- The Challenge of Crime
- Henry Ruth
- Kevin R. Reitz
- Rejecting traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, The Challenge of Crime examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Death by a Thousand Cuts
- Timothy Brook
- Jérôme Bourgon
- Gregory Blue
- In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts” or “death by slicing,” this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905.
- Hardcover 2008
- Getting Away With Murder
- Susan Estrich
- At a time when three-quarters of black Americans believe that the criminal justice system is racist and unfair; when nearly half of all whites think it's ineffective and in decline; when crime, though falling, still tops the list of public concerns, and politicians exploit public distrust of the system to get elected, Getting Away with Murder makes a statement that is powerful, controversial, and urgently needed.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- Minding Justice
- Christopher Slobogin
- Minding Justice offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities. A milestone in criminal mental health law, this book provides innovative solutions to ancient problems associated with criminal responsibility, protection of society from "dangerous" individuals, and the state's authority to act paternalistically.
- Hardcover 2006
- Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- Elizabeth S. Scott
- Laurence Steinberg
- What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
- Hardcover 2008
- Security in Paraguay
- James L. Cavallaro
- Jacob Kopas
- Yukyan Lam
- Timothy Mayhle
- Soledad Villagra de Biedermann
- The perception of rising insecurity has plagued Paraguay over the past decade as the country has continued its transition from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the same time, reforms of the penal code and the code of criminal procedure have been implemented, leading many to attribute the rising sense of insecurity to the new, rights-based approach to criminal justice. In Security in Paraguay, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School assesses the disparity between the sensation of insecurity and actual levels of urban crime.
- Paperback 2008