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Sin No More
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Sin No More

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the most morally and politically disputed issues of our time: abortion, gay rights, assisted suicide, stem cell research, and legalized gambling. These are moral values issues, all of which are hotly, sometimes violently, contested in America. The authors cover these issues in depth, looking at the nature of efforts to initiate reforms, to define constituencies, to mobilize resources, to frame debates, and to shape public opinion - all in an effort to achieve social change, create, or re-write legislation. Of the issues under scrutiny only legalized gambling has managed to achieve widespread acceptance despite moral qualms from some. -- Publisher description.

Dying Right
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Dying Right

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.

The Twilight of Social Conservatism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

The Twilight of Social Conservatism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-14
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Despite many Americans’ triumphant proclamations that Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 elections signified a post-partisan, post-racial society, it seems that the United States is more divided than ever. From the rise of the Tea Party, to strident anti-immigration and anti-welfare movements, to the so-called “war on women”, the United States on its surface appears to be caught in the turmoil of a culture war that has not relented since the Reagan era. But, as John Dombrink writes in The Twilight of Social Conservatism, the conservative backlash seen during Obama’s presidency is indicative not of a rising social conservative force in society, but of a waning one. Drawing on demographic ...

Chinatown Gangs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Chinatown Gangs

In Chinatown Gangs, Ko-lin Chin penetrates a closed society and presents a rare portrait of the underworld of New York City's Chinatown. Based on first-hand accounts from gang members, gang victims, community leaders, and law enforcement authorities, this pioneering study reveals the pervasiveness, the muscle, the longevity, and the institutionalization of Chinatown gangs. Chin reveals the fear gangs instill in the Chinese community. At the same time, he shows how the economic viability of the community is sapped, and how gangs encourage lawlessness, making a mockery of law enforcement agencies. Ko-lin Chin makes clear that gang crime is inexorably linked to Chinatown's political economy and...

Big Money Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Big Money Crime

An in-depth scrutiny into the American savings and loan financial crisis in the 1980s. The authors come to conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud and the leniency of the criminal justice system on these 'Gucci-clad white-collar criminals'.

Palermo in the Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Palermo in the Pacific

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study analyses organised crime legislation in the Asia Pacific region. It examines offences criminalising the existence and operation of organised crime under domestic laws. The study also explores the adoption of the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime

Language in Immigrant America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Language in Immigrant America

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Whose America?; 2. The alien specter then and now; 3. Hyphenated identity; 4. Foreign accents and immigrant Englishes; 5. Multilingual practices; 6. Immigrant children and language; 7. American becomings

The Racial Logic of Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

The Racial Logic of Politics

Why the two-party political system works against Asian Americans.

Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations

Provides a new thematic treatment of key employment relations issues. Includes : collective bargaining, worker disability, the return to work, alternative dispute resolution, managerial misclassification and violations of overtime law, new developments in performance-based pay, and retirement from work and managing one's own money.

The Deafening Cadence of Biblical Defection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

The Deafening Cadence of Biblical Defection

The Deafening Cadence of Biblical Defection is more than a revelation of personal encounter. It is a written observation of the world, not as I see it, but as it truly is. Each chapter is a true-to-life account surrounding some of the most troublesome historicity of the Christian Church, all the way up to the more menacing tentacles of the anti-Christian movement in America. Of particular mention are the biased leftist media, inaccurate political propaganda from the film industry, the selling of militant humanism in our schools, political correctness, and a liberal court system that finds it appropriate to assist and legitimize Scriptural abominations into law. Showing little regard for the ...