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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Brandon Garrett TITLE Convicting the Innocent Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong CATEGORY law academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 358 18 graphs PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Brandon Garrett was born in Washington, D.C. in 1975. Educated at Yale and Columbia, he is now Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. This is his first book. BOOK DESCRIPTION A study of the first 250 cases in the United States where people have been convicted of crimes, and later exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing. This book examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 innocent people exonerated in the United States courts by DNA testing. Garrett brings to light what caused wrongful convictions and what we can learn from miscarriages of justice about the criminal process in the United States. While individual DNA exonerations have unsettled public opinion and garnered justified press coverage, none have conducted a comprehensive review of what went wrong. This book asks commonsense questions about how wrongful convictions occurred and then answers them by looking at comprehensive data from a remarkable trove of material: the actual trial transcripts and court records, never before collected, of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA testing in the United States. Stories from the case files of the wrongly convicted are used to illustrate each of the key lessons about flaws in our criminal process. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Angel Harris TITLE Kids Don’t Want to Fail Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap CATEGORY education monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 260 53 graphs, 2 tables PUBLICATION MONTH June AUTHOR BIO Angel Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1975. Educated at Grambling State University, Kansas State University and the University of Michigan, he is now Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Princeton University. This is his first book. BOOK DESCRIPTION Challenges the dominant explanation for the racial achievement gap introduced by John Ogbu that black students belong to a group culture that devalues academic effort as "white” and argues that black students do well when given the tools to succeed, suggesting that class, rather than race, plays into academic success. The “oppositional culture theory” that says black students do less well in secondary schools because of a group culture that devalues learning and academic effort as “white” has received widespread attention in the social sciences and the mainstream press. In this book, the sociologist Angel Harris derives a wide range of empirical implications from the “oppositional culture” hypothesis and tests each one systematically with good data and appropriate methods, disconfirming each one. Carrying out similar analyses on British data, substituting class for race, what he finds is that among the UK working class, there is evidence that an oppositional culture does depress working class students’ academic aspirations and efforts. Returning to the U.S. data, Harris discovers that black kids do badly in school when they enter without the skills they need to succeed providing evidence for a class-based rather than a race-based oppositional culture. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Kristine Haugen TITLE Richard Bentley Poetry and Enlightenment CATEGORY biography monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 350 3 line illustrations PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Kristin Haughen was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1973. Educated at the University of Chicago and Princeton, she is now Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the California Institute of Technology. This is her first book. BOOK DESCRIPTION An in-depth study of Richard Bentley's Greek and Latin scholarship, arguing that he forged the beginnings of a specifically literary criticism based on unapologetically philological textual analysis. How have Europeans understood, used, and abused the Greek and Roman past? Later than the Renaissance, but before the rise of formal classical study in the nineteenth century, Richard Bentley (1662-1742) provides bracing answers. Caustic and brilliant, Bentley became simultaneously the most famous scholar in Europe and a figure of ridicule to English satirists such as Pope and Swift. Claiming the right to change the most beloved classical texts by his own conjectures, and pelting his readers with mounds of often abstruse evidence, Bentley deployed the tools of traditional scholarship to spectacular effect. At the same time, Bentley aimed to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of the polite. He worked on texts that the world in general viewed as interesting and relevant. He devised strategies for persuading (or browbeating) readers less expert than himself. His very decision to become a classical scholar was new in the England where he grew up: Bentley abandoned the church-oriented historical study that dominated the seventeenth century and invaded the precincts of the educated reader at large. The outrage that greeted him demonstrated his success. Bentley had induced non-expert readers to pay attention to classical scholarship, and if they were uneasy at what they saw, this was due only partly to Bentley's own personal provocations. Bentley shows us many vanished worlds: the international, Latin-speaking community of European scholars; the upper echelons of the English church, intent on winning controversies through historical and pseudo-historical scholarship; and the eighteenth-century universities, surprisingly active in research and publication. Above all, Bentley shows how the values of Enlightenment could arise from painstaking work on specific scholarly problems and sources. By giving a new tone to classical scholarship itself, Bentley inaugurated an idiosyncratic, one-man Age of Reason. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. 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