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Hawaii Legal Research by Victoria Szymczak; Cory Lenz; Roberta Woods
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific KFH75 .S99 2022
ISBN: 9781531017149
Publication Date: 2021-12-01
Hawai'i Legal Research was written to fill a gap in the literature that examines Hawaiian legal authorities and the Hawaiian legal system, from the Kingdom era to statehood, from the researcher's perspective. Although primarily focused on Hawai'i, the book also includes a concise discussion of Federal resources as they relate to and complement the research in Hawai'i pre-statehood and statehood materials. Throughout, the authors recommend strategies to help law students, practitioners, and the public start and complete legal research projects efficiently and thoroughly. The first chapter begins with an overview of the research process and then introduces readers to the most relevant online resources that are discussed in the later chapters. Chapters on constitutional, statutory, case law, and administrative law research are careful to consider and show how the Hawaiian Kingdom and customary laws inform Hawai'i's modern jurisprudence. Beyond reviewing the primary sources of law, this book examines the role of secondary sources in the research process, provides explicit instructions on how to create a legislative history for a statute in Hawai'i, diagrams the state's court structure and reporting requirements, illustrates proper Bluebook and local rules for citing Hawaiian legal authorities, and offers readers a strategy when researching Kānaka Maoli custom and law. Most chapters contain checklists to help track your research and a sample research plan is included in an appendix. Print, free internet, and fee-based online sources are referenced, and charts and images of these resources are included to assist the researcher with visual aids. Hawai'i Legal Research is the first text to comprehensively focus on legal research resources, tools, and strategies to start and complete a research project based on Hawaiian law. Law students, legal practitioners, and anyone seeking help in unraveling the complexities of law will benefit from this book. This book is part of the Legal Research Series, edited by Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff, Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, Concordia University School of Law.

Police Use of Excessive Force Against African Americans
Call Number: HV8141 .R614 2019
ISBN: 9781498539180
Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots, the Rodney King incident, and the Los Angeles Rampart Scandal have directly impacted the current relationship between communities of color and police. Using a phenomenological framework, they analyze how African American college students perceive police to determine how race, gender, and education create different realities among a demographic. Based on their qualitative and quantitative findings, Robertson and Chaney offer recommended policies and strategies for police and communities to improve relationships and perceptions between the two.

Issues and Controversies in Policing Today
Call Number: HV8139 .N43 2019
ISBN: 9781538117545
In each chapter of Issues and Controversies in Policing Today, author Johnny Nhan explores a provocative issue sure to spark classroom discussion. Grounding each topic in theory, recent published research, and practice, he focuses on providing students with an understanding of its underlying causes. Moreover, a theoretical arc contextualizes the issues historically, facilitating a clear view of the ever-changing policing landscape. Used as a stand-alone text or as a companion to other material, Issues and Controversies in Policing Today offers all readers valuable insight into policing's current challenges and their origins.

Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service
Call Number: HV8079.3 .J33 2021
ISBN: 9781793601728
Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists focuses on closing the gap in literature surrounding police responses to mental health calls for service, with an emphasis on the effect of training and relationships with mental health agencies, in order to better understand the interaction between police officers and individuals with mental health diagnoses.

The Mailbox Conspiracy by Alexander Silvert
Call Number: Hawaii Pacific HV8148.H7 S54 2021
ISBN: 9781948011631
Publication Date: 2021-10-21
When Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, Katherine, the city's deputy prosecutor, reported their mailbox stolen to frame a family member, it was only the beginning of an elaborate conspiracy-and a corruption case that soon became the most notorious in Hawaii history. Riveting and meticulously told by the federal defender who learned the story from the inside, The Mailbox Conspiracy is a fascinating study in the corruption of power and the abuse of public office.Author Alexander Silvert, a federal public defender, took on Kealoha family member Gerard Puana's felony theft case mostly out of curiosity: Why would someone steal a mailbox, especially one belonging to prominent law enforcement figures like the chief of police and a city prosecutor? And why was the United States Attorney's Office involved in such a low-level neighborhood theft case? Puana, his client, claimed not just innocence, but that he had been framed.

