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Golden Gulag : Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (07 Edition)
by Ruth Gilmore  Publisher Comments A long-awaited, authoritative, critical, & revolutionary study of the causes and effects of the largest prison building and filling plan in the history of the world--California's 23 major new state prisons & 500% increase in prisoner population...
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Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
by Michael Tonry Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties. American crime control politics over...
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The Future of Imprisonment
by Michael H Tonry Publisher Comments The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years...
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Our Guys
by Bernard Lefkowitz Publisher Comments In 1989 a group of teenaged boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where four of them raped her while the others watched. In this gripping book, Lefkowitz examines the characters of these boys, reconstructs the reluctant...
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Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss
by Philip Carlo Publisher Comments Anthony Gaspipe Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted complete and total access to a journalist. Casso has given New...
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Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime
by Terry L Leap Book News Annotation Primarily addressing business students, but integrating perspectives from sociology, psychology, public policy, and business, Leap (management, Clemson U.) presents an introduction to the economics of white-collar crime. He describes an integrative...
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Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Alternative Criminology)
by K C Carceral Publisher Comments "Something changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don't know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me...
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Crime in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction
by Vincent Ruggiero Publisher Comments Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically. Vincent Ruggiero's...
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Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer
by Richard Shelton Publisher Comments Shelton began organizing creative writing workshops behind bars in the 1970s, and in this gritty memoir he offers up a chronicle of reaching out to forgotten men and women--and of creativity blossoming in a repressive environment....
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Stalking (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Bran Nicol Publisher Comments It scares--and titillates--in such movies as "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle "and "Basic Instinct." It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and...
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Torture: When the Unthinkable Is Morally Permissible
by Mirko Bagaric Publisher Comments Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake....
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
by John Conroy Publisher Comments An examination of torture (in the name of the state) in three democracies (Israel, Northern Ireland, and the United States) by John Conroy, a Chicago journalist with a strong following among readers who know his previous book (a war diary of life in...
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Bloodsworth (Shannon Ravenel Books)
by Tim Junkin Publisher Comments Convicted in 1984 of the murder of a young girl, Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death. Proclaiming his innocence from the beginning, Bloodsworth spent nine years on Maryland's death row before being vindicated by then-innovative DNA evidence....
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When You Read This They Will Have Killed Me: The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America
by Alan Bisbort Publisher Comments When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of "Time's" March 21, 1960, issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. Through access to the papers and letters of his attorneys, unpublished manuscripts held by...
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Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
by Mary Beth Pfeiffer Publisher Comments "Crazy in America" shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently...
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Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
by G M Sykes Synopsis Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. The book is remarkably short--just...
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Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective (Critical Perspectives in Criminology)
by Michael A Hallett Publisher Comments Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to...
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Police in Urban America, 1860-1920
by Eric H Monkkonen Publisher Comments This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America....
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by Bryan Burrough Publisher Comments Acclaimed Vanity Fair contributor Bryan Burrough brings to life the most spectacular crime wave in American history: the two-year battle between J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the...
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Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison
by William Sampson Publisher Comments "What was it that I did to survive? Where did those ideas come from? Where did I find the resolve to enact them? At the time of my release, I had no ready answers beyond that I did what seemed natural and necessary. In looking back, I realize that the...
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