Examines what happens when a crime is perpetrated against an innocent person and nobody cares, discussing the protection of those responsible for rescuing victims and the legal aspects of such situations, in the United States, overseas, in the air, and on the water.Examines what happens when a crime is perpetrated against an innocent person and nobody cares, discussing the protection of those responsible for rescuing victims and the legal aspects of such situations.

Recounts the stories of some of the world's most famous spies and traitors, including Benedict Arnold, Aldrich Ames, the Rosenbergs, and Kim Philby

Everyday Practices and Trouble Cases asks how law helps to constitute the worlds in which we live every day, and how law responds to disruptions and disputes that arise in various realms. Leading scholars explore the dichotomy between everyday practices and trouble cases, and the way various kinds of research have addressed that dichotomy, illuminating the pervasive role of law in social life as well as the capacity of law to respond to social conflict.

Product Description: Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory

A history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from its inception in 1908 to the present describes its formation, development under J. Edgar Hoover, the experiences of agents, and the methods used to catch criminals.

Explains why and how the FBI decided to create the list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and how the mass media and ordinary population have become their allies in the fight against crime. (view table of contents)

Describes how a forensic scientist can find crime-scene clues in the fibers of a rug, in the way a bone is broken, or in a DNA 'fingerprint,' and how those clues can help police apprehend criminals.

Product Description: Arguments for forgiveness, mercy, and clemency abound. These arguments flourish in organized religion, fiction, philosophy, and law as well as in everyday conversations of daily life among parents and children, teachers and students, and criminals and those who judge them...read more

Product Description: Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history of punishment...read more

Discusses what gangs are, how they have developed in the United States, their involvement in various criminal acts, and how the criminal justice system has dealt with the problem. (view table of contents)

Explains how the American grand jury system operates and some of the abuses of this system, using classic cases as illustrations

Discusses five cases of heinous crimes, including genocide, murder, and serial rape, in which prosecutors used extraordinary legal or evidentiary strategies to present the case. (view table of contents)

Examines seven distinctive robberies throughout history, describing the characters and plans of obscure invidividuals, crime lords, and notorious outlaws who stole famous paintings and robbed from banks and trains.

Examines the right to bear arms guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution and its origins in English common law, and discusses militias, court decisions, gun control, licensing, and the question of guns and crime. (view table of contents)

Examines the impeachment process that was defined by the founding fathers of the United States in the Consititution, and provides information about the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton. (view table of contents)

The essays in this book examine law as an active participant in the process through which history is written and memory is constructed. Instead of seeing law as a "victim" of history, the writers treat law as an author of history, not just in the instrumental sense in which law can be said to make a difference in society, but in the ways that law constructs and uses history.Law looks to the past as it speaks to present needs. In the production of judicial opinions--supposedly definitive statements of what the law is--judges reconstruct law's past, tracing out lines of legal precedent that arguably "compel" their decisions. These essays consider how law treats history, how history appears in legal decisions, and how the authority of history is used to authorize legal decisions.Furthermore, law plays a role in the construction of memory. The writers here ask how law remembers and records the past as well as how it helps us to remember our past. Law in the modern era is one of the most important of our society's technologies for preserving memory. In helping to construct our memory in certain ways law participates in the writing of our collective history. It plays a crucial role in knitting together our past, present, and future.The essays in this volume present grounded examinations of particular problems, places, and practices and address the ways in which memory works in and through law, the sites of remembrance that law provides, the battles against forgetting that are fought in and around those sites, and the resultant role law plays in constructing history. The writers also inquire about the way history is mobilized in legal decision making, the rhetorical techniques for marshalling and for overcoming precedent, and the different histories that are written in and through the legal process.The contributors are Joan Dayan, Soshana Felman, Dominic La Capra, Reva Siegel, Brook Thomas, and G. Edward White.Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. He is past President of the Law and Society Association and current President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The question of how law matters has long been fundamental to the law and society field. Social science scholarship has repeatedly demonstrated that law matters less, or differently, than those who study only legal doctrine would have us believe...read more

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Product Description: The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy...read more

Product Description: Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media...read more