Justice System

Unlock the intricate nexus of gender and penology with this compelling new eBook, "Gender and Penology." Dive deep into the multifaceted world of criminal justice as it intersects with gender, revealing critical insights and essential knowledge for scholars, professionals, and anyone interested in the complexities of this dynamic field. Begin your journey with a thorough introduction to gender and penology, laying the groundwork with an exploration of penological concepts and a historical analysis of women's roles in the criminal justice system. Unravel the stark gender disparities in ...

This Handbook is designed for both prosecutors and defense counsel alike as well as anyone interested in the prosecutor’s role sand functions. Its modest goal is to eradicate what is called “prosecutor misconduct”. While this Handbook may serve as a guidebook for prosecutors, it also arms defense counsel with information that can be used to ensure that their clients receive a fair trial. An example of how the Handbook simultaneously guides prosecutors and arms defense counsel is that it spells out what a prosecutor is prohibited by law and ethical rules from saying in trial. By ...

This book isn’t about Lucy Letby as such, it is not even about the question of her guilt and innocence, as that is a hugely complex Gordian knot. What this book is about is fairness and equality before the police, the CPS, the prosecution and eventually, the jury. The Cheshire Police hired the experts that provided the evidence and made the case under the pretentious banner of Operation Hummingbird, it sounds grand and professional but it was, as we will show, heavily based on bias opinion, self-serving promotion, and a disturbing individual prejudice but more importantly - confirmation ...

Alexandra Wilson was a teenager when her dear family friend Ayo was stabbed on his way home from football. Ayo's death changed Alexandra. She felt compelled to enter the legal profession in search of answers. As a junior criminal and family law barrister, Alexandra finds herself navigating a world and a set of rules designed by a privileged few. A world in which fellow barristers sigh with relief when a racist judge retires: 'I've got a black kid today and he would have had no hope'.

Life for Abby and her husband Russell has returned to normal. Now in her first trimester, Abby is called on to sort out the estate of an elderly client, a retired FBI agent. Meanwhile, the fiancée of ‘Toph’ Lefan, Russell’s murdered friend, is seeking answers. Russell refers her to former New York State Police Detective Sergeant, Carl Boone, who has just opened his own office as a private investigator. Knowing the power and far-reaching influence of those indirectly responsible for Toph’s murder, both Russell and Boone try to dissuade her, to no avail. No one could have foreseen ...

Brian Branigan was the victim in Twelfth Grade of a false sexual molestation allegation by his younger step-sister. Those lies resulted in Brian being kicked out of his home and banished from the family he loved. Now eleven years later Brian is again being framed. He is arrested and charged with theft from the auto parts store where he had just begun work and the evidence pointing to him is damning. Brian hires a young female attorney with only six weeks of experience to help him. Will "Lady Injustice" once again torment Brian and prevent him from proving his innocence? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ...

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today.

If someone had told me in 2008 that the single most time-consuming issue facing me as one of the newest of America’s three thousand-and-eighty-one sheriffs would be mental health, I would have laughed. I was the SWAT team leader. I was a drug education officer on patrol and a street-level narcotics interdiction officer for a larger (by Iowa standards) sheriff’s office. I would do the occasional court-ordered, emergency mental health committal and the random transport from one health care facility to another mental health facility on a judge’s order from time to time.

How can you keep your faith in people after seeing the flaws of the American justice system? Juror #11 exposes the flaws and weaknesses in the American justice system from the perspective of a murder trial juror who endured months of trauma, the threat of jail, and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees because of them.

The man who answered the door was naked and covered with blood. His name was Larry Singleton and police in Tampa, Florida, soon discovered he had brutally murdered prostitute Roxanne Hayes and much worse. He was the mad chopper, who years before had cut off the arms off 15-year-old Mary Vincent outside Modesto, California. Mary survived and testified against him at his trial for killing Hayes.

