Crime and criminology Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Masters of Deception
Book SynopsisWhite-collar criminals continue to pick our pockets to the tune of$300 billion every year. These ''socially acceptable'' criminals robmore from companies and individuals with a pen or key stroke than astreet thug can plunder with a high-powered pistol. --from theIntroduction In Masters of Deception, former special agent and intelligenceofficer Louis Mizell addresses the growing problem of white-collarcrime in America. Using actual cases, Mizell exposes scores ofperpetrators and their modus operandi, and offers invaluable adviceon what to look for, how to avoid being a victim, and how to fightback. Praise for Louis Mizell and Masters of Deception Mizell stands out as a true expert in crime and terrorism whoearned his title fighting the bad guys in back alleys, courts,corporate suites, and the new global economy. No one else out therecan match his knowledge of what the bad guys are doing and how.--James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor and WhiteFlameTable of ContentsStealing Education. The Medical Maelstrom. Dishonest Lawyers. Cheating Charities. Insurance Fraud. The Religious Ruse. The Banking Mess. Appendix. Index.
£20.40
John Wiley & Sons Inc Corporate Fraud
Book SynopsisReal-world help for companies combating fraud from major management fraud to fraudulent financial reporting From the author's more than thirty years of corporate auditing experience, Corporate Fraud features scores of useful case studies that illustrate the principles of numerous types of fraud and how to avoid them in your business. A must-have for all auditors, controllers, CFOs, and business managers, Corporate Fraud offers broad coverage of: The most common and damaging types of fraud in today's business environment The many facets of fraud, including management fraud, corporate governance, and top-level forensics issues, as well as financial statement fraud and the interconnected nature of each Corruption: bribery, including contracting, subcontracting, and leasing; and outsourcing Misappropriation: vendor billings, skimming, and diverted receipts Fraud for the organization: money laundering, price fixing, and fraTrade Review"This is one more that receives a "buy recommendation" from AuditNet." (AuditNet, 5/1/2004)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Overview. Varieties of Fraud/Perspective. More Than Fraudulent Financial Statements. Emphasis: Recognition and Detection—Case Studies. Major Management Fraud Is Different. Chapter 2. Perspective (ACFE Studies). 1996 and 2002 ACFE Reports to the Nation. Breakdown of Estimated Total Occupational Fraud Loss by Major Category. Classifications. Chapter 3. Management Fraud against the Organization (General). Characteristics. Major Symptoms of Management Fraud. Opportunities Afforded by the System for Performance Accountability. Chapter 4. Red Flags of Management Fraud. Six Major Fraud Profiles—Common Elements. Red Flags of Management Fraud. Contrast with Nonmanagement Fraud. Bullet-Proof and Invisible Leads to Flaunting. Chapter 5. Fraud against the Organization (Corruption). Middlemen. Real Estate/Related Parties. Bribery—Contracting/Subcontracting/Leasing. Outsourcing. Mani pulation of Performance Bonuses/Co-opting Others. Chapter 6. Fraud against the Organization (Asset Misappropriation). Various General Accounting-Cycle Fraud Symptoms. Vendor Billings—False Invoices/Phantom Vendor (Shell Company). Other Disbursement Fraud. Inventory. Skimming/Cash Receipt Misappropriation Fraud. Chapter 7. Fraud for the Organization. Financial Reporting. Money Laundering/Illegal Practices. International Arena. Price-Fixing/Bid Rigging. Commercial Bribery. Chapter 8. Methodology: Detection/Investigation. Differences—Management versus Employee Accounting-Cycle-Type Fraud Detection/Investigation. Recognition/Detection. Detection/Investigation. Investigation. Chapter 9. CAAT Scans for Scams. Middlemen/Related Parties. Top-Down Forensic Monitoring. Telltale Debits of Misappropriation. Bank Accounts/Addresses. Chapter 10. Conclusion. Low Frequency of Detection/Prosecution versus Effective Prevention. Managerial as Well as Accounting Perspective. History: Good Old Days. Risk/Reward Dynamic. Thoughts on Recent Accounting Scandals. Appendix A: Practice Advisory 1210.A2-1: Identification of Fraud. Appendix B: Practice Advisory 1210.A2-2: Responsibility for Fraud Detection. Appendix C: Derivation: Management Non-Financial-Statement Fraud as a Percentage of Total Occupational Fraud Loss. Appendix D: Percentage of Total Occupational Fraud Loss Attributable to Management Fraud. Appendix E: KPMG Study. Appendix F: Classification: Management Fraud Categories. Glossary of Terms. Notes. Index.
£67.50
University of California Press Controlling Corruption
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition 1 . Introduction 2. Objectives 3. Policy Measures 4. Graft Busters: When and How to Set Up an· Anticorruption Agency 5. Combining Internal and External Policies 6. Corruption When Cultures Clash 7. Implementation Strategies 8. Reviewing and Extending Index
£24.30
University of California Press The Trial of Madame Caillaux
Book SynopsisA reconstruction of the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a French cabinet minister who murdered one of her husband's enemies - Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette - on the eve of World War I. The study draws a portrait of Belle Epoque politics and cultural mores.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Henriette Caillaux and the Crime of Passion 2. Joseph Caillaux: The Politics of Personality 3. Henriette Caillaux: Femininity, Feminism, and the Real Woman 4. Berthe Gueydan: The Politics of Divorce 5. Judge Albanel: Masculinity, Honor, and the Duel 6. Gaston Calmette: The Power and Venality of the Press Epilogue Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Hiding in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisTells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted fugitives. This book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies-both successful and unsuccessful - that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects.Trade Review"In Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror, Eric Stover, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig combine meticulous historical and legal research to trace the global search for war criminals from Adolf Eichmann to Ratko Mladic, Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Beginning by detailing the legal and humanitarian precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials and the Geneva Convention, and ending with a critique of the United States' moral negation during the so-called 'War on Terror', this book is essential for readers looking to understand why crimes against humanity so frequently go unpunished." -- Esther Adaire LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Promise of International Justice Part One 2. To Nuremberg and Beyond 3. The Hunters and the Hunted 4. Pursuing the Last Nazi War Criminals Part Two 5. Balkan Fugitives, International Prosecutors 6. Tracking Rwanda's Genocidaires 7. Hybrid Tribunals: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Part Three 8. International Criminal Court: At the Mercy of States 9. The "War on Terror" and Its Legacy 10. Epilogue: The Future of Global Justice Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£25.20
University of California Press Race Place and Suburban Policing
Book SynopsisTells the story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context.This title examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.Trade Review"Boyles brings two fresh perspectives to the table of policing literature. First, her focus is on suburbia rather than the more traditional policing milieu of cities. Second, she expands the conversation from the police to the body politic as a whole. This latter novelty is arguably the most important addition Boyles makes to the policing literature." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Rarely do we scrutinize the persistent inequalities between white and black America at the root of these social problems. It is in this context that Andrea Boyles' book Race, Place, and Suburban Policing is so timely... informative." Contemporary Sociology "Boyles presents a unique and innovative understanding of the relationship between race, place, and policing." Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology "Sounding the call for more research into suburbs is Andrea Boyles's very timely Race, Place, and Suburban Policing." Sociological ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, by Rod K. Brunson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Race, Place, and Policing in the United States 2 • “You’re nothing but trash over here . . .”: Black Faces in White Places 3 • There’s a New Sheriff in Town: Th e Police Making Contact 4 • “It’s the same song . . .”: The Tragedies of Kevin Johnson and Charles “Cookie” Thornton 5 • The Road to Reconciliation Conclusion and Discussion Epilogue Appendix: Study Participants Notes References Index
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University of California Press Risk Terrain Modeling
Book SynopsisRisk Terrain Modeling (RTM) diagnoses the spatial attractors of criminal behavior and makes accurate forecasts of where crime will occur at the microlevel. As a diagnostic method, RTM offers a statistically valid way to identify vulnerable places. This book deals with this topic.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Explaining the Contexts of Crime 2. Risk Terrain Modeling Methods 3. Crime Emergence, Persistence, and Exposure 4. Presence, Repeats, and Concentration: Exposures to Crime 5. The Theory of Risky Places 6. Event Contexts of Risky Places 7. Risk Management and RTM in ACTION 8. Risk Reduction Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index
£35.70
University of California Press Making Things Stick
Book SynopsisAn analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. Describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this approach, it presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat.
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University of California Press The Real School Safety Problem
Book SynopsisSchools across the US look very different today than they did a generation ago. Police officers, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, and high suspension rates have become commonplace. This book presents a blueprint for reform that emphasizes problem-solving and accountability while encouraging the need to implement smarter school policies.Trade Review"Aaron Kupchik turns our common notions concerning the threat of school violence on their head. . . . this book is best viewed as an introductory conversation about many new ideas concerning the broader harms of excessive school punishment." * Punishment & Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Effective School Crime Prevention 3. Extending Inequality 4. Hurting Families Written with Thomas J. Mowen 5. How Schools Teach Bullying Written with Katie A. Farina 6. Civic Participation in the Future Written with Thomas J. Catlaw 7. Financial Costs of School Security and Punishment 8. Conclusion Appendix Notes Index
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University of California Press HardBoiled Hollywood
Book SynopsisTwo spectacular dead bodies-Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962-bookend this new history of Hollywood's postwar transition.Trade Review"Jon Lewis's range as a film scholar is vast... He leaves us with the conviction that the movie business is even more complicated and dangerous than we ever suspected, but never without great plots." National PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of the Road 2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood Celebrity 3. Hollywood Confi dential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles 4. Hollywood’s Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe Notes Index
£999.99
University of California Press The Killing Consensus
Book SynopsisShows how in Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitration of normal killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groups the police and organized crime both operating according to parallel logics of murder.Trade Review"Weaving in detailed observations from years of fieldwork, Willis's ethnography is both a cautionary tale about the cyclical nature of unregulated violence and a critique of the system that facilitates such an arrangement." Survival: Global Politics and Strategy "An engaging and theoretically thorough interpretation of the public security challenge in urban Brazil." Luso-Brazilian ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. SURVIVING Introduction. Sovereignty by Consensus 1. Surviving Sao Paulo 2. Regulations of Killing PART TWO. KILLING 3. Homicide 4. Resistencias 5. The Killing Consensus 6. A Consensus Killed PART THREE. DEBATE 7. The Powerful? 8. Toward an Ideal Subordination? Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Abusive Endings Separation and Divorce Violence
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to women's health and well-being today - abuse at the hands of their partners. The author provides a description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce.Trade Review"Abusive Endings is written by self-proclaimed feminist scholars and practitioners who indeed challenge our beliefs and fuel our appetite for knowledge. It is a powerful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and all humans, inspiring us to challenge and alter our culture’s response to men’s violence against women." * Criminal Justice Studies *“A well-written and well- organized review of extant studies on violence against women. ... Everyone should read this book and reflect on the devastation that violence against women continues to cause to our societies.” * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Conceptualizing Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 2. The Extent and Distribution of Separation/Divorce Assault 3. New Technologies and Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 4. Explaining Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 5. Children as Collateral Victims of Separation/Divorce Woman Abuse 6. What Is to Be Done about Separation/Divorce Violence against Women? Notes References Index
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University of California Press Green Criminology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Green Criminology and Political Economy 2. The State of Green Criminology 3. Pollution Crimes 4. Withdrawal Crimes 5. Crimes of Ecological Additions and Illness 6. Crimes of Overproduction and Overconsumption 7. Toxic Towns and Studies of Ecologically Devastated Communities 8. Wildlife Trafficking, Smuggling, and Poaching 9. Environmental Justice and Green Criminology 10. The Treadmill of Environmental Law 11. Environmental Social Movements and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations 12. Connecting the Dots: Explaining Green Crimes References Index
£42.50
University of California Press Consensual Violence
Book SynopsisUsing a fresh approach to understanding consent, the author presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM).
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University of California Press Consensual Violence
Book SynopsisUsing a fresh approach to understanding consent, the author presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM).
£22.50
University of California Press Punishing Disease HIV and the Criminalization of
Book SynopsisFrom the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV-mostly stigmatized minorities-began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punitive attitudes toward AIDS prompted lawmakers around the country to introduce legislation aimed at criminalizing the behaviors of people living with HIV. Punishing Disease explains how this happened-and its consequences. With the door to criminalizing sickness now open, what other ailments will follow? As lawmakers move to tack on additional diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis to existing law, the question is more than academic.Trade Review"Punishing Disease [is] engagingly written and accessible to non-scientific and non-academic audiences, [and] impressively deploys the tools of sociology, criminology, and epidemiology to help us understand the baleful consequences of reacting to a public health emergency with punishment instead of compassion." * Undark *"This book offers numerous points of consideration that are relevant not only to the epidemic he discusses, but also our current pandemic. Notions of shame, stigma, misinformation (fake news) and punishment can immediately be applied to our experiences of COVID‐19. Though it is likely to find audiences amongst social scientists and public health professionals, I would argue that it has value for anyone interested in the relationship between disease and law, including those in the legal profession, policymakers and students. It is forensic and thorough, but engaging and accessible in terms of structure and language. . . . Hoppe offers a powerful, gently subversive text that is a call to action to build a new selection of tools to rebuild our epidemic responses, and to stop punishing disease." * Sociology of Health & Illness *"A thoroughly researched, detailed account of how the promotion of a model of individual responsibility for a fatal disease such as HIV serves to transform a medical problem into a criminal problem... Recommended." * CHOICE *“Offer[s] up a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of HIV exposure and disclosure law over decades . . . Serves as a call for future work to continue to elucidate the myriad ways 'public health' unfurls in insidious and corrosive ways.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Punishment: AIDS in the Shadow of an American Institution Part One: Punitive Disease Control 1. Controlling Typhoid Mary 2. “HIV Stops with Me” 3. The Public Health Police Part Two: The Criminalization of Sickness 4. Making HIV a Crime 5. HIV on Trial 6. Victim Impact Conclusion. Punishing Disease Appendix 1. Methods: On Analyzing the Anatomy of a Social Problem Appendix 2. State HIV Bills Notes Index
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University of California Press Getting Wrecked Women Incarceration and the
Book SynopsisGetting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women's lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma. Trade Review"In this volume [Sue] offers an eye-opening account of the gendered dimensions of the 'War on Drugs.'—Highly recommended" * CHOICE *"Sue demonstrates empathy for the women she has come to know, as well as realism regarding the harshness of their circumstances." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1 Introduction: “It’s Just Part of the Game” 2 The Beauty Shop and the Segregation Unit 3 Heroin Is My Counselor 4 Discipline, Punish, and Treat Trauma? 5 Where Medicine Is Contraband 6 Recovery Is My Job Now 7 Life and Death after Jail 8 Conclusion: Breaking “Wicked Bad Habits” Notes References Index
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University of California Press Encountering Correctional Populations
Book SynopsisWhile many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for those studying youth and adults on probation, on parole, and in jails and prisons. The book addresses topics such as how to build rapport with offenders and those who monitor them; how to select from the many types of correctional data that can be collected; how to navigate the informed consent process and maintain research ethics; and how to manage the logistics of doing research. With personal stories, what if scenarios, case studies, and real-world tools like checklists and sample forms, the authors share methods of negotiating the complexities that researchers often face as they work with those behind bars.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Gaining Access to and Building Rapport with Correctional Populations 3. Types of Correctional Data That Can Be Collected 4. Informed Consent Process and Research Ethics 5. Logistics of Doing Research with Correctional Populations Appendix A. Agency Letter of Support Appendix B. Weekly Contact Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix C. Weekly Contact Code Sheet for Staff with Client Caseloads in the Experimental (SOCP) Group Appendix D. Publically Available Data Sources Appendix E. “Thinking for a Change” Facilitator Peer Rating Form Appendix F. General Informed Consent for Traditional Placements in the Florida Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix G. Example of Re-Consent for Youths Participating in the Faith and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative (FCBDTI) Appendix H. Informed Consent Form for Youth Interview Appendix I. Example IRB Protocol Appendix J. Application for a Research Assistant Position References Recommended Further Reading Index
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University of California Press Screw Consent
