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A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world. These innovative courts--including drug courts, community courts, domestic violence courts, and mental health courts--do not simply adjudicate offenders. Rather, they attempt to solve the problems underlying such criminal behaviors as petty theft, prostitution, and drug offenses. Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing is a study of the international problem-solving court movement and the first comparative analysis of the development of these courts in the United States and the other countries where the movement is most advanced: England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Looking at the various ways in which problem-solving courts have been taken up in these countries, James Nolan finds that while importers often see themselves as adapting the American courts to suit local conditions, they may actually be taking in more aspects of American law and culture than they realize or desire. In the countries that adopt them, problem-solving courts may in fact fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about justice. Based on ethnographic research in all six countries, the book examines these cases of legal borrowing for what they reveal about legal and cultural differences, the inextricable tie between law and culture, the processes of globalization, the unique but contested global role of the United States, and the changing face of law and justice around the world.
Law --- Restorative justice. --- Alternative convictions. --- Dispute resolution (Law) --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Balanced and restorative justice --- BARJ (Restorative justice) --- Community justice --- Restorative community justice --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Reparation (Criminal justice) --- Convictions, Alternative --- Criminal procedure --- Judgments --- ADR (Dispute resolution) --- Alternative dispute resolution --- Appropriate dispute resolution --- Collaborative law --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute processing --- Dispute settlement --- Justice, Administration of --- Mediation --- Neighborhood justice centers --- Third parties (Law) --- Administration of criminal justice --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- American influences. --- Law and legislation
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Grounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - who travelled to the United States between 1830 and 1950. The comparative insights of these important outside observers (from both European and Middle Eastern countries) encourage sober reflection on a number of features of American culture that have persisted over time - individualism and conformism, the unique relationship between religion and capitalism, indifference toward nature, voluntarism, attitudes toward race, and imperialistic tendencies. Listening to these travellers' views, both the ambivalent and even the more unequivocal, can help Americans better understand themselves, more fully empathize with the values of other cultures, and more deeply comprehend how the United States is perceived from the outside.
National characteristics, American --- History. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --- Weber, Max, --- Chesterton, G. K. --- Quṭb, Sayyid, --- Quṭb, Saiyid, --- Kotb, Sayed, --- Qutb, Sayyed, --- Kutub, Seyyid, --- Qutb, Syed, --- Shādhilī, Sayyid Quṭb Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn, --- Qutb, Sayed, --- Qudub, Sayid, --- Sayid Qudub, --- Qotb, Sayed, --- Kutb, Sayyid, --- Qutub, Said, --- Qotb, Seyyed, --- Qut̤b, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad Qut̤b, --- Qutb, Mohammad, --- Mohammad Qutb, --- سيد قطب --- قطب، سيد --- قطب، سيد، --- Sayyed Qotob, --- Qotob, Sayyed, --- Sayyid Quṭb, --- Qutub, Săyyid, --- Qutup, Săyyid, --- Chesterton, G.K. --- Chesterton, Keith --- Chesterton, K. --- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith --- Chesterton, Gilbert K. --- Chesterton, Gilbert --- G. K. C. --- Честертон, Гилберт Кийт --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de, --- Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ de, --- De Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ, --- Tokvilʹ, Aleksis de, --- De Tocqueville, Alexis, --- Tokuviru, Alexis, de, --- Toqueville, Alexis de, --- טוקוויל, אלכסיס דה --- توكڤيل، ألكسي دو، --- Tūkvīl, Āliksī dū, --- توکويل، آلکسى دو --- Clérel, Alexis Henri Charles de, --- Political and social views. --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯, --- Quṭb, Sayyid
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An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
Atomic bomb --- Medical ethics --- History --- Nolan, James F., --- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) --- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) --- Bikini Island. --- Enewetak Island. --- Enola Gay. --- Fat Man. --- James F. Nolan. --- Los Alamos. --- Louis Hempelmann. --- Marshall Islands. --- Operation Crossroads. --- Plutonium Files. --- Plutonium injections. --- Site Y. --- Stafford Warren. --- Takashi Nagai. --- Tickling the dragon’s tail. --- USS Indianapolis.
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The findings reported in this book are based upon ethnographic observations of drug courts throughout the United States and provide a glimpse into the unique character of the American drug court model, considering the qualities and consequences of this form of criminal adjudication.
Drug courts --- Allen, Francis. --- American Friends Service Committee. --- Aristotle. --- Bentham, Jeremy. --- Boggs Amendment (1951). --- Bryan, William Jennings. --- Carneal, Michael. --- Doremus, Charles. --- Douglas, William. --- Eldridge, William. --- Fletcher, Dorothy. --- Foster bill. --- Foucault, Michel. --- GAO (General Accounting Office). --- Glendon, Mary Ann. --- Goldkamp, John. --- Harrison Act. --- Hawkins, Gordon. --- Hora, Peggy. --- Ignatieff, Michael. --- Inciardi, James. --- Jones-Miller Amendment. --- Kant, Immanuel. --- Kennedy, Anthony. --- Klandermans, Bert. --- Lincoln, Abraham. --- Magna Carta. --- Opium Wars. --- Prohibition. --- Rothman, David. --- acupuncture. --- bromide. --- civil commitment programs. --- co-dependency movement. --- common law tradition. --- drug legalization. --- emotivism. --- family courts. --- guilt. --- judges. --- laudanum. --- marijuana. --- mentoring courts. --- morphine. --- narcotic farms. --- narcotics clinics. --- paregoric. --- pharmaceutical companies. --- probation officers. --- rehabilitation. --- sanatariums. --- social movements. --- status politics. --- therapeutic ideal.
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Psychologie politique --- Culture politique --- Droit --- Culture politique --- 1900-1945 --- États-Unis --- États-Unis --- Psychologie politique --- Culture politique --- Droit --- Culture politique --- 1900-1945 --- États-Unis --- États-Unis
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