Historically, prime-time television has devoted at least one-third of its programming to crime. The extreme popularity of crime shows continues unabated. From Law &amp; Order to CSI, Americans are riveted by crime TV. Court TV and other cable channels produce true crime series, too, that take viewers through both current crimes and trials and cold cases. Yet, despite efforts in these shows to depict real investigative and legal techniques, chances are, viewers have questions about criminal procedure, legal issues, and related concerns. For instance, why do police get angry when a suspect just asks for a lawyer? Or, what's the difference between being an accomplice to a crime and being a conspirator? The Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law is written specifically for the millions of crime junkies who make up the audiences for the variety of crime dramas, both real and fictional, that blaze across our screens night after night.
The news media know that crime is inherently interesting because it involves things we all understand ― like passion, greed, revenge and the urge to make very close friends in prison. Television broadcasts and major magazines drip with salacious details about the infamous evildoings of the moment. From the sports to the style sections, newspaper headlines scream out reports of the latest celebrity picked up for one transgression or another. This one-of-a-kind book is an indispensable guide to criminal law that uses actual trials alongside plots and characters from popular television shows to illustrate criminal law issues like degrees of murder, the defense of intoxication, search warrants, insanity pleas, and the purposes of various pretrial hearings. Silver offers a concise, informative, and entertaining explanation of everything readers need to know to truly appreciate crime stories (real and fictional) and understand how criminal law really works.

The Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law: From Law & Order to Laci Peterson

Humor & Entertainment

Silver, Jim

Television

Praeger

Insurance can be a real killer. Luther Sitasy, one-time Vietnam vet, wealthy eccentric, now manager of the policy limits section of Trans Patriot insurance, trips into a savage plot. Someone is calculating the cold blooded murder of certain high reserve plaintiffs, using the millions of freed-up reserves for their own high stakes gain. Luther's investigation forces him back to a time of guns, honor, and another, darker sense of morality as he hurtles towards a sociopathic killer and his sensual and sexy partner, while the body count steadily rises. "Jim Silver has created a wild and cunning mystery that twists, intrigues, and spellbinds at the same time. The best creative thriller of the year."—Clive Cussler  "Assumption of Risk is a grabber...totally engrossing, sensual, full of edgy terror and unpredictable twists. Jim Silver is a name to remember, an natural storyteller and a true pro."—Ann Rule

Assumption of Risk

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Writers Club Pr

Luther Sitasy, an investment banker, becomes a psychotic killer when he--along with his sexy partner in crime, Dana Quinn--concocts a insurance scam that entails murdering policy claimants. A first novel. 60,000 first printing.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

After learning that his father, an Army major in Vietnam, was murdered by his own men, Aaron Longbaugh vows to use his own training as an Army sniper to exact revenge. By the author of Assumption of Risk. 25,000 first printing.

Kill Zone: A Novel

An examination of the Canadian, urban-aboriginal experience based on the voices of native peoples, this study focuses on innovative community-based solutions being created and run by and for urban aboriginal people. Set primarily in Winnipeg's inner city, this sourcebook examines such topics as aboriginal involvement in community development, adult education, and the mainstream political process.

In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fernwood Publishing

Demonstrating how public housing projects are stigmatized and stereotyped as havens of poverty, illegal activity, and violence, this study contends that the problems with which they are so often associated are not inherent but the result of structural inequalities and neoliberal government policies. It urges a reconsideration of the fate of this type of housing tenure, arguing that urban povertydubbed as spatially concentrated racialized poverty” by the authoris not solved by razing public housing. Instead, he illustrates how these projects can be rebuilt from within based on their communities’ strengths and supported by meaningful public investment. It provides hope that vibrant and healthy neighborhoods can be created while maintaining much-needed low-income housing. Four projects are exploredin Vancouver, Toronto, Halifax, and Winnipegthrough the voices of actual residents who affirm that their projects can be ideal homes, if the political will exists.

Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada

With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have produced them. “Indians Wear Red” locates Aboriginal street gangs in the context of the racialized poverty that has become entrenched in the colonized space of Winnipeg’s North End. Drawing upon extensive interviews with Aboriginal street gang members as well as with Aboriginal women and elders, the authors develop an understanding from “inside” the inner city and through the voices of Aboriginal people – especially street gang members themselves. While economic restructuring and neo-liberal state responses can account for the global proliferation of street gangs, the authors argue that colonialism is a crucial factor in the Canadian context, particularly in western Canadian urban centres. Young Aboriginal people have resisted their social and economic exclusion by acting collectively as “Indians.” But just as colonialism is destructive, so too are street gang activities, including the illegal trade in drugs. Solutions lie not in “quick fixes” or “getting tough on crime” but in decolonization: re-connecting Aboriginal people with their cultures and building communities in which they can safely live and work.

Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs

Comack, Elizabeth

Deane, Lawrence

Morrissette, Larry

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada’s neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physical health. Silver also highlights the ways in which poverty is intimately connected to colonialism and racial and gender discrimination, and finds that the political and economic policies enacted by the Canadian government serve only a powerful minority, while producing a range of negative outcomes for the rest of us, especially the poor. Silver points out that the costs of poverty ― relating to health care, crime, education and unemployment ― are higher than the costs of solving poverty, and he lays out an achievable strategy for its dramatic reduction in Canada. When poverty is understood as resulting from political choices, its elimination requires putting pressure on governments to ensure that different choices are made.

About Canada: Poverty

Business & Money

Economics

This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses their organization and democratic potential; examines issues related to collective bargaining, grievances and strike activity; charts the historical development of labour unions; and describes the gains unions have achieved for their members and all working people.

Building a Better World, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada, 3rd Edition

Ross, Stephanie

Savage, Larry

Black, Errol

Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational achievement, high levels of neighbourhood violence, racism, colonialism and social exclusion. As a result many poor people experience low levels of self-esteem and self-confidence and may blame themselves, which is reinforced by the dominant blame-the-victim discourse about poverty. Silver argues that today’s urban poverty is qualitatively different than the urban poverty of forty years ago, and that there are no quick, easy or one-dimensional solutions. In Solving Poverty, Jim Silver, a veteran scholar actively engaged in anti-poverty efforts in Winnipeg’s inner city for decades, offers an on-the-ground analysis of this form of poverty. Silver focuses particularly on the urban Aboriginal experience, and describes a variety of creative and effective urban Aboriginal community development initiatives, as well as other anti-poverty initiatives that have been successful in Winnipeg’s inner city. In the concluding chapter Silver offers a comprehensive, pan-Canadian strategy to dramatically reduce the incidence of urban poverty in Canada.

Solving Poverty: Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg’s Inner City

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The Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law: From Law & Order to Laci Peterson

Assumption of Risk

Assumption of Risk

Kill Zone: A Novel

In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities

Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada

Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs

About Canada: Poverty

Building a Better World, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada, 3rd Edition

Solving Poverty: Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg’s Inner City