad of typographical errors.Overall, the content of the book was great.McWilliams presents basic truths that most people won't accept about themselves and society; however, he does this in a typical libertarian style.This style is a rant.While he does cite many references and provide opportunities for further research, his tone is far from academic.If this book were turned in as a thesis, it would fail, but on the other hand it is one of the least dry books I have read in a long while.McWilliams is funny and practical!I highly recommend the book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Conflict of Laws    2. Crimes without victims    3. Criminal Law    4. Criminal Law - General    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Legal System    7. Moral conditions    8. Politics/International Relations    9. United States   

Subjects:  1. Crime    2. Criminal Justice Administration    3. Criminal Law - General    4. Criminal justice, Administration of    5. Criminology    6. Government policy    7. Law    8. Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Public Policy    11. Public Policy - General    12. Public Policy - Social Policy    13. Sociology    14. United States    15. Crime & criminology    16. Law / Jurisprudence   

Subjects:  1. (1998)    2. Criminal Law    3. Criminal Law - General    4. International    5. International Criminal Court    6. International criminal courts    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Rome Statute of the Internatio    10. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court    11. International human rights law    12. International humanitarian law    13. Law / International    14. Law | International Law | International Criminal and Humanitarian Law    15. Treaties & other sources of international law   

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I wish I'd known.
Professor Welch's book has allowed me to recognize that it is not being human that is the problem so much as being human amongst humans.This book offers broad perspective on criminal justice system that is both realistic and very direct. Professor Welch's presentation of our criminal justice system 'the way it really is' challenged my range of beliefs that came to exist from channels of expectations that did not belong to me at all, but belonged to the continent of what the field of being human has decided we must all feel, think and share. The book is straightforwardly read and intriguing, and I recommend it to any individual who is ready to be challenged.I just wish I'd known sooner what our criminal justice system does not tell. Despite CORRECTIONS: A CRITICAL APPROACH, I also recommend Michael Welch's PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA.

I wish I'd known.
Professor Welch's book has allowed me to recognize that it is not being human that is the problem so much as being human amongst humans.This book offers broad perspective on criminal justice system that is both realistic and very direct. Professor Welch's presentation of our criminal justice system 'the way it really is' challenged my range of beliefs that came to exist from channels of expectations that did not belong to me at all, but belonged to the continent of what the field of being human has decided we must all feel, think, and share. The book is straightforwardly read and intriguing, and I recommend it to any individual who is ready to be challenged. I just wish I'd known sooner what our criminal justice system does not tell. Despite CORRECTIONS: A CRITICAL APPROACH, I also recommend Michael Welch's PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA.

Against the compartmentalization of Justice
Since criminal justice only makes sense within the wider context of social justice, why do we insist on yoking law enforcement and the penal system with the fatal impasse of socioeconomic inequality and exploitation? AsProfessor Welch powerfully demonstrates, a large criminal justice system isa social failure -- much like dentistry, the criminal justice system'sprimary goal should be to put itself out of business, to defy theconservative propaganda-artists who evangelize $$$ for theprison-industrial complex. As a sociologist (and former prisonpsychologist), Welch was displeased with the descriptive or"objective" nature of most corrections textbooks; he required atext that would do justice to the byzantine entanglement of ironies whichforeordain the social construction of the prisoner. A critical approach tocorrections will schematize the wider precincts and differential vectors ofsocial control, the penal system presented as a stirring palimpsest of oursociety as a whole. For example, if white-collar crime is infinitely moredestructive to (read: expensive for) the socius, why don't we have aUniform Crime Report tuned to the interstices of corporate criminality? Ifa stable capitalist economy relies upon a Surplus Labor Pool of bored,frustrated, disillusioned citizenry, how can we expect the underclass touniversally reject the temptations of narcotics trafficking and otheresteem-granting shortcuts? If we truly live in the richest and mostenlightened nation on earth, why do we also have the largest statisticalratio of citizens festering away in lock-down? Prisoners, of course, aremore valuable as penal *commodities* than they would be on the welfaretake. By raking in every new generation of the underclass in to the prisonsystem, conservative administrations justify their perverse spending viaelection-motivated tough-on-crime propaganda, reinforcing the veryinjustices which overdetermine criminality and social deviance.... It goeswithout saying that most criminal justice departments are staffed by formerattornies and retired law enforcement personnel, enticing the student witha reactionary Us Against Them mentality which tends to downplay the crucialproblems of our persecutory and unredemptive prison system. Michael Welchis a rare exception in this morass of dreary cop rhetoric, shaking us awaketo the schizophrenia of that rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem, thatmost daemonic of American juggernauts, the hamstrung broken-backed criminaljustice system. Of course, to get the full effect of this text, one wouldhave to take Prof. Welch's course at Rutgers, but for those professors andadjuncts who want to shock their students awake with the *real* issues ofcontemporary corrections, this book should be back-ordered for theircourses ASAP.
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Subjects:  1. Corrections    2. Crime    3. Criminal Law - General    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Penology    7. Prisoners    8. Prisons    9. Sociology    10. United States    11. Law / Criminal Law    12. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. Birmingham    2. Comparative Law    3. Criminal Law    4. Criminal Law - General    5. Criminal Procedure    6. England    7. Great Britain    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Trials (Robbery)    10. Courts & procedure   

Subjects:  1. Sex role in the work environme    2. Sex role in the work environment    3. Cross-cultural studies    4. Police & security services    5. Women's studies    6. General    7. Criminal Law - General    8. Sociology    9. Law    10. Policewomen    11. Law enforcement   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Intellectual Property - General    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Litigation   

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If you are a criminal justice major, this book is a must!!!
This book is excellent in explaining concepts of criminal law.It is extremely detailed in the Penal Code and the justice system statues.It has
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Subjects:  1. Criminal Law    2. Criminal Law - General    3. Criminal Procedure    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Reference    7. United States    8. Law / Criminal Procedure   

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The forgotten aspects of report writing.
This book was great for the other aspects of public safety report writing. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are just as important as content. The exercises are good practice and there is a section devoted to commonly misspelled words. Those same words are used in the police academy. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal Procedure    2. Criminology    3. Language    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. Courts & procedure    8. Crime & criminology    9. Criminal law    10. Law / Criminal Procedure    11. Sociology, Social Studies   

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White Collar Crime Student
This is a detailed, well written and easily readible work on the core white collar crimes.From perjury to bribery to obstruction of justice Lying, Cheating, and Stealing is a clever and timely comment on the crimes of the privileged.I read the book for a White Collar Crime seminar at Michigan Law School, which Professor Green taught.Frankly, both the book and the class were worth the price of admission. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Criminology    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Philosophy    6. White collar crimes    7. Crime & criminology    8. Law / Criminal Law    9. Law | Criminology and Criminal Justice   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Evidence    3. Evidence, Criminal    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. United States