Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Jon Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451225320
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Jon Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fargo, Skye (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781436240765
When Cain Parker struck gold, he won a whole mess of trouble. The attacks on his wagons got so bad that he called on his old friend Skye Fargo for help. Skye knows all the signs of a set-up, but not even he could have guessed Cain's own son was in on it. The Trailsman remembers Daniel Parker as a little boy, but now he's about to face him man to man.
Author : Jon Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440638454
When gold fever strikes, the Trailsman delivers a dose of lead. When Cain Parker struck gold, he won a whole mess of trouble. The attacks on his wagons got so bad that he called on his old friend Skye Fargo for help. Skye knows all the signs of a set-up, but not even he could have guessed Cain’s own son was in on it. The Trailsman remembers Daniel Parker as a little boy—but now he’s about to face him man to man...
Author : California. Department of Justice
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN :
Author : California. Office of the Attorney General
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Cocaine
ISBN :
Author : California State Library
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1991
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : Forrest Stuart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022637095X
“A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior.” —Los Angeles Times In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk—an arrestable offense in LA. Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we’ve cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That’s the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out & Under Arrest, a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart’s years of fieldwork—not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them—is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart’s book helps us see where we’ve gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens—and ultimately our society itself—for the better.
Author : Tom Sitton
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826335272
When Fletcher Bowron (1887-1968) ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1938, his twelve years as a superior court judge with a reputation for honesty and fairness carried him to victory against a notoriously corrupt incumbent. During his nearly fifteen years as a neo-progressive mayor, Bowron presided over fundamental reforms in the police department, public utilities, and other agencies charged with basic services, rooting out bribery, kickbacks, and influence peddling. World War II brought economic and population booms, racial conflict, social dislocation, and environmental problems to Los Angeles and complicated Mayor Bowron's job. After the war Bowron initiated massive public housing and desegregation projects. These forward-looking programs alienated enough voters to cost him the 1953 election as his leftist supporters fell away under the influence of McCarthyism. This political history of the mid-twentieth century reform period in Los Angeles is also a case study of the ways outside events can affect municipal affairs. As Tom Sitton demonstrates, the choices made during Bowron's administration have had a direct bearing on how Los Angeles looks today and how its government operates.
Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190285877
"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. California's version of the "three strikes" law, enacted in 1994, was broader and more severe than measures considered or passed in any other state. Punishment and Democracy is the first examination of the actual impact this law has had. Franklin Zimring, Sam Kamin, and Gordon Hawkins look at the origins of the law in California, compare it to other crackdown laws, and analyze the data collected on crime rates in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco in the year before and the two years after the law went into effect. They show that the "three strikes" law was a significant development in criminal justice policy making, not only at the state level, but also at the national level. They conclude with an examination of the trend toward populist initiatives driving penal policy. The importance of the subject and the stature of the authors make this book required reading for policy analysts, criminal justice scholars, elected officials, and indeed any American seeking to know more about "get-tough" criminal sentencing.
Author : Roger Dunstan
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :