The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless

The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless
Author: Stephen R. Snodgrass
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2023-05-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1538172070

Everything that could go wrong did. This fascinating true crime explores the of wrongful conviction of Josh Kezer and the ways in which our legal system can prioritize politics over true justice.

Cleaning Up Greenwash

Cleaning Up Greenwash
Author: Angus Nurse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-03-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781793600561

Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

Executed Women of 20th and 21st Centuries

Executed Women of 20th and 21st Centuries
Author: L. Kay Gillespie
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0761845674

Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families. The purpose is not to condone their actions, but to suggest that those we executed are, in fact, humans—rather than monsters, as they are often portrayed.

Good Trouble

Good Trouble
Author: Brian Wolf
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498563457

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive social changes and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. Brian Wolf concludes with an examination of the problem of conformity and how deviant heroism in everyday life may be a remedy for injustice in micro-level social contexts.

Police Use of Excessive Force against African Americans

Police Use of Excessive Force against African Americans
Author: Ray Von Robertson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 149853919X

Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police. Using a phenomenological framework, they analyze how African American college students perceive police to determine how race, gender, and education create different realities among a demographic. Based on their qualitative and quantitative findings, Robertson and Chaney offer recommended policies and strategies for police and communities to improve relationships and perceptions between the two.

Sex Trafficking of Children Online

Sex Trafficking of Children Online
Author: Beatriz Susana Uitts
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538146959

This book addresses child sex trafficking in the era of digital technology. As a global problem, human trafficking frequently victimizes the most vulnerable: children. Offenders often use the Internet as a vehicle for criminal activities, including acts to sexually exploit them. With Internet access growing exponentially, more children are online every day, increasing their risk of becoming involved in sexual exploitation or being treated as a commodity. Inconsistent law among countries and the lack of adequate cooperation across borders make combating this issue increasingly difficult. Using a human rights approach, this book offers alternative solutions and recommendations, including establishing a legal protection framework to fight practices that sexually exploit children in cyberspace. In addition, it promotes multi-stakeholder collaboration in the context of corporate social responsibility to prevent and combat these offenses. This book explores the intersection of children’s human rights, online sex trafficking, and international legislation. It provides helpful insights for lawmakers, legal practitioners, scholars, law enforcement officers, child advocates, and students interested in human rights law, criminal law, and child protection.

Gender, Crime, and Justice

Gender, Crime, and Justice
Author: Erin Katherine Krafft
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442257873

Gender, Crime, and Justice is a unique core textbook that introduces key concepts through case studies. Each chapter opens with a compelling case study that illustrates key concepts, followed by a narrative chapter that builds on the case study to introduce essential elements. Each chapter features pedagogical elements—learning objectives, key terms, review and study questions, and suggestions for further learning and exploration. In addition to the unique case study approach, this book is distinctive in its inclusion of LGBTQ experiences in crime, victimization, processing, and punishment. Gender, Crime, and Justice also addresses masculinity and the role it plays in defining offenders and victims, as well as challenges posed by the gender gap in offending.

A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy

A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy
Author: Bernard East
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781793625045

Ted Bundy shared his secrets with his closest prison friends, insights about his influences, perversions, dump sites, and victims. Applying Goffman's concept of dramaturgy Bundy's narrative at the front stage, where he engaged with police, journalists, and psychologists, is contrasted to the backstage, where he interacted with fellow inmates.

Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory

Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory
Author: Stephen C. McGuinn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739194348

Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment. Stephen C. McGuinn demonstrates that effective managers prioritize prison workers in order to meet external social demands of imprisonment and internal demands of daily operation. McGuinn argues that prison administrators need to unify prison staff under a new conception of the institution. The exploration of current power structures and their opportunities for improvement provides insight for those interested in criminology, criminal justice, prison theory and reform, policy studies, and labor studies.

Field of Blood

Field of Blood
Author: Eric Wilson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1418571083

Judas hung himself in a place known as the Akeldama or Field of Blood. But what if his death didn't end his betrayal? What if his tainted blood seeped deep into the earth, into burial caves, causing a counterfeit resurrection of the dead? Gina Lazarescu, a Romanian girl with a scarred past, has no idea she is being sought by the undead. The Collectors, those released from the Akeldama, feed on souls and human blood. But there are also the Nistarim, those who rose from their graves in the shadow of the Nazarene's crucifixion--and they still walk among us, immortal, left to protect mankind. Gina realizes her future will depend on her understanding of the past, yet how can she protect herself from Collectors who have already died once but still live? The Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy takes readers on a riveting journey, as imaginative fiction melds with biblical and archaeological history.