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  • Abortion in the United States
    Elyshia Aseltine / Sheldon Ekland Olson
    This book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which dramatically changed the constitutional standing of abortion decisions set in place by Roe v. Wade fifty years earlier. ...
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    94,34 €

  • Life and Death Decisions
    Sheldon Ekland-Olson
    Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely popular undergraduate course at the University of Texas, this book explores thes...
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    302,16 €

  • Life and Death Decisions
    Sheldon Ekland-Olson
    Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely popular undergraduate course at the University of Texas, this book explores thes...
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    88,44 €

  • Justice Under Pressure
    Sheldon Ekland-Olson / William Kelly
    Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year survival rates among parolees released between 1984 and 1987. Setting out to identify differences in recidiv...
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    66,92 €

  • How Ethical Systems Change
    Elyshia Aseltine / Sheldon Ekland-Olson
    Roe v. Wade came like a bolt from the blue, but support had been building for years. For many, the idea that life in the womb was not fully protected under the Constitution was simply not acceptable. Political campaigns were organized and protests launched, including the bombing of clinics and the killing of abortion providers. Questions about the protection and support of life...
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    70,94 €

  • How Ethical Systems Change
    Julie Beicken / Sheldon Ekland-Olson
    Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social movements were launched to secure broad-based revisions in civil and human right...
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    73,64 €