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Book Wages of Crime

Download or read book Wages of Crime written by R. T. Naylor and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author asserts that much of what police, press, politicians, and the public understand about international crime is based on myth and misrepresentation.".

Book Wage Theft in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim Bobo
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2014-03-04
  • ISBN : 1595588078
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Wage Theft in America written by Kim Bobo and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible $19 billion in unpaid overtime. The scope of these abuses is staggering, but activists, unions, and policymakers—along with everyday Americans in congregations and towns across the country—have begun to take notice. While the first edition of Wage Theft In America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft. Citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this updated edition of Wage Theft In America offers concrete solutions and a roadmap for putting an end to this insidious practice.

Book The Costs of Crime and Justice

Download or read book The Costs of Crime and Justice written by Mark A. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Costs of Crime and Justice, Mark Cohen presents a comprehensive view of the financial setbacks of criminal behaviour. Victims of crime might incur medical costs, lost wages and property damage; while for some crimes pain, suffering and reduced quality of life suffered by victims far exceeds any physical damage. The government also incurs costs as the provider of mental health services, police, courts and prisons. Cohen argues that understanding the costs of crime can lead to important insights and policy conclusions - both in terms of criminal justice policy but also in terms of other social ills that compete with crime for government funding. This book systematically discusses the numerous methodological approaches and tallies up what is known about the costs of crime A must-read for anyone involved in public policy, The Costs of Crime and Justice consolidates the diverse research in this area but also makes one of the most valuable contributions to date to the study of the economics of criminal behavior.

Book Wages of Crime

Download or read book Wages of Crime written by R. T. Naylor and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wages of Crime takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of modern criminal business--arms trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering, and terrorist financing.

Book Making Crime Pay

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  • Author : Katherine Beckett
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-18
  • ISBN : 0195350472
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Making Crime Pay written by Katherine Beckett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on "law and order" platforms and to propose "three strikes"--and even "two strikes"--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and "tough" anti-crime policies are politicians' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.

Book The Crime of Poverty

Download or read book The Crime of Poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wages of Crime

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  • Author : Pete Mesling
  • Publisher : Other Kingdoms Publishing
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 9780578848914
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Wages of Crime written by Pete Mesling and published by Other Kingdoms Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet ... -Lieutenant Caldera, the homicide detective who inhabits six of these stories and has more enemies than friends. -a documentary film crew that stumbles onto a myth-shattering letter from Vincent Van Gogh. -a wealthy Seattle man who frames his own twin for murder. Encounter ... -a foundling wheel in the heart of 1930s London that is also a wheel of secrets and lies. -a sheriff in the Old West who uses the law as a shield against the discovery of his trail of abuse. -a woman who exacts revenge against a friend's captor but may have misjudged the situation. -a lawyer who uncovers an assassination plot in Seattle, with its origin, and resolution, in Berlin. Witness ... -a hot-air balloon that goes up with three passengers but comes down with only two. -a corporate climber who acquires an office with a terrific view, and a terrifying drop. -a man abducted into a paranoid nightmare that turns out to be neither paranoid nor a nightmare. Discover, in other words, the wages of crime, but with this for a warning: the deeper you descend into some pits, the harder it is to climb back out again-if it can ever be the same you who emerges.

Book Making Crime Pay

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  • Author : Harold S. Long
  • Publisher : Loompanics Unltd
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780915179831
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Making Crime Pay written by Harold S. Long and published by Loompanics Unltd. This book was released on 1988 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional methods and techniques for information and intelligence gathering... now revealed for you to use. Now you can find out anything you want to know about anyone you want to know about! Satisfy your need to know with these revealing professional manuals on investigation, crime and police sciences. What does it take to succeed at a criminal activity? What does it take to make crime pay? Written by a professional criminal, this book delves deeply into the realities of the criminal justice system and offers many hard-won suggestions for successfully evading the system. It is packed with information not available anywhere else (except, maybe, in jail). It explains what makes some criminals successful while others get caught. It also discusses how to deal with police, courts, and the criminal justice system to minimize apprehension and conviction. Everything you read here will be fact recounted in part from personal experiences, and in part from the experiences of inmates across the country.

Book Wages of Sin

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  • Author : Suzy Spencer
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780786019519
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Wages of Sin written by Suzy Spencer and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder of Chris Hatton on January 14, 1995.

