Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Strom Thurmond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756714857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73

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Witnesses: Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., chmn., Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency, Pittsburgh, PA, & former U.S. Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania; Andrew L. Vita, assistant director of field operations, Washington Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), Washington, DC; Helen F. Fahey, U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria, VA; Jerry Oliver, chief of police, City of Richmond, VA; John F. Timoney, police commissioner, City of Philadelphia, PA; & Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.

Author: United States. Department of Justice
Publisher:
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309091241
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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For years proposals for gun control and the ownership of firearms have been among the most contentious issues in American politics. For public authorities to make reasonable decisions on these matters, they must take into account facts about the relationship between guns and violence as well as conflicting constitutional claims and divided public opinion. In performing these tasks, legislators need adequate data and research to judge both the effects of firearms on violence and the effects of different violence control policies. Readers of the research literature on firearms may sometimes find themselves unable to distinguish scholarship from advocacy. Given the importance of this issue, there is a pressing need for a clear and unbiased assessment of the existing portfolio of data and research. Firearms and Violence uses conventional standards of science to examine three major themes - firearms and violence, the quality of research, and the quality of data available. The book assesses the strengths and limitations of current databases, examining current research studies on firearm use and the efforts to reduce unjustified firearm use and suggests ways in which they can be improved.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Author: Lawrence A. Greenfeld
Publisher:
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Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Author: David I. Sheppard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Culmination of a survey and review conducted by a U.S. Department of Justice Work Group and COSMOS Corporation.

Author:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Emily Bazelon
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 039959003X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out. “An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy “This harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.”—Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injustice—and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friend’s gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both cases—from arrest and charging to trial and sentencing—and, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they don’t have to. Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.