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Chasing Gideon

Author : Karen Houppert
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595588698
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Gideon written by Karen Houppert and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent of criminal defendants are served by public defenders. In a book that combines the sweep of history with the intimate details of individual lives and legal cases, veteran reporter Karen Houppert movingly chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon’s promise. There is the harrowing saga of a young man who is charged with involuntary vehicular homicide in Washington State, where overextended public defenders juggle impossible caseloads, forcing his defender to go to court to protect her own right to provide an adequate defense. In Florida, Houppert describes a public defender’s office, loaded with upward of seven hundred cases per attorney, and discovers the degree to which Clarence Earl Gideon’s promise is still unrealized. In New Orleans, she follows the case of a man imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a crime he didn’t commit, finding a public defense system already near collapse before Katrina and chronicling the harrowing months after the storm, during which overworked volunteers and students struggled to get the system working again. In Georgia, Houppert finds a mentally disabled man who is to be executed for murder, despite the best efforts of a dedicated but severely overworked and underfunded capital defender. Half a century after Anthony Lewis’s award-winning Gideon’s Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to implement this fundamental constitutional right.

Pursuing Elusive Justice

Author : Saumya Uma
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198079996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Elusive Justice written by Saumya Uma and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies various aspects of the Indian criminal justice system. It highlights the loop holes in the present system and suggests measures for reforms.

Elusive Justice

Author : Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136084185
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Elusive Justice written by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable dialogues about difference, Thea Abu El-Haj tackles them head on. Through rich and detailed ethnographic portraits of two schools with a commitment to social justice, she analyzes the ways discourses about difference provide a key site for both producing and resisting inequalities, and examines the dilemmas that emerge from either focusing on or ignoring them. In interrogating fundamental assumptions about difference and equity, Abu El-Haj deftly blends critique with a search for hope and possibility, to ultimately argue for ways educators might translate ideals about justice into effective practice.

Dangerous Offenders

Author : Mark H. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674428645
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Offenders written by Mark H. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this major book in criminal jurisprudence develop a framework for evaluating policies that focus on dangerous offenders. They first examine the general issues that arise as society considers the benefits and risks of concentrating on a particular category of criminals. They then outline how that approach might work at each stage of the criminal justice system--sentencing, pretrial detention, prosecution, and investigation.

Ways of Remembering: Volume 1

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009281925
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Ways of Remembering: Volume 1 written by Oishik Sircar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom—postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence.

Hiding in Plain Sight

Author : Eric Stover
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962761
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Eric Stover and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world’s most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and America’s pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies—both successful and unsuccessful—that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades—all in the name of international justice and human rights. Hiding in Plain Sight is a companion book to the public television documentary Dead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to The War on Terror. For more information about the documentary, visit www.pbs.org/wnet/dead-reckoning/. And for more information about the Human Rights Center, visit hrc.berkeley.edu.

Is Justice Possible?

Author : J. Paul Nyquist
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802495109
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Is Justice Possible? written by J. Paul Nyquist and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christians who take the Bible seriously dare not ignore this message. Paul Nyquist writes like an Old Testament prophet in modern America . . . ” — Leith Anderson, president, National Association of Evangelicals | Washington, DC “Paul Nyquist brings a biblical focus and discerning look at why justice matters and how we might worktoward it.”- Ed Stetzer, Billy Graham Chair | Wheaton College “… [Explains] why justice often eludes us in this life, but also how we must work to achieve it as best we can.”— Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer, pastor emeritus, The Moody Church | Chicago Why is justice so hard to come by? The innocent are convicted. The guilty get away. The scales tip toward the powerful, while the weak remain oppressed. If our world is so sophisticated, why is there so much injustice? What can believers do? Can we ever expect justice? Dr. Paul Nyquist, former president of Moody Bible Institute, addresses these questions and more in his new book, Is Justice Possible? In four parts he considers: Biblical and theological foundations of justice Obstacles to justice in human society Practical steps for pursuing justice in political, personal, and public arenas The hope of true justice upon Christ’s return As police shootings and wrongful incarcerations raise increasing questions in the minds of Christians, Is Justice Possible? will seek to provide answers and establish biblical expectations. At its core, this is a book about an attribute of God. Rather than rely on our own ideas of justice, we must look to the One who made us and embodies justice perfectly. Only then can we pursue justice in purposeful, effective, eternal ways.

Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities

Author : Sarah McIntosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736841600
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities written by Sarah McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups" is an educational resource for victim groups that want to influence or participate in the justice process for mass atrocities. It presents a range of tools that victim groups can use, from building a victim-centered coalition and developing a strategic communications plan to engaging with policy makers and decision makers and using the law to obtain justice.

