CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE ELECTION OF 2004 focus is primarily on key criminal justice issues that either influenced the election or will be affected by the outcome of the election. The primary issues covered are election regulations and fraud, the PATRIOT Act, military tribunals, Abu Ghraib, and recent Supreme Court decisions on the access of detainees to the American legal system. Key cases, such as Bush v. Gore, U.S. v. Nixon, Humanitarian Law Project v. Ashcroft, and Hamdi v. Rumsfield are briefed and also discussed in a manner that is accessible to all levels of students.

Criminal Justice and the 2004 Election

Politics & Social Sciences

Bakken, Tim

Ramsey, William C.

Social Sciences

Wadsworth Publishing

This state-specific guide assists students in their exploration of New York procedure laws and cases and features chapter introductions, overviews of codes and implications, and exercises for New York-specific penal codes. Additional exercises and activities in the workbook provide students ample opportunity to test their mastery of the material.

Guide to Criminal Procedure in New York

Goldstein, Robert J.

Bickers, John M.

Cengage Learning'

Available for convenient bundling with any Wadsworth Criminal Law text or for purchase as a stand-alone item, this state-specific guide assists students in their exploration of New York Laws and cases and features chapter introductions, overviews of codes and implications, and exercises for New York-specific penal codes.

Guide to Criminal Law for New York

Stock, Margaret D.

Welton, Mark D.

Review\n"A timely and important contribution. As calls for reforming the justice system increasingly enter into the public sphere, Bakken offers a compelling path forward, one that is both possible and revolutionary."--Marvin Zalman, Wayne State University\n"Featuring compelling analysis and exceptional scholarship, The Plea of Innocence illustrates how the justice system can be revised to protect innocent people from conviction. Few books could be more important or timely."--Brian Levin, California State University, San Bernardino\n"Remarkable and convincing. The book is well-written, thoroughly researched and enjoyable to read. It is a rethinking of the criminal law that everyone involved in the criminal justice system should read and contemplate."--John Hill "The Lawyer's Daily"\n"Worthy of full consideration by legal scholars and anyone with an interest in justice for those who are innocent."--Ros Burnett, University of Oxford\nProposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison 
We rely on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable, ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition lingers under the surface: at all times the imprisonment of possibly tens of thousands of innocent people. 
The Plea of Innocence offers a fundamental reform of the adversarial system: plausibly innocent people may now plead innocent and require the government to search for exonerating facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a search for truth. 
While almost all the participants within the system hope that only guilty people will be convicted, the unfortunate reality is that innocent people are convicted and imprisoned at an alarming rate. With the privatization of defense institutions, accused innocent people are themselves responsible for finding the facts that could exonerate them. Though the poor are represented by public defenders--in fact, almost no one who is charged with a crime has enough money to pay for a complete defense--it is still accused people, not public officials, who bear the entire burden of proving their innocence. 
Tim Bakken believes that reform of the three-hundred-year-old adversarial system is long overdue, and that the government should be responsible for searching for truth--exonerating facts for innocent people--rather than being satisfied with due process. While it is improbable that all the facts in any case will ever be known, the essential point is that the acquisition of facts will almost always benefit an innocent person who has been accused of a crime. Featuring compelling evidence and concrete steps for reform, The Plea of Innocence is at once sensible and revolutionary, a must-read for anyone invested in restoring truth to the justice system.

The Plea of Innocence: Restoring Truth to the American Justice System

Criminal Law

NYU Press

A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law.
Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted.
Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another.
The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.

The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military

History

Military

Bloomsbury Publishing

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