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  • GEOMETRICAL JUSTICE
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    GEOMETRICAL JUSTICE
    SCOTT PHILLIPS / MARK COONEY
    Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a theory that predicted and expla...

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  • POLICE MILITARIZATION
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    POLICE MILITARIZATION
    SCOTT W. PHILLIPS
    The increased militarization of the police in the United States has been a topic of controversy for decades, brought to the public eye in notable events such as the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of battering rams in the 1980s and the siege of the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in the 1990s, among others. The issue of police militarism has been back at the forefront o...

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  • CHANGE AND REFORM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
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    CHANGE AND REFORM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
    SCOTT W. PHILLIPS
    This book provides broad exposure to a variety of policing reforms that have not received adequate attention. It includes information and examples from different countries regarding efforts to change aspects of policing that are problematic or involve changes in the way crimes are committed. Some of the efforts to improve the police are relatively recent (i.e., using social med...

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  • ST. LOUIS NOIR
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    ST. LOUIS NOIR
    SCOTT PHILLIPS
    "St. Louis gets a turn to show its dark side . . . [A] spirited, black-hearted collection" including a story from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz ( Kirkus Reviews).   A vibrant Midwest metropolis, St. Louis has a rich, multicultural history of art and literature—both high and low. That duality is embraced here in an anthology that spans the reaches of noir, from vio...

    $251.00

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  • RAKE
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    RAKE
    SCOTT PHILLIPS
    Celebrity and crime pay off big time for an American sociopath in Paris in “one of the great joys in new noir fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Dr. Crandall Taylor—or rather the actor who plays him—is enjoying a cushy new life in the City of the Lights where his now–cancelled American soap opera has become a prime time retro cult hit. This newfound stardom isn’t wasted on...

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  • THE ADJUSTMENT
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    THE ADJUSTMENT
    SCOTT PHILLIPS
    The war is over, but that doesn't mean things are getting better. For PR man Wayne Ogden or any of the returning vets. The town of Wichita, Kansas—built around the industry of Collins Aircraft and its wealthy founder, Everett Collins—is not how they remember it. Against the background violence committed by the returning soldiers trying to make an adjustment back into civilian l...

    $179.00

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