The Honorable

Author : Oliver Akamnonu
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453595244
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Honorable written by Oliver Akamnonu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly pampered young medical undergraduate, whose father had invested so heavily in his education and who was the pride of his parents, derails from his course in the university and joins a secret cult. In the course of his initiation, he discovers to his chagrin that his highly revered father, who was one of the economic pillars of the society, was indeed one of the secret patrons of the murderous organization. He discovers further that his once adored father must have made his billions from the criminal activities of the organization. A later chance discovery by the distraught father that his treasured only son was a new entrant into the criminal gang sets off an instant deep-seated remorse from the father that was to lead him into violation of the sworn tenets of the organization. These tenets included an order never to quit at the level at which he was. The reprisals from the evil organization were instant. Other beneficiaries of the evil gang and protégés of the absconded kingpin got into governance and were to pollute what was otherwise a highly revered legislative body. Greed and avarice were to lead to mutual mistrust and destruction. The emergence of a new generation of leaders out of the ashes of virtual Armageddon appeared to hold out some light at the end of the tunnel: A new generation, new hope, a new breath of fresh air were to emerge For a people held down for too long by a cabal that had its fangs thrust so deep into the flesh of the society!

Violent Modernities

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019099214X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Violent Modernities written by Oishik Sircar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is believed that law and violence generally share an antithetical relationship in liberal democracies. Lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed as a means to resist and undo that. Violent Modernities attempts to establish that this relationship is not one of animosity, but of a deep, counterintuitive intimacy and is at the base of what makes India a modern nation-state. Delving into the patterns of law and violence through the cultural imaginaries of justice, marked by the combined rise of neoliberalism and Hindutva—the book argues that legal imagination in India does not only emanate from courtrooms, legislations and judgments, but is also lived in the practices of ordinary disobediences and everyday failures. The author suggests that it is only when law can be re-imagined as such, that the violence at the foundations of state law can be unsettled.

Pursuing the Horizon

Author : Russell Canan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946074324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing the Horizon written by Russell Canan and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the Horizon offers a collection of essays and courtroom stories from an activist, death penalty lawyer, and Washington, D.C. judge struggling to seek justice in the courtroom, in the fields where migrant farmworkers toil and in the rice paddies of Vietnam. The book explores justice in all its forms from freedom for beaten migrant farmworkers in the shadow of the Ku Klux Klan, to life itself in a death row plea for mercy before Governor George Wallace of Alabama only to witness the client killed in a botched execution in the electric chair that shocked the world. Justice from the other side of the bench looks at the challenge for a judge wrestling with the age-old quandary of whether the ends justify the means when strictly following the law would result in a miscarriage of justice. The author must make the wrenching decision as to whether to terminate life support to allow a woman die with dignity when family members have different views of the right to live and right to die. The elusive search for justice follows the judge to a high profile murder trial for the killing of a prominent Georgetown writer by her fabulist husband posing as an Iraqi general all the while conning a Vice President, Supreme Court justice and elite journalists that led to the Hollywood movie Georgetown, starring Christoph Waltz and Vanessa Redgrave. Finally, the journey takes the author to Vietnam where he seeks to pay homage and find reconciliation at the site where his brother was killed in the war. Pursuing the Horizon allows the reader to sample some of the most horrifying, perplexing, and important issues in life and the law, offering the general public, via suspenseful and riveting stories, a rare lens into the daily life and minds of those seeking to achieve justice and those who must live, or sometimes die, with the consequences of their efforts. Justice, like the horizon, always seems to be beyond our grasp. But that can never mean that we should stop pursuing it. This book is about the author's search for justice along with dedicated judges, lawyers, jurors, those accused of crime, those who are the victims of crime, police, social workers, nurses, mental health workers, and the public at large.

Doing Justice

Author : Preet Bharara
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521135
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Doing Justice written by Preet Bharara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, he argues, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws both in our justice system and in human nature. Bharara uses the many illustrative anecdotes and case histories from his storied, formidable career—the successes as well as the failures—to shed light on the realities of the legal system and the consequences of taking action. Inspiring and inspiringly written, Doing Justice gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can help us achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Sometimes poignant and sometimes controversial, Bharara's expose is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system as well as in our society.

