Robert S Acker

Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward

In Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, the premise is that much can be learned by ''stepping back'' from the focus on the direct causes of wrongful convictions and examining criminal justice systems, and the sociopolitical environments in which they operate. Expert scholar...

America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction, Third Edition

The third edition of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment has been expanded and updated to include several important developments since the publication of the second edition in 2003. New evidence is presented about the incidence of wrongful convictions, racial and geographical disparities in...

America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction

The second edition of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment is an updated and expanded version of the comprehensive first edition. Authored by the country's leading legal and social science scholars, it includes information concerning racial disparities in the administration of the death pena...

Patentability of Microorganisms--Issues and Questions: A Public Forum

Blick Auf Die Schweiz: Zur Frage Der Eigenstandigkeit Der Schweizer Literatur Seit 1970

Kathy Acker

…Acker took her last name from her first husband, Robert Acker; though named Karen, she was known as Kathy by her friends and family. She studied classics as an undergraduate at Brandeis University and aspired to write novels but moved to San Diego to further pursue her studies. Acker's first...