This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims.The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.
Saram discovers that he is not one person but a combination of various conflicting subpersonalities that prevent his inner peace and success. A story of how our personas or sub-personalities are created and developed culminating in our inner conflicts, which often obstruct and destroy our happiness. Throughout the story we learn how reconcile our own inner conflicting selves.
This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves. Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims. The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.
Learn how to remain healthy, happy, and positive during Testing Times in this all-encompassing book that will surely enrich your life. Discover how you can transform all situations and events into opportunities to become a stronger, happier person. Cultivate positive thoughts and feelings, and use Energy Psychology to free yourself from fear, anxiety, and other negative emotions. Use Twelve-Step Manifestation Process to manifest your ideal life.Transform your current reality by using methods to create alternative perceptions that result in more inspired solutions. Learn the art of living in the present moment, letting go of the importance you give to what other people think. Discover the power of forgiveness. By creating peace through truth, we open ourselves to the best possible future. This is our challenge.
The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives. From a thorough examination of victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs, Elias concludes that little victim support has actually occurred and that victimization is, in fact, escalating. He argues for a change in the structural sources of crime and proposes a `new culture' that could lead to substantially less crime.
Considering victimology as a reflection of the structure of American society, Elias examines its links to the broad arenas of social, political and economic relations and advocates a new victimology of human rights that embraces victims of both crime and oppression.
Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball's role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball's first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America's national pastime and baseball's role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball's frequent and often surprising connections to America's presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America's dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that's about more than just sports.
A captivating history of the baseball reformers and revolutionaries who challenged their sport and society—and in turn helped change America. Athletes have often used their platform to respond to and protest injustices, from Muhammad Ali and Colin Kaepernick to Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe. Compared to their counterparts, baseball players have often been more cautious about speaking out on controversial issues; but throughout the sport’s history, there have been many players who were willing to stand up and fight for what was right. In Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers' Rights and American Empire, Robert Elias and Peter Dreier reveal a little-known yet important history of rebellion among professional ballplayers. These reformers took inspiration from the country’s dissenters and progressive movements, speaking and acting against abuses within their profession and their country. Elias and Dreier profile the courageous players who demanded better working conditions, battled against corporate power, and challenged America’s unjust wars, imperialism, and foreign policies, resisting the brash patriotism that many link with the “national pastime.” American history can be seen as an ongoing battle over wealth and income inequality, corporate power versus workers’ rights, what it means to be a “patriotic” American, and the role of the United States outside its borders. For over 100 years, baseball activists have challenged the status quo, contributing to the kind of dissent that creates a more humane society. Major League Rebels tells their inspiring stories.
In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way into baseball’s culture, economics, and politics. Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America’s pastime, the nation’s battles over race, gender, and sexuality have been reflected on the playing field, in the executive suites, in the press box, and in the community. Some of baseball’s rebels are widely recognized, but most of them are either little known or known primarily for their baseball achievements—not their political views and activism. Everyone knows the story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color line, but less known is Sam Nahem, who opposed the racial divide in the U.S. military and organized an integrated military team that won a championship in 1945. Or Toni Stone, the first of three women who played for the Indianapolis Clowns in the previously all-male Negro Leagues. Or Dave Pallone, MLB’s first gay umpire. Many players, owners, reporters, and other activists challenged both the baseball establishment and society’s status quo. Baseball Rebels tells stories of baseball’s reformers and radicals who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America’s broader political and social protest movements, making the game—and society—better along the way.
Chit Chat-Stories Told Around the Hearth is a collection of 42 stories and tales of life experiences. Many I heard as a boy sitting around listening to the grown ups talk while others are simply life situations about the everyday situations we all experience.
Believing that historical moments are marked by distinctive conceptions pervade a society, Robert Elias, in this book, proposes a definition, or at least an approach to one, by identifying a conception that recurs throughout the period in a wide range of forms.
The University of San Francisco began in 1855 as a one-room schoolhouse named St. Ignatius Academy. Its founding is interwoven with the establishment of the Jesuit Order in California, European immigration to the western United States, and the population growth of California and San Francisco as a result of the California Gold Rush. For 159 years, the University of San Francisco has enriched the lives of thousands of people. The institution has graduated students who went on to become leaders in government, education, business, journalism, sports, the sciences, and the legal and medical professions. Among its alumni, the university counts three San Francisco mayors, a US senator, four California Supreme Court justices, a California lieutenant governor, two Pulitzer Prize winners, three Olympic medalists, several professional athletes, and the former president of Peru.
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance follows the witty and feisty Debs Kafka through the dysfunctional halls of academia, into the scandal-ridden Catholic Church, down the streets of San Francisco, and into the locker rooms of Major League Baseball. Can he fathom the chaos of these different worlds, find the culprit, and still salvage his own aspirations and stormy romance? In a nutshell this novel is: Good Will Hunting meets the Rookie on the Field of Dreams behind the Catholic Church.
Drawing from a wide range of sources--the Bible, Raymond Moody, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Socrates, and others--Najemy explains what happens after death, how to overcome the fear of death, and how to cope with the death of loved ones.
Annotation Ninety two one page parables, models and examples with ninety five illustrations that enable us to easily comprehend, enjoy and employ the deepest psychological, philosophical an spiritual truths in our daily lives. This is a great book for quick inspiration and understanding. For the coffee table, bedroom as well as serious reading.
A practical philosophy for practical people. An easily comprehensible and practical explanation of universal philosophy the essence behind all philosophical and spiritual teachings with emphasis on how to employ these concepts in our daily lives. This book has helped thousands and the teaching has helped millions find inner peace. love and joy in their lives.
A nostalgic and inspirational book of memories from Green River Township. Author Robert Ballard likens life as the flow of a river. He shares favorite boyhood fishing stories, some hardships along the river of life and some other personal interest stories about life including the auto-immune disease which have afflicted both he and his son. A short read containing aspects of local heritage.
This latest revolutionary development in psychology and pain management allows people to free themselves from physical pain and such negative emotions as hurt, anger, or fear. Najemy's work gives specific guidelines and abundant examples on how to remove these obstacles to happiness.
Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Gary in the Green River community of Henderson County. Retiring in 2003 from General Electric Outdoor Lighting after almost 30 years of service I discovered that I liked to write and joined an on-line writing site called hub pages. The articles contained in Living the Good Life-Part I are all short stories which I wrote on my site and cover a broad range of topics. We all have memories created over the span of our life. In this volume I share many of those memories. I grew up in a small rural mountain community in Western North Carolina called Tuxedo, a cotton mill village.The stories in this book are written to record and to share those memories that warmed my heart, made me smile, and sometimes invoked personal reflection. My writing style is simple, down to earth with the wisdom one might expect of ordinary folk. In writing these articles it has been my goal to not only share these stories but to preserve these simple life experiences that some may have forgotten or taken for granted. ll village, my military years, inspirational thoughts, and tales told to me. Readers will experience the thoughts and emotions conveyed in a simple narrative. My stories are a collection which I have written over time and published on a writers blog where other writers read and give feedback on the subject matter and and content. The articles in this book all received high marks from my fellow writers.
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