Books written by Matthew B. Robinson
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics, Second Edition: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National...
Ironically, the Harrison Act did not actually prohibit use of opiates. In fact, “the Harrison Act contained no actual reference to drug users at all. Disallowing neither use nor distribution of narcotics, it was concerned more with the ...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics, Second Edition: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National...
February 9. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090209/ap_on_re_us/border_spillover_ violence; Carpenter, T. (2003). ... Washington, DC: CQ Press; Youngers, C., & Rosin, E. (2004). Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of US Policy.
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Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice
"This book critically examines the media to identify how crime and criminal justice are treated in the news, entertainment, and infotainment media.
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Why Crime?: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explaining Criminal Behavior
The third edition also features findings from the first ever test of the Integrated Systems Theory.
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics, Second Edition: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National...
the President set ambitious goals for driving down illicit substance use in America. ... First, the five-year decline of 23.2% in youth drug use is actually 7.2% short of the goal of a 25% decline (in addition to “1.8 percentage points ...
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Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
The book is highly readable and classroom friendly while also making a meaningful contribution to the literature on the topic.
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Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
The second edition of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice presents the latest research on studies of race, ethnicity, and justice practices at the juvenile and adult levels.
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Justice Blind?: Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice
"Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice" probes problems of injustice within our criminal laws, law enforcement agencies, courts, and correctional facilities. Posing important questions, showing different viewpoints,...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control...
... The 80 greatest conspiracies of all time . New York : Citadel Press ; J. Herer ( 1998 ) . The emperor wears no clothes : The authoritative historical record of cannabis and the conspiracy against marijuana ( 11th ed . ) . Van Nuys , CA ...
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Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice
While there are other texts on the market focused on the impact of mass media on criminal justice, this text is the only one that starts with the issue of corporate ownership of the mass media as a problem for gaining an accurate ...
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Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment
Based on empirical evidence, Death Nation offers a fair and reasoned analysis of capital punishment as it is actually practiced in the United States. It includes a discussion...
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Justice Blind?: Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice
Updated in a new 3rd edition, this book is rganized around a planned change approach andprovides a critical assessment of how well the American criminal justice system achieves its goals.
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Justice Blind?: Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice
Organized around a "planned change" approach, this book provides a critical assessment of how well the American criminal justice system achieves its goals.
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Criminal Injustice: How Politics and Ideology Distort American Ideals
There is a set of 248 PowerPoint slides available upon adoption. Click here to view a sample presentation. If you are a professor using this book for a class, please contact Beth Hall at [email protected] to request your slides.
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Criminal Injustice: How Politics and Ideology Distort American Ideals
In the book, the author demonstrates how this is true, and he argues that the main problem with criminal justice practice is that it does not target the most harmful acts in America: instead it focuses heavily on a handful of harmful acts ...