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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals in "The New Jim Crow," today it is perfectly... [ More...]
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In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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"No Choirboy "takes readers inside America's prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings... [ More...]
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Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the "Lonely Planet" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth.
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Changing Lenses examines our assumptions about crime and justice, which it terms a 'retributive' lens or paradigm. It then looks at historical, biblical, and practical alternatives.
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Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories — sometimes... [ More...]
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World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates.
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A vivid look at the end of the line in the American legal system, where the rule of law gives way to the "correctional process". "Prisons: Houses of Darkness" reveals the astonishing lawlessness by which sentencing judges, prison authorities, and parole... [ More...]
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This Annual Editions reader of public press articles addresses crime and justice in America; victimology; the police; the judicial system; juvenile justice; and punishment and corrections. Our student Web site, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), is... [ More...]
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