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No Ordinary Season
Cassie Garnet hates the word mediocre.Yet her existence in a rural Indiana towncould certainly be labeled that if not forher place on the cross country team. Withher senior year approaching, Garnet hasbeen River Bend High's best runner ...but she longs to be better. Cassie has neverbeen challenged and pushed to reach herpotential, and the Lady Coyotes are aterrible team.Then, everything changes. When thebeautiful and charismatic Charna RothsteinSimon moves to River Bend to become ateacher and cross country coach, Cassie'ssenior year will be anything but ordinary.C.R. Simon will raise eyebrows and pushCassie Garnet on both the running trailsand as a person. The Jewish Simon will alsochallenge...
The Eternal Criminal Record
For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person’s interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but...
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Hate Crimes
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing the punishment for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter adopt a skeptical if not critical stance, maintaining that legal definitions of hate crime are riddled with ambiguity and subjectivity. No matter how hate crime is defined, and despite an apparent media consensus to the contrary, the authors find no evidence...
The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity
Using anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, Anechiarico and Jacobs demonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing absolute integrity. By proliferating dysfunctions, constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control - no less than corruption itself - has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.
Stateville
"An historical and sociological study of a penitentiary. It presents fifty years of transformation and change of a large state prison..."--Foreword.