Elusive Peace

Author : Douglas E. Noll
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144181
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Elusive Peace written by Douglas E. Noll and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth analysis goes behind the headlines to understand why crucial negotiations fail. The author argues that diplomats often enter negotiations with flawed assumptions about human behavior, sovereignty, and power. Essentially, the international community is using a model of European diplomacy dating back to the 18th century to solve the complex problems of the 21st century. Through numerous examples, the author shows that the key failure in current diplomatic efforts is the entrenched belief that nations, through their representatives, will act rationally to further their individual political, economic, and strategic interests. However, the contemporary scientific understanding of how people act and see their world does not support this assumption. On the contrary, research from decision-making theory, behavioral economics, social neuropsychology, and current best practices in mediation indicate that emotional and irrational factors often have as much, if not more, to do with the success or failure of a mediated solution. Reviewing a wide range of conflicts and negotiations, Noll demonstrates that the best efforts of negotiators often failed because they did not take into account the deep-seated values and emotions of the disputing parties. In conclusion, Noll draws on his own long experience as a professional mediator to describe the process of building trust and creating a climate of empathy that is the key to successful negotiation and can go a long way toward resolving even seemingly intractable conflicts.

Life, Emergent

Author : Yasmeen Arif
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953066
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Life, Emergent written by Yasmeen Arif and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass violence look like from the perspective of the “social”? Taking us from Sierra Leone to India to Lebanon, Life, Emergent challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing that the “letting die” element of biopolitics has been overemphasized, Yasmeen Arif zeros in on biopolitics’ other pole: “making live.” She does so by highlighting the various means and the forms of life configured in the aftermath—or afterlives—of violent events in contexts of law, justice, community, and identity. Her analysis of the social repercussions is both global and local in scope. Arif examines the convictions made in the Special Court of Sierra Leone, the first hybrid court of its nature under international criminal law. Next, she explores the making of a justice movement in the context of Hindu–Muslim violence in 2002 in the state of Gujarat, India. From there she revisits the Sikh carnage in Delhi of 1984. Finally, she explores a span of civil violence in Lebanon, and particularly, its effects on the city of Beirut. This rigorously argued book brings together the various strands of life and the social that each chapter has disentangled—and in doing so it begins to frame a politics of, and in, life.

Seeking Justice...

Author : Charles M
Publisher : charles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Justice... written by Charles M and published by charles. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The legal system is fair in the way that a soccer match between Manchester City and the Betoota Bandits reserve grade is fair. They're playing the same game, with the same rules applied consistently. But one team has hundreds of millions in resources to invest in their side, and the other struggles to find a beat-up minibus to get to the game, the system doesn't care.” The legal system exists today, as it statistically touches almost zero percentage of the general population, if the legal system interacts with people, then they care. For those that are touched by the legal system is seen by many people as inaccessible, complex, unpredictable, slow and costly, where truth and justice is not even an objective. The data shows that the greater the number of justiciable interactions, the less likely respondents are to perceive the laws and justice system as fair. About 72 per cent of people who had zero interactions expressed a favourable view about the fairness of the laws and the justice system. This percentage declines steadily as the number of interactions increases. Only 40 per cent of respondents with seven or more interactions with the judicial system feel that the laws and the justice system are essentially fair. These statistics[1] represent a damning indictment of the justice system. If millions of people are intimidated, alienated and confused by the prospect of seeking justice in twenty-first century then we should consider our legal system to have failed in its fundamental duty to provide justice to all. [1] Unjust Kingdom: UK perceptions of the justice and legal system, -- Hodge Jones & Allen Law firm, Dec 2015.

Pursuing Equal Opportunities

Author : Lesley A. Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530217
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Equal Opportunities written by Lesley A. Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers original and innovative contributions to the debate about equality of opportunity. The first part sets out a theory of equality of opportunity that presents equal opportunities as a normative device for the regulation of competition for scarce resources. The second part shifts the focus to the consideration of the practical application by courts or legislatures or public policy makers of policies for addressing racial, class or gender injustices. The author examines standardized tests, affirmative action, workfare, universal health-care, comparable worth, and the economic consequences of divorce.

Roads to Freedom

Author : Mushirul Hasan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089671
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Roads to Freedom written by Mushirul Hasan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its most brutal form, the prison in British India was an instrument of the colonial state for instilling fear and dealing with resistance. Exploring the lived experience of select political prisoners, this volume presents their struggles and situates them against the backdrop of the freedom movement. From Mohamed Ali, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, the Nehru family, and Gandhi, to communists like M.N. Roy—we get a vivid glimpse of their lives within the confines of the prison in a narrative that is at times deeply personal and yet political. The struggles of some remarkable women of the time are also brought to the fore—be it the feisty doctor Rashid Jahan, Aruna Ali, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, or Sarojini Naidu. Extensively researched, the volume draws upon the records at the National Archives of India, private papers, creative writings of the prisoners, newspapers, memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies. The volume also brings to light the differences between Indian and European prisons during the colonial period and the conception of ‘criminal classes’ in the colony. Capturing the sharp pangs of loneliness, the poetry born out of solitude, and the burning desire for independence, Roads to Freedom breathes new life into accounts and tales long forgotten.