Shadows of Doubt

Shadows of Doubt
Author: Brendan O'Flaherty
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674240170

Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system. If you’re a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer, how afraid are you of the young man you’re about to arrest? As a judge, do you think the suspect in front of you will show up in court if released from pretrial detention? As a juror, does the defendant seem guilty to you? Your answers may depend on the stereotypes you hold, and the stereotypes you believe others hold. In this provocative, pioneering book, economists Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi explore how stereotypes can shape the ways crimes unfold and how they contaminate the justice system through far more insidious, pervasive, and surprising paths than we have previously imagined. Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police officers, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information, under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and extensive data on how people act as they try to commit, prevent, or punish crimes, O’Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making. Sometimes it’s simple: Robbers tend to target those they stereotype as being more compliant. Other interactions display a complex and sometimes tragic interplay of assumptions: “If he thinks I’m dangerous, he might shoot. I’ll shoot first.” Shadows of Doubt shows how deeply stereotypes are implicated in the most controversial criminal justice issues of our time, and how a clearer understanding of their effects can guide us toward a more just society.

Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt
Author: Terri Blackstock
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031021758X

Book two in the Newpointe 911 series in which Celia Shepherd is arrested for the attempted murder of her husband, Stan.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt
Author: S.L. Rottman
Publisher: Holiday House
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1561456586

Shadow's life changed forever when his brother Daniel ran away. What will happen now that Daniel is home again? For fifteen-year-old Shadow Thompson, life ended seven years ago—the night his older brother Daniel ran away from home. That's when Shadow stopped depending on other people and turned inward, relying only on himself. But now Daniel is back and he stands accused of murder. Shadow's anger at his brother, his parents' struggle to cope with the sudden return of their son, and Daniel's own feelings of guilt create an emotional undertow that threatens to consume the family. But as Shadow begins to open up to new friends, he slowly learns to trust and finally, to forgive. Now the Thompsons may get a second chance at being a family. Award-winning author S. L. Rottman once again crafts a powerful story that depicts the complexity of human relationships within the framework of a troubled adolescent's struggle to make sense of the people and the world around him.

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt
Author: Skylar James
Publisher: Adaptive Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 9781945293283

James presents a heartfelt story about the friendship between a young girl and her ambitious racehorse. Illustrations.

Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt
Author: Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781773101668

"Revised and expanded edition of the 2016 publication on the murder of Richard Oland and the trial of Dennis Oland (his son who was accused of killing him). The new edition covers Oland's successful appeal against the initial conviction and the new trial that took place this year."--

Shadow of Doubt

Shadow of Doubt
Author: Marites Dañguilan Vitug
Publisher:
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010
Genre: Judicial corruption
ISBN: 9789719473619

Shadow of a Doubt

Shadow of a Doubt
Author: William J. Coughlin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312938024

Detroit attorney and former alcoholic Charley Sloan lost his practice, his wife, and his fortune to booze. A chance at a comeback arrives in his former lover, Robin Harwell. She's now the desperate widow of a multimillionaire--and stepmother of the teenage girl charged with his brutal murder. Damned by forensic evidence, witness testimony, a history of mental problems, and by her own confession, young Angel's defense will be hard coming--and believing in her innocence could come at a price far more personal than he ever feared. As the media descends, Charley finds himself shadowed by rivals determined to destroy him, trapped in the seductive grip of a never-forgotten love affair, and plunged in a dark morass of terrible lies, bitter secrets, and unforgiving family ties...

No Shadow of a Doubt

No Shadow of a Doubt
Author: Daniel Kennefick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691217157

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to weigh light by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success. The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest. By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.

Beyond the Shadow of Doubt

Beyond the Shadow of Doubt
Author: Mark Chironna
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 088419731X

Chironna tells readers how to acquire doubt-busting faith in order to discover God-given capabilities, competence and significance. He draws upon years of pastoring experience and prophetic insights to take readers from doubting to believing, from victim to victor.