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Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights / by Chemerinsky, Erwin,author.(CARDINAL)341936;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index."I Can't Breathe" Why courts can't stop police from using chokeholds -- Confronting the realities of race and policing -- The Supreme Court's essential role in enforcing the Constitution and controlling police -- The Court and policing before 1953 -- Why the Court ignored policing for much of American history -- Judicial silence on Constitutional protections and remedies before 1953 -- Finally enforcing constitutional protections and remedies -- "Each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind" applying the Bill of Rights to state and local police -- Both limiting and empowering police the Warren Court and the Fourth Amendment -- Miranda trying to solve the problem of coercion in police interrogations -- Protecting the innocent from wrongful convictions -- Safeguards against false eyewitness identifications -- Rights need remedies -- "Only the guilty have something to hide" undermining Fourth Amendment protections -- Hollowing out Miranda -- Refusing to check police eyewitness identification procedures -- Eroding remedies for police misconduct -- Police can stop anyone, at any time, and search them -- You don't really have the right to remain silent -- Ignoring the problem of false eyewitness identifications -- The vanishing remedies for police misconduct -- Overcoming the Supreme Court to reform policing -- The path to meaningful police reform."Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and courts to presume that suspects are guilty before being charged. Demonstrating how the prodefendant Warren Court was a brief historical aberration, Erwin Chemerinsky shows how this more liberal era ended with Nixon's presidency and the ascendance of conservative justices, whose rulings-like Terry v. Ohio and Los Angeles v. Lyons-have permitted stops and frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of chokeholds. Presumed Guilty concludes that an approach to policing that continues to exalt "Dirty Harry" can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights"--

Subjects: United States. Supreme Court.; Police misconduct; Police brutality; Police power; Tort liability of police; Discrimination in justice administration; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Race discrimination; Civil rights; African Americans;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8

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Against capital punishment / by Yost, Benjamin S.(Benjamin Schertz),author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index.Death and retribution -- The necessity of execution -- The irrevocability of execution -- The argument for abolition -- The prospects of the new proceduralism."Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about the specter of procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. Philosophers and legal theorists are attracted to procedural abolitionism because it sidesteps controversies over whether murderers deserve death, holding out a promise of persuading those who favor the death penalty on substantive grounds. Following in this path, Yost's contention is not that the act of execution is substantively immoral; in fact, he presumes the appropriateness of execution for some first-degree murderers and carefully reconstructs the best defenses of the death penalty. Rather, his strategy is to show that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of capital punishment. Yost's approach is novel in its breadth and depth. He is the first to provide a comprehensive philosophical defense of the well-known irrevocability argument, analyzing its premises, establishing their validity, and vindicating them against objections. Yost's central claim is that capital punishment is unjust insofar as execution violates the principle of remedy, which requires legal institutions to remedy their mistakes and to compensate those who suffer from wrongful sanctions. The death penalty is repellent to the principle of remedy by dint of its irrevocability. This incompatibility is at the heart of his abolitionist argument: because the wrongly executed cannot enjoy the obligatory remedial measures, execution is impermissible. Yost also takes pains to defend the irrevocability of execution"--

Subjects: Capital punishment;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Hard choices / by Clinton, Hillary Rodham,author.(CARDINAL)207050;

The former Secretary of State, senator, and First Lady shares candid reflections about the key moments of her service in the Obama Administration as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Clinton, Hillary Rodham.; United States. Congress. Senate; Cabinet officers; Women cabinet officers; Presidents' spouses; Legislators; Women legislators; Presidential candidates; Women presidential candidates;

Available copies: 65 / Total copies: 82

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Ghost plane : the true story of the CIA torture program / by Grey, Stephen,1968-(CARDINAL)283608;

Investigative journalist Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. He takes an unflinching look at a practice that scorns Geneva Convention rules and is powered by corruption at the highest levels of governments worldwide-- individuals abducted at airports around the world and transported for interrogation and torture on planes manned by CIA operatives. Using contacts deep inside the government, Grey paints a disturbing ethical picture of the war on terror as he reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth of statements made by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. He also shines a spotlight on the heads of European nations who turned a blind eye to the program when it showed up in their back yards.--From publisher description.

Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Torture; Intelligence service;

Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12

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Profiling and criminal justice in America : a reference handbook / by Bumgarner, Jeffrey B.(CARDINAL)468757;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Background and history -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Perspectives -- Profiles -- Data and documents -- Resources -- Chronology."Seven of ten African American men between the ages of 18 and 34 believe they have been victims of an insidious form of discrimination: racial profiling. Are they right? Or rather, is profiling a legitimate, fair, and effective law enforcement tool? This unique handbook examines the history behind racial, gender, and religious profiling, charts its guiding philosophies, surveys supporting legal doctrines and legislation, and presents the arguments pro and con. It focuses on profiling by police, prosecutors, and judges; federal and state civil rights laws; key legal cases and studies; and more. Whether one wishes to explore racial profiling by state troopers in New Jersey, the identification of serial killers by the FBI, or the screening of potential terrorists by airport security, this is the book to consult. Features: Includes a chronology of key events in American criminal justice including discussions of key court cases, developments in criminal procedure, the development of sentencing guidelines, civil rights milestones, and examples of court-sanctioned profiling such as the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; Includes brief biographies of key people such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Douglas, Jesse Jackson, and Janet Reno." -- Publisher's website.

Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Racial profiling in law enforcement;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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The volunteer : the failure of the death penalty in America and one inmate's quest to die with dignity / by Toboni, Gianna,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-308)."A riveting account of one death row inmate's quest to die--and a fearless look at how America's system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada's death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn't cry foul or embark upon a protracted innocence campaign. He sought instead to expedite his execution--to hasten his inevitable death. He decided he would rather face his end swiftly than die slowly in solitary confinement. In volunteering for execution, Dozier may have been unusual. But in the tortuous events that led his death date to be scheduled and rescheduled, planned and then stayed, his time on death row was anything but. In The Volunteer, Emmy award-winning investigative reporter Gianna Toboni traces the twists and turns of Dozier's story, along the way offering a hard look at the history and controversy that surround the death penalty today. Toboni reveals it to be a system rife with black market dealings and supply chain labyrinths, with disputed drugs and botched executions. Today's death penalty, generally carried out through lethal injection, has proven so cumbersome, ineffective, and potentially harrowing that some states have considered a return to the electric chairs and firing squads of the past, believing those approaches to be not only more effective but more humane. No matter where you stand on the morality of capital punishment, there's no denying that the death penalty is failing the American public. With costs running into the billions and countless lives kept in limbo, it has proven incapable of achieving its desired end: executing the inmates that fellow Americans have deemed guilty of the most heinous crimes. With The Volunteer, Toboni offers an insightful and profound look at how the death penalty went so terribly wrong. A spellbinding story down to its shocking conclusion, it brings to light the horrifying realities of state-sanctioned killings--realities that many would prefer to ignore"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Capital punishment; Prisoners; Criminal justice, Administration of; Capital punishment;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4

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Hard choices / by Clinton, Hillary Rodham,author.(CARDINAL)207050;

Part 1: A fresh start. 2008 : team of rivals ; Foggy bottom : smart power -- Part 2: Across the Pacific. Asia : the pivot ; China : uncharted waters ; Beijing : the dissident ; Burma : the lady and the generals -- Part 3: War and peace. Af-Pak : surge ; Afghanistan : to end a war ; Pakistan : national honor -- Part 4: Between hope and history. Europe : ties that bind ; Russia : reset and regression ; Latin America : democrats and demagogues ; Africa : guns or growth? -- Part 5: Upheaval. The Middle East : the rocky path of peace ; The Arab Spring : revolution ; Libya : all necessary measures ; Benghazi : under attack ; Iran : sanctions and secrets ; Syria : a wicked problem ; Gaza : anatomy of a cease-fire -- Part 6: The future we want. Climate change : we're all in this together ; Jobs and energy : a level playing field ; Haiti : disaster and development ; 21st-Century statecraft : digital diplomacy in a networked world ; Human rights : unfinished business -- Epilogue.Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. "All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become." In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton's descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer listeners a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world-one in which America remains the indispensable nation. -- Publisher description.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Clinton, Hillary Rodham.; Obama, Barack.; Cabinet officers; Stateswomen;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Black girlhood, punishment, and resistance : reimagining justice for Black girls in Virginia / by Battle, Nishaun T.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Black Girlhood, Resistance, and Punishment: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century. It looks at the ways in which the court system punished Black girls based upon societal accepted norms of punishment of Black girls, hinged on a notion that they were to be viewed and treated as adults within the criminal legal system. Further, the book explores the role of Black Club women and girls, as agents of resistance against injustice by shaping a social justice framework and praxis for Black girls, by examining the establishment of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls. This school was established by the Virginia State Federation of Black Women's Clubs and its first President, Janie Porter Barrett. This book advances contemporary criminological understanding of punishment by locating the historical origins of an environment normalizing unequal justice. It draws from a specific focus on Janie Porter Barrett and the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls; a groundbreaking court case of the first female to be executed in Virginia; historical newspapers; and Black Women's Club archives to highlight the complexities of Black girls' experiences within the criminal justice system and spaces created to promote social justice for these girls. The historical approach unearths the justice system's role in crafting the pervasive devaluation of Black girlhood through racialized, gendered, and economic-based punishment. Secondly, it offers insight into the ways in which, historically, Black women have contributed to what the book conceptualizes as "resistance criminology," offering policy implications for transformative social and legal justice for Black girls and girls of color impacted by violence and punishment. Lastly, it offers a lens to explore Black girl resistance strategies, through the lens of the Black Girlhood Justice framework. Black Girlhood, Resistance, and Punishment uses a historical intersectionality framework to provide a comprehensive overview of cultural, socioeconomic, and legal infrastructures as they relate to the punishment of Black girls. The research illustrates how the presumption of guilt of Black people shaped the ways that punishment and the creation of deviant Black female identities were legally sanctioned. It is essential reading for academics and students researching and studying crime, criminal justice, theoretical criminology, women's studies, Black girlhood studies, history, gender, race, and socioeconomic class. It is also intended for social justice organizations, community leaders, and activists engaged in promoting social and legal justice for the youth"--

Subjects: African American juvenile delinquents; Female juvenile delinquents; Juvenile corrections; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; African American girls;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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