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A critical examination of Bill Clinton's record on crime, welfare, and civil rights.
Author : Nathan J Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780997844702
A critical examination of Bill Clinton's record on crime, welfare, and civil rights.
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Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
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Author : Gus Martin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761930822
Juvenile Justice is designed for undergraduate students studying juvenile justice systems, juvenile justice process, juvenile delinquency, and law enforcement in the departments of Administration of Justice, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Political Science, Sociology, and other disciplines in the social sciences.
Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395914191
Describes Megalodon, an extinct shark that was more than fifty feet long and could swallow an object the size of a small car.
Author : Dr Cheryl Jakab
Publisher : Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM)
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1742956270
There is something out there deep in the waters off the Southern coast of Australia. The search is on, in an unchartered area of a huge submarine abyss, the Bremer Canyon, for a predator that is big enough to eat a 3 metre great white shark.
Author : Bette L. Bottoms
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1606233580
Grounded in the latest clinical and developmental knowledge, this book brings together leading authorities to examine the critical issues that arise when children and adolescents become involved in the justice system. Chapters explore young people’s capacities, competencies, and special vulnerabilities as victims, witnesses, and defendants. Key topics include the reliability of children’s abuse disclosures, eyewitness testimony, interviews, and confessions; the evolving role of the expert witness; the psychological impact of trauma and of legal involvement; factors that shape jurors’ perceptions of children; and what works in rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Policies and practices that are not supported by science are identified, and approaches to improving them are discussed.
Author : Pierre-Antoine Donnet
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1803414170
China is facing tremendous economic, social and political challenges, as well as having become a predominant contributor to climate change. It has also become a predator against the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, and the Mongols, and taken over Hong Kong, silencing any forms of dissent. It increasingly appears that one of the Communist regime's main goals is to control the entire world, but this global ambition now faces mounting geopolitical difficulties. At the center stands Taiwan, which has become a full-blown democracy and, perhaps, a model for the entire Chinese nation. The United States - along with Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, and other states - are, more than ever before, willing to defend Taiwan. The possibility of a clash is real, making China along with Russia the main threat to the democratic world.
Author : Alida V. Merlo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351618385
This book will expand students’ understanding of the evolution of juvenile justice in the last 50 years. Designed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the landmark case, In re Gault, which the Court decided in 1967, the authors frame the developments and transformations that have occurred in the intervening years. Topics covered include an overview of the dramatic changes to field following the spike youth violence in the 1990s, the ‘superpredator’ myth, and sanctions for juvenile offenders—particularly the 2005 abolition of the death penalty and subsequent decision on life without parole. The book also covers child and youth victimization and recent prevention and treatment initiatives
Author : Jesse Singal
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374718040
An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality. With their viral TED talks, bestselling books, and counter-intuitive remedies for complicated problems, psychologists and other social scientists have become the reigning thinkers of our time. Grit and “power posing” promised to help overcome entrenched inequalities in schools and the workplace; the Army spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a positive psychology intervention geared at preventing PTSD in its combat soldiers; and the implicit association test swept the nation on the strength of the claim that it can reveal unconscious biases and reduce racism in police departments and human resources departments. But what if much of the science underlying these blockbuster ideas is dubious or fallacious? What if Americans’ longstanding preference for simplistic self-help platitudes is exerting a pernicious influence on the way behavioral science is communicated and even funded, leading respected academics and the media astray? In The Quick Fix, Jesse Singal examines the most influential ideas of recent decades and the shaky science that supports them. He begins with the California legislator who introduced self-esteem into classrooms around the country in the 1980s and the Princeton political scientist who warned of an epidemic of youthful “superpredators” in the 1990s. In both cases, a much-touted idea had little basis in reality, but had a massive impact. Turning toward the explosive popularity of 21st-century social psychology, Singal examines the misleading appeal of entertaining lab results and critiques the idea that subtle unconscious cues shape our behavior. As he shows, today’s popular behavioral science emphasizes repairing, improving, and optimizing individuals rather than truly understanding and confronting the larger structural forces that drive social ills. Like Anand Giridharadas’s Winners Take All, The Quick Fix is a fresh and powerful indictment of the thought leaders and influencers who cut corners as they sell the public half-baked solutions to problems that deserve more serious treatment.
Author : Karl Sigmund
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486824802
Accessible, informative, and enjoyable treatment discusses the application of the ideas and methods of game theory and mathematical modeling to such areas as evolution, sex, animal behavior, and aggression. "Excellent." — Nature