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A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society. It discusses reforms that have been proposed--and in some cases implemented--to combat the problem, including measures introduced in other countries.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free.
Criminal Justice in Divided America shows how police, courts, and prisons helped to break American democracy and how better approaches to public safety and criminal accountability can help to repair it.
The Judicial System: A Reference Handbook provides an authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.S. judicial system and its place in the fabric of American government and society.
Boston Globe 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. In the immediate aftershocks of Donald Trump's victory over Hilary Clinton in 2016, women lawyers across the country, independently of one another, sprang into action.
From Academic Videos Online (AVON):A Business Professor discusses this charge.
From Films on Demand: Experts define criminal justice and discuss its three components: law enforcement, courts and corrections. Laws are regulations created by the government to reflect its citizen's goals. Amendments in the Constitution protect legal rights of the accused citizen.
From Films on Demand: The system's response to criminal behavior is categorized into three levels of severity: counseling and treatment, probation\parole, and incarceration. Learn the four classic functions of incarceration.
From Films on Demand: The U.S. has one of the world's highest incarceration rates but has done little in terms of prison reform. Victim Agnes Furey and offender Leonard Scovens attempt to overcome grief...