Book SynopsisWhen we talk about sexwhether great, good, bad, or unlawfulwe often turn to consentas both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionableyouth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy? What if these are all the wrong questions? What if our preoccupation with consent is hindering a safer and better sexual culture? By foregrounding sex on the social margins (bestial, necrophilic, cannibalistic, and other atypical practices), Screw Consentshows how a sexual politics focused on consent can often obscure, rather than clarify, what is wrong about wrongful sex. Joseph J. Fischel argues thatthe consent paradigm, while necessary for effective sexual assault law, diminishes and perverts our ideas about desire, pleasure, and injury. In addition to the criticisms against consent leveled by feminist theorists of earlier generations, Fischel elevates three more: consent is insufficient, inapposiTrade Review“Powerful and provoking. . . . Screw Consent is a must-read for those vested in better understanding of sexuality, sexual violence, and sexual justice.” * CHOICE *"Drawing from case law and written in an engaging manner, Screw Consent explores the meanings of giving consent to sexual relations in unusual arenas where the definition and even the possibility that a traditionally defined affirmative, active, vocalized consent, legal or not, may be at best limited." * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: When Consent Isn't Sexy 1. Kink and Cannibals, or Why We Should Probably Ban American Football 2. The Trouble with Mothers' Boyfriends, or Against Uncles 3. The Trouble with Transgender "Rapists" 4. Horses and Corpses: Notes on the Wrongness of Sex with Children, the Inappositeness of Consent, and the Weirdness of Heterosomething Masculinity 5. Cripping Consent: Autonomy and Access With Hilary O’Connell Conclusion: #MeFirst—Undemocratic Hedonism Appendices Notes Court Cases Cited Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Drift
Book SynopsisThis book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness. InDrift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, he situates contemporary drift within today's economic, legal, and cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American form of driftthat of the train-hopping hoboby tracing the hobo's legal and political history and by detailing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and explores the contested politics of drift: the strategies that legal authorities employ to control drifters in the interest of economic development, the social and spatial dislocations that these strategies ironically exacerbate, and the ways in which drifters create their own slippery forms of resistance. Ferrell concludes that drift constitutes a necessary subject of social inquiry and a way of revitalizing social inquiry itself, offering as it does new models for knowing and engaging with the contemporary world.Trade Review"Managing to drift without stalling or meandering, his study is a rewarding, sensitive and provocative piece of work...a stylish study of the idea and realities of vagrancy." * The Quietus *"The imagination lying behind the words on the page is a delight to be exposed to. I doubt you will read a more enjoyable and thought-provoking book for some time to come. So treat yourself: give some time to this one. It willnot disappoint." * The British Journal of Criminology *“Well researched and rich in human stories, it is also thoroughly informed by passion and respect and, as such, it is a truly inspirational work.” * Ethnography and Qualitative Research *"A gripping, eminently readable account and cultural analysis of connected sociopolitical and cultural events, and the narrative defines the concept of drift and situates it in the context of global and local capitalism, glocalization, and most importantly, the experience of drifters. . . . This book is excellent; it deserves to be read, shared, and used by those both within and outside or academia." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART ONE. ILLICIT MOBILITY 1. Drift Dialectics 2. Drift Contexts 3. Drift Politics PART TWO. AMERICAN DRIFT 4. Hobo History 5. Catching Out 6. Freedom in the Form of a Boxcar PART THREE. UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE 7. Beneath the Slab 8. Drift Method 9. Ghost Images and Gorgeous Mistakes Notes References Index
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University of California Press Law and Society Today
Book SynopsisLaw and Society Todayis a problem-oriented survey of sociolegal studies, with a unique emphasis on recent historical and political developments. Whereas other texts focus heavily on criminal procedure, this book foregrounds the significant changes of the 2000s and 2010s, including neoliberalism, migration, multiculturalism, and the large influence of law and economics in law teaching, policy debates, and judicial decision-making. Each chapter presents key concepts, real-world applications, and hypothetical problems that allow students to test comprehension. With an integrated approach to theory and practice and written in an accessible tone, this text helps students recognize the dynamic forces that shape the way the law is constructed and implemented, particularly how law drives social inequality.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments UNIT 1 Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction: Legal and Social Change Chapter 2: Where Law Meets Society Chapter 3: Comparative Legal Communities UNIT 2 Legal Constructions of Society Chapter 4: History Chapter 5: Family Chapter 6: Place Chapter 7: Religion Chapter 8: Class, Race, and Gender UNIT 3 Social Constructions of Law Chapter 9: The Socialization of Lawyers Chapter 10: Criminal and Civil Justice Chapter 11: Justice and Popular Culture UNIT 4 Special Topics of Advanced Sociolegal Change Chapter 12: Art Forms Chapter 13: Science and Technology Chapter 14: Nature Notes List of Cases Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Mortal Doubt
Book SynopsisThe fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation,maras(transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical,Mortal Doubtilluminates the maras' role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.Trade Review"The writing style is clear, concise, and compelling." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Describing Guatemala City as experiencing ‘unfathomable levels of postwar violence’, Fontes explores the rise and activities of the transnational gangs he blames for the ‘collective terror’ engulfing the city. He looks at how state terror, migration and US deportation have contributed to the problem." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Truths and Fictions Bring Out the Dead 1. Portrait of a “Real” Marero Brother’s Bones 2. Emissaries of the Violent Peace Part Two. Worlds and Underworlds The Road to Prison 3. Porous Prisons The Prisoners and the Cascabel 4. Extorted Life Part Three. Spectacle, Structure, and Agency Make It a Global 5. Made-for-Media Murder Farewell, Guatemala City 6. Liminal Redemption Epilogue: Of Violent Others and Orders of Violence Acknowledgments Appendix: Notes on Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Twelve Weeks to Change a Life
Book SynopsisHailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United States today. Max A. Greenberg takes us inside the booming market forprogramming and onto the asphalt campuses of Los Angeles where these programs areimplemented, many just one hour a week for 12 weeks. He spotlights how these ephemeral programs, built on troves of risk data, are disconnected from the lived experiences of the young people they were created to support. Going beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy, Greenberg sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abidingharm and fleeting, fragmented support.At the same time, Greenberg maps the minefield of historical and structural inequalities that program facilitators must navigate to build meaningful connections with the youth they serve. Trade Review"The result of over three years of ethnography in Los Angeles is a multi-layered consideration of the ‘interpersonal violence prevention programmes’ delivered to young people across the United States: around two-thirds of high school students are now ‘put through’ some such programme during their education. . . . Greenberg evidences the many positive ways in which POV’s highly-motivated people and other such workers attempt to make a real difference in local communities, and how they seek to negotiate and manage the pressures and constraints they are under." * Process North *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In Medias Res 2. How Violence Became Preventable 3. Statistical Lives 4. Familiar Strangers 5. Stories Come Apart 6. The State of Adults Epilogue: The Future Appendix: An Ephemeral EthnographyNotes References Index
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University of California Press Criminology Explains School Bullying 2
Book SynopsisIn this book, Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen provide a concise, targeted overview of the major criminological theories to explain the phenomenon of school bullying, bringingto life what is often dense and confusing material with concrete case examples.Criminology Explains School Bullying is a valuable resource in criminology or juvenile delinquency classes, as well as special-topics classes on school violence, bullying, or the school-to-prison pipeline. Charts, critical thinking questions, and implications for practice and policy illuminate real-world applications, making this is a go-to book for teachers, students, and researchers interested in an empirically driven synthesis of criminological theory as it applies to school bullying.Trade Review"Comprehensive, and an excellent resource for people wanting to gain a rounded insight into the various explanations for school bullying. . . . This is the first book of its kind that attends so thoroughly to this many theoretical explanations within the same resource.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 • The Nature, Scope, and Response to School Bullying 2 • Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Victimization Theories 3 • Micro-Level Theories 4 • Social Structure Theories 5 • Social Process Theories 6 • Critical Criminology and Restorative Justice 7 • Integrationist, Life Course, and Developmental Theories References Index
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University of California Press Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes Navigating
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptationand integrationhas focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russiaan archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwideand investigates howCentral Asianmigrant workersproduce new forms ofinformalgovernance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political systemto navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiateusing informal channelsaccess to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts. Trade Review"Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes provides an important complement to our knowledge of undocumented labor migrants and presents an important study of a very underresearched case. The book will also make for good reading in graduate and undergraduate seminars on international migration." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press Law and Justice around the World A Comparative
