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  • - Hate Crimes & State Crimes in the War on Terror
    av Michael Welch
    451,-

    Argues that the ""war on terror"" is a political charade that delivers illusory comfort, stokes fear, and produces scapegoats used as emotional relief. Drawing on topics such as the Abu Ghraib scandal, Guantanamo Bay, and the controversial Patriot Act, this work looks at the significance of knowledge, language, and emotion in a post-9/11 world.

  • - Social Control and the Anti-globalization Movement
    av Luis A. Fernandez
    439,-

    Provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive theoretical framework, this title maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches.

  • - Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System
    av Michael J. Lynch
    479,-

    The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. The author argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate beliefs about controlling crime, and the government's criminalization of the poor.

  • - Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence
    av Ethan Czuy Levine
    308 - 1 565,-

  • - Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
    av Jamie J. Fader
    463,-

    Documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of colour who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Falling Back is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males.

  • - Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government
     
    504,-

    Brings together fifteen essays to show that those in positions of political and economic power frequently operate in collaboration, and are often all too willing to sacrifice the well-being of the many for the private profit and political advantage of the few.

  • - The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
    av Alexandra Cox
    439 - 1 621,-

    Explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice.

  • - Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
    av Allison McKim
    467 - 1 565,-

    After decades of the American ""war on drugs"" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women.

  • - How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
    av Andrea M. Leverentz
    451,-

  • - The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes
    av Clara S. Lewis
    1 565,-

  • - Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity
    av Saundra D. Westervelt & Kimberly J. Cook
    439,-

  • av Lois Presser
    439 - 1 565,-

  • - Oklahoma's Women Prisoners
    av Susan F. Sharp
    410 - 1 621,-

  • - Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs
    av Henry H. Brownstein, Timothy M. Mulcahy & Johannes Huessy
    402 - 1 565,-

  • - Cultures of Control in Public Education
     
    1 565,-

    Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools.

  • - Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
    av Scott A. Bonn
    451,-

  • - Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
    av Patricia Erickson
    481,-

    Explores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, and sex offenders.

  • - Current Perspectives
     
    487,-

  • - Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
    av Gregg Barak
    439 - 1 769,-

  • - Theories, Issues, and Movements
    av Dragan Milovanovic & Loretta Capeheart
    580 - 1 803,-

    An eye for an eye, the balance of scales - for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public's perception of justice. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to this topic, and argues that common conceptions of criminal justice are too limited.

  • - My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption
    av Christian L. Bolden
    387 - 1 582,-

  • av Ronald C. Kramer
    580 - 1 583,-

  • av Marianne Nielsen & Linda M. Robyn
    383 - 1 621,-

    There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. The consequences of this oppression and criminal victimization is perhaps the critical factor explaining why Indigenous people today are overrepresented as victims and offenders in the settler colonist criminal justice systems.

  • - Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons
    av Anna Curtis
    357 - 1 621,-

    Considers how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about "real" men and "good" fathers, how prisoners negotiate their relationships with those outside of prison, and in what ways this negotiation reflects their understanding of masculinity.

  • av Diana Rickard
    334 - 620,-

    The 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts.

  • - The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
    av Laura S. Abrams & Diane Terry
    439 - 1 621,-

    Examines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resisting a return to criminal activity, and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future.

  • - The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland
    av Mike King
    420 - 1 621,-

    Examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. Mike King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.

  • av Ana Muniz
    414 - 1 565,-

    Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how they should be policed in Los Angeles.

  • av Joshua M. Price
    402 - 1 565,-

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