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Remember: the journey to school integration
Par Toni Morrison. 2004
An account of the thoughts and feelings of children involved in school desegregation. Provides background to the 1954 groundbreaking Brown…
v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision and the movement to eliminate racist laws. For grades 3-6. 2004And justice for all: the legal rights of young people
Par Sandra Nunez. 1997
Explores several legal issues, including First Amendment protections, right to privacy, labor laws, and discrimination, as they relate to young…
people. Presents case histories and events that compelled courts and legislatures to reexamine the prerogatives and protections of the youth in America. For senior high and older readersBeyond the grave: the right way and the wrong way of leaving money to your children (and others)
Par Gerald Condon. 2001
Two attorneys, father and son, discuss the emotional and psychological aspects of inheritance and family conflicts that can arise. Includes…
information on living trusts, wills, avoiding probate, the IRS, grandchildren, disabled children, second spouses, pets, and more. 2001Law 101: everything you need to know about the American legal system
Par Jay Feinman. 2000
A law professor provides an overview of information typically taught in the first year of law school. Using well-known cases…
to illustrate his points, Feinman discusses constitutional law; the litigation process; personal injury and tort law; contract, criminal, and property law; and more. 2000Le Québec sur le divan: raisonnements de psys sur une société en crise
Par Rose-Marie Charest, Abdelaziz Chrigui, Éric Clément, Marc-Alain Wolf. 2008
"Sous la direction du journaliste Éric Clément et du psychiatre Marc-Alain Wolf, 10 psychologues et psychiatres qui pratiquent leur profession…
au Québec analysent le débat des accommodements raisonnables selon leur point de vue de cliniciens. Cinq d'entre eux sont d'origine québécoise et cinq autres sont des Québécois d'adoption. Quel sera leur bilan de l'état psychologique du Québec à l'heure des accommodements raisonnables? En pensant au Québec comme un patient à guider, les psys avancent des diagnostics allant de la personnalité borderline au syndrome du père manquant, pour ne nommer que ceux-là. Dans un discours constructif et imagé, le collectif retrace l'évolution récente du Québec, son ouverture (ou son manque d'ouverture) au monde extérieur ainsi que la question nationale et identitaire, l'effacement rapide de la religion et les inquiétudes du moment, et ce, des deux points de vue concernés. Après avoir donné leur diagnostic et livré leurs analyses de spécialistes, quels traitements ces professionnels de la santé mentale proposent-ils à la nation québécoise [...]?" -- 4e de couvThe excuse factory: how employment law is paralyzing the American workplace
Par Walter Olson. 1997
Cites negative impacts of employment legislation, including laws regarding affirmative action, sex and age discrimination, various forms of harassment, and…
the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Argues that the ADA has actually harmed severely disabled workers in their search for jobs commensurate with their skills. 1997Epperson v. Arkansas: the evolution/creationism debate
Par Jonathan Thorndike. 1999
Examines the 1968 Supreme Court case that dealt with the question of whether teaching creationism rather than evolution in Arkansas…
schools was acceptable. Also discusses the history and theories behind the conflict. For junior and senior high readers. 1999A trial by jury
Par D. Burnett. 2001
An academic historian recounts his personal experiences as jury foreman in the murder trial of a male prostitute. Details of…
the crime provide necessary background to the sequestered jury's heated discussions during the intense sixty-six hours leading to a verdict. Reveals difficulties inherent in the American legal system. Some descriptions of sex. 2001Essays by academics, historians, social critics, a Chicago congressman, and a former New York City police detective place corruption and…
brutality in intellectual and historical context. Explains how such activities have influenced America's culture. Details numerous incidents perpetrated primarily against African Americans. 2000Brown v. Board of Education: equal schooling for all
Par Harvey Fireside. 1994
Discusses the 1954 Supreme Court case that dealt with school segregation and ended the policy of maintaining separate institutions by…
race. Discusses the historical background, conditions in Kansas that prompted the legal challenge, and the nationwide impact of the decision. For junior and senior high readers. 1994The American Bar Association guide to home ownership: the complete and easy guide to all the law every home owner should know
Par American Bar Association. 1995
Explanation of the legal framework of rights and duties associated with home ownership. Discusses forms of ownership, deeds, titles, insurance,…
taxes, and the financial side of owning a home. Gives tips on avoiding liability, remodeling without getting swindled, and resolving problems with neighbors. Addresses special concerns of aging home ownersThe American Bar Association guide to wills and estates: everything you need to know about wills, trusts, estates, and taxes
Par American Bar Association. 1995
Explains that a person's estate consists of real estate, tangible personal property such as cars and furniture, and intangible property…
such as pensions, bank accounts, and insurance. Guidelines for estate planning include information on wills, trusts, and living wills and cover common estate-planning situationsThe rights of older persons (American Civil Liberties Union handbook)
Par Robert Brown. 1989
Published in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union, this guide sets forth the rights of older persons under the…
laws in force in 1989. The author notes that laws change rapidly and indicates which ones undergo frequent changes. Divided into three sections, the topics cover the right to an adequate income, the right to health care, and the right to freedom from restraints on life, liberty, and propertyIn defense of American liberties: a history of the ACLU
Par Samuel Walker. 1990
The author is a professor of criminal justice and a member of the board of directors of the American Civil…
Liberties Union (ACLU). Begun after World War I to protect freedom of speech, the ACLU has fought for desegregation of the armed forces, opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee and McCarthyism, and taken on other Constitutional issuesA Digest of legislation relating to travel with dog guides
Par Inc Eye. 1987
A digest of statutes from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the provinces of Canada on…
the legal rights of blind persons who use dog guides. Seventh editionThe law (in plain English) for writers
Par Leonard DuBoff. 1987
Guide to legal matters of special concern to writers. Included are chapters on taxes, contracts, finding and dealing with publishers…
and agents, copyright law, libel, and estate planning. Also includes lists of organizations that offer help, and commonly used legal and publishing termsLucky
Par Alice Sebold. 2005
Derrière la petite Susie de La nostalgie de l'ange se cachait en fait Alice Sebold qui n'a jamais oublié qu'elle…
crut mourir sous les coups de son violeur à l'âge de dix-huit ans. Elle revient sur cette épreuve d'autant plus douloureuse que tout le monde, y compris les policiers et son père, la soupçonnait d'avoir été consentante.Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence
Par Karen F. Parker. 2008
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented,…
few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence--and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today's issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America's landmark crime drop.Criminal Sociology
By Enrico Ferri.
A new departure in science is a simple phenomenon of nature, determined in its origin and progress, like all such…
phenomena, by conditions of time and place. Attention must be drawn to these conditions at the outset, for it is only by accurately defining them that the scientific conscience of the student of sociology is developed and confirmed. The experimental philosophy of the latter half of our century, combined with human biology and psychology, and with the natural study of human society, had already produced an intellectual atmosphere decidedly favourable to a practical inquiry into the criminal manifestations of individual and social life. To these general conditions must be added the plain and everyday contrast between the metaphysical perfection of criminal law and the progressive increase of crime, as well as the contrast between legal theories of crime and the study of the mental characteristics of a large number of criminals.Kid Pirates: Their Battles, Shipwrecks, & Narrow Escapes (Ten True Tales)
Par Allan Zullo. 2007
Some volunteered. Others were forced to serve. But each of these young people sailed with the world's most feared pirates…
-- from the notorious Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to Sir Henry Morgan and others. Some of these kids fought side-by-side with the pirates, and others tried to escape. You will never forget their incredible true stories.