Direito Penal, Direito Processual Penal, Criminologia

The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a …

As I write this, the nation is still reeling from multiple shocks in July 2016. First, as the month began, came yet two more videotaped incidents of police shooting to death black arrestees after man …

The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will and Susan Estrich’s Real Rape, this volume probes every aspect of rape law and the discrepancies between ideal law (on …

What circumstances lead someone to commit murder, rape, or acts of child molestation? Why does society have such a deep-seated wish for vengeance against perpetrators of heinous crimes? Can those fou …

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challen …

Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the ‘9/11 wars’: their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria B …

The Early Release Provision describes federal and state laws which give federal and state ‘non-U.S. citizen’ prisoners an opportunity to reduce their sentences (in some cases by more than 95%), leave …

A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism—to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system.   Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocat …

Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is deeply embedded in the American public’s imagination of the legal system. For …

Over a million people in the United States regularly smoke marijuana. Approximately 400, 000 defendants each year are charged with the use, possession, sale, or cultivation of marijuana. MARIJUANA LA …