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Smith, M. T. The southern pine bark beetle guild: A historical review of the research on the semiochemical-based communication system of the five principal species. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993.

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Misheva, Vessela Ivanova. Shame and guilt: Sociology as a poetic system. Uppsala University, Dept. of Sociology, 2000.

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David, Garland, Morris Terence, and University of Edinburgh. Centre for Theology and Public Issues., eds. Justice, guilt and forgiveness in the penal system. Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh, 1990.

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Kaplow, Louis. Moral rules and the moral sentiments: Toward a theory of an optimal moral system. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.

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Browning, Colin. Advanced AutoCAD: A coursework book for the City & Guilds 4352 certificate: advanced CAD and system management usingAutoCAD. Cleveland Technical College, 1988.

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T, Potter-Efron Ronald, and Potter-Efron Patricia S, eds. The Treatment of shame and guilt in alcoholism counselling. Haworth, 1988.

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T, Potter-Efron Ronald, and Potter-Efron Patricia S, eds. The Treatment of shame and guilt in alcoholism counseling. Haworth Press, 1988.

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Hesselager, Lise. Til guld skal det blive--: Nationallitteratur, nationalbibliotek, nationalbibliografi : biblioteksfaglige afhandlinger 1972-1987. Kongelige bibliotek, 1988.

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Kamisar, Yale. Advanced criminal procedure: The commencement of formal proceedings ; the adversary system and the determination of guilt or innocence ; appeals and post-conviction review. West Pub. Co., 1994.

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Thym, Daniel, ed. Reforming the Common European Asylum System. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748931164.

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Timely and profound collection of high-quality contributions, written by experts from across Europe, on the ongoing policy debate on the reform of Common European Asylum System. Contributions combine an in-depth presentation with a style of argument that addresses a broader audience: fellow academics, students and PhD researchers, practitioners, and political actors. Attention to the legislative detail coincides with an awareness of the broader picture in terms of policy developments, human rights computability, and practical implementation on the ground. The edited volume allows readers to understand the complex rules and to identify overarching challenges defining European asylum policy at this juncture. With contributions by Dr. Ulrike Brandl, Dr. Galina Cornelisse, Prof. Philippe De Bruycker, Jean-Baptiste Farcy, Prof. Paula García Andrade, Prof. Dr. Iris Goldner Lang, Prof. Elspeth Guild, Dr. Meltem İneli Ciğer, Dr. Lyra Jakuleviciene, Prof. Francesco Maiani, Dr. Madalina Bianca Moraru, Prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax, Prof. Sylvie Sarolea, Dr. Lieneke Slingenberg, Prof. Dr. Daniel Thym, Prof. Lilian Tsourdi and Prof. Jens Vedsted-Hansen.

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Mearls, Mike. Guilds (D20 System Accessories). Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), 2003.

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Mazzola, Anthony. The Just-Us System: Guilt by Association. America Star Books, 2010.

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Martin, Cathie Jo. Skill Builders and the Evolution of National Vocational Training Systems. Edited by John Buchanan, David Finegold, Ken Mayhew, and Chris Warhurst. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199655366.013.2.

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Some countries develop the (general) skills of industrial workers largely through regular secondary education systems whereas other nations rely on a network of industrial schools and apprenticeship programs to offer their workers credentialed industry or firm-specific occupational skills. Skills Builders delves into the origins of diverse forms. First, patterns of industrial development and economic cleavages shaped the development of skills-training institutions; thus countries with stark regional heterogeneity have been less likely to develop national training systems. Second, the legacies from pre-industrial patterns of cooperation in some nations – most prominently, from the guild system – have encouraged both employers and workers to negotiate collective vocational training institutions. Third, the political features of the state (most importantly, the structure of party competition and degree of federal power sharing) reinforce or work against collectivist solutions to skills needs, cooperative industrial relations systems, and entrenched regional cleavages. Finally, both employers and workers become more committed to skills training when these groups are institutionally well-organized and are given a significant role in the creation and oversight of training programs.

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System der strafrechtlichen Zurechnung. V. Klostermann, 2012.

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Guid to Electrical Power Distribution Systems. Fairmont Press, 2004.

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Dripps, Donald A. About Guilt and Innocence. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400606212.

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This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process. Why does the American criminal justice system punish too many innocent people, failing to punish so many guilty parties and imposing a disproportionate burden on blacks? This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process. Criminal procedure ought to be about protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, and doing equal justice. Modern legal doctrine, however, hinders these pursuits by concentrating on the specific procedural safeguards contained in the Bill of Rights. Dripps argues that a renewed focus on the Fourteenth Amendment would be more consistent than current law with both our values and with the legitimate sources of Constitutional law, and will promote the instrumental values the criminal process ought to serve. Legal and constitutional scholars will find his account of our criminal system's disarray compelling, and his argument as to how it may be reconstructed important and provoking.

