Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches by Marcia A. Zug

By Marcia A. Zug

There have constantly been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t consistently thought of them within the comparable methods. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts off with the so-called “Tobacco better halves” of the Jamestown colony and strikes all of the method ahead to today’s smooth same-sex mail-order grooms to discover the benefits and downsides of mail-order marriage. It’s a heritage of deception, actual abuse, and failed unions. It’s additionally the tale of the way mail-order marriage can provide girls astounding and empowering opportunities.
 
Drawing on a forgotten trove of colourful mail-order marriage complaints, Zug explores the numerous troubling felony concerns that come up in mail-order marriage: household abuse and homicide, breach of agreement, fraud (especially with regards to immigration), and human trafficking and prostitution. She tells the tale of the way mail-order marriage misplaced the benign acceptance it loved within the Civil conflict period to develop into a growing number of reviled over the years, and she or he argues compellingly that it doesn't completely deserve its present recognition. whereas it's a universal misperception that ladies flip to mail-order marriage as a determined final hotel, so much mail-order brides are enticed instead of coerced. because the first mail-order brides arrived on American beaches in 1619, mail-order marriage has enabled ladies to enhance either their marital clients and their felony, political, and social freedoms. Buying A Bride uncovers this historical past and exhibits us how mail-order marriage empowers ladies and may be safe or even encouraged.  

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Beyond the Bar : Challenges In a Lawyer's Life by Albert M. Stark

By Albert M. Stark

"Albert Stark takes us on a trip via his first fifteen years as a legal professional. 16 chapters, written with the speed and curiosity of a unique, train classes in time administration, expense negotiation, discovering info, and utilizing it advantageously. From his first task as a public defender to a maze of criminal demanding situations and the consumers and adversaries that flatter them, Stark poignantly describes the pitfalls and disillusionments, in addition to the triumphs, that lay within the course of a attorney looking independence by way of creating a identify for himself, turning into financially self sufficient, and intellectually independent.

“Insightful, funny and human, similar to Albert Stark himself. could be needs to analyzing for each younger attorney - and somebody who relishes a desirable and beautifully written book.” Bob Denney, President, Robert Denney affiliates, Inc.

“An terribly well-written account of the lifetime of a legal professional. Absorbing!” David Maister, writer and consultant"

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Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying: Workshop Summary by Patti Simon,Steve Olson,Youth, and Families Board on

By Patti Simon,Steve Olson,Youth, and Families Board on Children,Committee on Law and Justice,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

Bullying - lengthy tolerated as only a a part of transforming into up - ultimately has been well-known as a considerable and preventable sickness. Bullying is linked to anxiousness, melancholy, bad college functionality, and destiny antisocial habit between its goals, and experiences usually floor of stripling who've dedicated suicide a minimum of partially as a result of insupportable bullying. Bullying can even have destructive results on teenagers who bully, on bystanders, on college climates, and on society at huge. Bullying can ensue in any respect a while, from ahead of straightforward university to after highschool. it could take the shape of actual violence, verbal assaults, social isolation, spreading rumors, or cyberbullying. elevated problem approximately bullying has led forty nine states and the District of Columbia to enact anti-bullying laws for the reason that 1999. moreover, learn at the factors, results, and prevention of bullying has elevated vastly in fresh a long time. notwithstanding, significant gaps nonetheless exist within the realizing of bullying and of interventions which may hinder or mitigate the consequences of bullying.

Building means to minimize Bullying is the precis of a workshop convened through the Board on teenagers, early life, and households of the Institute of medication and nationwide examine Council in April 2014 to spot the conceptual versions and interventions that experience confirmed potent in reducing bullying, research types which can raise protecting components and mitigate the unwanted effects of bullying, and discover the correct roles of other teams in combating bullying. This document stories study on bullying prevention and intervention efforts in addition to efforts in similar components of study and perform, applied in various contexts and settings, together with faculties, friends, households, groups, legislation and public rules, and expertise. Building potential to lessen Bullying considers how involvement or loss of involvement through those sectors impacts possibilities for bullying, and applicable roles for those sectors in fighting bullying. This document highlights present examine on bullying prevention, considers what works and what doesn't paintings, and derives classes learned.

