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Eclipse the skies
Criminal mastermind and unrivaled pilot Ia Cهocha and her allies make unpredictable choices as they fight to keep darkness from eclipsing the skies.
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Discretionary Justice
Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth drug offenders into addiction treatment instead of long-term incarceration. Discretionary Justice overviews the system, taking readers behind the scenes of the juvenile drug court. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, Leslie Paik explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed. Using the concept of \"workability,\" Paik demonstrates how compliance, and what is seen by staff as \"noncompliance,\" are the constructed results of staff decisions, fluctuating budgets, and sometimes questionable drug test results.
While these courts largely focus on holding youths responsible for their actions, this book underscores the social factors that shape how staff members view progress in the court. Paik also emphasizes the perspectives of children and parents. Given the growing emphasis on individual responsibility in other settings, such as schools and public welfare agencies, Paik's findings are relevant outside the juvenile justice system.
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Ignite the stars
\"When the notorious I.A. Cهocha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances\"-- Provided by publisher.
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SEDUCTIONS OF METHOD: REJOINDER TO NAGIN AND TREMBLAY'S \DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORY GROUPS: FACT OR FICTION?\
More important than a sense of closure is our hope that this round of debate will help clarify the role of statistical methods in research and theorizing about crime. The questions of relevance are whether chronic offenders are categorically distinct in terms of causal mechanisms (as Moffitt and many others explicitly claim), whether there are two distinct groups (as Moffitt also claims), and whether future career criminals can be robustly predicted-prospectively-among juvenile delinquents or those at risk. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. The Albert J. Reiss, Jr, Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section; the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.
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Payback
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
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Emil and the Detectives
Growing up is the most exciting adventure of allJoin young Emil as he says goodbye to his mother, leaves his small town and sets off on a journey that will change his life. When his money is stolen on the train by a mysterious stranger, Emil thinks he's lost everything. But as he starts tracking down the thief, he soon discovers that he's not alone in the big city after all. For this classic tale of a boy learning to rely on himself - and on his new friends - the Olivier stage transforms into 1920s Berlin: a place full of surprises and danger, where everything moves at the speed of your imagination.
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Masterminds
\"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Local governance of safety and the normalization of behavior
In almost all West-European countries and large parts of the world the governance of public safety tops political priorities at both national and local level. We can observe a growing attention for public safety issues in our cities and streets, resulting in local communities and authorities that increasingly have the possibility to deal with these issues in a rather autonomous way. In this contribution, I discuss the local governance of safety through a critical analysis and reflection of inherent, new regulatory tools within an administrative or civil framework. In doing so, I focus on the precarious position of three specific categories, i.e., minors and youth, panhandlers and ‘potential’ drug users. This analysis starts off with and draws a parallel to broader social and political trends, which criminologists have described as the shift from a ‘post-crime’ to a ‘pre-crime’ society where pre-emptive logics, mechanisms of exclusion and the criminalization of behavior tend to prevail.
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The girl with the windup heart
In 1897, part-automaton Mila seeks an independent life in London's West End while Finley Jane plunges headlong into the Aether, hoping to outmaneuver the Machinist who has taken Griffin King captive.
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Youth Gangs in Literature
Examining important works of contemporary and canonical literature, this volume traces the history of youth gangs and their deleterious impact on modern society. Reviews In this fabulous resource for teachers and librarians, Johnson looks at twenty different examples from the world of literature, all of which explore the theme of youth gangs. VOYA
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