Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Carlson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Carlson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America todayThe United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked--Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred

The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (Ferguson Andrew Guthrie)(Paperback)

Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance

The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Guns: Pistols, Rifles, Revolvers, Machine and Submachine Guns Through History in 1100 Clear Photographs (Fowler Will)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative historical guide to the world of military, antique and law-enforcement firearms, photographed

German Machine Guns of the Second World War (Seidler Hans)(Pevná vazba)

German Machine Guns of the Second World War is a highly illustrated record of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photographs, all from the author's collection, come originally from the albums of individuals who took part in the war.Arranged by theater chronologically, the book

The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction (Peck Alison)(Pevná vazba)

How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency--and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system

Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States (Kraut Julia Rose)(Pevná vazba)

In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration. Beginning with the

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Sarat Austin)(Pevná vazba)

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections, focusing on the interaction between law and religion, together with the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social

Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos (Duke George)(Pevná vazba)

In Aristotle and Law, George Duke argues that Aristotle's seemingly dispersed statements on law and legislation are unified by a commitment to law's status as an achievement of practical reason. This book provides a systematic exposition of the significance and coherence of Aristotle's account of

Incredible Robots in Law Enforcement (Spilsbury Louise A.)(Pevná vazba)

Robots are already being used in many areas of law enforcement, such as surveillance cameras and bomb disposal. As technology develops, one day robots might even replace human police officers. This book explores the technology used to create these amazing

The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (Stoever Jennifer Lynn)(Paperback)

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see 'difference.' At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies

A Vote for Women: Celebrating the Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment (St James's House)(Pevná vazba)

August 2020 marked the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which guaranteed and protected women's constitutional right to vote across the United States.A Vote for Women is a joint venture between the Women's Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI)--an

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access (Montalbano Lori L.)(Pevná vazba)

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work

Nsca's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning (Nsca -National Strength &. Conditioning)(Pevná vazba)

The physical demands of tactical professions such as military, law enforcement, and fire and rescue require those workers to be in top physical condition to perform their jobs well and decrease the risk of injury. NSCA's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning contains scientific

The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Bratton Bill)(Pevná vazba)

The epic, transformative career of Bill Bratton, legendary police commissioner and police reformer, in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after his return from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard, and it is fair to say the old

Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Politics in the United States (Neubauer David W.)(Paperback)

Working within the framework of law and politics, JUDICIAL PROCESS: LAW, COURTS, AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES combines detailed information about the major structures and processes of the American judiciary with an insider's understanding of the importance of courthouse dynamics. From the

Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights (Vars Fredrick E.)(Pevná vazba)

How ordinary Americans, frustrated by the legal and political wrangling over the Second Amendment, can fight for reforms that will both respect gun owners' rights and reduce gun violence.Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers

The Law and Business of Litigation Finance (Friel Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The Law and Business of Litigation Finance considers the international development of the law and practice of high value litigation and arbitration funding. It is an essential guide for those who provide or seek such funding, as well as for anyone who wishes to understand the litigation funding

Private Policing (Button Mark)(Paperback)

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories, examining the degree of privateness, amongst several

Model(ing) Justice: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Carlson Kerstin Bree)(Pevná vazba)

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the first and most celebrated of a wave of international criminal tribunals (ICTs) built in the 1990s and designed to advance liberalism through international criminal law. Model(ing) Justice examines the practice and case law

Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire (Pitts Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

It is commonly believed that international law originated in relations among European states that respected one another as free and equal. In fact, as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged at least as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires,

Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (McComas Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892-1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural,

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Diamond Jared)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Isaacson Walter)(Pevná vazba)

The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade,

UnPresidented - Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others (Sopel Jon)(Pevná vazba)