November 30, 2011
The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences has chosen After the Crime: The Power of Restorative Justice Dialogues between Victims and Violent Offenders, by Susan L. Miller as the winner of their 2012… READ MORE
November 29, 2011
More New York Stories The Best of the City Section of the New York Times Constance Rosenblum, ed. $18.95 | $13.26 Tales for Little Rebels A Collection of Radical Children’s… READ MORE
November 22, 2011
At last week’s debate, Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann defended waterboarding. Cain said, “I don’t see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique,”… READ MORE
November 16, 2011
An estimated 10,000 undocumented youth graduate from city high schools in New York each year. Access to funding for university-level education, however, is a challenge. Currently, those who qualify for… READ MORE
November 11, 2011
By Luis A. Fernandez, co-author of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era Recently we saw police react to the Occupy Movement in several, seemingly… READ MORE
November 9, 2011
“In God We Trust” has been the official national motto since 1956, but the motto E Pluribus Unum dates back to the founding of the American nation. In the 1770s… READ MORE
November 4, 2011
At the end of October, AAUP’s Books for Understanding rounded up key titles on capital punishment, including subtopics such as history, justice and morality, personal and international perspectives, and capital… READ MORE
November 1, 2011
“In the first decade of the 21st-century, the image of the typical immigrant in the American imagination… is that of a working-class Mexican or Central American man. This stereotype continues… READ MORE