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Neonaticide - a psycho-criminogenic analysis by Mahfuzar Rahman Chowdhury

By Mahfuzar Rahman Chowdhury

Master's Thesis from the yr 2007 within the topic legislations - legal procedure, Criminology, legislations Enforcement, grade: A, Rajshahi collage, 25 entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: within the fresh days neonaticide has been a crux factor world wide. As this is often heavily interested by the lifestyles of human society, humans have targeted their consciousness on resolving or quite mitigating the incidence of this irregular phenomenon. as a result of the mental immaturity and different suitable grounds the fee of neonaticide goes unimpeded. mostly, it is a psycho-social phenomenon and has a detailed reference to organic, sociological, mental and criminogenic points. it truly is logical to claim that if the fee of neonaticide is at the non-stop upward thrust, human society is bound to stand the trauma of it as this is often enough to hazard the survival of people within the planet. therefore, it's been the pivotal attention for the entire quarters to mitigate the matter and be able out for his or her survival.

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How to Represent Yourself In Criminal Court by Douglas Page

By Douglas Page

the best way to symbolize your self In legal courtroom is a pragmatic advisor for somebody dealing with representing themselves in courtroom. With tremendous transparent guidance and diverse step by step examples, this ebook will lead you thru all phases of the legal technique in England & Wales from arrest to sentencing. Representing your self in courtroom could be a daunting and complicated procedure. placing felony jargon into undeniable English, and demystifying the method, you are going to research what to anticipate and the way to arrange. the purpose is to show you how to comprehend and perform the court cases, instead of depart the court docket thinking about what simply occurred and no matter if you'll have acknowledged anything. The sound and matter-of-fact recommendation relies at the author’s years as a barrister, either protecting and prosecuting within the united kingdom felony justice procedure. This ebook is a useful device and vital consultant for a person confronted with representing themselves in court.

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Victimology and Victim Rights: International comparative by Tyrone Kirchengast

By Tyrone Kirchengast

This ebook examines the foreign, neighborhood and household human rights frameworks that determine sufferer rights as a crucial strength in legislations and coverage within the twenty-first century. having access to significant resource fabric that units out a normative framework of sufferer rights, this paintings argues that regardless of levels of convergence, sufferer rights are interpreted at the family point, in keeping with the localised pursuits of sufferers and person states. The transition of the sufferer from peripheral to crucial stakeholder of justice is established throughout a variety of opposed, inquisitorial and hybrid platforms in a world context.

Examining the status of sufferers globally, this book provides a comparative research of the function of the sufferer within the foreign felony courtroom, the ad hoc tribunals resulting in the improvement of the foreign legal Tribunal for the previous Yugoslavia and the foreign felony Tribunal for Rwanda, including the intense Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, detailed Panels of East Timor (Timor Leste), and the Internationalised Panels in Kosovo. The tools of the ecu Parliament and Council of Europe, with the rulings of the ecu courtroom of Justice, and the ecu court docket of Human Rights, studying the eu conference of Human Rights, are tested. those tools are extra contextualised at the neighborhood, household point of the inquisitorial structures of Germany and France, and combined platforms of Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands, including universal legislation structures together with, England and Wales, eire, Scotland, united states, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and the hybrid structures of Japan and Brazil.

This e-book organises the authoritative tools whereas advancing debate over the site of the sufferer in legislations and coverage, as motivated through worldwide developments in legal justice, and should be of serious curiosity to students of overseas legislations, felony legislation, victimology and socio-legal studies.

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What Is Parenthood?: Contemporary Debates about the Family by Linda C. McClain,Daniel Cere

By Linda C. McClain,Daniel Cere

Extraordinary adjustments in styles of family members life—and kinfolk law—have dramatically altered the bounds of parenthood and spread out various questions and debates. what's parenthood and why does it topic? How may still society outline, keep watch over, and aid it? Is parenthood separable from marriage—or couplehood—when society seeks to foster children’s healthiness? what's the greater version of parenthood from the point of view of kid results?
 
Intense disagreements over the definition and way forward for marriage frequently leisure upon conflicting convictions approximately parenthood. What Is Parenthood? asks daring and direct questions on parenthood in modern society, and it brings jointly a stellar interdisciplinary staff of students with extensively various views to enquire them. Editors Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere facilitate a dynamic dialog among students from a number of disciplines approximately competing types of parenthood and a sweeping array of subject matters, together with unmarried parenthood, adoption, donor-created households, homosexual and lesbian mom and dad, transnational parenthood, parent-child attachment, and gender distinction and parenthood.

