<p><b>The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this?</b></p><p>Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don''t know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during transport, or while in jails, prisons, or detention centers. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data. </p><p>In <i>Death in Custody, </i>Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, and Jay D. Aronson, PhD, share the stories of individuals who died in custody and chronicle the efforts of activists and journalists to uncover the true scope of deaths in custody. From Ida B. Wells''s enumeration of extrajudicial lynchings more than a century ago t
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<p>¿ A crime novel providing an insider¿s view of the operation of the legal system in relation to the deaths of prisoners in police custody, written by an author with experience in the Crown Prosecution Service. </p><p>¿ Topical...
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<DIV><B>Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth....
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