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Thompson, Ian, and C. III Shannon Kenneth. Guilds and Adventurers (d20 System) (Hunt Rise of Evil). Mystic Eye Games, 2002.

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Boivin, Guy, and Jacques Brodeur. Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control. Springer, 2010.

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Boivin, Guy, and Jacques Brodeur. Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control. Springer, 2006.

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Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt. Guilford Publications, 2023.

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Lambert, J. Malet. Two Thousand Years Of Gild Life Or An Outline Of The History And Development Of The Gild System From Early Times. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Lambert, J. Malet. Two Thousand Years Of Gild Life Or An Outline Of The History And Development Of The Gild System From Early Times. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006.

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Reyerson, Kathryn. Urban Economies. Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.033.

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Women's experience in the towns of medieval Europe was framed by the nature of the urban economy and the legal system in place. Women operated everywhere within a patriarchal system, but the limits and possibilities of their economic participation varied across time, marital status, social status, family ties, and training. Elite women managed households, but in some cities they can be found investing in trade and industry, engaging in financial operations, and exploiting real property. Middling women engaged in sales of luxury goods and agricultural commodities, in real-estate transactions, in partnerships and apprenticeships. Rarely did they enjoy guild membership, but they contributed to medieval artisanal industry. Poor women, domestic servants, prostitutes, and slaves were everywhere the disadvantaged in medieval cities, though some, such as hucksters, could overcome the makeshift transient economy of which they were a part. Gender dictated the fate of urban women, however historical assessments might differ.

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Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt: An Internal Family Systems Perspective. Guilford Publications, 2023.

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Internal Family Systems Therapy for Shame and Guilt: An Internal Family Systems Perspective. Guilford Publications, 2023.

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Colledge, Jeff. Common Ground II: Guard Towers, Thieves Guilds, Private Clubs (d20 System). Bard's Production, 2002.

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Volintiru, Clara. Tax Collection without Consent. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796817.003.0010.

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This chapter examines tax collection in pre-modern Romanian provinces. Similar to the other case studies in this volume, legitimacy, the balance of powers, and administrative capacity influence greatly the fiscal and state-building process. Romanian rulers did not seek popular consent, nor did they actively engage in any form of social contract. Taxes were predominantly a burden imposed on behalf of neighboring foreign powers, or exploitative noblemen. Public goods and services were often provided by the Church. This chapter also explains some of the differences between the historical provinces. In the semi-periphery of the Ottoman Empire, fiscal collection was not a priority for the impoverished population, but rather the responsibility of patrimonial rulers. In contrast, social norms and institutional context encouraged fiscal compliance in the urban areas of Transylvania, where a nascent bureaucratic system provided the benefits of predictability and rule enforcement for tradesmen and guild workers.

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PORSCHE, Kast. Build an Aquaponics System : Starting Your Own Hydroponic System with Detailed Guide in This Book: Guid to Make an Aquaponics System. Independently Published, 2021.

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(Editor), Jacques Brodeur, and Guy Boivin (Editor), eds. Trophic and Guild Interactions in Biological Control (Progress in Biological Control). Springer, 2006.

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Falk, Gerhard. The American Criminal Justice System. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400610509.

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This critical yet honest appraisal of our criminal justice system addresses its strengths and its flaws—and makes recommendations for improvement. The American Criminal Justice System: How It Works, How It Doesn't, and How to Fix It calls attention to a criminal justice system that needs improvement. Author Gerhard Falk shows that the police themselves often violate the law; that prosecutors send innocent citizens to prison and even to death row; that defense attorneys take on cases they are not prepared to handle; that juries vote guilt or innocence on the basis of emotion, not facts; that judges are often failed attorneys or unscrupulous politicians; and that jails and prisons are too frequently warehouses of the poor. As background for his analysis, Falk discusses the history of the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges, as well as the history of prisons and "the prison industrial complex." He also offers a devastating analysis of the death penalty and its practitioners. The book ends with recommendations for the improvement of our criminal justice system so that America can truly be, as our Supreme Court proclaims, a land of "Equal Justice under Law."

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CLEP information systems & computer applications: Condensed summary and test prep guid. Feather Trail Press, LLC, 2013.

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Art of Doing Nothing: The No-Guilt Practical Burnout Recovery System for Busy Professionals. Independently Published, 2020.

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The Art of Doing Nothing: The No-Guilt Practical Burnout Recovery System for Busy Professionals. Throne of Zen LLC, 2020.

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The Art of Doing Nothing: The No-Guilt Practical Burnout Recovery System for Busy Professionals. Throne of Zen LLC, 2020.

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(Editor), Roy Brooks, ed. Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems (Macmillan Motor Vehicles Series for City & Guilds Syllabus 383). 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.

