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Rutgers University Press Policing Dissent Social Control and the
Book SynopsisPolicing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism.Trade Review"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control." -- Peter Kraska * Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy *"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists." -- Starhawk * Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising *"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading." -- Christian Parenti * author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage *"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself." -- Amory Starr * author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt *"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality." -- Kristian Williams * author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research." * Mobilization *"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control." -- Peter Kraska * Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy *"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists." -- Starhawk * Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising *"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading." -- Christian Parenti * author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage *"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself." -- Amory Starr * author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt *"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality." -- Kristian Williams * author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Protest, Control, and Policing 2. Perspectives on the Control of Dissent 3. The Anti-Globalization Movement 4. Managing and Regulating Protest: Social Control and the Law 5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like?: The Physical Control of Space 6. "Here Come the Anarchists": The Psychological Control of Space 7. Law Enforcement and Control Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Crime Punishment and Mental Illness Law and the
Book SynopsisExplores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, and sex offenders.Trade Review"A provocative, challenging, and thoughtful multi-disciplinary investigation of one of the most serious social issues we face. This is a major contribution to the literature." -- Michael Perlin * New York Law School *"This book is informative and, with its reference to specific cases, more interesting than it might otherwise be. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem 2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons 3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed 4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry 5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders 6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness 7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter? References Index
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Rutgers University Press The Child Savers The Invention of Delinquency
Book SynopsisPresents an analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Focusing on social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this work argues that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents.Trade Review"The Child Savers deeply influenced me and dozens of other feminist scholars who have studied social policy critically. This reissue is remarkable in allowing us to rethink it, and nowhere more valuable than in Tony Platt's own thoughtful reconsideration." -- Linda Gordon * professor of history, New York University *"The Child Savers, at forty, is a classic. Accompanied by lively contributions that reflect on its impact and outline recent research, this new edition will ensure that the book lives on, its message always challenging, its relevance undiminished." -- Hugh Cunningham * Professor Emeritus of Social History, University of Kent *"The Child Savers is a classic, and the updated edition is even more relevant today; a must for the informed public and the perceptive student." -- Jock Young * Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York *"Like a bracing wind, Platt's brilliant inquiry into the oxymoron of juvenile justice demands again that we upend our ritualized system of punishing, containing and crushing our defiant young." -- Bernardine Dohrn * Northwestern University School of Law *Table of ContentsIn Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, by Miroslava Chávez-GarcíaThe Child Savers: The Invention of DelinquencyThe Child Savers Reconsidered, by Anthony M. PlattThe Child Savers and Three Cycles of Juvenile Justice Reform in Twentieth-Century America, by William BushWomen and Kids in the Court: Feminist History and Anthony Platt's The Child Savers, by Tamara Myers"The "Other" Child-Savers: Racial Politics of the Parental State," by Geoff Ward
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Rutgers University Press Comprehending Drug Use Ethnographic Research at
Book SynopsisComprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.Trade Review"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsThrough ethnographic eyes The emergence of drug ethnography Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments
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Rutgers University Press State Crime Current Perspectives Critical Issues
Book Synopsis Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms. Trade Review"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime." -- Barbara Perry * University of Ontario Institute of Technology *"Given recent highly injurious acts committed by governments around the world, this riveting book is essential reading for scholars, students, activists, and policy makers. A timely and much needed contribution to the field." -- Walter DeKeseredy * author of Contemporary Critical Criminology *"There has been a paucity of research on state crime, but this volume makes an important contribution to the literature and should not only stimulate further research on state crime, but also contribute to social policies that seek to reduce it. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / William J. Chambliss Introduction : Crimes of state and other forms of collective group violence by nonstate actors / M. Cherif Bassiouni Revisiting crimes by the capitalist state / Gregg Barak The crime of the last century and of this century / David O. Friedrichs Nuclear weapons, international law, and the normalization of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich Empire and exceptionalism : the Bush administration's criminal war against Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski Do empires commit state crime? / Peter Iadicola Burundi : a history of conflict and state crime / Kara Hoofnagle Legal precedent, jurisprudence, and state crime : Pinochet and crimes against humanity / Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander Reinventing controlling state crime and varieties of state crime and its control : what I would have done differently / Jeffrey Ian Ross Complementary and alternative domestic responses to state crime / Dawn L. Rothe The fairness of Gacaca / Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu Assassination of regime elites versus collateral civilian damage / Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe How to restore justice in Serbia? : a closer look at peoples' opinions about post-war reconciliation / Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valiñas, and Elmar Weitekamp The current status and role of the international criminal court / Christopher W. Mullins
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Rutgers University Press Disrupted Childhoods Children of Women in Prison
Book SynopsisExplores the issues that arise from a mother's confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. The author offers a perspective that recognises differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system and presents an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned.Trade Review"Criminology professor Siegel examines the experiences of two groups of children with mothers involved in the criminal justice system: children whose mothers have been arrested but not yet sentenced, and children whose mothers have been incarcerated for at least one year. A very compelling book. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Jane Siegel has written a sociological study that speaks, sotto voce, to the dire need to reform the USA's criminal justice policies and practices. There are times, though, when her text screams out at us. Incarcerated mothers lie at the center of Siegel's text, but their children occupy the field, and this is a battlefield. The children are pitted against poverty, drugs, poor schooling, and violence, and Siegel brings us into their lives—with and without their mothers. Siegel carefully builds a case againtst our 'nation's historic experiment with mass incarceration'." * Teachers College Record *Table of ContentsPART ONE1. Living with Mom—Most of the Time2. Outside the Curtained Windows3. The Ubiquity of Violence4. When the Criminal Justice System Comes CallingPART TWO5. They All Do the Time6. What Lies Ahead
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John Wiley & Sons Managing Ethnic Diversity after 911 Integration Security and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective
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Rutgers University Press The Globalization of Supermax Prisons Critical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is a major contribution, sketching the outlines of the supermax phenomenon not just in the United States, but across the globe. The anthology is also well timed to engage with the growing public realization that the now-familiar abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have their parallel counterparts in domestic U.S. prison." * Crime, Law, and Social Change *"A fine anthology dealing with supermax prisons. The essays provide a wealth of information about why the US and eight other advanced industrialized nations adopted the supermax prototype. These articles are consistently well written and informative, and they raise questions about the efficacy of such prisons. An important read for researchers, policy makers, and concerned citizens. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The collection draws attention to a troubling potential trend and a complex problem of contemporary social life and thus offers an important contribution to penal and socio-political studies." * Critical Criminology *"The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is the missing puzzle piece in the encrypted and often unspoken portrayal of the global realities of the developmental intricacies and constituencies of supermax prisons. [It] leaves one thinking about the repercussions of supermax institutions, as shaped by socioeconomics and politics, on prisoners' rights." * Law and Politics Book Review *"This book is a fascinating comparative examination of the worldwide proliferation of supermax prisons. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is a must-read for any student, practitioner, or scholar of punishment and correctional practices." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"Jeffrey Ian Ross brings together a wealth of information in an extremely useful and important portrait of global supermax prison proliferation." -- Lorna Rhodes * University of Washington, Seattle *"An important and timely collection of essays examining the propagation of the American ‘Supermax’ model around the globe. . . . An essential read for researchers, policy makers and concerned citizens alike." -- Sharon Shalev * author of Supermax: Controlling Risk through Solitary Confinement *"This is a book that legislators, policymakers, practitioners and students should include on a professional reading list. In order to make more informed decisions regarding policies and procedures in our prison systems, it is important to know the history of our systems and how it impacts operations today." * Corrections Today *Table of ContentsForeword: Probing the Meta-Prison, by Loic WacquantAcknowledgments1. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons: An Introduction, by Jeffrey Ian Ross2. The Invention of the American Supermax Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross3. How Canada Built Its Supermax Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross4. Supermaxes South of the Border, by Patrick O'Day and Thomas O'Connor5. The Growth of the Supermax Option in Britain, by Angela West Crews6. Analyzing the Supermax Prisons in the Netherlands: The Dutch Supermax, by Sandra L. Resodihardjo7. Supermaximum Prisons in South Africa, by Fran Buntman and Lukas Muntingh8. From "Secondary Punishment" to "Supermax": The Human Costs of High-Security Regimes in Australia, by David Brown and Bree Carlton9. The Emergence of the Supermax in New Zealand, by Greg Newbold10. The Rise of the Supermax in Brazil, by Jose de Jesus Filho11. Guantanamo: America's Foreign Supermax in the Fight Against Terrorism, by Jeffrey Ian Ross and Dawn L. Rothe12. A Globalized Militarized Prison Juggernaut: The Case of Abu Ghraib, by Dawn L. Rothe13. Conclusion: Globalization, Innovation, or Neither?, by Jeffrey Ian RossNotesReferencesNotes on Contributors
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Rutgers University Press Prohibition Gangsters The Rise and Fall of a Bad
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marc Mappen proves an adept storyteller as he takes readers beyond 'Boardwalk Empire.' Mappen spins some good yarns about the gangsters, dominated by New Yorkers, whose rise was triggered by the 18th Amendment, which took effect in 1920, and who proved that, at times, crime not only pays, but pays very well." -- Sam Roberts * New York Times *"Prohibition created an enormous economic opportunity for a generation of young criminals. As chronicled by Marc Mappen, the true, violent, and extravagant lives of these men make dramatizations like Boardwalk Empire look tame by comparison. A must -read for anyone interested in the origins of organized crime in America." -- Nicholas Gage * author of The Mafia is Not an Equal Opportunity Employer *"Kudos to Marc Mappen for producing so riveting a study about a generation of gangland mobsters who used National Prohibition to grab lots of money and petty power for themselves. A big winner of a book about a bunch of lousy looting losers. . . . Fascinating reading. Highly recommended!" -- James Kirby Martin * co-author of Drinking in America: A History, 1620-1980 *"A well researched, historical overview of the major Prohibition era gangsters. These men became the founding fathers of modern organized crime." -- Paul R. Kavieff * author of Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang *"A book about the Prohibition gangsters should be a fascinating and exciting read. Mappen does not disappoint. His fast-moving butauthoritative narrative takes readers through the Prohibition years and beyond as he traces the careers of such underworld luminaries as John Torrio, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Legs Diamond, and Dutch Schultz. Mappen’s book is a splendid introduction to the story of a generation of criminals who captured the American imagination." * Journal of American Culture *"Marc Mappen far outstrips his fellow crime writers [when] describing mob activity in smaller U.S. cities. Chicago and New York have been examined enough, so Mappen turns his eye on the Purple Gang of Detroit, the Pendergast machine in Kansas City, and the bootleg wars of Cleveland." * Philadelphia Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Bluebird Tattoo Part I. The Rise 1. The Big Fellow in the Windy City 2. Big Battles in the Big Apple 3. Smaller Cities Part II. Atlantic City Interlude 4. Gangsters in the Surf 5. The Conference as Comedy 6. Capone's Long Trip Home Part III. The Fall 7. The Twilight of the Gangster? 8. Pay Your Taxes 9. Lucky v. Dewey 10. Shot to Death 11. Lepke on the Hot Seat 12. For Them, Crime Did Pay Cast of Characters A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press The Forgotten Men Serving a Life without Parole
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Forgotten Men Serving a Life Without Parole Sentence Critical Issues in Crime and Society Hardcover
Trade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States Reimagining Survivors Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Book SynopsisTrafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.Trade Review"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goz´dziak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goździak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Afong Means StrengthIntroduction: Researching and Writing about Child TraffickingPart IMoral Panics1 “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking2 The Old and New AbolitionistsPart II “Captured”3 Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers4 Not Chained to a Bed in a BrothelPart III “Rescued”5 Hidden in Plain Sight6 Jail the Offender, Protect the VictimPart IV “Restored” 7 Idealized Childhoods8 Healing the WoundedEpilogue: Everyday Struggles Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States Reimagining Survivors Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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MW - Rutgers University Press Police Power and the Production of Racial Boundaries Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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John Wiley & Sons The Methamphetamine Industry in America Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Trade Review"Excellently written, logical, and coherent, The Methamphetamine Industry in America is an exemplary book that is quite unique in focusing exclusively on the macro-scale methamphetamine industry." -- Thomas Mieczkowski * University of South Florida *"The Methamphetamine Industry in America is best described as Breaking Bad from a sociological perspective." * Contemporary Sociology *"This multi-method study of the social networks involved in the distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine provides a level of understanding unmatched in previous research. Using multiple sources, the authors masterfully weave a tale that reflects the complexities of the business while using personal stories to present a human face on larger social processes." -- Dr. Ralph A. Weisheit * Illinois State University *"Brownstein, Mulcahy, and Huessy weave interviews with users, dealers, producers, and law enforcement professionals involved in the methamphetamine drug trade to give readers a vision of the local, national, and international drug industry. The authors adopt a social organization approach to identify and analyze social patterns among the people involved in the meth trade. Useful for professionals responsible for prevention and treatment services and enforcement of drug laws as well as students in these areas. Recommended." * Choice *"Excellently written, logical, and coherent, The Methamphetamine Industry in America is an exemplary book that is quite unique in focusing exclusively on the macro-scale methamphetamine industry." -- Thomas Mieczkowski * University of South Florida *"The Methamphetamine Industry in America is best described as Breaking Bad from a sociological perspective." * Contemporary Sociology *"This multi-method study of the social networks involved in the distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine provides a level of understanding unmatched in previous research. Using multiple sources, the authors masterfully weave a tale that reflects the complexities of the business while using personal stories to present a human face on larger social processes." -- Dr. Ralph A. Weisheit * Illinois State University *"Brownstein, Mulcahy, and Huessy weave interviews with users, dealers, producers, and law enforcement professionals involved in the methamphetamine drug trade to give readers a vision of the local, national, and international drug industry. The authors adopt a social organization approach to identify and analyze social patterns among the people involved in the meth trade. Useful for professionals responsible for prevention and treatment services and enforcement of drug laws as well as students in these areas. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1Understanding Methamphetamine Markets as an Industry2Methamphetamine in America3Social Activity in the Methamphetamine Industry4Social Relationships in the Methamphetamine Industry5 The Culture of the Methamphetamine Industry6Meth Markets and the Methamphetamine Industry in the United StatesAppendix: The Study of the Dynamics of Methamphetamine MarketsReferencesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Everyday Desistance The Transition to Adulthood
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resisting a return to criminal activity, and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future.Trade Review"Their sensitive appraisal of the intersecting social forces and social institutions, as well as the internal struggles that young people face, shines through in this book."— The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice "Everyday Desistance is a humanizing portrait of a group of young adults which brings readers to a compassionate understanding of their hardships as well as a great degree of admiration for their triumphs."— Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project "Timely, interesting, and well-written, the authors provide a comprehensive examination with accessible stories and ideas. Everyday Desistance fills a niche that needs to be filled."— Mercer L. Sullivan, author of Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City "There is much to be gained from both a policy and theory perspective by reading Everyday Desistance. It is a well-written and engaging study that contributes to knowledge about re-entry and the journey toward desistance....We can learn a lot about how to help them reach this goal by reading this book." — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "This book is a must read for anyone looking to understand the complex daily choices of desistance and to support formerly incarcerated young people to not only survive in adulthood but also to thrive. For me, the book goes beyond the confines of juvenile justice readership — it holds important lessons for anyone working in child welfare to consider their work in the larger picture of poverty, community, incarceration and reentry."— Juvenile Justice Information Exchange "Everyday Desistance stands out as an important contribution to the now burgeoning literature on desistance." — European Journal of Probation Reposting of JJIE's "BOOK REVIEWS Book Review: ‘Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth'"— Youth Today "Laura Abrams and Diane Terry offer a richly detailed account of ‘formerly incarcerated youth’ and their struggle to emerge as adults. Desistance is part of the story, and the authors tell it well." — Children & Society "Using in-depth, in-person interviews, UCLA social welfare professor Laura S. Abrams and Diane J. Terry... have presented a more nuanced portrait of life after juvie" "Abrams and Terry collected firsthand stories and insights to answer the following questions: What does everyday life look like for young people who age out of the juvenile justice system? And how do young people navigate the transition to adulthood while attempting to stay out of the hands of the law?"— Stan Paul, UCLA LuskinTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Michelle Inderbitzin, PhD 1 Introduction 2 The Road to Juvie 3 Locked Up and Back Again 4 And Now I’m an Adult 5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man 6 You Can Run but You Can’t Hide 7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Woman’s Journeys 8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality 9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood Acknowledgments Appendix: The Research Process Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Sex Offenders Stigma and Social Control Critical
Book SynopsisThe 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts.Trade Review"A timely and important book … Readers unfamiliar with the functions and consequences of sex offender registration and community notification laws will find an engaging, easy-to-read discussion of such policies. Scholars familiar with sex offender registration and community notification will likewise find value here – value that is centered on the focus of what creates the negative outcomes for individuals, and not just the collateral consequences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *“[Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control] may be very useful for other scholars exploring identity construction and integration as well as the ways people make sense, narrate, and respond to stigma in the course of their lives… It does provide an intriguing and nuanced portrait of the ways such dynamics play out in relation to one of the most controversial and heavily stigmatized social locations in contemporary society.” * Symbolic Interaction *"Rickard’s work is an important one on a subject that has not adequately been studied, namely the status of sex offenders and the present ‘moral panic.’ Clear, organized, and well-researched, Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control is both distinctive and brave." -- Lynn Chancer * Hunter College *"Draws on interviews in a study of six men convicted of a sexual offense against a minor; focuses on their self-perceptions and experience of social stigma and isolation after incarceration or lesser sanction." * Chronicle *"A timely and important book … Readers unfamiliar with the functions and consequences of sex offender registration and community notification laws will find an engaging, easy-to-read discussion of such policies. Scholars familiar with sex offender registration and community notification will likewise find value here – value that is centered on the focus of what creates the negative outcomes for individuals, and not just the collateral consequences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Rickard’s work is an important one on a subject that has not adequately been studied, namely the status of sex offenders and the present ‘moral panic.’ Clear, organized, and well-researched, Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control is both distinctive and brave." -- Lynn Chancer * Hunter College *“[Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control] may be very useful for other scholars exploring identity construction and integration as well as the ways people make sense, narrate, and respond to stigma in the course of their lives… It does provide an intriguing and nuanced portrait of the ways such dynamics play out in relation to one of the most controversial and heavily stigmatized social locations in contemporary society.” * Symbolic Interaction *"Draws on interviews in a study of six men convicted of a sexual offense against a minor; focuses on their self-perceptions and experience of social stigma and isolation after incarceration or lesser sanction." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements1 Towards a Sociology of Sexual Offense2 Constructing the Offense3 Community Bonds4 Severed Bonds5 Strategies to Re-Establish Social Bonds6 Personal Stories/Public PolicyAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£41.40
Rutgers University Press When Riot Cops are Not Enough The Policing and
Book SynopsisIn When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Trade Review"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis ?makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *“Vital, important and compelling, Mike King offers a nuanced accounting of the cat-and-mouse game of social protest and social control. Grounded in the experience of Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is immensely relevant to the upcoming generation of militant activists, engaged scholars and community police.” "As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, “Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew 8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct NotesReferencesIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press When Riot Cops are Not Enough The Policing and
Book SynopsisIn When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Trade Review"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis ?makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *“Vital, important and compelling, Mike King offers a nuanced accounting of the cat-and-mouse game of social protest and social control. Grounded in the experience of Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is immensely relevant to the upcoming generation of militant activists, engaged scholars and community police.” "As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, “Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew 8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct NotesReferencesIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisThe contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones. Trade Review"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice—situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." -- Ronald Slye * coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement *“This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature.” -- Elazar Barkan * Columbia University *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice Nanci Adler Part I: Truth and Justice Chapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siècle Historians in the Courts Vladimir Petrović Chapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? William A. Schabas Chapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty Jeremy Sarkin Chapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional Justice Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van Craen Part II: The Trial Record Chapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals Richard Ashby Wilson Chapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source Thijs B. Bouwknegt Part III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice Processes Chapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting – The Rawagede Case Nicole L. Immler Chapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia Christian Axboe Nielsen Chapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures Timothy Williams Chapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh Kjell Anderson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
£32.40
Rutgers University Press Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisThe contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones. Trade Review"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice—situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." -- Ronald Slye * coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement *“This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature.” -- Elazar Barkan * Columbia University *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice Nanci Adler Part I: Truth and Justice Chapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siècle Historians in the Courts Vladimir Petrović Chapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? William A. Schabas Chapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty Jeremy Sarkin Chapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional Justice Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van Craen Part II: The Trial Record Chapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals Richard Ashby Wilson Chapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source Thijs B. Bouwknegt Part III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice Processes Chapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting – The Rawagede Case Nicole L. Immler Chapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia Christian Axboe Nielsen Chapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures Timothy Williams Chapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh Kjell Anderson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Colonialism Is Crime
Book SynopsisThere is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. The consequences of this oppression and criminal victimization is perhaps the critical factor explaining why Indigenous people today are overrepresented as victims and offenders in the settler colonist criminal justice systems.Trade Review“The authors of Colonialism is Crime did an exceptional job of analyzing criminal acts within the context of contemporary standards of international law and human rights violations. I was immensely impressed with this book, and am confident that it will fill a major void in the criminological literature.” — Gary W. Potter, Eastern Kentucky University "This book adds a significant voice to the argument regarding colonization as crime and colonization as the root of injustice for Indigenous peoples. Importantly, it furthers the assertion that colonization is ongoing."— Cheryl Bennett, contributor to Crime and Social Justice in Indian CountryTable of ContentsForeword 1 Introduction: Crimes Against Indigenous Peoples, 1 2 Breaking and Bending the Law Historically, 45 3 Fraud, Theft, and the Trail of Broken Treaties, 71 4 Massacres to Murder: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, 112 5 Institutionalized Torture and Pedophilia: Boarding Schools for Indigenous Children, 147 6 Conquest by Rape and Violence: Crimes against Indigenous Women, 193 7 The Conestoga Indians, Hate Crimes, and Domestic Terrorism, 245 8 Stolen Land to Stolen Oil: The Theft of Indigenous Political Economies, 275 9 Would You Drink This Water?: Crimes of Pollution and Toxic Dumping on Indigenous Lands, 301 10 Fighting Back: Colonial Settler Responsibilities and Indigenous Action, 333 Bibliography, 371 Index About the Authors
£26.09
Rutgers University Press Colonialism Is Crime Critical Issues in Crime and
Book SynopsisThere is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. In this book Nielsen and Robyn present an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and socially injurious consequences that exist today.Trade Review“The authors of Colonialism is Crime did an exceptional job of analyzing criminal acts within the context of contemporary standards of international law and human rights violations. I was immensely impressed with this book, and am confident that it will fill a major void in the criminological literature.” -- Gary W. Potter * Eastern Kentucky University *"This book adds a significant voice to the argument regarding colonization as crime and colonization as the root of injustice for Indigenous peoples. Importantly, it furthers the assertion that colonization is ongoing." -- Cheryl Bennett * contributor to Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country *Table of ContentsForeword 1 Introduction: Crimes Against Indigenous Peoples, 1 2 Breaking and Bending the Law Historically, 45 3 Fraud, Theft, and the Trail of Broken Treaties, 71 4 Massacres to Murder: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, 112 5 Institutionalized Torture and Pedophilia: Boarding Schools for Indigenous Children, 147 6 Conquest by Rape and Violence: Crimes against Indigenous Women, 193 7 The Conestoga Indians, Hate Crimes, and Domestic Terrorism, 245 8 Stolen Land to Stolen Oil: The Theft of Indigenous Political Economies, 275 9 Would You Drink This Water?: Crimes of Pollution and Toxic Dumping on Indigenous Lands, 301 10 Fighting Back: Colonial Settler Responsibilities and Indigenous Action, 333 Bibliography, 371 Index About the Authors
£105.40
New York University Press Toward a Unified Criminology Integrating
Book SynopsisProvides an overview and evaluation of the underlying assumptions of criminologyTrade Review"A brilliant and consequential treatise--a contemporary classic. For those with the courage to rethink the criminological enterprise, this is a must read." Francis T. Cullen, co-author of Criminological Theory "Agnew has elegantly captured the assumptions, insights, predictions, and evidence of the various theories, summarized several literatures, and initiated the process of developing a general and unified theory of crime." Alex R. Piquero, author of Key Issues in Criminal Careers ResearchTable of ContentsPreface 1 A Divided Criminology 2 The Scope of the Discipline: What Is Crime? 3 Determinism versus Agency: Is Crime the Result of Forces beyond the Individual's Control or Free Choice? 4 The Nature of Human Nature: Are People Self-Interested, Socially Concerned, or Blank Slates? 5 The Nature of Society: Is Society Characterized by Consensus or Conflict? 6 The Nature of Reality: Is There an Objective Reality That Can Be Accurately Measured? 7 A Unified Criminology Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index About the Author
£23.74
New York University Press Doing Time in the Depression Everyday Life in
Book SynopsisArgues that the prison systems of California and Texas during the Depression set the tone for the identity roles of the 30sTrade ReviewTimely and required reading for all interested in the history of Californias criminal justice system. * California History *Doing Time in the Depression compellingly connects prisoners to the social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1930s. * American Historical Review *This reviewer is very happy to see this very much needed and important book on an earlier time of incarceration in the U.S., especially with all the discussion today about mass incarceration. -- E. Smith * CHOICE *Ethan Blue's brilliant, original study of the last time doing time was so extraordinarily ordinary reveals how distinctive 1930s prison regimes converged in a singular achievement. They renovated racism, inequality, and vulnerability to premature death for the purpose of producing public revenues and legitimacy, at the expense of modestly educated people in the prime of life. Doing Time in the Depression is required reading for all who focus their energies on today's mass incarceration and other forms of dispossession. -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore,author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaEthan Blue demonstrates that these present problems originate in a troubled past. Long histories of conquest, colonialism, enslavement and exploitation produced the patterns that pervade prison systems past and present. Court decisions and punitive practices that rendered people convicted of crimes as civilly dead in the nineteenth century provided the inner logic for a legal system that criminalized the survival strategies of oppressed people, protecting the propertied classes but in the process producing the very forms of non-normative behavior that the prison system purported to prevent. The prison system has functioned historically as a way of controlling and exploiting surplus labor. Yet all social structures ultimately revolve around human agency. Blues sophisticated research design and his extensive empirical research enable him to explore in this book the world that the prisoners made despite the many things they could not control. He shows that the history of macrococial practices and institutions encompass micropolitics of oppression and opposition. Blue argues that inmate investments in particular understandings of masculinity tragically enabled prison administrators to foment a radical divisiveness across racial lines that impeded chances for class solidarity. -- George Lipsitz * Australasian Journal of American Studies *During the Great Depression, inmate populations in Texas and California grew exponentially, reflecting the