Racial profiling involves law enforcement actions based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than on the criminal behavior of an individual. In practice, it leads police to stop and inspect selected people passing through public places-- passengers on airplanes, drivers…
Is membership in a group ever a sufficient reason for special investigation, or do such actions always violate civil liberties? How common is racial profiling according to available evidence? What actions have opponents taken to end the practice? Is racial profiling effective in…
Provides an overview and background of racial profiling that includes law enforcement, immigration, and anti-terrorism screening and includes reference resources and research guides as well as information on key Supreme Court cases.
This title chronicles the transformation of the United States Circuit Courts; considers the merits and dangers of continued truncating procedures; catalogues and responds to the array of specious arguments against increasing the size of the judiciary; and considers several ways …
This study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary, and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable…
"This book explores the tension between law's need for and dependence on merciful judgments and suspicions that regularly accompany them"--Résumé de l'éditeur. "Merciful Judgments in Contemporary Society: Legal Problems/Legal Possibilities explores the tension between law's nee…
"The results of their national study will surprise man legislative and youth service policy professionals. Agency characteristics, service delivery patterns, and youth clients can indeed reflect the treatment, deterrence, and normalization rationales, but in ways that have littl…
Using the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, the author explores how far local characteristics affected the operation of a criminal justice system transplanted from England. His analysis includes:…
Tyler conducted a longitudinal study of 1,575 Chicago inhabitants to determine why people obey the law. His findings show that the law is obeyed primarily because people believe in respecting legitimate authority, not because they fear punishment. The author concludes that lawma…
This book examines a number of well-known cases of wrongful conviction in Canada, showing that these convictions are not always due to “unintended errors”, but can also be the result of systemic biases within the criminal justice system which weigh the scales strongly against mi…
"How can Aboriginal justice be practically implemented in ways that go beyond sentencing initiatives and parallels to restorative justice? Aboriginal Justice and the Charter explores the tension between Aboriginal justice methods and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, …