age ~40
from Independence, MO
Author
Gordon Hawkins
ISBN #
0195092333
Author
Gordon Hawkins
ISBN #
0195131053
Author
Gordon Hawkins
ISBN #
0195136861
Author
Gordon Hawkins
ISBN #
0195171179
"Getting tough on crime" has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a th...
Author
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins, Sam Kamin
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195171179
EAN Code
9780195171174
ISBN #
2
Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian History. California Interest. This biography of Amor De Cosmos explores the life and career of this most eccentric of Canadian politicians, a man who played a crucial role in the creation of present-day Canada from sea to sea, and yet who, by the end of his l...
Author
Gordon Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Ronsdale Press
ISBN #
1553803531
EAN Code
9781553803539
ISBN #
10
The death penalty is not simply the most serious criminal punishment. It has been a singular social, legal, and moral problem in the Western world over the past two hundred years. Capital punishment is disappearing from every nation in the West except the United States. No political science of capit...
Author
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
212
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
052137863X
EAN Code
9780521378635
ISBN #
9
Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins's first premise is that our criminal justice system is a moral busybody, unwisely extended beyond its proper role of protecting persons and property. But they go further and systematically cover the amount, costs, causes, and victims of crime: the reduction of violen...
Author
Norval Morris, Gordon J. Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
279
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226539024
EAN Code
9780226539027
ISBN #
7
Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, the...
Author
Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon J. Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
258
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226983544
EAN Code
9780226983547
ISBN #
6
"For a few decades American prisons were the wonder of the world. [However] early hopes that a prison regime could be a powerful means of reforming most convicts have been abandoned, and prisons are seen even by some of those who think we need more of them as savage repositories, to be shunned or ve...
Author
Gordon J. Hawkins, Michael Sherman
Binding
Paperback
Pages
153
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226752801
EAN Code
9780226752808
ISBN #
5
Despite lethal explosions of violence from within and critical assaults from without, it seems certain that prisons will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. Gordon Hawkins argues that certain key issues which attend the use of imprisonment as a penal method must be dealt with realistically...
Author
Gordon J. Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
225
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226320006
EAN Code
9780226320007
ISBN #
4
The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called "incapacitation" by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million person...
Author
Franklin Zimring, Gordon Hawkins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
019511583X
EAN Code
9780195115833
ISBN #
3