dire straits of many individuals amidst the economic downturn. Blue argues that the prison complexes of the two states reflected a cultural legacy of racial and class hierarchy and exclusion, and acted as a socioeconomic crutch during this period of schism and reintegration. Ultimately, prisons used violence and coercion to maintain a status quo that reinforced white supremacy and capitalist prerogative. * Journal of the West *Blue innovatively deconstructs one of the strangest narratives of the ordinary convict. He breaks new ground. * Journal of Popular Culture *Doing Time in the Depressiontaps prison newspapers, radio transcripts, autobiographies from inmates and guards, and official documents from the California and Texas prison systems to create a compelling, imaginative look at an off-limits environment. . . .Doing Time bristles with insights useful to scholars of incarceration, gender, culture, and the Depression era. Blue sympathizes with prisoners, although he avoids demonizing their overseers. He has humanized people whose actions forced them into a dehumanizing world. * Journal of Social History *Doing Time in the Depression offers a rich, complicated view of prison life in Californiaand Texas during the worst economic decade in twentieth-century America.We are inBlues debt for this densely researched, beautifully written, and wide-rangingexamination of prison life during the Great Depression. Doing Time in the Depression isa must-read for people concerned with working-class life in twentieth-century America. * Labor *Doing Time in the Depressionshines especially brightly . . . as Blue takes us inside the world of prison sports. * Journal of American History *Ethan Blue presents such a dose of western scholarship in his complex and stark publication Doing Time in the Depression. Melding the U.S. borderlands, racial hierarchies, immigration politics, prison economies, and gender constructions, Blue builds a devastating study that illuminates a violence far removed from the invented western 'valor and daring' or 'glory and victory' favored by scriptwriters and novelists. * The Western Historical Quarterly *Blue, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Australia, has written a book that does many things well. But perhaps most pleasing and revelatory is the books rich description, often in the words of the inmates themselves. * Triquarterly *Doing Time offers a nuanced portrait of incarceration in a period that has been frequently overlooked by prison historiography. One of the books many strengths is the voluminous sources the author manages to weave into analysis and narrative, as well as its deft balancing of macro structural concerns (e.g. formal patterns of racial domination) with fine-grain attention to the minutia of inmate experience. * Punishment & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Of Bodies and Borders: The Demography of Incarceration 2 Work in the Walled City: Labor and Discipline in California's Prisons 3 From Can See to Can't: Agricultural Labor and Industrial Reform on Texas Penal Plantations 4 Shifting Markets of Power: Building Tenders, Con Bosses, Queens, and Guards 5 Thirty Minutes behind the Walls: Prison Radio and the Popular Culture of Punishment 6 Sport and Celebration in the Popular Culture of Punishment 7 A Dark Cloud Would Go Over: Death and Dying 8 Going Home Epilogue Notes Index About the Author
£48.60
New York University Press Get a Job Labor Markets Economic Opportunity and
Book SynopsisAre the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? This book offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime.Trade ReviewGet a Joboffers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *[] Get a Job offers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *Get a Job takes a giant step to unravel the modern paradox of declining crime in the midst of deepening fissures in contemporary labor markets. Crutchfield weaves evidence from across the social sciences and the lived experiences of increasingly marginalized workers to advance a theory of persistent crime, stratified labor, and deepening economic inequality in the modern world of transient and futureless jobs. More than a strong read, it sets an agenda for the next generation of research on crime and work in the new Western economies. -- Jeff Fagan,co-editor, The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal CourtCrutchfields much anticipated Get a Job delivers! In it, he draws from his decades of storied research, together with personal insights, to tease out the complex relationship of the economy and work to crime. This sophisticated yet highly engaging work distills key insights, making sense of seemingly paradoxical historical trends and cross-national comparisons, while carefully embedding the analysis in the intersections of race, class, and gender. Get a Job is an excellent, important, and timely resource. -- Jody Miller,author, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered ViolenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Modern Miserables: Labor Market Influences on Crime 2 "Get a Job": The Connection between Work and Crime 3 Why Do They Do It? The Potential for Criminality 4 "I Don't Want No Damn Slave Job!": The Effects of Lack of Employment Opportunities 5 "Life in the Hood": How Social Context Matters 6 Lessons from the Hole in the Wall Gang 7 Toward a More General Explanation of Employment and Crime 8 A Tale of My Two Cities Appendix: Data Notes Index About the Author
£55.25
New York University Press Get a Job Labor Markets Economic Opportunity and
Book SynopsisAre the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? This book offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime.Trade ReviewGet a Joboffers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *[] Get a Job offers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *Get a Job takes a giant step to unravel the modern paradox of declining crime in the midst of deepening fissures in contemporary labor markets. Crutchfield weaves evidence from across the social sciences and the lived experiences of increasingly marginalized workers to advance a theory of persistent crime, stratified labor, and deepening economic inequality in the modern world of transient and futureless jobs. More than a strong read, it sets an agenda for the next generation of research on crime and work in the new Western economies. -- Jeff Fagan,co-editor, The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal CourtCrutchfields much anticipated Get a Job delivers! In it, he draws from his decades of storied research, together with personal insights, to tease out the complex relationship of the economy and work to crime. This sophisticated yet highly engaging work distills key insights, making sense of seemingly paradoxical historical trends and cross-national comparisons, while carefully embedding the analysis in the intersections of race, class, and gender. Get a Job is an excellent, important, and timely resource. -- Jody Miller,author, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered ViolenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Modern Miserables: Labor Market Influences on Crime 2 "Get a Job": The Connection between Work and Crime 3 Why Do They Do It? The Potential for Criminality 4 "I Don't Want No Damn Slave Job!": The Effects of Lack of Employment Opportunities 5 "Life in the Hood": How Social Context Matters 6 Lessons from the Hole in the Wall Gang 7 Toward a More General Explanation of Employment and Crime 8 A Tale of My Two Cities Appendix: Data Notes Index About the Author
£23.74
New York University Press The Punishment Imperative
Book SynopsisCautions that the legacy of the grand experiment of the past forty years will be difficult to escape.Trade Review"Criminologists Clear (Imprisoning Communities) and Frost (The Punitive State) offer an accessible study of mass incarceration in the U.S. that is theoretically sophisticated and rich in statistical data . . . . A meticulously organized concluding chapter lays out their proposals with an eye toward reducing sentences and making them more humane for nonviolent offenders. The book merits serious consideration beyond an academic audience." * Publishers Weekly *"This short, efficiently conveyed study cannot delve into all of the ramifications of how to integrate those returning to society, however,The Punishment Imperativeattests to the need for a better way to manage the millions that our nation have, for too long, relegated to simply lock up, forever." * Popmatters *"Backed up by the best science, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost make a compelling case for why the nations forty-year embrace of the punitive spirit has been morally bankrupt and endangered public safety. But this is far more than an exposé of correctional failure. Recognizing that a policy turning point is at hand, Clear and Frost provide a practical blueprint for choosing a different correctional futurecounsel that is wise and should be widely followed." -- Francis Cullen,Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati"For forty years, the heavy hammer of criminal punishment has been the nation's primary tool for addressing social problems. And when the hammer has failed to fix these problems or does further damage, we've responded by grabbing an even bigger hammer. In The Punishment Imperative, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost convincingly demonstrate that the hammer has, finally, become too heavy for us to raise. They offer a masterful dissection of this 'grand social experiment'; showing how we embarked on this strategy, its costs to individuals and communities, and a clear-headed path to real reform. The Punishment Imperative is neither armchair critique nor utopian vision, but rather an eye-opening and truly authoritative treatment by two true experts on punishment's past, present, and future." -- Christopher Uggen,co-author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy"It is too soon to tell if a sea of change is upon the US penal system, but the authors make their cogent argument in this well-written book. Summing Up:Highly recommended." -- P. Horne * Choice *"Part historical study, part forward-looking policy analysis, The Punishment Imperativeis a compelling study of a generation of crime and punishment in America." -- Douglas A. Berman * Sentencing Law and Policy *"This well-documented volume will interest anyone connected to our criminal justice system and may appeal to general readers concerned about the subject of incarceration." -- Frances O. Sandiford * Library Journal *"This compelling narrative helps us better understand the history, trajectory, and complexity of the politics of punishment in the United States over the past four decades. At a time of impending shifts in the correctional landscape in this country, this impressive volume should be on the reading list not only for scholars and students of mass incarceration, but also for corrections practitioners and policymakers everywhere who care about a new vision for America's penal system." -- Laurie O. Robinson,Former Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice"The book's 200 pages of details and its prescriptions will be intriguing even to those who know the field." * Jotwell *"Clear and Frost have helped start the most important conversation facing criminologists at the moment. How do we substantively reduce prison populations?" * Crime Law Social Change *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Beginning of the End of the Punishment Imperative 2. The Contours of Mass Incarceration 3. The Punishment Imperative as a Grand Social Experiment 4. The Policies of the Punishment Imperative 5. Two Views on the Objectives of the Punishment Imperative 6. Assessing the Punishment Imperative 7. Dismantling the Punishment Imperative Notes References Index About the Authors
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New York University Press The Perversion of Youth Controversies in the
Book SynopsisOver the years, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. This book critiques the system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future.Trade ReviewIn a masterful and wonderfully readable blend of science, cases, legal analysis and clinical insight, DiCataldo shows us that the problem is not 'them,' but rather our own unsupportable images and presumptions about who 'they' are. If policy makers, clinicians and researchers read this book with an open mind, it could bring long-overdue change to our nation’s responses to youth whose sexual behavior sometimes troubles us. -- Thomas Grisso,Director, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolProvides a well-informed and comprehensive assessment of today’s psychological and legal environments that surround youth who have committed sexual offenses. This book will be a valuable resource to clinicians, researchers, attorneys, judges, and policymakers who deal with this complex topic. -- Brent J. Oneal,Private Forensic Practice/Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, SeattleDiCataldo's texts is a very welcomed addition to the study of adolescent sexuality as it reminds us of the need to consider the remarkable breadth of adolescents' experiences and evaluated the appropriateness of societal responses to them. -- Danielle Schwegman * Journal of Youth & Adolescence *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Birth of a Moral Panic 2 The Return of the Blob: The Heterogeneity of Juvenile Sex Offenders 3 Test Authors in Search of a Clinical Population: Risk Assessment Instruments for Juvenile Sex Offenders 4 The Adolescent as Sexual Deviant: The Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 5 Creating the Objects of Our Concern: Normal Childhood Sexuality and the Invention of Childhood Sexual Behavior Problems 6 Becoming a Man: The Waiver of the Juvenile Sex Offender to Adult Court 7 Making Monsters: The Civil Commitment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 8 Collateral Consequences: The Invisible Punishment of the Juvenile Sex Offender Epilogue References Index About the Author
