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"Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American...
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An illuminating exercise that challenges the reader's beliefs about the justice system
A police trooper inspects a car during a routine traffic stop and finds a vast cache of weapons, complete with automatic rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and black ski masks-a veritable bank robber's kit. Should the men in the car be charged? If so, with what?
A son neglects to care for his elderly mother, whose emaciated form is discovered shortly...
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"Many aspects of modern life, from drug safety to fire codes, have come not from the sustained efforts of government bureaucrats but rather from the flash and sizzle of a tragic crime and the public outrage it provokes. This book is about those trigger crimes and how they have changed our world." --
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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously...
5) Rewind
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"In a world where spinners can freeze and rewind time but are tightly controlled by the government, sixteen-year-old Alex is a spinner paired with Agent Ross to help catch a dangerous criminal." --
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El libro, es una juiciosa y amplia compilación de aportes de trece destacados juristas sobre los retos que afronta actualmente la responsabilidad civil, penal y laboral. Los directores de la publicación, el Dr. Billy Escobar Pérez, Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y la Dra. Mónica Lucía Fernández, docente de la Facultad, han organizado un minucioso documento que integra en un conjunto coherente, el aporte de prestigiosos expertos nacionales...
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Mientras que las sociedades son cada vez más multiculturales, la población de las cárceles continúa siendo notoriamente homogénea. ¿Cómo entender este desajuste? Más que atribuirlo a una supuesta tendencia natural al delito entre los sectores más vulnerables, cabe pensar que la ley penal aplica un sesgo sistemático y discriminatorio y que, al hacerlo, protege un orden injusto. Como lo que está en juego aquí es el uso del aparato coercitivo...
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The intersection of the criminal justice system and a behavioral health crisis is a hard crossroads to navigate. Mental Health Criminal Defense: A Primer is here to teach you the basics so that you, or someone you love, can understand how to use mental health related circumstances to prevail in a criminal case. Mental Health Criminal Defense: A Primer will teach you the terms and proceedings most often seen in mental health related cases, things that...
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Este libro trata de los principales delitos y penas que contiene la parte especial del Código Penal peruano. De manera sucinta y clara, expone las características esenciales de los delitos contra la vida y saludo, el honor, la libertad, el patrimonio, la administración pública y la fe pública, así como los delitos de constitución, promoción, organización e integración de organizaciones criminales, tráfico ilícito de drogas, minería ilegal...
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Le présent ouvrage aborde quatre thématiques à partir de développements récents et d'actualités jurisprudentielles dans le domaine pénal.
Damien Vandermeersch fait le point sur l'évolution de la jurisprudence en matière d'admissibilité de la preuve obtenue irrégulièrement, enjeu essentiel de la procédure pénale. À partir de différentes propositions de loi visant à conférer une assise légale à la jurisprudence dite « Antigoon...
11) Felony Murder
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The felony murder doctrine is one of the most widely criticized features of American criminal law. Legal scholars almost unanimously condemn it as irrational, concluding that it imposes punishment without fault and presumes guilt without proof. Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine. It shows that felony murder liability rests on a simple and powerful idea:...
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Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.
It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous everyman busts, and the author's professional experience, Busted! is everything you need to know about the criminal justice system, Drug War style, before it's too late. Like a Law & Order episode, the book takes the reader through a...
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An examination of the forces and events that led to the most successful organized crime control initiatives in American history
Since Prohibition, the Mafia has captivated the media and, indeed, the American imagination. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, organized crime grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control...
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The Common Law is a book about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts and crime, written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This classic is a must read for anyone wishing to understand American Common Law from an historical perspective. Simply one of the most important books ever written on American Law.
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Ever wonder what exactly happens when an officer is involved in the User of Deadly Force? What the officer saw and what he thought as it occurred? You have that opportunity as a 25 year veteran police Sergeant puts you in his shoes on that fateful day he experienced. You are taken step by step from being assigned the call, to arriving at the scene. You then experience exactly what he saw and was thinking up to and through that life or death moment....
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This book is about Profiling Child Molesters, or as children would say, "Monsters". I hope to educate people about the dangers these Monsters pose to society, how they wreak havoc into the lives of our children, how their minds work and finally, what we can do to protect our children from them.
This is a book that every Parent, Teacher, Law Enforcement Officer, Correctional Officer, Social Worker, Child Protective Services, Nurses, Doctors etc. Should...
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This collection is founded upon the editors' joint experiences in teaching in law and society programs in Canada. The authors have witnessed cobbled together curriculums which rely upon a potpourri of sources from law, criminology, criminal justice and law and society disciplines. There exists a growing interest from university students and legal scholars alike for a reader in the context of law reform and legal change in respect of sexual politics...
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El sistema penitenciario en Colombia en particular, y el sistema jurídico en general, son considerados por legos y expertos como claros ejemplos del divorcio entre lo que dice el papel y lo que se constata en la práctica. A partir de esta historia inédita del surgimiento de instituciones tales como la pena de prisión, el ejercito permanente, la policía, las leyes de orden público y el banco nacional, el autor identifica la estructura de los...
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A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal...
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