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Crime in Verse : The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era / by O'Brien, Ellen L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murder.…”
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Crime in Verse : The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era / by O'Brien, Ellen L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murder.…”
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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / by Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman -- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality -- Romancing the highwayman -- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures -- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams.…”
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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / by Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman -- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality -- Romancing the highwayman -- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures -- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams.…”
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Race, ethnicity, and crime alternate perspectives / by Williams, Dianne, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Race, ethnicity, and criminality : is there a relationship? -- The criminal justice system -- Race, ethnicity, and the media -- Race and the death penalty -- Race, ethnicity and terrorism -- Race, ethnicity, and human trafficking -- Race, ethnicity, and the concept of crime : an alternate perspective -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Race, ethnicity, and crime alternate perspectives / by Williams, Dianne, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Race, ethnicity, and criminality : is there a relationship? -- The criminal justice system -- Race, ethnicity, and the media -- Race and the death penalty -- Race, ethnicity and terrorism -- Race, ethnicity, and human trafficking -- Race, ethnicity, and the concept of crime : an alternate perspective -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Firearms and violence a critical review /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership -- Firearms, injury, and crime -- Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition -- The use of guns to defend against criminals -- Right-to-carry laws -- Firearms and suicide -- Firearm injury prevention programs -- Criminal justice interventions to reduce gun violence.…”
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Firearms and violence a critical review /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Data for measuring firearms violence and ownership -- Firearms, injury, and crime -- Interventions aimed at illegal firearm acquisition -- The use of guns to defend against criminals -- Right-to-carry laws -- Firearms and suicide -- Firearm injury prevention programs -- Criminal justice interventions to reduce gun violence.…”
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Marked race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration / by Pager, Devah

Table of Contents: “…Mass incarceration and the problems of prisoner reentry -- The labor market consequences of incarceration -- Measuring the labor market consequences of incarceration -- The mark of a criminal record -- The mark of race -- Two strikes and you're out : the intensification of racial and criminal stigma -- But what if-- ? …”
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Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro trafficking, social networks, & public security / by Arias, Enrique Desmond

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil -- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city" -- Network approach to criminal politics -- Tubarão -- Santa Ana -- Vigário Geral -- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America -- Theorizing the politics of social violence -- Epilogue: Rio 2005.…”
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Marked race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration / by Pager, Devah

Table of Contents: “…Mass incarceration and the problems of prisoner reentry -- The labor market consequences of incarceration -- Measuring the labor market consequences of incarceration -- The mark of a criminal record -- The mark of race -- Two strikes and you're out : the intensification of racial and criminal stigma -- But what if-- ? …”
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Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro trafficking, social networks, & public security / by Arias, Enrique Desmond

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil -- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city" -- Network approach to criminal politics -- Tubarão -- Santa Ana -- Vigário Geral -- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America -- Theorizing the politics of social violence -- Epilogue: Rio 2005.…”
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Victims as offenders the paradox of women's violence in relationships / by Miller, Susan L.

Table of Contents: “…Defining the dilemma -- The controversy about women's use of force -- The research project : female offenders and the criminal justice system -- On the beat : the police ride-along study -- After arrest : criminal justice professionals and social service providers -- A day in the life : inside a female offender's treatment group -- The contexts of "violent" behavior -- Implications.…”
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Victims as offenders the paradox of women's violence in relationships / by Miller, Susan L.

Table of Contents: “…Defining the dilemma -- The controversy about women's use of force -- The research project : female offenders and the criminal justice system -- On the beat : the police ride-along study -- After arrest : criminal justice professionals and social service providers -- A day in the life : inside a female offender's treatment group -- The contexts of "violent" behavior -- Implications.…”
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No higher calling, no greater responsibility a prosecutor makes his case / by Suthers, John W.

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a prosecutor -- Criminal trials: the prosecutor as protagonist -- The criminal law: the ten commandments versus the seven deadly sins -- Punishment : "a pound of flesh" versus "the quality of mercy" -- A higher duty : prosecutorial politics and ethics -- The federal prosecutor -- The state attorney general : law enforcer or public policy maker? …”
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No higher calling, no greater responsibility a prosecutor makes his case / by Suthers, John W.

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a prosecutor -- Criminal trials: the prosecutor as protagonist -- The criminal law: the ten commandments versus the seven deadly sins -- Punishment : "a pound of flesh" versus "the quality of mercy" -- A higher duty : prosecutorial politics and ethics -- The federal prosecutor -- The state attorney general : law enforcer or public policy maker? …”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity / by Schull, Kent F.

Table of Contents: “…Ottoman criminal justice and the transformation of Islamic criminal law and punishment in the age of modernity, 1839-1922 -- Prison reform in the late Ottoman Empire : the state's perspectives -- Counting the incarcerated : knowledge, power and the prison population -- The spatialisation of incarceration : reforms, response and the reality of prison life -- Disciplining the disciplinarians : combating corruption and abuse through the professionalisation of the prison cadre -- Creating juvenile delinquents : redefining childhood in the late Ottoman Empire.…”
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Socially engaged Buddhism by King, Sallie B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophy and ethics -- Spirituality -- War and peace -- Economics -- Ecology -- Human rights and criminal justice -- Challenging tradition -- Conclusion.…”
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Socially engaged Buddhism by King, Sallie B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophy and ethics -- Spirituality -- War and peace -- Economics -- Ecology -- Human rights and criminal justice -- Challenging tradition -- Conclusion.…”
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