Author: Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093809
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Author: Chip Chapman
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1782199101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Stumbling from a university anarchist meeting into a career in the army, Chip Chapman is conscious of how very incompetent he is. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst confirms his worst fears. He is eventually let loose on 6 Platoon of 2 PARA and, via the Falklands War, manages to elevate himself to a position of conscious competence and save his career. An insight into a generation of soldiering in the late 20th century and beyond, this hilarious, touching, informative, and thought-provoking memoir is set against the drumbeat of the social, cultural, and legal rhythms of the age, and the change from the certainties of the Cold War to the nihilism of 9/11. With shades of David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon, Lesley Thomas's Virgin Soldiers, and the travelogs of Bill Bryson, Chapman captures the rawness, spirit, and fortitude of the soldier in both peace and war.
Author: John Norton Moore
Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
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Author: Francis Cochran
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Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: Paul Preston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth-century has been a neglected area of academic study. The Politics of Revenge redresses this providing a succinct and disturbing account.
Author: Thomas Baty
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584775734
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Legal Ramifications of the First World War. Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1915. xxviii, 578 pp. The authors argue that the First World War effectively ended the existing system of international law, a system that was already in decline due to the growing economic and political interdependence of states. These changes have created a new set of problems that will provide the basis of a new system of international law when the war ends. In addition to supplying an intellectual framework for this new system, Baty and Morgan address practical topics, such as international arbitration, and more abstract issues, such as the clash between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. "[V]ery good reading....It is a thoughtful book." --T.S.W., Yale Law Journal 19:313-314. THOMAS BATY [1868-1954] taught law at Oxford University and was a joint secretary of the International Law Association. In 1915, the year War was published, Baty became the foreign legal advisor to the Japanese government and moved to Japan. He is also the author of the well-known work, International Law (1909) and International Law in Twilight (1954). J.H. MORGAN [1876-1955] was a Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1910. A legal editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica (14th edition), he was professor of constitutional law at the University of London and legal adviser to the War Crimes Commission at Nuremberg from 1947 to 1949.
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Category : Clinical psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Includes Proceedings of the British psychological society. Medical section.
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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