Stateville (Häftad)
avJames B. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780226389776 - UTGIVEN: 197809Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum s[...]
The Eternal Criminal Record (Inbunden)
avJames B. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780674368262 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person s interactions with just about everyone [...]
Mobsters, Unions, and Feds (Häftad)
avJames B. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780814742945 - UTGIVEN: 2007-05Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as thoroughly as in the United States. "Mobsters, Unions, and Feds" is the first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort. A renowned criminologist who for twenty[...]
The Myth of Prison Rape (Pocket)
avMark S. Fleisher, Jessie L. Krienert, James B. (FRW) Jacobs
ISBN: 9780742561663 - UTGIVEN: 2008-12The Myth of Prison Rape provides a nuanced glimpse into the complex sexual dynamics of American prison. Drawing on results from the most comprehensive study of inmate sexuality to date, Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert analyze the intricacies of sexuality and sexual violence in daily inmate l[...]
The Mob and the City (Inbunden)
avC. Alexander Hortis, James B. (FRW) Jacobs, C. Alexander Hortis
ISBN: 9781616149239 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.
Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the [...]
The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity (Pocket)
avFrank Anechiarico, Jacobs B. James, Frank Anechiarico
ISBN: 9780226020525 - UTGIVEN: 1998-12Anticorruption reforms provide political cover for public officials, but do they really work? This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern. Over the last century, the authors ar[...]
