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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD.
Language
English
Description
In the twelfth season, crimes of passion come to the forefront. Tensions are running high amongst New York's finest investigative and legal professionals with cases ranging from dog maulings to revived cold cases that bring to light errors of the past. But as the season builds to a frenzy, some of the team will find themselves under attack for taking justice to the extreme.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Lacino Hamilton sent thousands of letters advocating for his innocence and critiquing the prison-industrial complex before he was finally exonerated twenty-six years later. Collected here, hisletters demonstrate why he has become a leading voice on abolition, incarceration, and justice"--
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD.
Language
English
Description
This series explores the judicial system from the point-of-view of police and prosecutors, the defense team, judges, jurors, and the defendants themselves. It contains all 13 episodes of the series, including one that was never broadcast on network TV.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"James Comey, former FBI Director and New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Following his character's series of personal tragedies, Benjamin Bratt says goodbye to Detective Reynaldo 'Rey' Curtis. This must-own, five-disc collection of the entire ninth season includes the crossover episode 'Sideshow: Part Two.' Dick Wolf brings you all 24 episodes featuring gripping cases and compelling guest stars.
Author
Language
English
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Publisher's description: Alexander, a civil rights advocate and legal scholar, argues that, despite decades of legal dismantling of Jim Crow and the election of the nation's first black president, the racial caste system has not ended in America; it has only been redesigned. In this legal and historical study, Alexander documents how the targeting of black men by the criminal justice system in the war on drugs functions as a system of racial control:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. The events chosen are unique, have some surprising twist, serve as a landmark or benchmark event, or just stand out in the annals of western justice"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his...
35) Punching the air
Author
Publisher
Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure--wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation--reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first "law and order" president. Hayes examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprecedented decline that followed. Drawing on close-hand reporting at flashpoints...
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