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New York University Press Social Death Racialized Rightlessness and the
Book SynopsisArgues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worthTrade ReviewEven though this book is just being published, I have been telling people to find Lisa Marie Cachos work and read it for years. She has a rare ability to illuminate the collisions and erasures of identity, and she powerfully explains how their devastating consequences are the grounds for social order. This is a game-changing book, written in beautiful and lucid prose. -- Rachel Buff,University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeCacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousness[A]profound way to think about freedom. * Women' Studies Quarterly *Apowerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others, Social Death will be one of those books that we come back to over and over again. -- Roderick A. Ferguson,author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority DifferenceAn innovated, dense, and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, law students, scholars, and any layperson interested in race, law, philosophy, and politics. * CHOICE *Proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization, groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for personhood.' * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Violence of Value 1. White Entitlement and Other People's Crimes 2. Beyond Ethical Obligation 3. Grafting Terror onto Illegality 4. Immigrant Rights versus Civil Rights Conclusion: Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Spectacular Few Prisoner Radicalization and
Book SynopsisArgues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind barsTrade ReviewIt is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary prison sociology radicalization, terrorism, and the fractured world we live in, as well as the changing landscape of prisons internationally. Hamm dedicates his book to John Irwin, an indication of his sociological spirit, and his deep immersion in the kinds of questions outstanding penologists ask. The kinds of questions Hamm is addressing require precisely that sociological spirit. * Crime, Law, and Social Change *This is a shrewd, moving and terrifying book. It describes the intensifying role of ideology (and the urge to civil action) in western prisons, showing powerfully how this development brings with it both & unprecedented security challenges and & exceptional possibilities for progressive reform. Hamms meticulous research, on trends in prisoner radicalization in American correctional institutions, shows that America is creating its own terrorists, in its failing prisons. -- Alison Liebling,co-author of The Prison OfficerMark Hamm is, without doubt, the worlds leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization. -- Peter Neumann,author of Old and New TerrorismThe Spectacular Few is a refreshing and important work, taking the apparently too-uncommon steps of talking to radical prisoners and performing statistical analyses on samples of radicals to test theories and measure practices. * Anthropology Review Database *Hamm's argument is intelligent, compassionate, and well argued....Hamm presents and argues his case well, and this book deserves a wide audience. * Social Forces,Francis Dodsworth, Open University *Table of Contents1 The Invisible History of Prisoner Radicalization 2 Islam in Prison 3 Prisoner Radicalization after 9/114 The Spectacular Few 5 Pathways to Terrorism 6 The Riddle of Radicalization 7 Al-Qaeda of California 8 The New Barbarians 9 Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement
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New York University Press The Spectacular Few Prisoner Radicalization and
Book SynopsisArgues that in order to understand terrorism today, we must come to terms with how prisoners are treated behind barsTrade ReviewIt is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary prison sociology radicalization, terrorism, and the fractured world we live in, as well as the changing landscape of prisons internationally. Hamm dedicates his book to John Irwin, an indication of his sociological spirit, and his deep immersion in the kinds of questions outstanding penologists ask. The kinds of questions Hamm is addressing require precisely that sociological spirit. * Crime, Law, and Social Change *This is a shrewd, moving and terrifying book. It describes the intensifying role of ideology (and the urge to civil action) in western prisons, showing powerfully how this development brings with it both & unprecedented security challenges and & exceptional possibilities for progressive reform. Hamms meticulous research, on trends in prisoner radicalization in American correctional institutions, shows that America is creating its own terrorists, in its failing prisons. -- Alison Liebling,co-author of The Prison OfficerMark Hamm is, without doubt, the worlds leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must read for anyone interested in homegrown radicalization. -- Peter Neumann,author of Old and New TerrorismThe Spectacular Few is a refreshing and important work, taking the apparently too-uncommon steps of talking to radical prisoners and performing statistical analyses on samples of radicals to test theories and measure practices. * Anthropology Review Database *Hamm's argument is intelligent, compassionate, and well argued....Hamm presents and argues his case well, and this book deserves a wide audience. * Social Forces,Francis Dodsworth, Open University *Table of Contents1 The Invisible History of Prisoner Radicalization 2 Islam in Prison 3 Prisoner Radicalization after 9/114 The Spectacular Few 5 Pathways to Terrorism 6 The Riddle of Radicalization 7 Al-Qaeda of California 8 The New Barbarians 9 Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement
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New York University Press Empire of Scrounge
Book SynopsisAn illuminating and personal journey through Jeff Ferrell''s eight month odyssey of living off the streetsPatrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city''s degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.from the IntroductionIn December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. Empire of Scrounge tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit worlds of scrounging, recycling, and second-hand living. Existing as a dumpster diver and trash picker, Ferrell adopted a way of life that was both field research and free-form survival. Riding around on his scrounged BMX bicycle, Ferrell investigated the million-dollar Trade ReviewA firecracker of a book. Prepare yourself for total immersion. It reads like Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell with a sense of fun; it has all the detail and magic of James Agee. A pleasure to read: anarchic, irreverent and totally relevant. -- Jock Young,co-editor of The New Politics of Crime and PunishmentBy turns moving, funny, and shocking. Particularly sobering are the books implications for modern consumer life, and the incomprehensible amounts of junk, waste and surplus generated by a modern city. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties AmericaI love this book! It's engaging, witty, and jarringevery page is filled with new treasures and powerful analyses of our throwaway culture. Ferrell opens a rare and vivid window on the raw aftermath of our society's conspicuous consumption and wasteful behavior, and he offers real possibilities for reflection, meditation, and redemption. -- David Naguib, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in ChicagoIn Empire of Scrounge, Jeff Ferrell serves as an unassuming guide into the netherworld of our own garbage. Ferrell suggests that such urban prospecting is possibly far more than simple recyclingit is a form of politics that consciously opts out of a vapid consumer culture. It's a must read! -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-editor of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass ImprisonmentOutstandingly well written, gripping, and hugely entertaining. Destined to become a classic, this anarchy of consumerism turns one man's 'trash' into a treasure: an insightful, colorful, imaginative and playful window on the underground economy of scavenging for a living among other people's cast offs. -- Stuart Henry, co-author of Essential CriminologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Sordid Signs 2 Street Life3 Street Knowledge 4 Salvage Operations 5 Scrapped Together 6 Scrunge City 7 Scrounging Zen Coda: Improvisations on the Everyday Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press Our Bodies Our Crimes The Policing of Womens
Book SynopsisA battle cry for all women in their fight to be fully recognized as human beingsTrade ReviewBolstered by quotes and firsthand accounts, Flavin delivers eye-opening reports on topics including abortion rights, infant abandonment and battered women, detailing little-noticed or taken-for-granted policies that restrict and remand women. Written in a flowing academic style, Flavins attention to historical detail and unfailing moral compass make her progressive reexamination of womens rights thorough and convincing. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *In Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Flavin traces the life-and-death power that the little-examined patriarchal assumptions informing our common life can haveespecially among poor, nonwhite women. Flavin . . . supplies a sobering primer on the laws and social constraints that keep women from fully controlling their bodies. The case studies she surveys in Our Bodies, Our Crimes make it painfully clear that the freedom to decide how and when to reproduce is, for a huge swath of American women, just as important as the much more fervidly discussed question of how and when women can choose not to reproduce. * Bookforum *Flavin's book shows how American women, especially those who are poor or incarcerated, face societal pressure, stigma and even legal procedures in attempts to force them to become the "right" kind of mothersif they are deemed worthy of motherhood at all. * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *Highly recommended. * Choice *Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Jeanne Flavins thorough examination of the criminalization of female reproduction in America, is dense yet provocative. * make/shift *At last, a book that recognizes that reproductive rights encompass more than abortion rights. Our Bodies, Our Crimes covers all of the essential and highly controversial topics regarding the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice. -- Claire M. Renzetti,co-author of Women, Men, and SocietyOur Bodies, Our Crimes is a beautifully written and well researched book that makes an original and important contribution to the emerging social science literature on reproductive politics. I strongly recommend it. -- Carole Joffe,author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v WadeOur Bodies, Our Crimes is one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Flavins writing is exquisite and her documentation is careful and thorough. Whether informing the reader about reproductive freedom, battered women, or incarcerated women, she does so even-handedly and ably captures the complexities and depravities that real women and girls encounter every day in this country. Flavin draws on high profile cases, unknown cases, laws, policies, history, criminology research and much more to explain how her cases are decided by race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her book will help students, legal professionals, gender and legal scholars, and lay people to understand the common themes and threads of violence against women and girls and the sexism, racism, and classism in labeling girls and women deviant and criminals. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeIlluminates the dark corners of a public polity that holds pregnant women accountable for all aspects and outcomes of their reproduction without offering the compassion, education, or control necessary to produce happy endingsor beginnings. -- Jennifer Reich,author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare SystemTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Beginning 1 "Race Criminals": Reproductive Rights in America Part II Begetting 2 "Breeders": The Right to Procreate 3 "Back-Alley Butchers": Terminating Pregnancies 4 "Baby-Killers": Neonaticide and Infant Abandonment Part III Bearing 5 "Innocent Preborn Victims": Fetal Protectionism and Pregnant Women 6 "Liars and Whiners": Incarcerated Women's Right to Reproductive HealthPart IV Mothering 7 "Bad Mothers": Incarcerated Women's Ties to Their Children 8 "Asking for It": Battered Women and Child Custody Conclusion: Being Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author
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New York University Press Our Bodies Our Crimes
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAn important work documenting how the criminal justice system polices women''s reproductive capacityThe intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices such as shackling during labor and poor prenatal care. And decades after Roe, the criminalization of certain procedures and regulation of abortion providers still obstruct women's access to safe and private abortions.In this important work, JeTrade ReviewBolstered by quotes and firsthand accounts, Flavin delivers eye-opening reports on topics including abortion rights, infant abandonment and battered women, detailing little-noticed or taken-for-granted policies that restrict and remand women. Written in a flowing academic style, Flavins attention to historical detail and unfailing moral compass make her progressive reexamination of womens rights thorough and convincing. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *In Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Flavin traces the life-and-death power that the little-examined patriarchal assumptions informing our common life can haveespecially among poor, nonwhite women. Flavin . . . supplies a sobering primer on the laws and social constraints that keep women from fully controlling their bodies. The case studies she surveys in Our Bodies, Our Crimes make it painfully clear that the freedom to decide how and when to reproduce is, for a huge swath of American women, just as important as the much more fervidly discussed question of how and when women can choose not to reproduce. * Bookforum *Flavin's book shows how American women, especially those who are poor or incarcerated, face societal pressure, stigma and even legal procedures in attempts to force them to become the "right" kind of mothersif they are deemed worthy of motherhood at all. * Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion *Highly recommended. * Choice *Our Bodies, Our Crimes, Jeanne Flavins thorough examination of the criminalization of female reproduction in America, is dense yet provocative. * make/shift *At last, a book that recognizes that reproductive rights encompass more than abortion rights. Our Bodies, Our Crimes covers all of the essential and highly controversial topics regarding the intersection of reproductive rights and criminal justice. -- Claire M. Renzetti,co-author of Women, Men, and SocietyOur Bodies, Our Crimes is a beautifully written and well researched book that makes an original and important contribution to the emerging social science literature on reproductive politics. I strongly recommend it. -- Carole Joffe,author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v WadeOur Bodies, Our Crimes is one of the most compelling books I've read in recent years. Flavins writing is exquisite and her documentation is careful and thorough. Whether informing the reader about reproductive freedom, battered women, or incarcerated women, she does so even-handedly and ably captures the complexities and depravities that real women and girls encounter every day in this country. Flavin draws on high profile cases, unknown cases, laws, policies, history, criminology research and much more to explain how her cases are decided by race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her book will help students, legal professionals, gender and legal scholars, and lay people to understand the common themes and threads of violence against women and girls and the sexism, racism, and classism in labeling girls and women deviant and criminals. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeIlluminates the dark corners of a public polity that holds pregnant women accountable for all aspects and outcomes of their reproduction without offering the compassion, education, or control necessary to produce happy endingsor beginnings. -- Jennifer Reich,author of Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare SystemTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Beginning 1 "Race Criminals": Reproductive Rights in America Part II Begetting 2 "Breeders": The Right to Procreate 3 "Back-Alley Butchers": Terminating Pregnancies 4 "Baby-Killers": Neonaticide and Infant Abandonment Part III Bearing 5 "Innocent Preborn Victims": Fetal Protectionism and Pregnant Women 6 "Liars and Whiners": Incarcerated Women's Right to Reproductive HealthPart IV Mothering 7 "Bad Mothers": Incarcerated Women's Ties to Their Children 8 "Asking for It": Battered Women and Child Custody Conclusion: Being Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Author
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New York University Press Who You Claim Performing Gang Identity in School
Book SynopsisThe color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. The author provides rich descriptions and stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation.Trade ReviewI cannot recommend this book enough. I should add that it is highly readable at undergraduate levels. They should make it mandatory reading for criminologists and law enforcement members. * Global Sociology Blog *[A] beautifully complex picture of youth identity.Who You Claim is a & must-read for scholars interested not just in gangs, but also in youth identity, education, urban neighborhoods, and violence more generally. -- Andrew V. Papachristos * Contemporary Sociology *Garot should be commended for his well-written, exceptionally insightful school ethnography... I teach graduate courses on cultural differences and educational research, and plan to use this book as an example of how to design, execute, and present exemplary research, and most importantly, how to represent historically marginalized young people accurately, ethically, and in a manner that reveals their humanity in dehumanizing circumstances. -- Annette Hemmings, Teachers College RecordGarot has provided deep insight into an inner‒city alternative school showing how self identity can change and adjust to the surrounding circumstances and why gang identity is a variable that defies a fixed characterization. -- Diego Vigil,author of The Projects: Gang and Non‒Gang Families in East Los AngelesPath breaking and precedent-setting. Robert Garot has appreciated what no one has before, the essential shadow quality of urban gangs, which are not so much things one can be in as they are things danced around, avoided, played with, and very occasionally, practically invoked -- Jack Katz,author of How Emotions WorkWritten with the ink of theory, passion, fine attention to method and ethics, Garot represents with dignity the complex and strategic maneuverings of youth in gangs as he represents with humility the equally complex negotiations of a white guy ethnographer working with, for and beside urban youth.- -- Michelle Fine,co-author of Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools
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New York University Press Gender and Crime Patterns in Victimization and
Book SynopsisThere are now more women committing crimes and serving sentences in prison than ever before. At the same time, women are often the victims of abuse, violence, and murder. Composed of contributions by many of the top scholars in criminology, these essays will help to transform our understanding of women's relation to crime.Trade Review"The overall quality of this collection is excellent." * Criminal Justice Review *"Relying on recent work by a virtual who's who in the study of gender and crime, this book does exactly what is needed to significantly advance our thinking about the structure of the gender-crime nexus." -- Valerie Jenness,co-author of Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement"Gender and Crime is an exceptionally strong collection that focuses on the deep intersection of criminological theory and gendered violence. Through multiple lenses of sociological inquiry, this volume gifts us with a wealth of new perspectives on gendered violence." -- Jeffrey Fagan,co-editor of The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal CoTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Insights into the Gendered Nature of Crime and Victimization Karen Heimer and Candace KruttschnittPart I: Gendered Offending: Pathways, Situations, and Social Contexts1 In and Out of CrimePeggy C. Giordano, Jill A. Deines, and Stephen A. Cernkovich2 Stuck Up, Telling Lies, and Talking Too MuchJody Miller and Christopher W. Mullins3 No Place for Girls to GoHilary Smith, Nancy Rodriguez, and Marjorie S. Zatz4 Killing One's ChildrenRosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy5 The Crimes of PovertyKaren Heimer, Stacy Wittrock, and Halime UnalPart II: Gendered Victimization: Trajectories, Social Contexts, and Justice6 The Violent Victimization of WomenCandace Kruttschnitt and Ross Macmillan7 Predictors of Violent VictimizationLaura Dugan and Jennifer L. Castro8 Female and Male Homicide Victimization TrendsGary LaFree and Gwen Hunnicutt9 Restorative Justice for Victims of Sexual AssaultKathleen Daly and Sarah Curtis-FawleyPart III: Intersectionalities: Gender, Race, Poverty, and Crime10 Making Sense of Intersections Sally S. Simpson and Carole Gibbs11 The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Violence against Women Janet L. Lauritsen and Callie Marie RennisonContributors Index
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New York University Press Terrorism As Crime From Oklahoma City to AlQaeda
Book SynopsisCar bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.Trade ReviewRead this book to understand the important nexus between terrorism and crime! This cutting edge analysis suggests a new approach to defeat the terrorist threat to the United States. -- Marc Sageman,author of Understanding Terror Networks[Provides] the first detailed account of how crime provides logistical support for terrorist strikes. By blending the study of terrorism and criminology, Hamm offers the possibility of detecting and stopping terrorism through the pursuit of conventional methods of criminal investigation. -- Gary LaFree,Director, START, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism University of Maryland Department of Criminology/DemocracyHamm's clear writing style, careful research and theoretical insights promise to make this a classic in criminology. -- William J. Chambliss,author of Power, Politics, and CrimeMark Hamms Terrorism as Crime deals with the problem of terrorism through a criminological lens, and it does so with skill and effectiveness. -- Brian Forst * Theoretical Criminology *Drawing on six case studies of terrorist attacks by radical Islamists and right-wing racists, Hamm writes that American counterterrorist agencies have neglected some basic insights from scholarly criminology. * The Chronicle of Higher Education *As a recognized expert in the field, Hamm is eminently qualified to prepare this text on the subject of terrorism from the criminal law perspective. . . . The text is written in a clear, lively manner. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Criminology of Terrorism Part I. Global Crime and Terrorism1. Criminal Stupidity and the Age of Sacred Terrorism: The First World Trade Center Bombing 2. Vulnerabilities of the Jihad-Prelude to 9/11: The U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and TanzaniaPart II. Domestic Crime and Terrorism3. The Legacy of Lost Causes: The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord 4. Charisma, Con?ict, and Style: The Order Part III. The Current State and Future of the Terrorism-Crime Connection5. The Seduction of Terrorist Mythology: The Aryan Republican Army 6. Al-Qaeda, the Radical Right, and Beyond: The Current Terrorist Threat NotesIndex About the Author
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New York University Press The Twilight of Social Conservatism American
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone eager to understand the political shifts of the Obama era needs to read Dombrinks new book. In clear, straightforward prose, Dombrink analyzes the growth of the Tea Party, the ebbing of the religious right, and the emergence of the & new culture wars. Dombrink shrewdly analyzes the changing role of religion in American politics, and offers a peek at whats to come. -- Diane H. Winston,author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation ArmyJohn Dombrinks The Twilight of Social Conservatism is essential reading to fully comprehend the social, political, and economic forces that are shaping, and will shape, the American future. -- Jerome Skolnick,co-author of Justice without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic SocietyAlthough written from a liberal perspective, the author is wrestling with the questions raised by rapidly changing electoral politics that scholars across the ideological spectrum are engaging. * Choice *
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New York University Press Graffiti Lives
Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Graffiti Lives
Book SynopsisA rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti cultureOn the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it, graffiti, from the humble tag to the intricate piece (short for masterpiece), is an undeniable part of the cityscape.In Graffiti Lives, Gregory J. Snyder offers a fascinating and rare look into this world of contemporary graffiti culture. A world in which kids, often, shoplift for spray paint, scale impossibly high places to find a great spot to get up, run from the police, journey into underground train tunnels, fight over turf, and spend countless hours perfecting their style. Over the ten years Snyder studied this culture he even created a few works himself (under the moniker GWIZ), found himself serving as a lookout for other artists engaged in this illegal activity, spent time in the train tunnels in search of Trade Review"Layered, fascinating and compelling, Graffiti Lives is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. Raw, energetic pictures complement the intense prose. The book is as exciting as the transgressive art it documents." * M/C Reviews *"Will prompt readers to look again at graffiti scrawls they may previously have ignored." * Kirkus Reviews *"Graffiti lives! proclaims author Snyder in this new, vaguely academic account of graffiti in the urban undergroundparticularly New York." * New York Post *"Graffiti writers, the book argues, cannot be understood merely as practitioners of vandalism and social disorder, but also as members of a diverse subculture who, in many cases, have used their experiences to build legitimate careers." * The New York Times *"The book contributes to our understanding of graffiti, getting beyond simple explanations of graffiti or generalizations about graffiti writers. Open-minded art lovers, as well as visual sociologists, will enjoy the integration between images and text.Snyders book makes an admirable contribution toward our understanding of this fascinating form of vandalism, art, resistance, space claiming, and identity making." * Social Forces *"In his first book, fan and socio-anthropologist Snyder doesn’t just celebrate urban street art and its rising stars, but takes a thorough look at its history and future, the language of public art and the idea of the graffiti artist as criminalincluding an intriguing challenge to the ‘broken windows theory’ cited by law enforcement and NYC government officials as central to their efforts. Along the way he decodes a backdoor in the East Village covered with a dozen different tags’in the same way that the sedimentary layers of ancient ruins inspire archaeologists to tell tales of past civilizations’profiles rising and established stars, and takes a raw, detailed tour of the scene. . . . Snyder’s ‘the kids are alright’ assessment, buttressed by many examples of thrill-seeking taggers finding successful careers in art, design, publishing, and (commissioned) mural-painting, is well-articulated, convincing, and quite possibly reassuring for the urbanites living among (or perhaps raising) today's writers and bombers." * Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *"Graffiti Lives [is] an important text for emerging research connecting cultural criminology and green criminology." -- Avi Brisman * Crime, Law & Social Change *"Outstanding, innovative, and multidimensional. . . . I can easily see this book becoming the new & best book on graffiti" -- Joe Austin,author of Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Starting the Blackbook A Brief History of Graffiti Writing Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows Vert: First Contact Writer's Block: Blackbook in the Streets Welcome to Espo Land Espo: Illustrating Struggle Into the Tunnel: Under Manhattan A Pilgrimage to MEK: A Bronx Graffiti Tour Legal Graffiti: Contemporary Permission Spots Style Points: ESPO's Brooklyn Mural Illustrating Criminal: Split PSOUP AME: Bombing Styles, Inventing Self AMAZE: Out-of-Towner Gets Up in the Tunnel The Grate Graffiti Solution: ESPO's Public Surface Announcement 1 Getting In2 Getting Up Over the Wall: Graffiti Media and Creating a Career Writing Style: It's Not What You Wear Career Opportunities: Rewriting Subculture Resistance Timmy Tattoo: Timmy's Long Island Tattoo Shop Gabe Banner: Market Wise ESPO/Steve Powers: Dreamland Artist Club CODA: Graffiti for Life Appendix: The New Ethnography GlossaryNotes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Jammed Up Bad Cops Police Misconduct and the New
Book SynopsisA definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconductTrade Review"Jammed Up is a must-read for police scholars and practitioners who want to understand police misconduct and how it impacts officers and organizations. Robert Kane and Michael White brilliantly weave their analysis of bad policing into layers of information that help us understand good policing. This comprehensive volume helps us understand how to investigate police misconduct and how to understand it. It is a complex book that uncovers the dark side of policing but keeps it in its proper context." -- Geoffrey P. Alpert,co-author of Policing: Continuity and Change"Jammed Up provides a lively empirical study of career-ending misconduct in the NYPD from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Interpreted through the lens of criminological theories of deviance and enriched by sketches of police officer miscreants, Jammed Up will be of interest to students, scholars and members of the general public who are curious about the causes of police delinquency." -- Jennifer Hunt,author of Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath"This study should be of great value to scholars, advanced students, and police practitioners." * Choice *"Not only is the book extremely well researched and complete with references and citations of the scientific literature pertaining to police misconduct studies, but the writing style is accessible to a general audience as it uses a character-driven model of police misconduct cases and examples." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This inside look at bad cops comes with a powerful corollary that demands further exploration: 'Good policing is not the absence of police misconduct.'" * New York Times *Table of ContentsJammed Up: An Introduction 2. What We Know and Don't Know about Police Misconduct3. Setting the Stage: An Historical Look at the New York Police Department4. Exploring Career-Ending Misconduct in the NYPD: Who, What, and How Often 5. Predicting Police Misconduct: How to Recognize the Bad Cops 6. The Department, the City, and Police Misconduct: Looking beyond the Bad Cop7. Explaining Bad Behavior: Can Criminology Help Us Understand Police Misconduct?8. What We Know about Being Jammed Up, and Transitioning to a Discourse on Good Policing
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New York University Press Punishing Immigrants Policy Politics and
Book SynopsisIlluminates the nuanced and layered realities of immigrants' lives, describing the varying complexities surrounding immigration, crime, law, and victimizationTrade ReviewContrary to public opinion, immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans, yet after 9/11 and in the midst of a stagnant economy, new anti-immigrant laws have emerged that have brutal consequences for unauthorized immigrantsand manifold unanticipated consequences for U.S. citizens, particularly Latinos. Punishing Immigrants brings these anticipated and unanticipated consequences to the fore, and vividly illustrates the & layered realities of immigrants lives at a time when social control and immigration is near an all-time high. -- Jennifer Lee,co-author of The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century AmericaPunishing Immigrants compellingly develops a new paradigm for understanding the role that punitive social control plays on marginalized immigrant populations. The authors develop a new paradigm--one that allows us to understand how crime control has become a primary mechanism for regulating immigration and vulnerable immigrant populations. This project brilliantly humanizes the lives of immigrant populations while rigorously addressing structural processes responsible for the breakup of families, the criminalization of children, and the dehumanization of entire populations. -- Victor M. Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino BoysTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Charis E. Kubrin, Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 2. Panic, Risk, ControlMichael Welch 3. Growing Tensions between Civic Membership and Enforcement in the Devolution of Immigration Control Doris Marie Provine, Monica Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, and Scott H. Decker 4. No SurprisesKyrsten Sinema 5. Unearthing and Confronting the Social Skeletons of Immigration Status in Our Criminal Justice System Evelyn H. Cruz 6. The Ruptures of Return: Deportation's Confounding Effects M. Kathleen Dingeman-Cerda and Susan Bibler Coutin 7. Race, Land, and Forced Migration in DarfurWenona Rymond-Richmond and John Hagan 8. Situating the Immigration and Neighborhood Crime Relationship across Multiple Cities Maria B. Velez and Christopher J. Lyons 9. Immigrant Inclusion and Prospects through Schooling in ItalyPaola Bertolini and Michele Lalla 10. Social Stressors, Special Vulnerabilities, and Violence Victimization among Latino Immigrant Day Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans Alice Cepeda, Nalini Negi, Kathryn Nowotny, James Arango, Charles Kaplan, and Avelardo Valdez 11. Conclusion Marjorie S. Zatz, Charis E. Kubrin, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Americas Safest City Delinquency and Modernity
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.Trade ReviewThis book presents a thought-provoking and very readable account of why some (mostly affluent suburban) cities are relatively safe, while other (mostly impoverished inner) cities are not. Singer describes how adolescents in safe cities benefit from many sources of social support that help them to make a successful transition into young adulthood. -- David P. Farrington,author of of Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective InterventionTraditional delinquency theory is steeped in the world of impoverished inner cities and tough street corners. Yet today the sprawling suburbs are the setting for millions of adolescents struggling to make their way in a complex and technologically advanced world.Even in Americas & safest suburban enclavestypically showered with wealth and social servicesthe landscape is challenging and does not conform to popular stereotypes. Combining a rich set of original observations, detailed personal interviews, and surveys, Singer shows that while violent crime is rare, many a suburban teen is faltering. Delinquency and drug use are rampant and suicide tears at the social fabric. Simon Singers nuanced data and conceptualization of relational modernity provide a fresh perspective on the sources of delinquency in contemporary society. -- Robert J. Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood EffectAmericas Safest Cityis an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature.The material is eminently well organized, and the manuscript reads exceedingly well. This is one of those rare academic books which is hard to put down before reaching the end. * Society *Using a wealth of ethnographic research and detailed data, noted juvenile justice scholar Singer details how the occurrence of delinquency is effected and affected by where people live. . . . This volume is packed with solid, illuminating findings. * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 America's Safest Cities 15 2 Confronting Modernity and Adolescence 47 3 Relational Modernity 85 4 Beyond a Street-Corner View of Delinquency 109 5 The Trouble with Youth in America's Safest City 139 6 Suburbia's Discontents 179 7 Safe-City Offending 203 8 Safe Cities and the Struggle to Be Relationally Modern 245 Appendix 271 Notes 277 Index 293 About the Author 305
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New York University Press Americas Safest City Delinquency and Modernity
