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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Vann V. Scott
Author: Clearinghouse Review
Author: California. Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Oversight Hearing on the Runaway Youth Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Economic OpportunityPublisher:
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Category : Runaway teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Defendant's Rights Today
Author: David FellmanPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299072049
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
With this comprehensive study, written in lay language, David Fellman provides an up-to-date analysis of the rights of the accused, certain to be welcomed by political scientists, students of public law, and all with an interest in due process of law. Since Fellman's 1958 book, The Defendant's Rights, substantial changes in the criminal justice system have occured. The past few decades before the publication of The Defendant's Rights Today have been witness to a striking expansion of the central concept of due process of law as it relates to criminal justice. The subject of defendants' rights is broad and complex. Fellman here explores its underlying concepts, bringing together a comprehensive discussion of the effects of the criminal justice system on the accused from arrest, through trial, to post-conviction remedies.
Nomination of John Paul Stevens to be a Justice of the Supreme Court
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional RightsPublisher:
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Category : Behavior modification
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Drugs in institutions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile DelinquencyPublisher:
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Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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The Trials of Nina McCall
Author: Scott W. SternPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807042757
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the United States government throughout the twentieth century. Tens, probably hundreds, of thousands of women and girls were locked up—usually without due process—simply because officials suspected these women were prostitutes, carrying STIs, or just “promiscuous.” This discriminatory program, dubbed the “American Plan,” lasted from the 1910s into the 1950s, implicating a number of luminaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Earl Warren, and even Eliot Ness, while laying the foundation for the modern system of women’s prisons. In some places, vestiges of the Plan lingered into the 1960s and 1970s, and the laws that undergirded it remain on the books to this day. Nina McCall’s story provides crucial insight into the lives of countless other women incarcerated under the American Plan. Stern demonstrates the pain and shame felt by these women and details the multitude of mortifications they endured, both during and after their internment. Yet thousands of incarcerated women rioted, fought back against their oppressors, or burned their detention facilities to the ground; they jumped out of windows or leapt from moving trains or scaled barbed-wire fences in order to escape. And, as Nina McCall did, they sued their captors. In an age of renewed activism surrounding harassment, health care, prisons, women’s rights, and the power of the state, this virtually lost chapter of our history is vital reading.
Law and Mental Disability
Author: Michael L. PerlinPublisher: Michie
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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