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"Stuffed with terrifying tales of juvenile crime. Frightening but fascinating."-- "USA Today""Should be required reading for anyone who cares about law and order: how it has been undermined and what can be done to fix it."-- "New York Daily News""She makes advocates of Tough Love look like marshmallow liberals...Pithy and opinionated, with many real-life case histories, this book is an eye-opener for the politically left and an 'All Right!' cheer for the right."-- "Publishers Weekly"
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Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court has, for 24 years, laid down the law as she understands it: if you want to eat, you have to work; if you have children, you'd better support them; if you break the law, you have to pay; if you tap the public purse, you'd better be accountable. She abandons all judicial restraint in a scathing critique of the system, filled with hard-nosed alternatives to what she perceives as the US' bloated welfare bureaucracy and soft-on-crime laws.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Action not excuses,
By Madame La Bonne (England UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell ME it's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks out (Paperback)
Law abiding people know something is radically wrong with the justice system in the UK. Judge Judy confirms what all sane people intuitively know - that softness encourages anti-social behaviour. What I learned is that We, the observers, can't sit back and expect "Them" to do something. Take responsibiilty. Ask questions. Ask awkward questions. Then ask more awkward questions.
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This review is from: Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell ME it's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks out (Paperback)
I have to admit that I am in complete agreement with Judge Judy. She is a tough talking, no nonsense, commom sense oriented individual, who believes in personal responsibility and acountability. What you see on the television screen, if you watch her show "Judge Judy", is what you find between the cover of this book.The book covers a variety of social issues in the context of her legal and judicial experience, and she does a full court press in giving her opinions. Not given to judicial restraint, she speaks out on those issues to which her nearly quarter of a century experience as a judge has entitled her. I only wish that she were running for public office. She would certainly have my vote. The only issue that I take with the book is that it is really not a cohesive entity. It is a somewhat disjointed collection of essays or opinions on various social issues that repeatedly came up during her years on the bench. There is no attempt to put them together into a broader context, so that one segues into the next. This is the one shortcoming of the book. Nonetheless, it is still an interesting read.
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Judge Judy offers an accurate assessment of present society.,
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This review is from: Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell ME it's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks out (Paperback)
I have read and re-read this book numerous times. I admire Judge Judy's courage to offer this indictment of a system that allows those who do not work to profit from the tax dollars of those who do. Judge Judy supplies countless examples of the abuses of taxpayer funds, and while I found the book entertaining for the judge's blunt, tell-it-as-it-is style, I was also disturbed at the fleecing of taxpayers that takes place at the hands of welfare recipients and social service agencies.
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