Book SynopsisLaw and Justice around the Worldis designed to introduce students to comparative law and justice, including cross-national variations in legal and justice systems as well as global and international justice. The book draws students into critical discussions of justice around the world today by: taking a broad perspective on law and justice rather than limiting its focus to criminal justice systemsexamining topics of global concern, including governance, elections, environmental regulations, migration and refugee status, family law, and othersfocusing on a diverse set of global examples, from Europe, North America, East Asia, and especially the global south, and comparing the United States law and justice system to these other nationscontinuing to cover core topics such as crime, law enforcement, criminal courts, and punishmentincluding chapter goals to define learning outcomessharing case studies to help students apply concepts to real life issues Instructor resources include discussion questions; suggested readings, films, and web resources; a test bank; and chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides with full-color maps and graphics. By widening the comparative lens to include nations that are often completely ignored in research and teaching, the book paints a more realistic portrait of the different ways in which countries define and pursue justice in a globalized, interconnected world. Trade Review" . . . an excellent addition to the textbooks of comparative justice education. . . . Arthur’s book can be great learning material for those who are not only interested in legal comparison but also interested in their historical, theoretical, political, and sociological roots. Other than students of criminal justice, the book can also be a great fit for students of pre-law, political sciences, international business, and sociology." * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Study of Comparative Law and Justice Chapter Goals Why Study Comparative Law and Justice? The Roots of the Field Legal Culture versus Legal Structure A Quick Introduction to Legal Systems Case Study 1.1: An International Child Custody Dispute Conclusion 2. World Legal Systems Chapter Goals The Rule of Law Defining Legal Systems Common Law Case Study 2.1: Cannibalism and Common Law Civil Law Theocratic Law Authoritarian Law Traditional Law Other Legal Systems Change and Continuity Case Study 2.2: The Aztec Legal System Conclusion 3. The Organization of State Power Chapter Goals What Is a State? Types of Government Case Study 3.1: Indigenous Sovereignty Branches of Government Voting and Elections Who Votes? Who Runs? Conclusion 4. Crime and the Global World Chapter Goals Why Do Crime Rates Vary? Cultural Explanations for Crime The Impact of Economic and Social Factors on Crime Crime and the Legal System How Do We Measure Crime? How Do Crime Rates Vary? Criminalization Decriminalization Case Study 4.1: The Portuguese Drug Strategy Cross-Border Crime International Crime Transnational Crime Terrorism Conclusion 5. Law Enforcement Chapter Goals The History of Law Enforcement Defining Modern Policing Cross-National Variations in Policing Practices Organizational Structures Policing Styles Police-Military Relations International Police Cooperation Case Study 5.1: Tracking the Pink Panthers Conclusion 6. Resolving Disputes Chapter Goals Dispute Resolution in Historical Perspective Types of Disputes, Types of Law Contemporary Dispute Resolution Systems Dispute Resolution in Common Law Dispute Resolution in Civil Law Dispute Resolution in Theocratic Law Traditional Dispute Resolution Practices Case Study 6.1: Traditional Courts in South Africa Dispute Resolution under Authoritarianism Criminal Procedure in Comparative Perspective Fairness and Impartiality The Presumption of Innocence Evidentiary Rules Confessions and Self-Incrimination The Right to Counsel Other Factors Case Study 6.2: The Trials of Amanda Knox Conclusion 7. Punishment and Social Control Chapter Goals Why Do Societies Punish? Deterrence and Crime Control Revenge and Retribution Rehabilitation Reconciliation Case Study 7.1: Transitional Justice in Rwanda How Has Punishment Changed over Time? What Types of Punishment Do Societies Use? Prisons Control-in-Freedom Case Study 7.2: Prisons and Punishment in Norway Financial and Other Sanctions Corporal Punishment Capital Punishment What Factors Shape National Differences in Punishment Practices? Conclusion 8. Family Law Chapter Goals What Is a Family? Forming a Family Marriage and Union Formation The Legal Status of Children Case Study 8.1: Marriage, Children, and Surnames Regulating Reproduction Ending Family Relationships Ending Unions Child Custody and Parental Rights Conclusion 9. Legal Rights Chapter Goals What Are Legal Rights? The Most Severe Violations Legal Rights: A Tour The Right to Privacy The Right to Expression The Right to Conscience Case Study 9.1: Intellectual and Academic Freedom in Qatar The Right to Subsistence Law and Equality Conclusion 10. Global Justice Chapter Goals What Is International Law? How Is International Law Enforced? Institutions of Global Justice The International Criminal Court The United Nations and the International Court of Justice Citizenship and Statelessness Case Study 10.1: Chevron in Ecuador Conclusion 11. Law and Culture Chapter Goals The Concept of Legal Culture Cultural Universalism, Cultural Relativism, and Cultural Pluralism Conflicts in Law and Culture The Cultural Defense to Crime Legal Cultures of Childhood Case Study 11.1: Child Soldiers Conclusion 12. Considering Comparative Law and Justice Chapter Goals Why Compare? The Future of Law Case Study 12.1: Regulating the Environment Conclusion Glossary Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Criminology Explains Police Violence
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Provides a rich overview of traditional criminological theories and their connection to police misconduct." * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *"Simply put: this book is a must-read for anyone who studies policing." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Police Violence 1 • Understanding Police Violence 2 • Deterrence, Rational Choice, Victimization, and Lifestyle Theories 3 • Individual-Level Theories 4 • Social Structure Theories 5 • Social Process Theories 6 • Societal Conflict and Legitimacy Theories 7 • Integrationist Perspectives Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Smoke But No Fire
Book Synopsis2020 ForewordINDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver(Politicaland Social Sciences) Winner of theMontaigne Medal, awarded to the most thought-provoking booksThe first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful convictionone that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allowseven encouragesthese convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.Trade Review"The author's accumulation of evidence is revelatory. An eye-opening book that suggests how commonplace are miscarriages of justice in the U.S." * Kirkus Reviews *“Jessica Henry provides a concise and even-handed account of no-crime convictions and the numerous, interdependent ways in which they are allowed to continue. Her ability to weave personal stories with the matter of (legal) fact writing beautifully illustrates a perfectly ugly scenario. . . . The book is an informative and interesting read that also provides a great starting point for anyone who may want to further investigate this miscarriage of criminal justice.” * Crime, Law and Social Change *"Smoke but No Fire is an engaging read that offers a damning indictment of the American criminal justice system and its pervasive indifference to the possibility of innocence." * Wrongful Conviction Law Review *"Smoke but No Fire is groundbreaking and frightening. . . . This book lays bare the deepest and darkest dysfunction within the criminal legal system and helps us understand what we can do about it." * The Champion *"The book allows the reader a bit of hope, which is both cautiously optimistic and deliberately realistic. Henry provides a number of recommendations for reform that do not push the bounds of reality but instead focus on incremental and achievable success." * Crime, Law, and Social Change *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Phantom Crimes 1 • Forensic Error: Misclassified Murders and Mislabeled Crimes 2 • False Accusations: When Lies Become Courtroom Truths 3 • Police: Crossing the “Thin Blue Line” 4 • Prosecutors: Winning, at All Costs 5 • Defense Lawyers: Drowning in Cases 6 • Judges: Tilting the Scales of Justice 7 • Misdemeanors: Not Minor Matters Conclusion: Clearing the Smoke Notes Index
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University of California Press Refusal to Eat
Book SynopsisThe first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living under conditions of maximal constraint, as in the prisons of apartheid South Africa, Israeli prisons for Palestinian prisoners, and the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. It is a weapon of the weak, potentially open to all. By choosing to hunger strike, a prisoner wields a last-resort personal power that communicates viscerally, in a way that is undeniableespecially when broadcast over prison barricades through media and to movements outside. Refusal to Eat is the first book to compile a global history of this vital form of modern protest, the hunger strike. In this enormously ambitious but concise book, Nayan Shah observes how hunger striking stretches and recasts to turn a personal agony into a collective social agony in conflicts aTrade Review"Shah recognises that the hunger strike is a nonviolent performance that reconnects the prisoner to her community and to the world of journalism and public debate. But it is also a weapon that can transform the vulnerable and disempowered body of the captive into a remarkably effective instrument in a war for legitimacy. . . . Reaching beyond the prison wall, the voice of the hunger striker implicates us all in its challenge to decide what world we seek to inhabit." * Irish Times *“The hunger strike’s significance lies in allowing captives and outsiders to disturb the carceral system’s control of space and time. These graphic, saddening stories are uncomfortable to read, but they are crucial to understanding that often complex dynamic.” * Times Literary Supplement *"The real originality of Refusal to Eat rests in its exploration of lesser-known hunger strikes. . . . There is much value in bringing all these hunger strikes together. Doing so renders visible many common threads in hunger strikers’ experience, and also their management by doctors’ governments across multiple geographical, historical and conflict contexts. Refusal to Eat speaks to a broad audience, having much to say to bioethicists as well as historians. . . . [and] both academic and non-scholarly audiences." * Journal of Social History *"Shah’s book amplifies important voices and expands the arsenal of evidence that can be used to interrogate and dismantle carceral systems." * Punishment and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Hunger Striking in the Crisis of Imperial Democracy 1 • Suffragists and the Shaping of Hunger Striking 2 • The Medical Ethics of Forcible Feeding and a Brief History of Four Objects 3 • Irish Republicans Innovating Hunger Strikes for Anticolonial Rebellion 4 • Gandhi's Fasts, Prisoner Hunger Strikes, and Indian Independence Part Two: Hunger Striking and Democratic Upheavals 5 • Solidarity and Survival in the Tule Lake Stockade 6 • South African Anti-apartheid Hunger Strikes 7 • Controversies of Medical Intervention in Northern Ireland 8 • Biomedical Technologies, Medical Ethics, and the Management of Hunger Strikers 9 • Australian Refugee Detention, Trauma, and Mental Health Crisis 10 • Captives in U.S. Detention and Their Networks of Resistance and Solidarity Conclusion: Hunger-Striking Contingencies Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Carceral Con
Book SynopsisA critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundationTrade Review"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition." * The Nation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform" 1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform 2. Follow the Money 3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling 4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform 5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion" 6. Imprisonment and Release 7. Threshold Notes Index
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University of California Press Twenty Million Angry Men The Case for Including
Book SynopsisToday, all but one U.S. jurisdiction restricts a convicted felon's eligibility for jury service. Are there valid, legal reasons for banishing millions of Americans from the jury process? How do felon-juror exclusion statutes impact convicted felons, jury systems, and jurisdictions that impose them?Twenty Million Angry Menprovides the first full account of this pervasive yet invisible form of civic marginalization. Drawing on extensive research, James M. Binnall challenges the professed rationales for felon-juror exclusion and highlights the benefits of inclusion as they relate to criminal desistance at the individual and community levels. Ultimately, this forward-looking book argues that when it comes to serving as a juror, a history of involvement in the criminal justice system is an asset, not a liability. Trade Review"Not only is Twenty Million Angry Men, a quick read, but it is well written. The book reviews and contextualizes the most important scholarship that has been done on the subject of felon juror exclusion. . . . Much like the field of convict criminology, felon-juror research demonstrates how previously convicted people can make a positive contribution to understanding the subtleties of the criminal justice process that lay people often overlook." * British Journal of Criminology *"Scholars and activists need look no further than Binnall’s book for a powerful exposition of the flaws in felon-juror exclusions and compelling evidence that allowing felon-jurors to serve would enhance 'our purest form of civic engagement.'" * Law & Society Review *“Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System is a powerful title, and gives a useful preview of some of the emphases of this important book. James Binnall demonstrates the broad scope of this form of jury exclusion, unearths fascinating new material about the emotions of those involved, presents a multi-tiered argument for change, and shows, through his upfront ownership of the word ‘felon,’ that he is not going to shy away from exposing and tackling stigmatizing labels in this area of the law.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This book will interest students and scholars of American jurisprudence, sociology of law, and desistance studies." * CHOICE *"Well organized and…tightly argued." * Critical Criminology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • Framing the Issue 2 • Rotten to the Core? 3 • Honor Among Thieves 4 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part I 5 • Sequestering the Convicted: Part II 6 • Criminal-Desistance Summoned 7 • A Community Change Agent 8 • A Healthy Ambivalence Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index
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University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women's work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.Trade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
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University of California Press Manufacturing Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elena Shih…makes an important contribution to critical studies of anti-trafficking. . . . an insightful read for criminology and sociology students and instructors interested in a critical approach to anti-trafficking activism." * Journal of Human Trafficking *"An important contribution to the scholarship on human trafficking, Manufacturing Freedom reveals how market-based, anti-trafficking movements bolster the US empire and white supremacy, China’s authoritarian state power, and Thailand’s global market supremacy. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Slave-Free Good 1. The Business of Rehab: Ethical Consumption, Social Enterprise, and the Myth of Vocational Training 2. Manufacturing Freedom: Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work 3. Bad Rehab: House Moms, Shelters, and Maternalist Rehabilitation 4. Trafficking Benevolent Authoritarianism in China 5. Vigilante Humanitarianism in Thailand 6. Quitting Rehab: The Promises and Betrayals of Freedom Conclusion: Redistribution and Possibilities for Global Justice Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: The Embodied Currencies and Debts of Global Feminist Fieldwork Notes References Index
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University of California Press Death by Prison
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years ago, imprisonment of a person until death was an extraordinary punishment; today, it accounts for the sentences of an increasing number of prisoners in the United States. What explains the shifts in penal practice and social imagination by which we have become accustomed to imprisoning people until death without any reevaluation or expectation of release? Combining a wide historical lens with detailed state- and institutional-level research, Death by Prison offers a provocative new foundation for questioning this deeply problematic practice that has escaped close scrutiny for too long.Trade Review"Seeds does a masterful job of busting the myth of how [life without parole] replaced the death penalty." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Christopher Seeds’ Death by Prison is a comprehensive and compelling origin story of a sentence that is a crime against human decency. . . . This book is essential reading for all students of crime and punishment." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Foundations 1. Perpetual Penal Confinement 2. Precursor and Prototype 3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained Part II Eruptions 4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition 5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm 6. Governors and Prisoners Part III Adaptation and Solidification 7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP 8. Abolition and the Alternative 9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Carceral Ecology Ushuaia and the History of
Book SynopsisCloser to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world's southernmost prison. Ushuaia's radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Prisons and Patagonia 1 • Constructing an Open-Door Penitentiary 2 • Forestry in Fireland 3 • “I Too Am Ushuaia” 4 • The Martyr in Argentine Siberia 5 • The Lettered Archipelago 6 • Developing an Argentine Prisonscape Epilogue: Curating the End of the World Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press In This Place Called Prison Womens Religious
Book SynopsisIn This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women's prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the state in an enduring tension between freedom and constraint, this book speaks to the quest for dignity and light against the backdrop of mass incarceration, state surveillance, and American inequality.Trade Review"This book is highly valuable as an experience that helps readers build a mental schema of some of the women inmates’ realities of incarceration." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work * "Ellis’ piercing study, beautifully written, vividly demonstrates the double-edged sword of religion in prison – its capacity to liberate and its equal power to subjugate." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Ellis’ contributions are significant to a plethora of academic fields, while her writing style is easily digestible as she recalls the lived experiences of the women at Mapleside Prison." * Gender and Society *"Ellis develops three-dimensional, nuanced portrayals of the interiority of women’s lives, recognizing women’s full and complex humanity in ways neither the carceral nor religious discourses that are the object of her study do. Ellis is an exceptionally skilled, ethical, and transparent ethnographer. Her methodological appendix should be required reading in sociological research methods classes." * Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Thou Shalt Not: A Day in Prison 2. Let There Be Light: Religious Life Behind Bars 3. The Lord Is My Shepherd: Protestant Messages of God’s Redemptive Plan 4. Blessed Is The Fruit Of Thy Womb: Gender, Religion, and Ideologies of the Family 5. For Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen: Status and Dignity in the Prison Church Conclusion Epilogue: Out of the House of Bondage Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press You Might Go to Prison Even Though Youre Innocent
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The truest true crime you’ll ever read, and when it’s not scaring you, it will make your blood boil.” * BookTrib *"An essential read for anyone interested in criminal justice reform and for those who want to understand the human cost of wrongful conviction." * Splash Magazines *"Well-researched and accessible." * Arts Fuse *"This important book spotlights the work of various Innocence Projects to seek justice for those wrongly convicted and highlights urgently needed reforms. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword by Barry Scheck Introduction 1. You Hired the Wrong Lawyer (Pleas with No Bargain) 2. You Live in the Country or the City 3. You Are in a Relationship and Live with Someone Who Is Murdered 4. You (Kind of) Look like Other People in the World 5. You Get Confused When You Are Tired and Hungry, and People Yell at You 6. You Have or Care for a Sick Child 7. You Got a Jury That Was Blinded by "Science" 8. You Work with Children or Let Them in Your House 9. Someone Lies about You 10. You Are Poor and/or a Person of Color Conclusion Notes Index
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University of California Press Imperfect Victims Criminalized Survivors and the
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Imperfect Victims
