Analyses of crime and justice in an unprecedented timeWhile COVID-19 lockdowns affected nearly everyone worldwide, feelings of anxiety and fear were exacerbated for those already entangled in the criminal justice system. Scholars recognized the unique opportunity to study crime and the justice system’s response during this period, though they soon realized that determining the pandemic’s effects would be a complicated, nuanced process.Crime, Corrections...

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expand...

Felix’s shower is a portal to another world. Never fear. He’s ready for anything this time, with a backpack full of survival gear. He turns on the shower and . . .REEEEKKKKKK!Felix finds himself in the middle of the ocean . . . sinking . . . but there’s a ship on the horizon.Step 1: Don’t drown.Step 2: Don’t think about sharks.Step 3: ...

Drawing on several principles of sociological theory, James S. Coleman and his colleagues construct a new design for American schooling. The authors present compelling evidence on the deficits of our educational system compared to other countries, arguing that the problems are the result of inappropriate incentives for teachers, students, and parents.

Felix's shower is a portal to another world. Never fear. He's ready for anything this time, with a backpack full of survival gear. He turns on the shower and . . .REEEEKKKKKK!Felix finds himself in the middle of the ocean . . . sinking . . . but there's a ship on the horizon.Step 1: Don't drown.Step 2: Don't think about sharks.Step 3: ...

The tribulation of a young man on the run from a murder. It tells of ten years of retribution in his life taking him from his home in Birmingham to Northern Ireland, London and finally back to his hometown roots involving him in the "Troubles" of the time in Ireland and the UK. Relationships are explored and developed in his turbulent life until justice prevailed to the shock of all concerned.