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. This book uses the types of delinquency seen in Amherst as a case study illuminating the roots of juvenile offending and deviance in modern society.Trade ReviewThis book presents a thought-provoking and very readable account of why some (mostly affluent suburban) cities are relatively safe, while other (mostly impoverished inner) cities are not. Singer describes how adolescents in safe cities benefit from many sources of social support that help them to make a successful transition into young adulthood. -- David P. Farrington,author of of Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective InterventionTraditional delinquency theory is steeped in the world of impoverished inner cities and tough street corners. Yet today the sprawling suburbs are the setting for millions of adolescents struggling to make their way in a complex and technologically advanced world.Even in Americas & safest suburban enclavestypically showered with wealth and social servicesthe landscape is challenging and does not conform to popular stereotypes. Combining a rich set of original observations, detailed personal interviews, and surveys, Singer shows that while violent crime is rare, many a suburban teen is faltering. Delinquency and drug use are rampant and suicide tears at the social fabric. Simon Singers nuanced data and conceptualization of relational modernity provide a fresh perspective on the sources of delinquency in contemporary society. -- Robert J. Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood EffectAmericas Safest Cityis an impressive book. It adds an inspiring theoretical idea to the criminological literature.The material is eminently well organized, and the manuscript reads exceedingly well. This is one of those rare academic books which is hard to put down before reaching the end. * Society *Using a wealth of ethnographic research and detailed data, noted juvenile justice scholar Singer details how the occurrence of delinquency is effected and affected by where people live. . . . This volume is packed with solid, illuminating findings. * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 America's Safest Cities 15 2 Confronting Modernity and Adolescence 47 3 Relational Modernity 85 4 Beyond a Street-Corner View of Delinquency 109 5 The Trouble with Youth in America's Safest City 139 6 Suburbia's Discontents 179 7 Safe-City Offending 203 8 Safe Cities and the Struggle to Be Relationally Modern 245 Appendix 271 Notes 277 Index 293 About the Author 305
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New York University Press Breaking Women Gender Race and the New Politics
Book SynopsisDiscusses the gendered and racialized assumptions behind tough-on-crime policies while offering a vivid account of how the contemporary penal system impacts individual livesTrade Review"Jill McCokels book is wonderful testimony to the power of ethnography to untangle and illuminate the complexities of otherwise hard-to-access social processes. And, despite chilling descriptions of PHW & confrontations, Breaking Women is ultimately satisfying to read because of McCorkels stimulating grasp of the social, political, economic, philosophical, and human rights issues raised by prison regimes that combine close surveillance of the body with brainwashing techniques directed at mind control and a breaking of & self, & spirit, & soul. I strongly recommend Breaking Women to anyone with an interest in ethnography. To everyone interested in justice, human rights and the politics of imprisonment Breaking Women is recommended as essential reading." * British Journal of Criminology *"Based on four years of ethnography and more than 100 interviews with PHWs stakeholders,Breaking Womenis an exceptionally well-researched piece of scholarship.McCorkel seamlessly weaves together history, politics, policy, and ethnography to form a complex, yet easy-to-follow, line of argumentation." * Teaching Sociology *"McCorkels work is an invaluable contribution to the examination of the politics of gender and race in the context of privatized correctional treatment. It offers a unique insight and adds to the scarce ethnographic research on womens prisons." * Social Service Review *"Breaking Women is a remarkable achievement. Jill McCorkel's long-awaited account raises critical questions about the social and psychological consequences of the current trend toward punitive, for-profit 'habilitation.' Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is prison ethnography at its best" -- Lorna Rhodes,author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison"It has been observed that the eclipse of the prison ethnography corresponded almost perfectly with the rise of mass incarceration. This hugely important book shows precisely why we need to reverse both trends. The womens stories that are so vividly captured in this work demonstrate in painful detail that efforts to & break human beings, even if in the name of reform, only succeed at creating more victims." -- Shadd Maruna,author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives"McCorkel does a superb job of bringing individual women to life for the reader, while simultaneously developing a strong and always readable theoretical analysis." -- Susan Sered * Women's Review of Book *"McCorkel's rich data contains the voices of prisoners and staff, which she skillfully links to larger, generally critical, theoretical perspectives on punishment." -- P.S. Leighton * CHOICE *"The book is an interesting, honest, and uncomplicated read, one that challenges current public views of how to care for inmates and reduce recidivism. The intended audience is foremost students and teachers in the field of sociology, criminology and gender studies, but the book is equally accessible to those interested in the prison system, its effects on women, as well as how programs meant to habilitate women are implemented, along with their rates of success or attrition." -- Hennie Weiss * Metapsychology *"This is the book so many sociologists of punishment, law, and gender have been waiting for. Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued, Breaking Women takes readers inside the U.S. penal system to analyze how its overall structure and concrete practices changed in the era of mass incarceration. Through a captivating and absorbing ethnographic account of a prison drug treatment program for women, the book traces how a particularly gendered mode of punishment emerged to discipline and humiliate women. In this way, McCorkel shows how our images of 'get tough' criminal policies and practices must change to encompass not only the inmate warehousing of overcrowded correctional facilities, but also some of the smaller, 'alternative' programs that reach inside inmates' heads to transform their sense of self." -- Lynne Haney,author of Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire"Jill McCorkel further extends the implications of such an invisibilized incarceration of black women with her seminal monograph,Breaking Women. She delves into the hidden hallways of prisons, intimately detailing a drug treatment program that was initially tested in one of California's largest women's prisons and that has since been replicated across the United States." * WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Red's Self Part I: The End of Rehabilitation1 Getting Tough on Women: How Punishment Changed 2 Taking Over: The Private Company in the Public Prison 3 From Good Girls to Real Criminals: Race Made Visible Part II: The Practice of Habilitation4 The Eyes Are Watching You: Finding the Real Self 5 Diseased Women: Crack Whores, Bad Mothers, and Welfare Queens Part III: Contesting the Boundaries of Self6 Rentin' Out Your Head: Navigating Claims about the Self 7 Unruly Selves: Forms of Prisoner Resistance Conclusion: What If the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease? Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules Latinos and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rulesis a wonderful testament to the power of ethnography and street-level observations of various alternative means of violence suppression. It provides the possibility of the state resourcing alternative institutions as a means to alleviate inequality. Importantly, these institutions include public education, the churches, and various nonprofit groups who choose to work in high-crime communities." * International Criminal Justice Review *"Martinez undertakes a critical and relevant topic that contributes across many fields. His rich, extensive ethnographic work captures the nature of race relations between Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles . . . [and] accounts for how residents do in fact engage their communities in the hope of improvement and how they create their own rules and relations. This book will prove to be a seminal one in its field and across disciplines." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"This book confronts head on the issues of violence and social disorganization among the poor. Cid Martinez has provided new insights into the workings of various local institutions in establishing social order. This is an excellent example of ethnography at its best and an important contribution to the field." -- Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,author of Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods"In this compelling ethnography, Cid Martinez crosses institutional settings to understand how violence is managed by residents of the inner city. He meticulously describes how informal institutions create a rule of law when the state fails to penetrate the social order. Martinezs assessment of alternative governance in the inner city is a brilliant work of urban sociology providing a perfect balance between thick description and theory development. This ground-breaking book makes a timely and crucial contribution to the study of urban poverty, policing, violence and race relations." -- Victor Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"Cid Gregory Martinezs The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules helps bridge two gulfs in the urban ethnographic literature and its longstanding interest in social dis/organization: the limited attention paid to interracial neighborhoods and the implications of the rise of Latin American immigration, particularly in neighborhoods formerly segregated along white-black racial lines." * American Journal of Sociology *"Scholars will find in the book an important argument regarding the contributions made by some religious institutions to making our poorest urban communities more livable and inviting." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *
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New York University Press The Many Colors of Crime Inequalities of Race
Book SynopsisConsiders race and ethnicity as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. This volume argues that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviours criminal, and the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances.Trade ReviewShines a new, critical light on race, ethnicity, crime and justice. The text pushes us to consider how these terms are defined, what's missing from our conventional analyses and ultimately why and how race matters in discussions of justice. -- Katheryn Russell-Brown,author of The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other MacroaggressionsThe most comprehensive treatment to date of the relationship between race, ethnicity, and crime. This collection will be valuable to practitioners and criminological theorists alike because it contains vast amounts of data on the topic, then orders and interprets these data with a strong socio-historical lens, enhanced by a comparative perspective. -- Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to EugenicsWith a distinguished cast of scholars, this book makes a major contribution to the field in its framing of a very complex social problem. -- Simon I. Singer,author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice ReformWith a dedicated focus on race and ethnicity, and through an examination of heretofore neglected groups (e.g., Haitian immigrants and rural blacks), the authors both broaden and deepen our understanding of the influence of race and ethnicity, often surprising us with their results. . . . The editors have assembled an impressive group of contributors who bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the table and also remind us how time-tested constructs such as social disorganization, informal social control, and the culture of violence can be applied in ways that allow us to learn something new about race, ethnicity, and crime. . . . The Many Colors of Crime is an important book not only for criminologists but also for those with an interest in race and ethnicity generally. * American Journal of Sociology *The volume’s devotion to establishing comparative studies of racial and ethnic groups and to acknowledging regional and temporal variances yields productive insights into structural and social inequalities in the United States. * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing FieldsPart I Constructs and Conceptual Approaches2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice 3 Demythologizing the "Criminalblackman"4 Race and the Justice WorkforcePart II Populations and Intersectionalities5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City7 Crime and Deviance in the "Black Belt"8 Crime at the Intersections9 Race, Inequality, and Gender ViolencePart III Contexts and Settings10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest RatesNarrowing? 11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence 12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City,1985-1996 Part IV Mechanisms and Processes15 Creating Racial Disadvantage16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control 17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Con?ictTheory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of ViolenceBibliography Contributors Index
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