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Polishing God's Monuments: Pillars of Hope for Punishing Times
Polishing God s Monuments is the true story of a young woman and her devoted husband who face it all (and then some) as a baffling, mind-boggling illness hijacks their youth and shatters their dreams. Polishing God s Monuments blends straightforward theology with the account of this young couple s afflictions. A sober reality in the life of faith is that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. God s people are buffeted in two ways: sometimes we suffer for the faith and other times we suffer with faith. Either way, our faith remains a work in progress. In the midst of troubles, our emotions can vacillate between hope and despair, submission and rebellion. Our understanding can alternate between moments of comprehension and times of total confusion. This book confronts these issues head-on and offers believers biblical perspective, practical direction, and sustaining hope..
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Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
From routine security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they’re a more cost-effective way to fight crime.
In Against Prediction, Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing reliance on actuarial methods. These prediction tools, he demonstrates, may in fact increase the overall amount of crime in society, depending on the relative responsiveness of the profiled populations to heightened security. They may also aggravate the difficulties that minorities already have obtaining work, education, and a better quality of life—thus perpetuating the pattern of criminal behavior. Ultimately, Harcourt shows how the perceived success of actuarial methods has begun to distort our very conception of just punishment and to obscure alternate visions of social order. In place of the actuarial, he proposes instead a turn to randomization in punishment and policing. The presumption, Harcourt concludes, should be against prediction.
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Punishing the Prince: A Theory of Interstate Relations, Political Institutions, and Leader Change
When the United States invaded Iraq, President Bush made it clear: the U.S. was not fighting the Iraqi people. Rather, all quarrels were solely with Iraq's leadership This kind of assertion remains frequent in foreign affairs--sanctions or military actions are imposed on a nation not because of its people, but because of its misguided leaders. Although the distinction might seem pedantic since the people suffer regardless, Punishing the Prince reveals how targeting individual leaders for punishment rather than the nations they represent creates incentives for cooperation between nations and leaves room for future relations with pariah states. Punishing the Prince demonstrates that theories of leader punishment explain a great deal about international behavior and interstate relations. The book examines the impact that domestic political institutions have on whether citizens hold their leaders accountable for international commitments and shows that the degrees to which citizens are able to remove leaders shape the dynamics of interstate relations and leader turnover. Through analyses of sovereign debt, international trade, sanctions, and crisis bargaining, Fiona McGillivray and Alastair Smith also uncover striking differences in patterns of relations between democratic and autocratic states. Bringing together a vast body of information, Punishing the Prince offers new ways of thinking about international relations. .
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Punishing the Patient: How Psychiatrists Misunderstand and Mistreat Schizophrenia
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Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes under American Law
Bias crimes are a scourge on our society Is there a more terrifying image in the mind's eye than that of the burning cross? Punishing Hate examines the nature of bias-motivated violence and provides a foundation for understanding bias crimes and their treatment under the U.S. legal system. In this tightly argued book, Frederick Lawrence poses the question: Should bias crimes be punished more harshly than similar crimes that are not motivated by bias? He answers strongly in the affirmative, as do a great many scholars and citizens, but he is the first to provide a solid theoretical grounding for this intuitive agreement, and a detailed model for a bias crimes statute based on the theory. The book also acts as a strong corrective to recent claims that concern about hate crimes is overblown. A former prosecutor, Lawrence argues that the enhanced punishment of bias crimes, with a substantial federal law enforcement role, is not only permitted by doctrines of criminal and constitutional law but also mandated by our societal commitment to equality. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, from law and criminology, to sociology and social psychology, to today's news, Punishing Hate will have a lasting impact on the contentious debate over treatment of bias crimes in America. .
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Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the causes of our children's acting-out behavior by parenting and educating the way nature intended
Parents in our culture today are bombarded by "experts" offering "tools," "programs," diagnoses," treatments" and medications Why doesn't any of it seem to help our children act and feel better? With this book parents will learn: . Children's brains are wired from conception through adolescence to need certain parenting and educational conditions that are different from almost everything that we have grown up with or have learned from our culture. . What people in peaceful tribal cultures have known about parenting and education for millennia . How to heal their children's mental health, behavioral and learning problems at the root causes, resulting in genuine improvements in family happiness. "Instead of Medicating and Punishing" is for parents of children of all ages, from pregnancy through late adolescence. It is for parents of children who have mild, moderate or severe mental health, learning or behavioral problems and also addresses the special needs of adoptive children..
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The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens
For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in vivid detail the cultural context of this conversation, Allen shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Each member of the city--including notably women and slaves--had a specific role to play in restoring equilibrium among punisher, punished, and society. The common view is that democratic legal processes moved away from the "emotional and personal" to the "rational and civic," but Allen shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Allen draws upon oratory, tragedy, and philosophy to present the lively intellectual climate in which punishment was incurred, debated, and inflicted by Athenians. Broad in scope, this book is one of the first to offer both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment. It will engage classicists, political theorists, legal historians, and anyone wishing to learn more about the relations between institutions and culture, normative ideas and daily events, punishment and democracy. .
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Punishing Pamela
Pamela Haley is the sexy new English teacher at Ivy Dell Academy. She plans to be tough, but a group of her eighteen-year old seniors turn the tables by producing sordid photographs from her past. Pretty blonde Pamela was just eighteen herself when her mother-s evil boyfriend sold her as a sex slave, but now she must pay the price for her tawdry past by serving the cruel whims of her sadistic blackmailing students. Things go from bad to worse when Lorenzo, her former pimp and master, shows up and decides he wants Pamela back in the business. The lovely teacher is rapidly reduced to a squirming sex toy, craving the very abuse heaped upon her. Her only hope lies in the handsome school principal Tom Rains. Tom agrees to help her, but he has a price of his own. Six months ago he longed to walk down the aisle with Pamela, but now it may be the auction block he wants to see her on. Will Pamela win her freedom or will she become yet another victim of the sordid underground white slave trade? .
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Punishing the Girls: A Tale of Cheerleaders in Bondage
NAUGHTY CHEERLEADERS RECEIVE THEIR COMEUPPANCE From the bestselling author of the Slave Girls trilogy comes a new novel of a naughty sorority and the fraternity determined they'd be punished for their misdeeds. "Beta, Delta, Sigma, Mu/Punish girls is what they do./If you tease or are a slut,/You will get a paddled butt,/Tied up in their dungeon cell,/Whipped into a private hell./Beta, Delta, Sigma, Mu,/Watch out or they'll punish you!/Yaaayyyy... Beta!" That was the motto of Beta Delta Sigma Mu the most notorious fraternity on campus. When the most notorious sorority got out of hand, the men of BDSM took them in hand. A delightful, wicked read. Rod Harden's books are "the kind you read when you are all alone, convinced you will only take a peek, but soon finding yourself desiring more, hooked on the need of the characters, awakened to your own inner demons." Michelle Houston, Sensual Romance Reviews. .
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