Obras de James R. Acker
Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged American Legal and Social Justice (Crime, Media, and Popular… (2007) 10 copias
America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal… (1998) 6 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- professor
- Organizaciones
- University at Albany, SUNY
- Biografía breve
- James R. Acker is a professor of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany School-SUNY. He is co-author of The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research (with Charles S. Lanier and William J. Bowers, 2008)
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Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases that Challenged… por James R. Acker
This is an excellent and objective account of the Scottsboro trials. I am glad I read it even though I read (on 7 Dec 1969) Dan Carter's great Bancroft-prize-winning book Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, and also Clarence Norris's moving autobiography on 12 Jan 2002, The Last of the Scottsboro Boys. This book tells the sad story of what happened to the defendants when they finally got of prison, and how the law has evolved since the days when it treated them so shamefully. And its coverage of the trials is pretty thorough. I found it great and easy reading.… (más)
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- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 33
- Popularidad
- #421,955
- Valoración
- 4.5
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 17