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For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court a...
How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime
"James B. Jacobs presents the first comprehensive account of the ways in which the Cosa Nostra infiltrated key sectors of New York City's legitimate e...
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Criminal Law and Identity Politics
In the early 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to concerted advocacy-group lobbying, Congress and many ...
Few schisms in American life run as deep or as wide as the divide between gun rights and gun control advocates where the debate is largely defined by ...
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United States V. Cosa Nostra
She may have had a soap opera private life, which included a very public marriage and breakup with George Jones, among other things, but Tammy Wynette...
The Unfulfilled Promise of New York's SAFE Act
A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcement A month after the San...
How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
Using anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, Anechiarico and Jacobs demonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing a...
The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Jos...
The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
The first book to document organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort....
The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob
In 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering suit against the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Te...
This title traces the history of US v. IBT (International Brotherhood of Teamsters), beginning with Giuliani's controversial lawsuit and continuing wi...
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Monograph on trade unionization and collective bargaining activities of public servants employed as prison guards in the USA - examines bargaining and...
Few schisms in American life run as deep or as wide as the divide between gun rights and gun control advocates. Awash in sound and symbol, the gun reg...
The Debate Over Nurse Preparation
The question of how to best prepare nurses for practice continues to be debated extensively. The crux of the debate is whether a bachelor of science i...
Prisons, Mental Hospitals, Schools, and Military : Cases and Materials
An Invitation to Criminologists and Criminal Law Scholars
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A comprehensive assessment of real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcementA month after the Sand...