Thurgood Marshal dissented in the 1964 Supreme Court case of Reynolds v. Sim, saying that the right to vote is essential to a democracy, and any restriction of that right "strikes at the heart of repr
Caspi (law and political science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City U. of New York) reminds us that violent domestic far-right groups in the U.S. such as the Aryan Nations are as much of a th
Prior (criminology and criminal justice, East Tennessee State U.) is also a licensed mental health professional who works with juvenile and adult males in custody. She explores the effects of alternat
Since the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States has experienced a "moral panic" involving various combinations of the media, the public, and agents of social control that has served to hel
Following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, segregationist leaders proposed a program of "massive resistance" and segregation at all costs, yet cracks nevertheless began to ap
Carter (public and environmental affairs, Indiana U. Purdue U.-Indianapolis) applies what has been learned from the adoption of community policing in the US to identify successful implementation pract
Garcia (education, U. Southern California) presents this qualitative set of case studies on undocumented young adults pursuing a college education. The book is systematically arranged with an introduc
This volume identifies the national policies that the United States Congress has passed in order to shape migrant admissions over the years 1965-2008 and to analyze the causal reasons for the various
This is a sociological comparison of the higher education experiences of immigrant and native-born black students in the United States based on interviews conducted within the University of California
Author Bozeman, retired from the Houston Police Department Homicide Division, demonstrates that Emile Durkheim’s suicide typologies can be applied to homicide, in this study for sociologists, criminol
Addressing domestic violence in the context of female victims, the author examines the aspects of culture that impact the processing of domestic violence cases in two court models: a traditional court
Monroe (criminal justice, Xavier U.) posits that although rates of adult homicides in which handguns were the primary weapon have declined, there is no statistical indication that the Brady Handgun Vi
This study explores the experiences of Latino immigrant students in one classroom at a high school in the upper Midwest through their stories, within the historical and contemporary context of immigra
Ferraro’s doctoral dissertation analyzes changes in violent and property crime rates in areas home to immigrants, crime against immigrants in those same areas, and whether the effect of immigration on
Cook assesses whether the general consistency that has been reported to exist between US Supreme Court opinions and public opinions is also present for one specific areas of constitutional law: First
For two decades, Anthony M. Kennedy has cast the deciding vote in many US Supreme Court decisions, but his legal philosophy has been little studied, says Bartl. He seeks a consistency among the divers
Weber and Pelfrey examine how teenagers' peer networks extend from the school day to social technology and back to school, focusing on the rate that cyberbullying occurs and the characteristics of bei
Part of the “Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship” series offering the latest approaches to crime in America, this book examines the decline of community policing. John M. Ray, the Executive Deputy fo
This work presents an original research study and original assessment scale called the Criminal Sentiments Scale, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive intervention program currently b
