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Pursuit of Absolute Integrity
How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
Av Frank Anechiarico, James B. Jacobs
Inbunden, 1996
857 kr
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Anticorruption reforms provide political cover for public officials, but do they really work? This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern. Over the last century, the authors …
Pursuit of Absolute Integrity
How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
Av Frank Anechiarico, James B. Jacobs
Häftad, 1998
256 kr
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Anticorruption reforms provide political cover for public officials, but do they really work? This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern. Over the last century, the authors …
Prison
Policy and Practice
Häftad, 1982
325 kr
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Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with …
Stateville
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Häftad, 1978
325 kr
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Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum …
Drunk Driving
An American Dilemma
Häftad, 1992
275 kr
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In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, …
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds
Conundrums of the Criminal Law
Av Leo Katz
Häftad, 1987
315 kr
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With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. "Bad Acts and Guilty Minds ...revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast …
Social Control of the Drinking Driver
Av Michael D. Laurence, John R. Snortum m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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Drunken driving is the most serious crime likely to be committed by an adult. Each year in the United States it is responsible for approximately 20,000 fatalities, more than 500,000 arrests, and millions of violations. It involves a wider variety of social classes and economic strata than any other …
Poor Discipline
Inbunden, 1993
1080 kr
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This book reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and, by all accounts, their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections …
Poor Discipline
Häftad, 1997
325 kr
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This book reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and, by all accounts, their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections …
Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior – Social Structure and Corporate Misconduct
Häftad, 1985
265 kr
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Diane Vaughan reconstructs the Ohio Revco case, an example of Medicaid provider fraud in which a large drugstore chain initiated a computer-generated double billing scheme that cost the state and federal government half a million dollars in Medicaid funds, funds that the company believed were …
Delinquency in a Birth Cohort
Av Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
385 kr
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"Delinquency in a Birth Cohort is a turning point in criminological research in the United States," writes Norval Morris in his foreword. "What has been completely lacking until this book is an analysis of delinquency in a substantial cohort of youths, the cohort being defined other than by their …
Scale of Imprisonment
Av Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon J. Hawkins
Häftad, 1993
265 kr
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Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, …
