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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...ION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nduct. I do not pretend to be an origi- nal investigator, nor an authority on biology, psychology or philosophy. I have simply been a student giving t... ...n- ions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are man... ...such abnormalities of the mind as are called “criminal” is a comparatively new idea. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the standpoint of... ...ref- erences and foot-notes, for the reason that statistics and opin- ions on this subject are conflicting and imperfect, and the results after all mu... ...tly published, based on inves- tigations by a special committee of the New York State Com- mission of Prisons, shows that in the New Y ork Reformatory... ...enders are put down at 140. Habitual thieves convicted and unconvicted are listed at 60. Common prostitutes are put down at 50. After Dugdale’s invest... ...saves the situation; often luck alone compasses the destruction. Insurance companies know just when accidents will befall the insured. If a man lives ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ... languor or violence in its force, never running back upon itself, opening new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited cou... ...s loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous of the dead is Daudet, w... ... head sea and bound for the gateway of Dover Straits. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless... ...In my time I have never been able to detect any faint hearts in the ships’ companies with whom I have served in vari- ous capacities. But I reflected ... ...er officers are responsible. It would have been won- derful if she had not listed with such a hole in her side. Even the Aquitania with such an openin...

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....... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898..................................................

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ...country. He (occasionally she) was governed by an operating directive that listed operational priorities issued by the relevant regional division of t... ...s uncooperative on terrorism.Albright said the original carrots and sticks listed in a decision paper for principals may not have been used as “descri...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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