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Capital punishment United States Cases Freedom of speech United States Cases Jewish lawyers United States Biography Law teachers United States Biography Problem children Behavior modification Problem children Education Quality of life Teacher training Violence Prevention Youth and violenceAbbott, Jack Henry
Summary: A collection of letters by a federal prisoner provides a candid look at life in prison, revealing his background, politics, and views on parole, rehabilitation, and capital punishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 ABBSummary: In part one of this program, Hedrick Smith reports on how the Alliance of Concerned Men stopped a youth gang war in Benning Terrace, a public housing project in the nation's capital that had become a war zone. Alliance members Tyrone Parker and Rico Rush, former felons with new lives and a new mission, negotiate a truce with the rival gangs that ends the killing and brings hope and new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Wilkinson, Richard G.
Summary: This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. The authors also outline a new political outlook in which a shift from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society is paramount.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult WilkinsonKaba, Mariame
Summary: "What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KABSummary: This program discusses the effects and repercussions of weapons and violence on campus. Subjects covered include weapons on campus; a safe learning environment at school; penalties for fighting at school; anger and violence; how to avoid a fight; where to turn for help if threatened; punishment for weapons on campus; punishment for fighting on campus; anger management and peer-counseling; where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Northrop, Michael.
Summary: When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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Summary: With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatments were usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grewultimately leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CURHinshaw, Stephen P.
Contents: Impossible expectations -- Blue jeans and "blue" genes: depression and the triple bind -- Life in the pressure cooker: impossible expectations and the culture of busy-ness -- No place to run, no place to hide: the popular culture of "self-erasing identities" -- When virtue is its own punishment: how empathy and verbal skills may put our girls at higher risk -- Bratz dolls and pussycat dolls:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.533 HINSummary: The key to reducing violence is understanding its roots. This program offers insights and suggestions that can stop dangerous incidents before they start. Among the topics explored are ways to avoid becoming a victim of campus crime, domestic abuse and the cycle of violence theory as defined by psychologist Lenore Walker, date rape and guidelines for preventing it, the triggers for bias crimes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dershowitz, Alan M.
Summary: The esteemed Harvard lawyer describes his career and the cases that have changed American jurisprudence throughout the past half century, discussing his early academic struggles, his clerking work for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, and his role in many prominent cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2013