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American Infanticide - Sexism, Science, And The Politics Of Sympathy

by Clara S. Lewis

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 In a genre-bending mix of scholarship and true crime, this book uncovers disturbing missing chapters in our national history that undercut the myths that have shaped public reactions to so-called monster moms and dumpster babies since the colonial era. Ultimately, the book uncovers how bias and inconsistency dictate how women accused of infant homicide are perceived.
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Race And Police - The Origin Of Our Peculiar Institutions

by Ben Brucato

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 In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order. The state determined not only that it would administer slavery, but that it would regulate slaves, authorizing the use of violence by agents of the state and white citizens to secure the social order. In doing so, slavery, citizenship, and police mutually informed one another, and together they produced racial capitalism, a working class defined and separated by the color line, and a racial social order. Race and Police corrects the Eurocentrism in the orthodox history of American police and in predominating critical theories of police. That orthodoxy rests on an origin story that begins with Sir Robert Peel and the London Metropolitan Police Service. Predating the Met by more than a century, America’s first police, often called slave patrols, did more than maintain order—it fabricated a racial order. Prior to their creation, all white citizens were conscripted to police all Blacks. Their participation in the coercive control of Blacks gave definition to their whiteness. Targeted as threats to the security of the economy and white society, being policed defined Blacks who, for the first time, were treated as a single racial group. The boundaries of whiteness were first established on the basis of who was required to regulate slaves, given a specific mandate to prevent Black insurrection, a mandate that remains core to the police role to this day.
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Policing Victimhood - Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, And The Carceral State

by Corinne Schwarz

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 Taking a cue from anti-carceral feminist critiques and critical trafficking studies, Schwarz argues that ongoing anti-trafficking efforts in the US expand the punitive arm of the state without addressing the role of systemic oppression in perpetuating violence. Policing Victimhood encourages readers to imagine a world without carceral violence in any of its forms.
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Murder Town, Usa - Homicide, Structural Violence, And Activism In Wilmington

by Brooklynn K. Hitchens, Darryl L. Chambers e Yasser Arafat Payne

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 Describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially the spread of gun violence.
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When Are You Coming Home? - How Young Children Cope When Parents Go To Jail

by Hilary Cuthrell, Julie Poehlmann e Luke Muentner

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 Answers questions about how young ones are faring when a parent is incarcerated in jail. Situated within a resilience model of development, the book presents findings related to childrenâ€™s stress, family relationships, health, home environments, and visit experiences through the eyes of the children and families.
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Way Down In The Hole - Race, Intimacy, And The Reproduction Of Racial Ideologies In Solitary Confinement

by Angela J. Hattery e Earl Smith

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 Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and correctional officers produce hegemonic racial ideologies.
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Shattered Justice - Crime Victims'' Experiences With Wrongful Convictions And Exonerations

by Kimberly J. Cook

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 Presents crime victimsâ€™ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Important lessons and analyses are shared related to grief and loss, and healing and repair. Using restorative justice practices to deliver healing retreats for survivors also expands the practice of restorative justice.
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Cultures Of Resistance - Collective Action And Rationality In The Anti-Terror Age

by Heidi Reynolds-Stenson

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 Through analysis of activistsâ€™ rich and often deeply moving experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers key group processes that shape how individuals understand, experience, and weigh the risks of participating in collective action.
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Shattered Justice - Crime Victims'' Experiences With Wrongful Convictions And Exonerations

by Kimberly J. Cook

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 Presents crime victimsâ€™ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Important lessons and analyses are shared related to grief and loss, and healing and repair. Using restorative justice practices to deliver healing retreats for survivors also expands the practice of restorative justice.
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From Popular To Insurgent Intellectuals - Peasant Catechists In The Salvadoran Revolution

by Leigh Binford

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 Explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvadorâ€™s revolutionary war. In the process they became transformed from popular intellectuals to insurgent intellectuals who put their skills at the service of a collective effort to create a more democratic society.
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Social Justice - Theories, Issues, And Movements (Revised And Expanded Edition)

by Dragan Milovanovic e Loretta Capeheart

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 Presents theories of social justice in an accessible fashion to encourage engagement of students, activists, and scholars. Issues are analyzed utilizing various theories for furthering engagement in possibilities. Struggles for justice from legal to on the ground movements are presented for historical context and to inform the way forward.
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Rape By The Numbers - Producing And Contesting Scientific Knowledge About Sexual Violence

by Ethan Czuy Levine

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 Explores scientists' approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research.
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Out Of The Red - My Life Of Gangs, Prison, And Redemption

by Christian L. Bolden

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 Presets one man's groundbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices intertwined to deliver an unfortunate fate. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger.
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Dangerous Exits - Escaping Abusive Relationships In Rural America

by Martin Schwartz e Walter Dekeseredy

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 Decade after decade, violence against women has gained more attention from scholars, policy makers, and the general public. This work focuses on women living in rural America who are at great risk of sexual assault, beatings, and death during and immediately after separation or divorce.
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Social Justice - Theories, Issues, And Movements (Revised And Expanded Edition)

by Dragan Milovanovic e Loretta Capeheart

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 Presents theories of social justice in an accessible fashion to encourage engagement of students, activists, and scholars. Issues are analyzed utilizing various theories for furthering engagement in possibilities. Struggles for justice from legal to on the ground movements are presented for historical context and to inform the way forward.
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Chronicles Of A Radical Criminologist - Working The Margins Of Law, Power, And Justice

