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  • The Fear of Too Much Justice

    Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts

    par Stephen Bright, James Kwak, Bryan Stevenson ...
    A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts“An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the multiple ways in which the death penalty’s profound unfairness requires its abolition. You will discover Steve Bright’s passion, brilliance, dedication, ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Ultimate Punishment

    A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

    par Scott Turow ...
    The #1 New York Times -bestselling legal thriller writer delivers "the most convincing, levelheaded analysis of [the death penalty] I have encountered" ( The Washington Post ).Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he has been involv... ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    par Robert Perkinson ...
    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Gunfight

    The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

    par Adam Winkler ...
    A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    par Hugo Adam Bedau;Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Let the Lord Sort Them

    The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

    par Maurice Chammah ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America“If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book ReviewWINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD**In 1972, the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    par Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    par Alexandra Natapoff ...
    From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $25.99 CAD Maintenant $20.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Kids for Cash

    Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

    par William Ecenbarger ...
    The shocking true story of corrupt judges who made millions by sending children to a private juvenile detention facility: "A harrowing tale, lucidly told" ( The New York Times Book Review).In this sensational work of true crime that reads like a thriller, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter William Ecenbarger exposes a long-running scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. In Luzerne County, ... En savoir plus

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  • A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America

    par Evan J. Mandery ...
    New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceDrawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Shielded

    How the Police Became Untouchable

    par Joanna Schwartz ...
    **Winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel AwardAn urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing**In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $18.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

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  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    par Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD