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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits--...
Series
Studies in law politics and society volume 42
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-To-Sea
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an examination of the issues related to crime and its punishment, including explanations of what crime is, why people commit crimes, the justice system, prison, and related topics.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Few people experience life inside of prison. Even fewer are charged with the formidable responsibility of deciding whether inmates should be released. In his twenty-four years on the Rhode Island Parole Board, Frederic G. Reamer has judged the fates of thousands of inmates, deciding which are ready to reenter society and which are not. It is a complicated choice that balances injury to victims and their families against an offender's capacity for...
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After angering his father, Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Now a weak and disoriented teenage boy in New York City, the four-thousand-year-old deity can think of only one place to go... an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Examining the use of corporal punishment in different settings across cultures, this revealing volume looks at why some societies accept this type of punishment, some permit it in certain situations, and some reject it altogether"-- Provided by publisher.
"To many, spanking a child or paddling a student is as outmoded as flogging a prisoner. Yet in numerous places worldwide, including the United States, corporal punishment is still practiced in...