New Acquisitions

In this empirical exploration of the effects of mass incarceration on poor places, this book demonstrates that in high doses incarceration contributes to the very social problems it is intended to solve: it breaks up family and social networks; deprives siblings, spouses, and parents of emotional and financial support; and threatens the economic and political infrastructure of already struggling neighborhoods.

This book reviews legal developments and behavioral science research concerning the effects of religion on legal practice, decision-making processes of various legal actors, and trial outcomes. Chapters address jury selection and bias, attorneys' use of religion in legal movements, judges' religious beliefs and its role in their appointment, and the treatment of religious figures or institutions as litigants in court.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance has always been challenging due to complex regulatory language and exposure to risk. This book clarifies the regulations and provides a ready reference for compliance and problem solving.

Based on an overview of science and the development of the climate regime to date, this book seeks to identify the elements of a working consensus on fairness principles that could be used to solve the hitherto intractable problem of assigning responsibility for combating climate change.

Eyewitness testimony is highly compelling in a criminal trial, and can have an indelible impact on jurors. However, eyewitnesses are sometimes wrong, even when they are highly confident that they are making correct identifications. This book provides current overviews and critiques of key topics in eyewitness testimony.

This book aims to provide an answer to the urgent requirement for legal certainty, security and justice in e-consumer contracts. It is primarily concerned with existing approaches to jurisdiction and choice of law issues in e-consumer contracts in the European Community and England, but some typical approaches in other jurisdictions are also examined.

The rights of students, parents, and school employees are governed by constitutional provisions and by federal, state, and local statutes. The authors analyze these legal issues from several points of view, explaining how the laws are interpreted in education-related cases.

In this volume, the author elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life.

This book demonstrates that courts have used an expanding power of judicial review to invalidate citizen-enacted laws at remarkably high rates. The resulting conflict between the people and the courts raises profound questions about the proper scope of popular sovereignty and judicial power in a constitutional system.

Arguing that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults (friends, acquaintances, and strangers), Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present.