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Book The Law of Business and Commerce

Download or read book The Law of Business and Commerce written by Kermit Hall and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a collection of essays exploring the general issues of the interrelationship of business decision-making and legal rules. The social history of business regulation is discussed in the articles in the book.

Book The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

Download or read book The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison written by Jeffrey Reiman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? The Rich Get Richer shows readers that much that goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens’ sense of basic fairness. It presents extensive evidence from mainstream data that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should. The authors develop a theoretical perspective from which readers might understand these failures and evaluate them morally—and they to do it in a short and relatively inexpensive text written in plain language. New to this edition: Presents recent data comparing the harms due to criminal activity with the harms of dangerous—but not criminal—corporate actions Presents new data on recent crime rate declines, which are paired with data on how public safety is not prioritized by the U.S. government Updates statistics on crime, victimization, wealth and discrimination, plus coverage of the increasing role of criminal justice fines and fees in generating revenue for government Updates on the costs to society of white-collar crime Updates and deepened analysis of why fundamental reforms are not undertaken Streamlined and condensed prose for greater clarity

Book Chartist Fiction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Haywood
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-01-29
  • ISBN : 1317241762
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Chartist Fiction written by Ian Haywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public’s attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman’s Wrongs, a series of five tales exploring women’s oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic, often harrowing account of the social, economic and emotional victimization of women, and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities. In his substantial Introduction, Ian Haywood places the novel in the context of Jones’s career as a Chartist author and editor, and in the wider context of the ‘woman question’. Some of the topics covered by the Introduction include: the radical press and popular enlightenment, Jones’s rivalry with George W. M. Reynolds, and the needlewoman as radical icon. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Book The Mars Room

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Kushner
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1476756600
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Mars Room written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

Book Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities written by Mary Bosworth and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are included. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Book Blair s Chronological Tables Revised and Enlarged

Download or read book Blair s Chronological Tables Revised and Enlarged written by J. Willoughby Rosse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Book The Worlds   Cyclopedia of History

Download or read book The Worlds Cyclopedia of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World s Cyclopedia of History

Download or read book World s Cyclopedia of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women  Punishment and Social Justice

Download or read book Women Punishment and Social Justice written by Margaret Malloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the use of community-based responses to women in conflict with the law. These initiatives have tended to operate alongside reforms to the prison estate and are often defined as ‘community punishment’, ‘community sanctions’ and ‘alternatives to imprisonment’. This book challenges the contention that improved regimes and provisions within the criminal justice system are capable of addressing human rights concerns and the needs of the criminalised woman. This book aims to provide a critical analysis of approaches and experiences of penal sanctions, human rights and social justice as enacted in different jurisdictions within and beyond the UK. Drawing on international knowledge and expertise, the contributors to this book challenge the efficacy of gender-responsive interventions by examining issues affecting women in the criminal justice system such as mental health, age, and ethnicity. Crucially, the book will engage with the paradox of implementing rights within a largely punishment-orientated system. This book will be of interest to those taking undergraduate and post-graduate courses that examine punishment, gender and justice, and which lend themselves to an international / comparative aspect such as criminal justice/criminology, (international) criminal justice courses; sociology as well as professional training for practitioners (criminal justice, social work, health) who work with women in the criminal justice system.

Book Prison Discipline

Download or read book Prison Discipline written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing My Wrongs

Download or read book Writing My Wrongs written by Shaka Senghor and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed of becoming a doctor—but at age eleven, his parents’ marriage began to unravel, and beatings from his mother worsened, which sent him on a downward spiral. He ran away from home, turned to drug dealing to survive, and ended up in prison for murder at the age of nineteen, full of anger and despair. Writing My Wrongs is the story of what came next. During his nineteen-year incarceration, seven of which were spent in solitary confinement, Senghor discovered literature, meditation, self-examination, and the kindness of others—tools he used to confront the demons of his past, forgive the people who hurt him, and begin atoning for the wrongs he had committed. Upon his release at age thirty-eight, Senghor became an activist and mentor to young men and women facing circumstances like his. His work in the community and the courage to share his story led him to fellowships at the MIT Media Lab and the Kellogg Foundation and invitations to speak at events like TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival. In equal turns, Writing My Wrongs is a page-turning portrait of life in the shadow of poverty, violence, and fear; an unforgettable story of redemption; and a compelling witness to our country’s need for rethinking its approach to crime, prison, and the men and women sent there.

Book Dr Hooper s physician s vademecum  enlarged by W A  Guy

Download or read book Dr Hooper s physician s vademecum enlarged by W A Guy written by Robert Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inspectors General   Eighteenth Report on General State of Prisons of Ireland

Download or read book Inspectors General Eighteenth Report on General State of Prisons of Ireland written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Book Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Into the Prison and Reformatory System of Ontario  1891

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Into the Prison and Reformatory System of Ontario 1891 written by Ontario prison reform commission and published by Toronto ; Printed by Warkick & Sons. This book was released on 1891 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of American Prisons

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of American Prisons written by Carl Sifakis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of prisons in the United States with articles about convict labor, escapes, famous and infamous wardens, fires, notable prisoners, riots, prison society, reformers, terminology, and more.

Book Handbook on Prisons

Download or read book Handbook on Prisons written by Yvonne Jewkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first edition and reveals the range and depth of prison scholarship around the world. The Handbook contains chapters written not only by those who have established and developed prison research, but also features contributions from ex-prisoners, prison governors and ex-governors, prison inspectors and others who have worked with prisoners in a wide range of professional capacities. This second edition includes several completely new chapters on topics as diverse as prison design, technology in prisons, the high security estate, therapeutic communities, prisons and desistance, supermax and solitary confinement, plus a brand new section on international perspectives. The Handbook aims to convey the reality of imprisonment, and to reflect the main issues and debates surrounding prisons and prisoners, while also providing novel ways of thinking about familiar penal problems and enhancing our theoretical understanding of imprisonment. The Handbook on Prisons, Second edition is a key text for students taking courses in prisons, penology, criminal justice, criminology and related subjects, and is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the prison service, or in related agencies, who need up-to-date knowledge of thinking on prisons and imprisonment.

Book Old and New London  The city ancient and modern

Download or read book Old and New London The city ancient and modern written by Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: