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Every Wrong Direction
An Emigré’s Memoir
The Politics of Genocide
From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect
The Perils of Populism
Social Exchange
Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Latinx Community Perspective
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: Multicultural Considerations
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
From Honolulu to Brooklyn
Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i
Chinese Americans in the Heartland
Migration, Work, and Community
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
Wrecked
Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey
Caught in the Crossfire
Shattered Justice
Crime Victims' Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations
Shattered Justice presents original crime victims’ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful convictions and exonerations.