David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

units (“We’ve got a movement. We’ve got a movement”) appears in James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries: A Personal Ac ...

Chapter Seven: Rosemary Lawlor “For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch” is from Peter Taylor, Brits (Bloomsbury, 2002), page 48 ...

(Harper Collins, 1973), page 50. Freeland and the officials and journalists being likened to “the British Raj on a tiger hunt” i ...

and Crime Prevention (Routledge, 2008); and Lawrence Sherman, coeditor o f Evidence-Based Crime Prevention (Routledge, 2006). He ...

Switzerland 8.34 Denmark Austria 8.67 Germany Japan 9.7 Norway New Zealand 9.9 Sweden Netherlands 10.3 Belgium United Kingdom 11 ...

Canada 12.7 Greece Ireland 13.2 The list is from Friedrich Schneider’s “The Influence of the Economic Crisis on the Underground ...

bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed. Why is America so much mo ...

behaved rationally—according to Leites and Wolf’s definition of the word—tax evasion in America should be rampant. As the tax ec ...

about ten percent. If you are audited and you are found to be fraudulent you pay back taxes plus about 75 percent. So the expect ...

Legitimacy is based on fairness, voice, and predictability, and the U.S. government, as much as Americans like to grumble about ...

voices weren’t heard, and where the rules changed from one day to the next— we wouldn’t pay our taxes either. The discussion of ...

in 1969 Northern Ireland are from John Soule’s “Problems in Applying Counterterrorism to Prevent Terrorism: Two Decades of Viole ...

War in Northern Ireland (André Deutsch, 1998). ...

Chapter Eight: Wilma Derksen The account of the history of Three Strikes relies on several sources, chief among them: Mike Reyno ...

Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re Out in California (Oxford, 2001); and George Skelton, “A Father’s Crusade Born from Pain,” L ...

because such thoughts generated an uncomfortably high level of mental anguish. They believed that the best way to prevent this f ...

come as no surprise, then, to learn that the offenders usually preferred to ignore the possible risk and concentrate instead on ...

studies is “Sentence Severity and Crime: Accepting the Null Hypothesis,” Crime and Justice 30 (2003): 143. The charts showing th ...

Crime” in the Journal of the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Research Consortium 3 (1996): 1–10. There is an entire library of studies ...

The impacts of Three Strikes on crime in California and throughout the United States are analyzed using cross-sectional time ser ...