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Halsey, Daniel, Bryce Ruddock, and Wayne Weiseman. Integrated Forest Gardening: The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014.

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Whipp, J. Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems (Macmillan Motor Vehicles Series for City & Guilds Syllabus 383). 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.

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Hirst, J. Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems (Macmillan Motor Vehicles Series for City & Guilds Syllabus 383). 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.

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(Editor), Roy Brooks, ed. Vehicle Mechanical and Electronic Systems (Macmillan Motor Vehicles Series for City & Guilds Syllabus 383). Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.

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author, Halsey Daniel, and Ruddock Bryce author, eds. Integrated forest gardening: The complete guide to polycultures and plant guilds in permaculture systems. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014.

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Jacquet, Jennifer. Guilt and Shame in U.S. Climate Change Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.575.

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Some of the major misconceptions in the United States about climate change—such as the focus on scientific uncertainty, the “debate” over whether climate change is caused by humans, and pushback about how severe the consequences might be—can be seen as communications battles. An interesting area within communications is the contrasting use of guilt and shame for climate-related issues. Guilt and shame are social emotions (along with embarrassment, pride, and others), but guilt and shame are also distinct tools. On the one hand, guilt regulates personal behavior, and because it requires a conscience, guilt can be used only against individuals. Shame, on the other hand, can be used against both individuals and groups by calling their behavior out to an audience. Shaming allows citizens to express criticism and social sanctions, attempting to change behavior through social pressure, often because the formal legal system is not holding transgressors accountable. Through the use of guilt and shame we can see manifestations of how we perceive the problem of climate change and who is responsible for it. For instance, in October 2008, Chevron, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, placed advertisements around Washington, DC, public transit stops featuring wholesome-looking, human faces with captions such as “I will unplug things more,” “I will use less energy,” and “I will take my golf clubs out of the trunk.” Six months later, DC activists reworked the slogans by adding to each the phrase “while Chevron pollutes.” This case of corporate advertising and subsequent “adbusting” illustrates the contrast between guilt and shame in climate change communication. Guilt has tended to align with the individualization of responsibility for climate change and has been primarily deployed over issues of climate-related consumption rather than other forms of behavior, such as failure to engage politically. Shame has been used, largely by civil society groups, as a primary tactic against fossil fuel producers, peddlers of climate denial, and industry-backed politicians.

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Newman, Graeme, ed. Crime and Punishment around the World. ABC-CLIO, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963264.

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It is a subject as old as civil society, yet one that still fuels debate. Now the many and varied aspects of that subject are brought together in the four-volume Crime and Punishment around the World. This unprecedented work provides descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies. Each chapter examines the historical, political, and cultural background, as well as the basic organization of the subject state's legal and criminal justice system. It also reports on the types and levels of crime, the processes leading to the finding of guilt, the rights of the accused, alternatives to going to trial, how suspects are prosecuted for their crimes, and the techniques and conditions of typical punishments employed. Comprising a study that is at once extraordinarily comprehensive and minutely detailed, the essays collected here showcase the variety and the universality of crime and punishment the world over.

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Newman, Graeme, ed. Crime and Punishment around the World. ABC-CLIO, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963288.

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It is a subject as old as civil society, yet one that still fuels debate. Now the many and varied aspects of that subject are brought together in the four-volume Crime and Punishment around the World. This unprecedented work provides descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies. Each chapter examines the historical, political, and cultural background, as well as the basic organization of the subject state's legal and criminal justice system. It also reports on the types and levels of crime, the processes leading to the finding of guilt, the rights of the accused, alternatives to going to trial, how suspects are prosecuted for their crimes, and the techniques and conditions of typical punishments employed. Comprising a study that is at once extraordinarily comprehensive and minutely detailed, the essays collected here showcase the variety and the universality of crime and punishment the world over.

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Newman, Graeme R., ed. Crime and Punishment around the World. ABC-CLIO, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963295.

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It is a subject as old as civil society, yet one that still fuels debate. Now the many and varied aspects of that subject are brought together in the four-volume Crime and Punishment around the World. This unprecedented work provides descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies. Each chapter examines the historical, political, and cultural background, as well as the basic organization of the subject state's legal and criminal justice system. It also reports on the types and levels of crime, the processes leading to the finding of guilt, the rights of the accused, alternatives to going to trial, how suspects are prosecuted for their crimes, and the techniques and conditions of typical punishments employed. Comprising a study that is at once extraordinarily comprehensive and minutely detailed, the essays collected here showcase the variety and the universality of crime and punishment the world over.

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Newman, Graeme, ed. Crime and Punishment around the World. ABC-CLIO, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963271.