Book Crime and Work

Download or read book Crime and Work written by Jared Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greater labor market opportunities result in lower crime rates, a clear link that is often ignored in policy debates on crime reduction. This study examines the labor market characteristics of the offender/ex-offender population and the labor market conditions these potential workers face. It identifies ex-offenders as a distinctly disadvantaged subset of the low-wage workforce : they have little education, weak job histories, and weak labor market attachment, plus the additional penalty of a criminal record. Even at a time when the overall economy is growing, workers in this sector face higher levels of un- and underemployment. This monograph argues fuller employment for ex-inmates will need innovative labor market solutions, including increases in the minimum wage, more education and training, and the expansion of work supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Book The Economics of Crime

Download or read book The Economics of Crime written by Harold Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide ranging and accessible, this is the most up-to-date textbook in this area, taking current economic research and making it accessible to undergraduates and other interested readers.

Book The Upper Limit

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  • Author : François Bonnet
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2019-07-30
  • ISBN : 0520305221
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Upper Limit written by François Bonnet and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country’s mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the 1970s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher. François Bonnet shows how low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy, where welfare must be less attractive than low-wage work and criminal life must be less attractive than welfare. In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society. The Upper Limit explores the local consequences of this punitive adjustment in East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood where crime fell in the 1990s. Bonnet argues that no meaningful penal reform can happen unless living standards and the minimum wage rise again. Enlightening and provocative, The Upper Limit provides a comprehensive theory of the evolution of social and penal policy.

Book The Economics of Crime

Download or read book The Economics of Crime written by Rafael Di Tella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of policies designed to tackle it. The Economics of Crime is a powerful corrective to this academic blind spot and makes an important contribution to the current debate on causes and solutions by applying lessons learned from recent developments in the economics of crime. The Economics of Crime addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of kidnappings on investment, mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. Utilizining research from within and without Latin America, this book illustrates the broad range of approaches that have been efficacious in studying crime in both developing and developed nations. The Economics of Crime is a vital text for researchers, policymakers, and students of both crime and of Latin American economic policy.

Book Why Crime Does Not Pay

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  • Author : Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Why Crime Does Not Pay written by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why Crime Does Not Pay" by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Wage Theft Comics

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  • Author : Jeffry Odell Korgen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-04-03
  • ISBN : 9780615777443
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Wage Theft Comics written by Jeffry Odell Korgen and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of dollars in wages are stolen from workers every day. Close to 46 percent of low age workers experience some form of wage theft. Wage Theft Comics: Crime and Justice is an activist comic that both chronicles the experience of low wage victims of wage theft and guides workers and potential allies towards a path for justice. The authors, writer Jeffry Odell Korgen (The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization) and author/illustrator Kevin Pyle (Prison Town and Take What You Can Carry) conducted interviews in the Houston area in order to create personal stories of actual people who struggle with the consequences of their exploitation and their attempts to end it. Korgen and Pyle intersperse these stories with infographics that illuminate the full scope and prevalence of the problem and help workers navigate the complexities of seeking justice. Printed in English and Spanish, Wage Thefts Comics is published by Interfaith Worker Justice, with the help of Fe Y Justicia, a worker center in the Houston area. Combining moving personal stories and shocking facts, Wage Theft Comics ultimately seeks to educate and inspire workers and the people who care about them to come together, organize, and put a stop to the shameful practice of wage theft.

Book The Wages of Sin  A Novel  Sarah Gilchrist Mysteries

Download or read book The Wages of Sin A Novel Sarah Gilchrist Mysteries written by Kaite Welsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning tale of murder, subversion and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture. Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admits women. She is determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, but Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself: professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and—perhaps worst of all—her female peers who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman. Desperate for a proper education, Sarah turns to one of the city’s ramshackle charitable hospitals for additional training. The St Giles’ Infirmary for Women ministers to the downtrodden and drunk, the thieves and whores with nowhere else to go. In this environment, alongside a group of smart and tough teachers, Sarah gets quite an education. But when Lucy, one of Sarah’s patients, turns up in the university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels, and body snatchers. Painfully aware of just how little separates her own life from that of her former patient’s, Sarah is determined to find out what happened to Lucy and bring those responsible for her death to justice. But as she searches for answers in Edinburgh’s dank alleyways, bawdy houses and fight clubs, Sarah comes closer and closer to uncovering one of Edinburgh’s most lucrative trades, and, in doing so, puts her own life at risk… An irresistible read with a fantastic heroine, beautifully drawn setting, fascinating insights into what it was like to study medicine as a woman at that time, The Wages of Sin is a stunning debut that heralds a striking new voice in historical fiction.

Book Gangster Capitalism

Download or read book Gangster Capitalism written by Michael Woodiwiss and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know all about organized crime. Blockbuster movies and books, and thousands of news stories continually tell an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the New York mafias could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be halted. The trouble is, as Michael Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows is pretty much completely wrong. Organized crime is dominated by employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are a problem, but they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce drugs prohibition and profit from it. The position of large corporations in the global economy provides the most mouth-watering opportunities for illegal profits. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence that would leave the most hardened Mafioso speechless with admiration.