The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, Paperback - Marie Gottschalk

Reducere. The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding ch...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Todd R. ClearAuthor: Natasha A. FrostOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate--five t...

Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple re-framings of the question-theological, socioeconomic, and psyc...

Reducere. Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Captalist America is a thorough examination of mass incarceration, its causes and consequences. Eugene ...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Jonathan SimonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World Wa...

Reducere. This book is written with specific premises. First, that criminal justice policy in general and the relationship between criminal justice and race ...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Publisher: CounterpointAuthor(s): Nancy L. CohenNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100, 000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated i...

Motherhood In and After Prison is based on first-hand accounts by imprisoned mothers/grandmothers of their incarceration. It is a feminist, matrice...

DescriptionAmerica's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar ar...

Reducere. DescriptionA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade, " according to the Chronicl...

Reducere. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Eduction' Literary Hub, Bo...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aya GruberNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on soc...

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The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's...

Reducere. We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, a...

Reducere. Description"I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, mo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe United States is the world leader in incarceration. It incarcerates individuals at a higher rate and in higher numbers, than any oth...

Reducere. Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration describes a six-year listening project on reentry that took place at the crest of an...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Toda...

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning...

In this stretch Butler moves from chasing new beginnings to artfully drawing parallels between Americas Massacre and today's mass incarceration. Wi...

Reducere. The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. Whil...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, m...

As heard on NPR's Fresh Air A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in Americ...

Reducere. The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison populati...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A TRUE LOOK INSIDE THE US CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMApril 2, 2015 started like any other day for reserve deputy Bob Bates. He left his home in South Tulsa...

Reducere. On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South ...

A fresh historical perspective on the fifty years since the founding of the Black Panther Party, in which the world's largest police state has emer...

DescriptionHow did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what ...

Reducere. In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men. This disproportionate impact can be traced back t...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...