Book SynopsisA profound, compelling argument for abolition feminismto protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the concept of abolition feminism and supports the rights of all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of their race or life circumstances." * Library Journal *"Goodmark buttresses her call for an abolition feminism opposed to the carceral system with harrowing case studies and hard data. This provocation hits the mark." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Criminalization of Survival 2. Youth 3. Arrest and Prosecution 4. Punishment and Sentencing 5. Reconsideration and Clemency 6. Abolition Feminism Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Democracy in Captivity
Book SynopsisWho ought to govern those held in custody, and by what right?Democracy in Captivityexamines various efforts to answer these questions, centering on two case studies at custodial institutions: the rise and demise of patient self-governance at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC, between 1947 and 1965 and the prisoner-organized governance of Massachusetts's Walpole State Prison following a 1973 prison-guard strike. As Christopher D. Berk shows, the promise of these initiatives was tempered by the custodians' backlash to their wards' attempts at self-rule. This backlash arrived not only in the blunt forms of restraint chairs, riot gear, and a surgeon's scalpel but also as more covert measures taken under the cover of so-called democratic managementwhich in turn entrenched disenfranchisement and naturalized authoritarian rule. Turning from these case studies to a wider consideration of custody and democracy, Berk explores pathologies that have captured the politics of punishment, witTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Custody and Democracy 2. Patients, Prisoners, Children, and Travelers 3. Mad Politics 4. Community Control in Custody 5. On Prison Democracy 6. Democratic Erosion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press You Might Go to Prison Even Though Youre Innocent
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blkwell Comp Law and Society
Book SynopsisThe Blackwell Companion to Law and Society is an authoritative study of the relationship between law and social interaction. Thirty--three original essays by an international group of expert scholars examine a wide range of critical questions.Trade Review"This collection of law and society scholarship fills a gap that many of us in the field have lamented for years. Encyclopedic in scope, it manages to represent the rich diversity of the field while still making a strong case for a law and society "canon". It is bound to become a classic." Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine "Austin Sarat and his contributors have compiles a valuable and authoritative introduction to a substantial body of scholarship and reflection on the relationship between law and society. this will be an essential resource for both novice and experienced workers in this field." Robert Dingwall, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsPreface. List of Contributors. 1. Vitality Amidst Fragmentation: On the Emergence of Post-Realist Law and Society Scholarship:. Austin Sarat (Amherst College). Part I: Perspectives on the History and Significance of Law and Society Research:. 2. Law in Social Theory, And Social Theory in the Study of Law: Roger Cotterrell (University of London). 3. Profession, Science, and Culture: An Emergent Canon of Law and Society Research: Carroll Seron (Baruch College of the City University of New York) and Susan S. Silbey (M.I.T). Part II: The Cultural Life of Law:. 4. The Work of Rights and the Work Rights Do: A Critical Empirical Approach: Laura Beth Nielsen (American Bar Foundation). 5. Consciousness and Ideology: Patricia Ewick (Clark University). 6. Law in Popular Culture: Richard Sherwin (New York Law School). 7. Comparing Legal Cultures: David Nelken (University of Macerata). Part III. Institutions and Actors:. 8. The Police and Policing: Jeannine Bell (Indiana University). 9. Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority: Tanina Rostain (New York Law School). 10. Courts and Judges: Lee Epstein (Washington University) and Jack Knight (Washington University). 11. Jurors and Juries: Valerie P. Hans (University of Delaware) and Neil Vidmar (Duke University). 12. Regulators and Regulatory Processes: Robert Kagan (University of California, Berkeley). 13. The Legal Lives of Private Organizations: Lauren B. Edelman (University of California-Berkeley). Part IV. Domains of Policy:. 14. Legal Regulation of Families in Changing Societies: Susan Boyd (University of British Columbia). 15. Culture, “Kulturkampf” and Beyond: The Antidiscrimination Principle Under the Jurisprudence of Backlash: Francisco Valdes (University of Miami). 16. The Government of Risk: Pat O’Malley (Carleton University). 17. Thinking About Criminal Justice: Socio-Legal Expertise and the Modernization of American Criminal Justice: Jonathan Simon (University of California, Berkeley). 18. Rights in the Shadow of Class: Poverty, Welfare, and the Law: Frank Munger (New York Law School). 19. Immigration: Susan Sterett (University of Denver). 20. Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research: Rosemary J. Coombe (York University). 21. Legal Categorizations and Religion: On Politics of Modernity, Practices, Faith, and Power: Gad Barzilai (Tel-Aviv University). 22. The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions: Jonathan Yovel (University of Haifa) and Elizabeth Mertz (University of Wisconsin). Part V. How Does Law Matter?. 23. Procedural Justice: Tom Tyler (New York University). 24. A Tale of Two Genres: On the Real and Ideal Links Between Law & Society and Critical Race Theory: Laura Gomez (UCLA). 25. The Constitution of Identity: Gender, Feminist Legal Theory and the Law and Society Movement: Nicola Lacey (Australian National University). 26. Sexuality, Law and Society: Leslie J. Moran (Birkbeck College, University of London). 27. Law and Social Movements: Michael McCann (University of Washington). 28. “The Dog That Didn’t Bark:” A Soci0-Legal Tale of Law, Democracy and Elections: Stuart Scheingold (University of Washington). Part VI. Studying Globalization: Past, Present, Future:. 29. Ethnographies of Law: Eve Darian-Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara). 30. Colonial and Post-Colonial Law: Sally Merry (Wellesley College). 31. Human Rights: Lisa Hajjar (University of California-Santa Barbara). 32. The Rule of Law and Economic Development in a Global Era: Kathryn Hendley (University of Wisconsin). 33. Economic Globalization and the Law in the 21st Century: Francis Snyder (Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires). Index
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Harvard University Press Playing the Numbers
Book SynopsisThe most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers were placed daily. Playing the Numbers tells the story of this illegal form of gambling and the central role it played in the lives of African Americans who flooded into Harlem in the wake of World War I.Trade ReviewLong before the arrival of glossy state-run lotteries in the 1960s and ’70s, smaller lotteries—illegal, but almost as well-organized as a Powerball drawing—thrived in poor neighborhoods. In Chicago, the lotteries were known as the policy racket. In New York, they were called the numbers game. The history of these illicit enterprises is a picaresque mélange of race and class, business acumen and organized crime. A significant part of the story—Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s—receives a thorough and insightful treatment in Playing the Numbers, which recounts a flowering of black entrepreneurship in addition to capturing how integral the numbers game was to the lives of average Harlemites… Playing the Numbers brims with fascinating, colorful stories about a little-known facet of New York life. -- Michael J. Agovino * Wall Street Journal *[Playing the Numbers] draws on an array of sources—from the back issues of Harlem’s newspapers, to probation reports and the case files of the New York City district attorney, to the literature and memoirs of the Harlem Renaissance—to illuminate the scope of the numbers game and the sometimes harmless, sometimes farcical, often sociable, but ultimately insidious ways it permeated nearly every aspect of Harlemites’ daily lives and even their dream lives. The result: an intricate sociology of organized crime. -- Benjamin Schwarz * The Atlantic *Brilliantly reconstructs the world of the numbers trade, showing how it provided, for at least a decade and a half, a space for an African American entrepreneurship that mirrored, in a gaudy and distorting way, the mainstream financial institutions and activities of the city. There is astute attention throughout this book to this shadow relationship to mainstream commerce… The research underlying this short and elegantly written book is extraordinary. Years of detailed work in New York judicial and legal records, as well as in newspapers and literary sources, makes this an almost uncannily well-informed book… This is history as work of art, a dazzling demonstration of what can be done with sources—such as lower court prosecutor records—so voluminous and so miscellaneous that they have never been mined in this way before. -- David Goodman * Australian Book Review *Playing the Numbers is a gripping, sometimes violent, often humorous tale of politics, commerce, community and culture, a must-read for anyone remotely interested in the history of Harlem or the mechanics of the most elaborate informal economy in the nation. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalA brilliant reconstruction of a critical African American—and American—institution. Essential reading for those who play and those who don’t. -- Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaDeeply and imaginatively researched, Playing the Numbers reveals how a simple game of chance evolved for thousands of Harlemites in the 1920s into a central part of their everyday life. A fascinating study of the interior of black society, the sights, styles, and sounds of the black metropolis. -- Leon F. Litwack, author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowMost folks living in Harlem in the 1920s ‘hadn’t heard of the Negro Renaissance,’ Langston Hughes once observed. ‘And if they had, it hadn’t raised their wages any.’ But everyone in Harlem knew about the numbers, and those who hit the daily ‘gig’ earned plenty… This is a wonderful, unconventional, utterly original book. -- James T. Campbell, author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005Table of Contents* Prologue * Introduction * History * Beginnings * Dreams * Turf Wars * Numbers' Lore * Of Kings and Queens * The Dutchman Cometh * Of Banks and Bankers * All Over Town * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Gods Law and Order
