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Five short, thought-provoking plays for the classroom feature background information and questions, and offer dramatic portrayals of immigrant life. Students can learn about Irish who escaped starvation in the 1850s; Chinese who arrived through Angel Island; Russian Jews who escaped pogroms; and Cubans who fled their country on daring boat journeys. Illustrations.
While shopping in a Virginia suburb, First Lady Kathleen Maguire is accosted by a man she knew years ago in Belfast. Taken to a remote location, she is invited to participate in secret peace talks designed to help bring peace to Northern Ireland. Over the objections of the Director of the FBI and others, President Kellan Maguire agrees to allow his wife to proceed to Derry to participate in the talks. The group is to include the prime ministers of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, but an assassination attempt on the former disrupts the proceedings. Back in the United States, the president's motives are questioned, and he soon faces impeachment charges for allowing his wife to participate in the secret mission. Once again Kathleen Maguire becomes the focal point of controversy, and it is her testimony before Congress that will determine the results of the investigation.
Murder Mystery! Detective series! Crime-drama! Homicide Detective Lyle Odell returns once again in a new adventure! In fictional and very gritty, Mohawk City in upstate New York, the respected and prominent, intellectual, and popular educator, Doctor Rochester Gilding, is the victim of a horrific homicide. In his own home, on a seemingly calm and placid autumn Saturday afternoon, a brutal killer slashes his throat, and then, in a fit of rage, plunges a military knife into the skull of Doctor Gilding. To offer up the ultimate challenge to Detective Lyle Odell, the victim lived a hidden life. On the surface, Doctor Rochester Gilding was wealthy, popular, intellectual, professional, handsome, a...
Based on two years of intensive research in a juvenile prison, this study tells the story of youths in a "model program," created after a class action lawsuit for inhumane and illegal practices. It captures their lives inside and outside of prison: from drugs, gangs and criminal behaviour to the realities of families, schools and neighbourhoods. Drawing on experience that encompasses 20 years of juvenile justice research and policy analysis, the authors scrutinize the prison's attempts to combine accountability and treatment for youths with protection for the public, situating these within the larger social and political context.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the early 2000s, the current decade will be by far the most punitive in U.S. history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard. The book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find im...
U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader, Second Edition addresses how criminal justice policy issues are framed, identifies participants in the policy process, discusses how policy is made, and considers the constraints and opportunities found in the policy process.
From the first incident of petty theft to modern media piracy, crime and punishment have been a part of every society. However, the structure and values of a particular society shape both the incidences of crime and the punishment of criminals. When the United States became an independent nation, politicians and civilians began the process of deciding which systems of punishment were appropriate for dealing with crimea process that continues to this day. Crime and Punishment in America examines the development of crime and punishment in the United Statesfrom the criminal justice practices of American Indians and the influence of colonists to the mistreatment of slaves, as well as such current criminal issues as the response to international terrorism.