Tag: Civil

Free Download Nathan James, "Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Persons"
English | ISBN: 1604565055 | 2008 | 68 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The 109th Congress passed legislation that allows the federal government to civilly commit "sexually dangerous persons". Civil commitment, as it relates to sex offenders, is when a state retains custody of an individual, found by a judge or jury to be a "sexually dangerous person" by involuntarily committing the person to a secure mental health facility after the offender’s prison sentence is done. In 1990, the state of Washington passed the first civil commitment law for sexually dangerous persons. Currently, 18 other states and the federal government have similar laws. Moreover, the Supreme Court, in Kansas v. Hendricks and Kansas v. Crane, ruled that current civil commitment laws are constitutional. The civil commitment of sex offenders centres on the belief that sex offenders are more likely than other offenders to re-offend. However, data on sex offender recidivism is varied. Data show that the recidivism risk for sex offenders may be lower than it is typically thought to be; in fact, some studies show that sex offenders recidivate at a lower rate than many other criminals. Other studies show that, given time, almost all sex offenders will commit a new sex crime. Most discussions about recidivism examine ways to decrease it; for example, by providing sex offenders with treatment. Research on the efficacy of sex offender treatment is promising, but it cannot prove that treatment reduces recidivism.

Free Download John Kingdom, "The Civil Service in Liberal Democracies"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0415044561 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 0.3 mb
The civil service provides the administrative infrastructure of western government. Its functions are central to any question of efficiency, the distribution of power in the state, the role of the state in society and the operation of democracy itself. When such issues transcend national boundaries a comparative perspective is invaluable.

Free Download David R Mares, EDITOR , "Civil-military Relations: Building Democracy And Regional Cooperation In Latin America, Southern Asia, And Central Europe"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813324211, 081332422X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.7 mb
With the end of the Cold War the attention of policymakers, political activists, and academics has focused on the factors which promote democracy and regional peace. From both a theoretical and empirical perspective, the contributors to this volume examine the claim that civilian domination is the only form compatible with democracy and regional peace. By focusing on political values and the institutional rules of politics, the authors not only dispute this claim but clarify the conditions under which a partnership between civilians and the military can help promote both. The authors provide in-depth analyses of the normative and institutional aspects of the civil-military relationship to demonstrate that it is the politics of the relationship rather than its form that influences the likelihood of democracy and regional peace. Their analysis provides new reasons for expecting that democracy and regional peace can proliferate in the post-Cold War world.As a study of civil-military relations in twelve countries across Latin America, Asia, and Europe, Civil-Military Relations is an accessible and valuable book for policymakers, academics, and general readers.

Free Download Professor Peadar Kirby, "Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America: Challenges and Limitations to Democratization"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1780322054 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.9 mb
Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America. Featuring a broad range of case studies from across the region, from the Bolivian Constitution to participative budgeting in Brazil to the communal councils in Venezuela, the book examines to what extent these new initiatives are redefining state-civil society relations. Does the return of an active state in Latin America imply the incorporation of civil society representatives in decision-making processes? Is the new left delivering on the promise of participatory democracy and a redefinition of citizenship, or are we witnessing a new democratic deficit?

Free Download Harold J. Sullivan, "Civil Rights and Liberties"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0131174355 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 0.7 mb
For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government,Introduction to Law and Legal Process, and Judicial Process & Politics. Examining contemporary and perennial constitutional issues in civil liberties and rights, this text engages students in an exploration of how and why U.S. Supreme Court Justices have interpreted the provisions of the U.S. Constitution relating to freedom of expression and religion, and equal protection and privacy.

Free Download John Frederick Martin, "Civil Rights And The Crisis Of Liberalism: The Democratic Party 1945-1976"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0891584544, 036717099X | EPUB | pages: 301 | 0.6 mb
Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976 is about ideology and politics. It focuses on the civil rights issue in Democratic party politics from 1945 to 1976 but glances at a longer history to describe American liberalism.

Free Download Tom Head, "Civil Liberties: A Beginner’s Guide (Beginner’s Guides)"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1851686444 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.9 mb
In a country famous for having the most CCTVs in the world, how safe are your rights?

Free Download Thomas J Kerr, "Civil Defense In The United States: Bandaid For A Holocaust?"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0865315868, 036716972X | EPUB | pages: 268 | 1.1 mb
This book traces the endeavor in U.S. to develop a means of protecting the people from the effects of nuclear war. It shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology.

Free Download Lorenzo Fioramonti, "Citizens vs. Markets: How Civil Society is Rethinking the Economy in a Time of Crises"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415721652, 0415830168 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.7 mb
After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The ‘double dip’ has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of ‘markets’) and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.

Free Download James L Nelson, "Thieves of Mercy: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea"
English | 2005 | pages: 481 | ISBN: 0060199709 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders – take command of an ironclad warship being built in Memphis, Tennessee.