Felonies and Favors
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Conflict of interests
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Conflict of interests
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Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2018-01-05
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ISBN : 9781983470752
Felonies and favors : a friend of the Attorney General gathers information from the Justice Department : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, July 27, 2000.
Author : Harvey Silverglate
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1594035229
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committted several federal crimes that day ... Why?" This book explores the answer to the question, reveals how the federal criminal justice system has become dangerously disconnected from common law traditions of due process and the law's expectations and surprises the reader with its insight.
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Release : 2000
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Administrative responsibility
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Author : Guyora Binder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804781702
The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine. It shows that felony murder liability rests on a simple and powerful idea: that the guilt incurred in attacking or endangering others depends on one's reasons for doing so. Inflicting harm is wrong, and doing so for a bad motive—such as robbery, rape, or arson—aggravates that wrong. In presenting this idea, Guyora Binder criticizes prevailing academic theories of criminal intent for trying to purge criminal law of moral judgment. Ultimately, Binder shows that felony murder law has been and should remain limited by its justifying aims.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2002*
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Government publications
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Author : Reuben Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0316451495
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air