Nothing exposed the racism in the societies like the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the hidden racism as the Covid19 did. Nothing exposed the racism in the healthcare as the Covid19 did. Nothing, not even all the preachments from times past, exposed the impact of racism on minority’s poor populations as the Covid19 did. What was hidden was exposed. The stinking waste matter smeared and covered under the carpet started to stink for all to smell. It was indeed a foul smell. The deniers of racism were exposed for their pretend denials and for the lies they told. The design to keep certain ...

On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother’s house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thing - before he steals all the drugs on her person as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene. When Augie gets busted, he names local gang members Wizard and Dreamer the shooters. But only one of them is guilty.

America’s criminal justice system perpetuates profound social and racial harms. But despite growing recognition of its destructiveness, the vast machinery of the carceral state remains very much intact. How can its damage be undone? In this pathbreaking reader, three of the nation’s leading advocates for change provide us with tools to move from critique to action and from despair to hope. Dismantling Mass Incarceration surveys various approaches to confronting the carceral state, exploring a wide range of bold but practical interventions.

Have you ever wondered what a judge is really thinking? To most people, judges are mysterious creatures. Judge Mader shines a bright spotlight on the hidden folds of the judging world. The old saying is that judges merely "follow the law". Yet following the law can produce wildly different results depending upon each judge's background, politics, and life experiences. Even the floor of the courthouse to which a case is assigned can mean the difference between prison and freedom. Never before has the judging world been laid bare for all to see.

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? For Ryan and Elena, the answer lies in the shadows of Havenstad, where every job is a gamble and every ally could be a traitor. As they take on corrupt elites and ruthless gangs, they’re forced to confront their own demons—and the sacrifices they’re willing to make to build a life free from the sins of their past.

Prepare to question every notion you hold about truth, innocence, and the power of accusation in this riveting collection of true crime stories. Within these pages, you will discover 33 astonishing accounts of individuals who found themselves ensnared in webs of deceit—people framed for crimes they never committed. Each chapter unveils a gripping narrative of injustice, unraveling shady evidence, sensational media coverage, and twisted law enforcement tactics that nearly sealed innocent lives behind bars forever. • Experience the shock and outrage as misidentified suspects are ripped ...

"In God's Will" "In God's Will" is a gripping, emotionally charged journey through the eyes of Demetric Richardson, a 19-year-old Black teenager from Saginaw, Michigan, wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life in prison, Demetric's world collapses as he loses his family, his hope, and nearly his life. But fate intervenes when he finds an ancient bottle in the prison yard that holds a powerful genie, offering him three wishes that will change the course of his destiny. This hauntingly beautiful story explores the depths of loss, the struggle for justice, and the ...

Barrister Charlotte Proudman has represented countless women in cases spanning rape, domestic abuse, child abduction, forced marriage and female genital mutilation. She has seen first-hand how the family court deepens the trauma of vulnerable women, staking their futures on the biases of individual judges and forcing them to endure the torture of a judicial process that stretches over months and sometimes years.

Acts of Supremacy traces the ugly, and harrowing details of my Court-martial in the Spring of 1990, after I had annoyed an admiral who then orchestrated a full-on, "50 to 1" campaign against me. Further, it describes how our system of military justice initially came about, the various years of appeal that I pursued to attempt to secure an exoneration from these charges, the crime of forgery that took place during the course of the Court-martial itself (an act which today is still unprosecuted), and finally, what concrete steps of reform might be put in place so that a greater, transparent system of military justice might be achieved for all future sailors and soldiers, so that they do not have to endure what I did.

In the unpredictable world of legal battles, where life's twists take unexpected turns, I found myself thrust into an unforeseen journey - the fight for guardianship of my beloved mother. Her final will, a testament to her wishes, became the epicenter of a family dispute, overseen by a probate judge with perceived biases that left me disheartened. Refusing defeat, I took the fight to federal court, challenging the judge and rewriting the narrative. Representing myself, I navigated the complexities of the legal system and its challenges.