Island Justice
Island Justice

Author: John Boaden

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 166242177X

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Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Watson had served 24 years as British Police Officer. Throughout his career he was always on the "front line" of the crime fighting efforts, involving many serious crimes with sometimes the most dangerous of criminals. However, his accumulated experience had resulted in an assignment to a brand-new teaching position, in which he taught fellow officers and staff how to access and implement a computerized case management system for complicated large cases and also multi-jurisdictional matters.Watson, however, was a front-line police officer and spending his days in a classroom with the prospect that the classroom could become his professional home was not to his liking. When a post became available in the Cayman Islands, Watson, with some initial reluctance, made an application and was subsequently offered the post. Little did he know at the time that his whole life would be changed forever. Everything he had known in the UK, his life, his home would be forever changed.For the next 6+ years in the Caymans he dealt with all manner of crimes including murders, robberies, frauds, money laundering, child abductions, a worldwide bank closure and telemarketing frauds. In this book Watson recounts his experiences in tracking major international crimes and frauds and how he devised a management system for controlling those crimes throughout the Cayman Islands and other Caribbean territories. The local police force considered Watson a force to be reckoned with.Additionally, Watson had never seen a hurricane in the UK but experienced his first hurricane, met his wife, helped in forming a police association, and became deeply involved in cricket while in the Caymans.This book will keep you spell bound as Watson recounts how his life changed dramatically on both a personal and professional level in the islands, along with much good humor, as a key figure in Island Justice.

Island Justice
Island Justice

Author: Elizabeth Winthrop

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Maggie Hammond is willed her godmother's seaside Victorian home on an island. Soon after she arrives she makes a gruesome discovery on the beach that catapults her into the middle of the year-round island community and its strange set of characters.

Islandborn
Islandborn

Author: Junot Díaz

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0735230951

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From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: “Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves.

The Problem of Justice
The Problem of Justice

Author: Bruce Granville Miller

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803282759

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For the indigenous peoples of North America, the history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their own native practices of justice. How contemporary native communities have dealt quite differently with this dilemma is the subject of The Problem of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic study of indigenous peoples struggling to reestablish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures. The peoples discussed in this book are the Coast Salish communities along the northwest coast of North America: the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in Washington State, the St¢:lo Nation in British Columbia, and the South Island Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. Here we see how, despite their common heritage and close ties, each of these communities has taken a different direction in understanding and establishing a system of tribal justice. Describing the results?from the steadily expanding independence and jurisdiction of the Upper Skagit Court to the collapse of the South Island Justice Project?Bruce G. Miller advances an ethnographically informed, comparative, historically based understanding of aboriginal justice and the particular dilemmas tribal leaders and community members face. His work makes a persuasive case for an indigenous sovereignty associated with tribally controlled justice programs that recognize diversity and at the same time allow for internal dissent.

Revolutionary Power
Revolutionary Power

Author: Shalanda Baker

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-01-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1642830674

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In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Energy Islands
Energy Islands

Author: Catalina M de Onís

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0520380622

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"Weaving together historical and ethnographic research, Catalina M. de Onâis challenges the master narratives of Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site of 'natural' disasters. She demonstrates how fossil-fuel economies are inextricably entwined with colonial practices and policies and how local community groups in Puerto Rico have struggled against energy coloniality and energy privilege to mobilize and transform power from the ground up. This work decenters continental contexts and deconstructs damaging hierarchies that devalue and exploit disenfranchised rural, coastal communities"--

Justice and Natural Resources
Justice and Natural Resources

Author: Kathryn Mutz

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can suffer disproportionate harm from decisions about their management and use. Justice and Natural Resources is the first book devoted to exploring the concept of environmental justice in the realm of natural resources. Contributors consider how decisions about the management and use of natural resources can exacerbate social injustice and the problems of disadvantaged communities. Looking at issues that are predominantly rural and western -- many of them involving Indian reservations, public lands, and resource development activities -- it offers a new and more expansive view of environmental justice. The book begins by delineating the key conceptual dimensions of environmental justice in the natural resource arena. Following the conceptual chapters are contributions that examine the application of environmental justice in natural resource decision-making. Chapters examine: how natural resource management can affect a range of stakeholders quite differently, distributing benefits to some and burdens to others the potential for using civil rights laws to address damage to natural and cultural resources the unique status of Native American environmental justice claims parallels between domestic and international environmental justice how authority under existing environmental law can be used by Federal regulators and communities to address a broad spectrum of environmental justice concerns Justice and Natural Resources offers a concise overview of the field of environmental justice and a set of frameworks for understanding it. It expands the previously urban and industrial scope of the movement to include distribution of the burdens and access to the benefits of natural resources, broadening environmental justice to a truly nationwide concern.

Life and Death in Rikers Island
Life and Death in Rikers Island

Author: Homer Venters

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1421427354

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This revelatory and groundbreaking book concludes with the author's analysis of the case for closing Rikers Island jails and his advice on how to do it for the good of the incarcerated.

The Problem of Justice
The Problem of Justice

Author: Bruce Granville Miller

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803232211

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For the indigenous peoples of North America, the history of colonialism has often meant a distortion of history, even, in some cases, a loss or distorted sense of their own native practices of justice. How contemporary native communities have dealt quite differently with this dilemma is the subject of The Problem of Justice, a richly textured ethnographic study of indigenous peoples struggling to reestablish control over justice in the face of conflicting external and internal pressures. ø The peoples discussed in this book are the Coast Salish communities along the northwest coast of North America: the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in Washington State, the St¢:lo Nation in British Columbia, and the South Island Tribal Council on Vancouver Island. Here we see how, despite their common heritage and close ties, each of these communities has taken a different direction in understanding and establishing a system of tribal justice. Describing the results?from the steadily expanding independence and jurisdiction of the Upper Skagit Court to the collapse of the South Island Justice Project?Bruce G. Miller advances an ethnographically informed, comparative, historically based understanding of aboriginal justice and the particular dilemmas tribal leaders and community members face. His work makes a persuasive case for an indigenous sovereignty associated with tribally controlled justice programs that recognize diversity and at the same time allow for internal dissent.

The Monsanto Papers
The Monsanto Papers

Author: Carey Gillam

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1642830569

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Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world’s most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee doused in a toxic chemical and facing a deadly cancer that turned his life upside down. In 2018, the world watched as Lee was thrust to the forefront of one the most dramatic legal battles in recent history. The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson’s landmark lawsuit against Monsanto. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn’t survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the eclectic band of young, ambitious lawyers representing him, it was a matter of professional pride and personal risk, with millions of dollars and hard-earned reputations on the line. For the public at large, the lawsuit presented a question of corporate accountability. With enough money and influence, could a company endanger its customers, hide evidence, manipulate regulators, and get away with it all—for decades? Readers will be astounded by the depth of corruption uncovered, captivated by the shocking twists, and moved by Lee’s quiet determination to see justice served. With gripping narrative force that reads like fiction, The Monsanto Papers takes readers behind the scenes of a grueling legal battle, pulling back the curtain on the frailties of the American court system and the lengths to which lawyers will go to fight corporate wrongdoing.