Tina Thomas would have been turning 35 on the day that her husband of less than two weeks stood trial for her murder in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, US. Eight years and almost four months had passed since Tina died on her honeymoon, while scuba diving near the SS Yongala wreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Northern Queensland, Australia. During this period, there had been extensive police investigations conducted by local, state and federal agencies in Queensland and...

"This compendium of the two commissions' [Justice Kennedy Commission and the Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions] work ... focuses not only on fairness and proportionality of punishment, but also on ways in which criminal offenders may avoid or escape the permanent legal disabilities and stigma of a criminal record"--P. 3.

This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and public benefits like Medicaid and food stamps is not only unjust but unproductive for a human society. The contributors to this volume argue that second chances are a foundational principle of the human services field.

Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.

This current collection of essays on contemporary U.S. criminal justice policy is a timely response to the significant recent growth of policy-oriented research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. "U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader" addresses how criminal justice policy issues are framed, identifies participants in the policy process, discusses how policy is made, and considers the constraints and opportunities found in the policy process. Findings are linked to broader institutional, cultural and global criminal justice trends, and are used to determine what recent research reveals about crime policy and democratic governance. The main goal of this book is to encourage readers to engage in a dialogue about criminal justice policy, and to think about the potential for criminal justice reform.

He didn’t know that his death could change his life. Second Chance is an emotional and thought-provoking tale of an arrogant businessman, Shekhar Kapoor. Shekhar is a kind of man you would never want to meet with. He respects no one in the whole wide world. He is selfish, insensitive and has no moral value. He is a billionaire but he does not know what life is. He has not been talking to his paralysed bedridden father for ten long years and he only has his father to call “a family”. He ruins life of his business rival, Ashutosh Upadhyay, and never feels even a bit of regret. BUT something happens in his life that changes everything, something beyond his imagination. He gets a mysterious phone call and after that, an accident. He experiences a rare phenomenon he has never even thought of. What he experiences teaches him that the life he is living is not called a life. He realises that his life lacks the best and the most important ingredient. Does he find the ingredient that makes the life a delicious feast? Does he learn to laugh and to cry? Does his father get his son back? Read Shekhar’s life-changing story, although fiction, might change something in your life. Story that will give you the essence of real meaning of life. Story of love, and life; story of father and son; story of living for others; story of change; story of karma and story of being a human. Grab your copy now.