Bruce L Benson: 3 books

Book cover of To Serve and Protect

To Serve and Protect

Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

by Bruce L. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998

In contrast to government's predominant role in criminal justice today, for many centuries crime control was almost entirely private and community-based. Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all recent historical developments–results of a political and bureaucratic social...
Book cover of Our Muslim Neighbors

Our Muslim Neighbors

Achieving the American Dream, An Immigrant’s Memoir

by Victor Begg, Daniel L. Buttry, Rabbi and Cantor Bruce Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

The American Dream is alive and well in this memoir of a Muslim immigrant from India who arrived planning to start a business, working so hard toward his personal goals that he even pumped gas and sold vacuum cleaners door to door. Victor Begg successfully built a thriving, regional chain of furniture...
Book cover of Israel and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman
by John Judis, Alan L. Berger, Bruce S. Warshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

When he assumed the presidency in April 1945, Harry S. Truman inherited various international sources of turmoil, including the ambiguity of American policy toward political Zionism. Three years later, President Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, just 11 minutes after the announcement...
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