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It is a subject as old as civil society, yet one that still fuels debate. Now the many and varied aspects of that subject are brought together in the four-volume Crime and Punishment around the World. This unprecedented work provides descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies. Each chapter examines the historical, political, and cultural background, as well as the basic organization of the subject state's legal and criminal justice system. It also reports on the types and levels of crime, the processes leading to the finding of guilt, the rights of the accused, alternatives to going to trial, how suspects are prosecuted for their crimes, and the techniques and conditions of typical punishments employed. Comprising a study that is at once extraordinarily comprehensive and minutely detailed, the essays collected here showcase the variety and the universality of crime and punishment the world over.

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Moon, Zachary. Warriors between Worlds. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978739611.

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The concept of moral injury emerged in the past decade as a way to understand how traumatic levels of moral emotions generate moral anguish experienced by some military service members. Interdisciplinary research on moral injury has included clinical psychologists (Litz et al., 2009; Drescher et al., 2011), theologians (Brock & Lettini, 2012; Graham, 2017), ethicists (Kinghorn, 2012), and philosophers (Sherman, 2015). This project articulates a new key concept—moral orienting systems— a dynamic matrix of meaningful values, beliefs, behaviors, and relationships learned and changed over time and through formative experiences and relationships such as family of origin, religious and other significant communities, mentors, and teachers. Military recruit training reengineers pre-existing moral orienting systems and indoctrinates a military moral orienting system designed to support functioning within the military context and the demands of the high-stress environment of combat, including immediate responses to perceived threat. This military moral orienting system includes new values and beliefs, new behaviors, and new meaningful relationships. Recognizing the profound impact of military recruit training, this project challenges dominant notions of post-deployment reentry and reintegration, and formulates a new paradigm for first, understanding the generative circumstances of ongoing moral stress that include moral emotions like guilt, shame, disgust, and contempt, and, second, for responding to such human suffering through compassionate care and comprehensive restorative support. This project calls for more effective participation of religious communities in the reentry and reintegration process and for a military-wide post-deployment reentry program comparable to the encompassing physio-psycho-spiritual-social transformative intensity experienced in recruit-training boot camp.

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Scott, Michael Dewayne. Weight… It Might Be your Thyroid: It's Not Your Fault. It's Your Thyroid! the Permanent NO GUILT Weight Loss System. Cube17, Inc., 2016.

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Fonkem, I., and Janet Hagen, eds. Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666991710.

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This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment. Barring citizens with criminal records from obtaining housing, employment, education, and public benefits like Medicaid and food stamps is not only unjust but unproductive for a human society. The contributors to this volume argue that second chances are a foundational principle of the human services field.

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Feinberg, Melissa. The Power of the Powerless. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644611.003.0006.

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This chapter considers the fear of shortage or scarcity. The Stalinist period was a time of scarcity in Eastern Europe. Shortages of even basic goods were common; accordingly, the West defined Communist regimes as places of extreme deprivation. But when confronted with the spectacle of scarce goods, refugees were anything but powerless. Asked about the material situation at home, they emphasized their cleverness, guile, and ability to work the system in order to acquire whatever they needed. Many told stories of buying and selling on the black market or even denouncing others to improve their daily existence. But although many refugees emphasized how they defied the system, broke the law, and even bribed the police, these tales did not prompt Western analysts to revise their picture of Eastern Europe’s Communist regimes as totalitarian dystopias where the population was held powerless under the shadow of paralyzing fear.

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Gray, Anthony. Presumption of Innocence in Peril. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978725300.

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This book explains the historical significance and introduction of the presumption of innocence into common law legal systems. It explains that the presumption should be seen as reflecting notions of moral comfort around judgment of others. Specifically, when one is asked to make a judgment about the guilt or otherwise of a person accused of wrongdoing, the default position should be to do nothing. This reflects the very serious consequences of what we do when we decide someone is guilty of wrongdoing and is not a step to be taken lightly. Traditionally, decision makers have only taken it when they are morally comfortable with that decision. It then documents how legislators in a range of common law jurisdictions have undermined the presumption of innocence, through measures such as reverse onus provisions, allowing or requiring inferences to be made against an accused, redefining offenses and defenses in novel ways to minimize the burden on the prosecutor, and by dressing proceedings as civil when they are in substance criminal. Courts have too easily acceded to such measures, in the process permitting accused persons to be convicted although there is reasonable doubt as to their guilt, and where they are not guilty of sufficiently blameworthy conduct to attract criminal sanction. It finds that the courts must be prepared to re-assert the prime importance of the presumption of innocence, only permitting criminal sanctions to be imposed where they are morally certain that the accused did that of which they have been accused, and morally comfortable that the conduct being addressed is worthy of the kind of criminal sanction which prosecutors seek to impose. Courts must be morally comfortable about the finding of guilt, and the imposition of the criminal penalty in a given case. They have lost sight of this moral underpinning to criminal law process and substance, and it must be regained.

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