by Gregg Barak

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 Offers a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology.
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Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes

by Ronald C. Kramer

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 Analyses the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. The book advances the field of green criminology through an examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases.
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Colonialism Is Crime

by Linda M. Robyn e Marianne Nielsen

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 There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. Achieving historical colonial goals often meant committing acts that were criminal even at the time. 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. This book presents an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and social consequences that exist today. The authors focus primarily on countries colonized by Britain, especially the United States. Social harm theory, human rights covenants, and law are used to explain the criminal aspects of the historical laws and their continued effects. The final chapter looks at the responsibilities of settler-colonists in ameliorating these harms and the actions currently being taken by Indigenous people themselves.
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Methamphetamine Industry In America - Transnational Cartels And Local Entrepreneurs

by Henry H Brownstein, Johannes Huessy e Timothy M. Mulcahy

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 <div> Galax, a small Virginia town at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was one of the first places that Henry H. Brownstein, Timothy M. Mulcahy, and Johannes Huessy visited for their study of the social dynamics of methamphetamine markets—and what they found changed everything. They had begun by thinking of methamphetamine markets as primarily small-scale mom-and-pop businesses operated by individual cooks who served local users—generally stymied by ever more strenuous laws. But what they found was a thriving and complex transnational industry. And this reality was repeated in towns and cities across America, where the methamphetamine market was creating jobs and serving as a focus for daily lives and social experience. The Methamphetamine Industry in America describes the reality that the methamphetamine industry is a social phenomenon connecting local, national, and international communities and markets. The book details the results of a groundbreaking three-stage study, part of a joint initiative of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice, in which police agencies across the United States were surveyed and their responses used to identify likely areas of study. The authors then visited these areas to observe and interview local participants, from users and dealers to law enforcement officers and clinical treatment workers. Through the eyes and words of these participants, the book tells the story of the evolution of methamphetamine markets in the United States over the past several years, given changes in public policies and practices and changing public opinion about methamphetamine. The authors look closely at how the markets are part of a larger industry, how they are socially organized, and how they operate. They also consider the relationships among the people involved and those around them, and the national, regional, and local culture of the markets. Their work demonstrates the importance of understanding the business of methamphetamine—and by extension other drugs in society—through a lens that focuses on social behavior, social relationships, and the cultural elements that shape the organization and operation of this illicit but effective industry. </div>
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Last Neighborhood Cops - The Rise And Fall Of Community Policing In New York Public Housing

by Fritz Umbach

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 In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies. The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.
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Mass Deception - Moral Panic And The U.S. War On Iraq

by Scott A. Bonn

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 <div>The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation''s leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary stages? Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called "critical communication" to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties. Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state crime. </div>
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Hidden Victims - The Effects Of The Death Penalty On Families Of The Accused

by Susan F. Sharp

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 "Sharp's book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty-costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come."-Saundra D. Westervelt, author of Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense "Everyone concerned with the effects of capital punishment must have this book."-Margaret Vandiver, professor, department of criminology and criminal justice, University of Memphis Murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are considered by most to be unusually heinous, often sub-human, and entirely different from the rest of us. In Hidden Victims, sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges this culturally ingrained perspective by reminding us that those individuals facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, relatives or friends. Through a series of vivid and in-depth interviews with families of the accused, she demonstrates how the exceptionally severe way in which we view those on death row trickles down to those with whom they are closely connected. Sharp shows how family members and friends-in effect, the indirect victims of the initial crime-experience a profoundly complicated and socially isolating grief process. Departing from a humanist perspective from which most accounts of victims are told, Sharp makes her case from a sociological standpoint that draws out the parallel experiences and coping mechanisms of these individuals. Chapters focus on responses to sentencing, the particular structure of grieving faced by this population, execution, aftermath, wrongful conviction, family formation after conviction, and the complex situation of individuals related to both the killer and the victim. Powerful, poignant, and intelligently written, Hidden Victims challenges all of us-regardless of which side of the death penalty you are on-to understand the economic, social, and psychological repercussions that shape the lives of the often forgotten families of death row inmates.
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Globalization Of Supermax Prisons

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 <div> 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title "Supermax" prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as terrorists and spies and for other inmates who are considered to pose a serious ongoing threat to the wider community, to the security of correctional institutions, or to the safety of other inmates. Prisoners are usually restricted to their cells for up to twenty-three hours a day and typically have minimal contact with other inmates and correctional staff. Not only does the Federal Bureau of Prisons operate one of these facilities, but almost every state has either a supermax wing or stand-alone supermax prison. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons examines why nine advanced industrialized countries have adopted the supermax prototype, paying particular attention to the economic, social, and political processes that have affected each state. Featuring essays that look at the U.S.-run prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanemo, this collection seeks to determine if the American model is the basis for the establishment of these facilities and considers such issues as the support or opposition to the building of a supermax and why opposition efforts failed; the allegation of human rights abuses within these prisons; and the extent to which the decision to build a supermax was influenced by developments in the United States. Additionally, contributors address such domestic matters as the role of crime rates, media sensationalism, and terrorism in each country’s decision to build a supermax prison. </div>
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Discretionary Justice - Looking Inside A Juvenile Drug Court

by Leslie Paik

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 Overviews the system in US juvenile drug courts, taking readers behind the scenes. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, the author explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed.
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