The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America, Paperback - Todd R. Clear

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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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...

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

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

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red reveals the origins of agrarian radicalism in the late nineteenth-century United States. Great Plains radicals, particu...

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

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. 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...

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Reducere. A bold call for the "insane" to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation - Explains how many of those diagn...

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...

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

An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped--and were shaped by--the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive ...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Douglas CenturyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

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Examines how race, class and punishment shape American society today.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Zhandarka KurtiNumber of pages: 240Collect...

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...

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A unique find along the railroad tracks near a small town in North Dakota inspires four middle school boys to investigate its origin. As two strang...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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