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REFERENCE BOOKS

Battleground: Criminal Justice
Call Number: HV7411 .B38 2007 Volumes 1-2
Crime Classification Manual
Call Number: E-BOOK
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Call Number: HV6017 .E52 2002 Volumes 1-4
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
Call Number: HV8073 .C595 2002
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
Call Number: HV7921 .E53 2005 Volumes 1-3
Encyclopedia of Police Science
Call Number: HV7901 .E53 2007
Forensic Science
Call Number:
(1) HV8073 .F5837 2009 Volumes 1-3
(2) E-Book
Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation by Barry A. J. Fisher; David R. Fisher; Tom Bevel; Tom Gardner
Call Number: E-BOOK

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"American Policing in 2022"

From the US Dept of Justice, "twenty-seven essays by experts with policing backgrounds offer experience-based predictions and cautions on such topics as police and community partnering, understanding and improving measurements of effectiveness, and managing technology."

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Communities, Identities and Crime by Basia Spalek
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781847429582
Publication Date: 2007
Criminal Justice: A Beginner’s Guide
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781908162687
Publication Date: 2015
History and Crime by Barry S. Godfrey; Paul Lawrence; Chris A. Williams
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781849202350
Publication Date: 2009
Police Interrogation and American Justice by Richard A. Leo
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780674033702
Publication Date: 2009
Speaking of Crime by Lawrence M. Solan; Peter M. Tiersma
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780226767871
Publication Date: 2010
Tried and Convicted by Michael D. Cicchini
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9781442217195
Publication Date: 2012
Understanding Criminal Investigation by Stephen Tong; Robin P. Bryant; Miranda A. H. Horvath
Call Number: E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780470682371
Publication Date: 2009

Non-Fiction Books about Criminal Justice

Policing, Civil Rights, and Racial Justice

A collection of free research articles in policing, civil rights, racial justice, activism, and more is available from the University of Chicago Press Journals. The articles are free to read for a limited time, and you are encouraged to share the information with colleagues, students, and peers.

BOOKS ON THE SHELF

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Call Number: E185.61 .A5438 2016
Historian Carol Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage.
Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases by James Garbarino
Call Number:
(1) HV6529 .G37 2015
(2) E-Book (Ebook Central)
(3) E-Book (EBSCO)
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood.
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
Call Number: HV6534.N5 C67 2015
New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop―a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.”
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Call Number: HV6768 .S65 2016
Perplexed as to why people who seemingly had it all would risk it all just to acquire more, Eugene Soltes began an investigation into the mind of the corporate criminal. His journey into this netherworld included intense and lengthy personal interactions with the famous (such as Bernie Madoff, executives from Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and McKinsey) as well as those who are lesser known...
Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing
Call Number: HV7936.C83 B76 2013
Written for students, members of the police community, academicians, elected officials and members of the public, this work comes from the perspective of an individual who devoted his life to law enforcement. Dr. Brown began his career as a beat patrolmen who through hard work, diligence and continued education became the senior law enforcement official in three of this nation's largest cities.
Racial Profiling
Call Number: HV7936.R3 R36 2015
Racial Profiling explores the most recent issues related to racial profiling, including whether racial profiling is a problem; Arab Muslims and profiling in the war on terror; causes and consequences of racial profiling; and what to do about racial profiling.
White Privilege and Black Rights by Naomi Zack
Call Number: HV7936.R3 Z33 2015
Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis.
Spy the Lie
Call Number: HV8078 .S66 2013
Three former CIA officers--among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior--share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth.
The War on Cop: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Call Number: HV8139 .M34 2016
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993...The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of "mass incarceration.
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Call Number: HV8141 .W46 2016
This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against black, brown, indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against calling the police.
So You Want to Be a Cop by Alley Evola
Call Number: HV8143 .E96 2017
Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer.
Profiling and Criminal Justice in America
Call Number: HV9950 .B86 2015
An unbiased examination of profiling in the criminal justice system-one of the most hotly contested public policy issues-on the streets, in the courts, and in the jails and prisons of America.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Call Number: HV9950 .H56 2016
In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system?
Armed in America by Patrick J. Charles
Call Number: KF3941 .C49 2018
This accessible legal history describes how the Second Amendment has been interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the constitutional right to bear arms.
How Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room by James L. Trainum
Call Number:
(1) KF9664 .T73 2016
(2) E-Book
This book takes you inside the interrogation room, exposing the tactics that law enforcement uses to make confessions happen. James L. Trainum reveals how innocent people can become suspects and then confessed criminals even when they have not committed a crime.