Author : Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9780612518568
Author : O. Oko Elechi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415977290
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Author : Vanessa A. Edkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0190689269
Over 95% of criminal convictions are by guilty plea. Trials are the rarity, and while much has been written on jury decision making and various parts of the trial process, the field has been largely silent on the practice that is most likely to affect an individual charged with a crime: plea bargaining. A System of Pleas: Social Science's Contributions to the Real Legal System brings together into one resource the burgeoning body of research on plea bargaining. Drawing attention to the fact that convictions today are nearly synonymous with guilty pleas, this contributed volume begins with an overview and history of plea bargaining, with chapters focusing on defendants, defense attorneys and prosecutors and plea bargains; influences on plea decision-making, including race, juvenile justice system involvement, and innocence; and the results of a "system of pleas", such as sentencing disparities and mass incarceration, collateral consequences, and disenfranchisement. A concluding chapter by the volume's editors examines ways to move forward within an entrenched system. An excellent reference tool for furthering both research and practice, A System of Pleas is a must-have for academics and legal professionals interested in the fields of criminal justice, psychology and law, and related disciplines.
Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0776618237
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.
Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2003-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521532662
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors. Rule of law is just one possible outcome in which political actors process their conflicts using whatever resources they can muster: only when these actors seek to resolve their conflicts by recourse to la, does law rule. What distinguishes 'rule-of-law' as an institutional equilibrium from 'rule-by-law' is the distribution of power. The former emerges when no one group is strong enough to dominate the others and when the many use institutions to promote their interest.
Author : Joseph Thérèse Agbasiere
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415227032
This fascinating work is a testament to the combination of personal insight and academic detachment which the author brought to her study of Igbo women before her death in 1998.
Author : Akintunde Olusegun Obilade
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789780290504
Author : David Cole
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1459604199
First published a decade ago, No Equal Justice is the seminal work on race- and class-based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a ''shocking and necessary book'' by The Economist, it has become the standard reference point for anyone trying to understand the fundamental inequalities in the American legal system. The book, written by constitutional law scholar and civil liberties advocate David Cole, was named the best nonfiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and the best book on an issue of national policy by the American Political Science Association. No Equal Justice examines subjects ranging from police behavior and jury selection to sentencing, and argues that our system does not merely fail to live up to the promise of equality, but actively requires double standards to operate. Such disparities, Cole argues, allow the privileged to enjoy constitutional protections from police power without paying the costs associated with extending those protections across the board to minorities and the poor. For this new, tenth-anniversary paperback edition, Cole has completely updated and revised the book, reflecting the substantial changes and developments that have occurred since first publication.
Author : Said S. Samatar
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932415707
Author : Allan V. Horwitz
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Psychology, Pathological
ISBN : 9780971242760
In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significant changes in the American response to mental illness, including the process of psychiatric diagnosis, conceptions of mental illness, and the dynamics of the mental health professions.
