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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh  
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No...
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories' Open Media Book)
by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Civil rights activist Angela Davis lays bare the situation and argues for a radical rethinking of US rehabilitation programmes....
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Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case (Melville House Classic Journalism)
by A M Rosenthal Publisher Comments "The most important book by perhaps the most important newspaper editor of the last half century."-Gay Talese "Abe Rosenthal told a stunning, tragic story and called each one of us to account for averting our eyes-and hearts-and voices."-Mike Wallace "A...
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
by Tara J Herivel Publisher Comments The astonishing range of industries, corporations, and individuals profiting from the imprisonment of over 2.3 million Americans. "Positive: With the baby boomlet demographics, we foresee increasing demand for juvenile [incarceration] services. Negative:....
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Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison
by William Sampson Synopsis "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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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most “family friendly” American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected...
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Fish : a Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison (07 Edition)
by T. J. Parsell Publisher Comments When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were...
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Punishment and Inequality in America
by Bruce Western Publisher Comments Profiles how the dramatic growth in incarceration came about and the toll it is taking on the social and economic fabric of many American communities....
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Women Behind Bars Signed
by Silja J. A. Talvi Publisher Comments More and more women — mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters — are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little...
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Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
by Gilbert King Publisher Comments On May 3, 1946, a seventeen-year-old boy was scheduled to die by the electric chair inside of a tiny red brick jail in picturesque St. Martinsville, Louisiana. Young Willie Francis had been charged with the murder of a local pharmacist. The electric...
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Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer
by Richard Shelton Publisher Comments Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds.Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" in...
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Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
by Silja J. A. Talvi Publisher Comments More and more women — mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters — are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars. Oddly, there's been little...
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Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit
by Kerry Max Cook Publisher Comments Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police and prosecutorial...
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8 Ball Chicks : a Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs (97 Edition)
by Gini Sikes
Publisher Comments Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense...
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Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
by Joy James Synopsis The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated--and policed--is not. In this compelling collection,...
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Society of Captives: (New Fwd) a Study of a Maximum Security (Princeton Classic Editions)
by Gresham Sykes Synopsis "The Society of Captives," first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of...
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Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House
by Sasha Abramsky Publisher Comments "It seems when you're convicted of a felony, the scarlet letter is there. You take it everywhere with you." — Jamaica S., a twenty-five-year-old on probation in Tennessee who lost her right to vote More than four million Americans, mainly poor...
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Gangsters: Fifty Years of Madness, Drugs, and Death on the Streets of America
by Lewis Yablonsky Publisher Comments "Part memoir, part sociology, Yablonsky's story hooks readers from the start." —Booklist "Yablonsky writes in an exceptionally readable idiom, frequently introducing autobiographical excerpts from his extensive files of working with gangs." &mdash...
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Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)
by Clare Mckanna Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal...
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