Book SynopsisThere is more to the story of mass incarceration than civil rights backlash politics. It is also a religious story. Aaron Griffith points to the key role played by evangelical Christians, who worked for conversion of prisoners and pushed an anticrime agenda that, while ostensibly colorblind, exacerbated racial inequality in the justice system.Trade ReviewEvangelicals, it would seem, are everywhere. Even prison. Aaron Griffith offers an important clarification regarding this tradition and its uniquely American expression as seen in the religious history of mass incarceration…In six wonderfully exhaustive chapters and a conclusion worth the price of the book alone, Griffith details the evolution of evangelical involvement in helping to see ‘crime as a sacred national issue’ while charting a middle path between a punitive or progressive paradigm. -- Jeffrey A. VanDerWerff * Religious Studies Review *Engrossing and much-needed…It is a sprawling story, not one easily told, but Griffith handles the material with aplomb, capably weaving together a variety of source materials and perspectives into an immensely readable account. This is surefooted scholarship. -- Shawn Francis Peters * Journal of American History *Griffith paints a challenging portrait of the relationship between white evangelicalism and the state’s mechanisms for punitive justice. -- Michael B. Crosby * Anabaptist Witness *Superb…Griffith calls for a new direction on the part of evangelicals who feel the pull of law-and-order politics. -- David Swartz * Anxious Bench *If Griffith’s book prompts evangelical believers to apply the gospel not only to individuals in prison but also to the structure of the prison system itself, that would undoubtedly be a good thing. And maybe in the process, as Griffith suggests, the gospel will induce repentance not only among those behind bars but also among some evangelicals who voted for the policies that put so many there in the first place. -- Daniel K. Williams * Christianity Today *Traces the connection between the revival of evangelical Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century and the accompanying rise in law-and-order politics…Fascinating. -- David Schultz * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *A stunning work that shakes up our preconceived notions of evangelicalism and criminal justice. It is a must-read for any person of faith who longs to see more compassionate and more just responses to crime in our nation. -- C. Christopher Smith * Englewood Review of Books *Accurately centers the complicity of evangelicals in the development of the modern justice system while also acknowledging how evangelicals have been ‘pioneers in humanitarian engagement with modern prison life’ through efforts like prison ministry. -- Sam Heath * Equal Justice USA *Paints a detailed picture of the social and political context from which evangelical law and order theology emerged and became intertwined with the broader American political landscape. Theologians, criminologists, prison ministers and chaplains, and criminal justice activists will benefit from Griffith’s research as it provides historical nuance, success stories, cautionary tales, and ultimately hope that evangelical preoccupation with crime, punishment, and ‘lawbreakers’ can be converted into a powerful force that redeems the lives and communities affected by American mass incarceration. -- Shari C. Mackinson * Journal of Law and Religion *Essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural context for the War on Crime…This timely book documents the paradoxical ways that evangelicalism has helped propagate and justify the punitiveness that fuels mass incarceration, while simultaneously and somewhat more unexpectedly, including pockets of reformers who genuinely sought to improve the lives (and not just the souls) of persons convicted of crimes…Many comparisons of relevance to the modern political moment are evident throughout Griffith’s gripping account of the history of evangelicalism. -- Justin Marceau * Law and History Review *If the American public is finally waking up to its decades-long addiction to racialized mass incarceration, evangelical Christians now have a chronicler of the depth of their own complicity with the racist carceral binge…Both a readable account of American cultural history and a valuable opportunity for conservative Protestantism to reckon with some of the cultural skeletons in its own closet…Evangelical Christianity, including the Anabaptists on the edges of the movement, will have plenty to ponder after their encounter with this important work of history. -- Robert Brenneman * Mennonite Quarterly Review *Plumbs the depths of how evangelicalism’s rise in the mid-twentieth century overlapped with and connected to the expansion of the criminal punishment system…On this point Griffith is insightful and unflinching: reinstituting a robust criminal justice system was a frontline issue for conservative evangelicals because the rending of cultural norms was terrifying. -- Justin R. Phillips * Other Journal *Few American voting blocs stand out in terms of political influence as much as white evangelical Christians. They are keystone supporters of the Republican Party and conservative policies whose interests—as a result of this group’s size and mobilization substantially affect both local and national politics…An important contribution to the study of religion and politics in America and the American criminal legal system. -- Andreas Kuersten * Religion *Griffith explores how evangelicals have overlooked systemic racial inequalities and disparities that drove their approach to crime and punishment. -- Yonat Shimron * Religion News Service *Griffith demonstrates the connections between two spheres rarely discussed: American evangelicalism and the modern prison system…An illuminating examination of evangelical identity through the lenses of crime, punishment, justice, and redemption. -- Jesse M. Payne * Themelios *Griffith traces Evangelical Christians’ diverse engagements with prison ministries, criminal justice reform, and mass incarceration through the 20th century…Griffith carefully chronicles how Evangelical prison ministries' stress on personal responsibility and conversion often blinded them to the ways that economic inequality and racial injustices in the system were also factors in the growing prison population. This is an important book on American religious history. * Choice *In God’s Law and Order, Griffith connects the simultaneous rise of evangelicalism and mass incarceration, illuminating the way religious leaders played a central role in shoring up support for devastating punitive programs. Carefully researched and persuasively argued, Griffith’s rich history makes enormous contributions to our understanding of politics and culture in modern America. -- Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaConsidering ongoing clashes over incarceration, social and criminal justice, and race, God’s Law and Order couldn’t be more timely. With a balanced and sympathetic touch, Griffith reveals the surprising extent to which law and order concerns have not just driven evangelicalism’s public engagement since the mid-twentieth century, but also stirred its passions for ministry and reform. This brilliantly crafted and beautifully written work forces us to reevaluate the origins of the religious right and adopt a wider purview when trying to make sense of evangelicalism’s political ascent and present course of action. This book deserves—indeed, demands—a wide readership. -- Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern AmericaGriffith’s account of how modern evangelicalism and the carceral state came of age together is nothing short of pathbreaking. Ranging across time and region with unusual sensitivity and keen insight, he weaves a gripping narrative, full of surprising turns and unintended consequences. The connections between past and present jump off these pages; make no mistake, the story that unfolds in God’s Law and Order is far from over. -- Heath W. Carter, author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in ChicagoAn outstanding contribution to religious history and the history of criminal justice. Griffith offers a deeply researched, limpidly written, and exceedingly well balanced account of the surprisingly complex involvement of white evangelicals with issues of criminal justice, prison ministries, and prison reform. His compelling narrative reveals persistent ambiguities—genuine concern for prisoners, intermittent concern for prison reform, and general lack of awareness about issues of race in criminal justice. I am not aware of anything that comes even close to the sophistication of Griffith’s treatment of this subject. -- Mark Noll, author of A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada
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Harvard University Press Gun SelfControl Liberating Individuals to Reduce
Book SynopsisThe push for federal gun reform is foundering. Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars look instead to libertarian ideas that can survive judicial review. Individuals can renounce gun-ownership rights, which prevents suicide. Citizens should be able to petition for confiscation from unlawful possessors. While Congress and the courts argue, lives can be saved.Trade ReviewFive stars! A truly innovative book that does not simply advocate the same old litany of mandatory gun laws. Whatever your political persuasion, you will find that their ideas could help alleviate some of the public health problems caused by firearms that we all want to see reduced. -- David Hemenway, author of Private Guns, Public HealthGun violence is one of America’s most pressing problems. We have very few solutions, or even new ideas. This important book provides some genuinely new ideas that also, by respecting the deeply-held but conflicting values people have around guns, seem feasible and hence helpful for the widely-shared goal of saving lives. -- Jens Ludwig, coauthor of Gun Violence: The Real CostsGun violence remains a nationwide crisis, and comprehensive, innovative legislation is needed to save lives. Ayres and Vars are opening an important new discussion about how state government can take an active role in preventing gun violence. -- Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode IslandAyres and Vars craft an innovative new legal tool people can use to defend themselves against gun violence—including self-harm. The book is packed with conceptual insights about the nature of freedom and self-restriction, as well as creative and promising new policy alternatives. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the gun debate. -- Joseph Blocher, coauthor of The Positive Second AmendmentThis bold yet disarming prescription for new and promising gun policies seeks to empower and protect the citizenry while expanding and protecting individual rights. Ayres and Vars illustrate that government can reduce suicides and diminish the risk of gun violence without triggering the opposition of even the most ardent Second Amendment enthusiasts. -- John J. Donohue III, author of Law and Economics of DiscriminationWhile the authors tend to favor more regulation, they write with an understanding of and respect for the tens of millions of Americans who cherish the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. This understanding and respect can foster the trust necessary to evaluate their proposals free from the rancor that makes critical analysis difficult in discussions about sound gun policy. -- Brannon P. Denning, coauthor of Guns and the Law