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Application Service Provider and Software as a Service by Thomas J. and Frey, Kelly L. Hall

By Thomas J. and Frey, Kelly L. Hall

Written by means of pro practitioners nationally identified for his or her paintings around the breadth of knowledge expertise concerns, software merchant and software program as a provider Agreements Line through Line arguably presents the main up to date insurance of the present developments during this swiftly increasing region. supplying in-depth motives of recommendations, functional recommendation on negotiations, and proposals for most sensible practices, this ebook covers themes comparable to required scope of the license furnish, definition of end-users, audit rights, escrow/release rights, provider point requisites, and company continuity matters, in addition to money and dispute answer concerns for company serious functions shrunk to 3rd celebration owners. This e-book additionally offers readers with an important details surrounding concerns that quite often impression integration of 3rd celebration supplier prone in the workflow of the association, resembling implementation specifications, training/knowledge move, confidentiality/security of company info, compliance with company polices, and metrics for consumer pride. moreover, by means of employing business-centric ideas to the negotiation method, the authors supply a scientific method of powerful possibility allocation for either prone and clients of ASP and SaaS, in addition to replacement positions to unravel negotiation "log jams." program merchant and software program as a provider Agreements Line by way of Line is a finished and built-in booklet in this evolving and significant quarter of industrial procedure outsourcing and is actually an critical source for either practitioners and would-be practitioners alike.

About the Authors

Kelly L. Frey, Sr. is a shareholder with Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz computer the place he concentrates his perform in company procurement and know-how legislations. He has over twenty-five years of expertise representing either huge businesses and their owners in complicated company transactions. he's indexed within the top legal professionals in the United States in expertise legislation and data expertise and lately released Frey on expertise Transactions, an authoritative perform handbook for expertise businesses and know-how lawyers.

Thomas J. corridor is of counsel with Baker Donelson the place he concentrates his perform in company and knowledge procurement legislations. He has either big in-house and personal perform adventure, permitting him a special viewpoint in figuring out the enterprise drivers of industrial details expertise transactions.

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Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context by Leslie C. Levin,Lynn Mather

By Leslie C. Levin,Lynn Mather

How do attorneys get to the bottom of moral dilemmas within the daily context in their perform? What are the problems that mostly come up, and the way do attorneys verify the easiest how you can unravel them? till lately, efforts to respond to those questions have targeted totally on ideas and felony doctrine instead of the real-life occasions legal professionals face in criminal practice.

The first publication to provide empirical learn on moral determination making in various perform contexts, together with company litigation, securities, immigration, and divorce legislation, Lawyers in Practice fills a considerable hole within the present literature. Following an advent emphasizing the expanding significance of knowing context within the criminal occupation, contributions specialise in moral dilemmas starting from particularly slim moral concerns to broader difficulties of professionalism, together with the prosecutor’s legal responsibility to reveal facts, the administration of conflicts of curiosity, and loyalty to clients and the courtroom. every one bankruptcy information the answer of a difficulty from the practitioner’s standpoint that's, in flip, set inside of a specific neighborhood of perform. well timed and useful, this booklet will be required analyzing for legislations scholars in addition to scholars and students of legislation and society.

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Global Policing by Ben Bowling,James W.E. Sheptycki

By Ben Bowling,James W.E. Sheptycki

within the transitional networked society, police strength is not any longer limited by means of the borders of the country nation. It has globalised. worldwide Policing exhibits how safeguard threats were built by way of robust actors to justify the construction of a brand new international policing structure and the way the culture of policing shapes the area approach.

Demonstrating how a concept of world policing is critical to realizing international governance, the textual content explores:

- the 'new safety time table' concerned with critical organised crime and terrorism and the way this can be remodeling policing

- the production of world organizations resembling Interpol, nearby entities corresponding to Europol, and nationwide policing organisations with a transnational reach

- the way of life of the 'global cops', blurring barriers among police, inner most safeguard, army and mystery intelligence agencies

- the truth of transnational policing at the floor, its effectiveness, legitimacy, responsibility and destiny development.

Written by way of best overseas specialists who carry state of the art theoretical debates to lifestyles with case reviews and examples, worldwide Policing will turn out beautiful analyzing for college kids and students in criminology, felony justice, diplomacy, legislation and sociology.

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