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"Beach Nights and Blue Lights" chronicles the amusing adventures of law enforcement in a 1970s eastern North Carolina beach town. From beach brawls to baffling burglaries, these stories highlight the comedic side of keeping peace in a place where anything could happen and usually did.

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Offers students a comparative analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have 'father-friendly' social policies and why others don't. -- .

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Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport News, Virginia, and London, this important book assesses what can be done by enterprising police chiefs and progressive communities to combat the crime and violence that currently engulf our cities.

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America's three most recent wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have raised profound questions about when to use military force, for what purpose, and who should make the decision whether to go to war.

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This book is a comprehensive inquiry into the rehabilitation of criminal offenders and is based on extensive cross-cultural research on legal, ethical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological aspects of rehabilitation.

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Pinder examines the interrelatedness of globalization and workfare and how this interrelatedness is impacting black single mother welfare recipients. The book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black women and the American economy.

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The author explores critical issues such as the rates of delinquency among Black youths, explanations of delinquency, and the juvenile justice system's treatment of Black youths, as well as the policy implications for designing culturally sensitive and effective delinquency treatment and prevention programs.

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This book examines 50 capital crimes committed in Great Britain in the twentieth century in which the accused was found guilty and either executed or sentenced to life imprisonment. The essays explain why there was reasonable doubt as to either the guilt or sanity of the accused but also present the prosecution's perspective.

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A startling look at how breakthroughs in DNA testing are having a tumultuous impact on criminal investigations

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Many people believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us from crime. But do we want our police forces to become armies This volume arises from the author's study of the police shootings and paramilitarization of the police in Australia.

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According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional - exceptionally stingy and backwards. This title explains why the country's leading role was short-lived. It shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed.

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Bernard O'Mahoney was a key member of the Essex Boys firm - one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain.

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This is an original and scholarly study of the role of books and libraries in British prisons during the period of penal reforms between 1700 and 1911.

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Despite the popular perception that genetic explanations of the causes of crime are new, biological determinism dates back to the birth of criminology, and the ideas of the man widely regarded as its founder, Cesare Lombroso.

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Sheriffs, marshals, and bounty hunters are remembered as relics of our Wild West past. Pope looks at these agents of the law who operate outside police departments, particularly their roles in urban areas.

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Here, Myers examines the demographic, legal, criminal, and social characteristics of those youth who are waived to adult courts, assessing the nature, use, and effectiveness of punishment and rehabilitation efforts in modern juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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People pay immigration officers not to ask, customs officials not to inspect, and police officers not to investigate. People pay immigration officers not to ask, customs officials not to inspect, and police officers not to investigate.

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This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.