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Harvard University Press Getting Away with Murder
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Princeton University Press When Brute Force Fails
Book SynopsisSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults - a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. This book explains how we got into the trap and how we can get out of it: to cut both crime and the prison population.Trade ReviewOne of Economist's Best Books for 2009 "One way to make apprehension and punishment more likely is to spend substantially more money on law enforcement. In a time of chronic budget shortfalls, however, that won't happen. But Mr. Kleiman suggests that smarter enforcement strategies can make existing budgets go further. The important step, he says, is to view enforcement as a dynamic game in which strategically chosen deterrence policies become self-reinforcing... It is an ingenious idea that borrows from game theory and the economics of signaling behavior... Revolutionary."--Robert H. Frank, New York Times "Mass incarceration was a successful public-policy tourniquet. But now that we've stopped the bleeding, it can't be a permanent solution... [I]t requires a more sophisticated crime-fighting approach--an emphasis, for instance, on making sentences swifter and more certain, even as we make them shorter; a system of performance metrics for prisons and their administrators; a more stringent approach to probation and parole. (When Brute Force Fails, by the U.C.L.A. law professor Mark Kleiman, is the best handbook for would-be reformers.)"--Ross Douthat, New York Times "'Big cases make bad laws' is a criminological axiom, and one with which Mark A. R. Kleiman agrees, in When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment. Kleiman blames big cases and bad laws for another distinctive feature of American life: 2.3 million people are currently behind bars in the United States... At what point, Kleiman wonders, will incarceration be a greater social ill than crime? He proposes, for lesser offenders, punishments that are swift and certain but not necessarily severe: a night in jail, instead of a warning, for missing a meeting with a parole officer, say, and ten nights the next time."--Jill Lepore, New Yorker "From Kennedy and Kleiman to Alm and Meares, the judges and scholars developing new deterrence strategies are changing the way we think about parole, probation, gang violence and drug markets."--Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Magazine "In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids."--David Von Drehle, TIME Magazine "Mark Kleiman's new book, When Brute Force Fails, draws on the bedrock of economic logic--rational actors using incentives to make optimal decisions--to arrive at a sweeping overhaul of how we deter, punish and sentence... Kleiman says we can have more effective deterrence by becoming more efficient in the use of resources to control crime... Kleiman's theory of 'dynamic concentration' is the best example of economic logic used cautiously and innovatively to address a social problem... If you want a no-nonsense guide to using incentives to build a better mousetrap, this is the book for you."--Sudhir Venkatesh, Forbes "Absolutely buy this book and dedicate some time to it... This is the most important social science book I've read in many years."--Reihan Salam, Bloggingheads.tv "In ... When Brute Force Fails, Kleiman argues that such capricious enforcement undermines efforts to reduce crime, and moreover that tough penalties--such as the long sentences that have contributed to clogged prisons--don't do much to help, despite their high cost. The alternative, Kleiman suggests, is a paradigm called 'swift and certain' justice, first proposed by Cesare Beccaria in the 18th century: immediate, automatic penalties--though not necessarily severe ones--doled out by credible, identifiable figures... [I]t seems likely that the invasive surveillance model, combining tracking technology and the Kleiman/Alm paradigm of 'swift and certain' justice, could offer an alternative to much of the waste--in human as well as economic terms--of our current, dysfunctional system."--Graeme Wood, Atlantic "Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at the University of California (Los Angeles), contend[s] that for violent as well as nonviolent offenders, long prison terms--which most potential criminals don't expect to incur--do less to deter crime than would swifter and surer imposition of less onerous penalties. Even probation, Kleiman writes, can be a real deterrent if accompanied by tough conditions and oversight. In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, Kleiman argues that the correct reforms would lead to 'half as much crime and half as many people behind bars 10 years from now.'"--Stuart Taylor Jr., National Journal "Kleiman's recommendations appear to work. If they do, every community should be considering how to apply them. The current ways, the tough-sounding sentences, the random zero-tolerance, the throw 'em-in-jail-and-throw-away-the-key approach, feels right. But maybe it's wrong."--Royal Oak Daily Tribune "[Kleiman] brings to his analysis a formidable array of statistics and case studies, which, fortunately for the reader, he uses to illuminate rather than overpower... Having dissected the problem as he sees it, Kleiman offers in his final chapter a series of tips he believes will reduce both crime and the cost of correction and punishment. It is a trenchantly-stated starting point for reformers and fiscal conservatives alike."--Edward Morris, ForeWord Magazine "Offenders are not 'rational actors' in the normal sense, explains UCLA professor Mark A.R. Kleiman in his book, When Brute Force Fails. Their cost-benefit calculations are skewed toward the immediate future, which means a delayed punishment won't feel tied to the offense... Even [James Q.] Wilson, the godfather of 'tough on crime,' has endorsed Kleiman's book. 'This is very good. It's not quite as good as Einstein predicting the shift of light behind Mars ... but it's a step in the right direction,' Wilson said while appearing alongside Kleiman on a panel at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in October."--Adam Serwer, American Prospect "One of the most admired liberal policy books of the season, Mark Kleiman's When Brute Force Fails, argues for reconsidering current law enforcement policy."--David Frum, The WeekTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction e How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment 1 Chapter 1: The Trap 8 Chapter 2: Thinking about Crime Control 16 Chapter 3: Hope 34 Chapter 4: Tipping, Dynamic Concentration, and the Logic of Deterrence 49 Chapter 5: Crime Despite Punishment 68 Chapter 6: Designing Enforcement Strategies 86 Chapter 7: Crime Control without Punishment 117 Chapter 8: Guns and Gun Control 136 Chapter 9: Drug Policy for Crime Control 149 Chapter 10: What Could Go Wrong? 164 Chapter 11: An Agenda for Crime Control 175 Notes 191 Bibliography 207 Index 227
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Princeton University Press Caught The Prison State and the Lockdown of
Book SynopsisThe huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rigTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Michael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association "Carefully documented... It is hard to imagine a more comprehensive analysis of our shameful crisis."--Adam Hochschild, New York Review of Books "Gottschalk provides a systematic, surprising, and scathing critique of the prison state... Caught may well be the best book on this subject to appear in decades."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "Gottschalk is particularly convincing about the follow-on effects of incarceration on the vulnerable neighborhoods that contribute most to the prison population."--Jakub Wrzewniewski, Pacific Standard "An encyclopedic synthesis of recent scholarly work and journalism on criminal justice, Caught spans a wide range of topics but has a simple refrain: Beware of bipartisan reformers bearing gifts. Politicians pretend that hard problems are easy and make easy problems hard. Gottschalk, to her credit, is no politician."--Sara Mayeux, Chronicle Review "Everyone ... should read this book."--Angelia Wilson, Times Higher Education "Gottschalk has done a public service. She has tried to untangle a fiendishly complex subject, helping to liberate her readers from the intellectual prison of conventional wisdom in the process."--Gary Silverman, Financial Times "Marie Gottschalk's commanding and disturbing Caught is our best guide to the political decisions and public policies that have created the carceral state and our present immobility on the issue of crime and its punishment... Caught is that relatively rare academic book that hopes to move both public debate and policy."--Michael Meranze, Los Angeles Review of Books "[D]evastatingly persuasive... Caught proves not only an authoritative companion to the criminal justice system crises you know, but also a thorough compendium of the crises you've never even considered."--Stephen Lurie, Los Angeles Review of Books "[A] powerful book."--Choice "Gottschalk convincingly shows that the American penal system has come to embody a very un-American idea: that there are lives that are not worth caring about and people beyond reforming."--The Christian Century "Gottschalk's analysis offers a strong counternarrative to existing quick-fix solutions to mass incarceration."--James Kilgore, Truthout "Caught is an impressive accomplishment."--Bob Lane, Metapsychology "Caught is hard-hitting book on all that is wrong with the American carceral state. Importantly, it also shows why previous reform efforts have failed."--Eleanor Healy-Birt, Interlib "Admirably bold... [S]weeping and magisterial."--Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Preface to the Paperback Edition xv Chapter 1 Introduction The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics 1 Part I The Political Economy of Penal Reform 23 Chapter 2 Show Me the Money, The Great Recession and the Great Confinement 25 Chapter 3 Squaring the Political Circle, The New Political Economy of the Carceral State 48 Chapter 4 What Second Chance?, Reentry and Penal Reform 79 Chapter 5 Caught Again, Justice Reinvestment and Recidivism 98 Part II The Politics of Race and Penal Reform 117 Chapter 6 Is Mass Incarceration the "New Jim Crow"? Racial Disparities and the Carceral State 119 Chapter 7 What's Race Got to Do with It?, Bolstering and Challenging the Carceral State 139 Part III The Metastasizing Carceral State 163 Chapter 8 Split Verdict, The Non, Non, Nons and the "Worst of the Worst" 165 Chapter 9 The New Untouchables, The War on Sex Offenders 196 Chapter 10 Catch and Keep, The Criminalization of Immigrants 215 Chapter 11 The Prison beyond the Prison, The Carceral State and Growing Political and Economic Inequalities in the United States 241 Chapter 12 Bring It On, The Future of Penal Reform, the Carceral State, and American Politics 258 Acknowledgments 283 Notes 285 Select Bibliography 411 Index 439
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