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“allison mckim”

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  • Addicted to Rehab

    Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration

    by Allison McKim ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social JusticeWinner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and CrimeAfter decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Under the Affluence

    Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nobody

    Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

    by Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceNautilus Award Winner“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —*The New York Times***From one of the leading voices on civil rights in America, a thoughtful and urgent analysis of recent headline-making police brutality cases and the systems ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Selling Diversity

    Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity, and Globalization

    by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Christina Gabriel ...
    Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Class and Race Formation in North America

    by James W. Russell ...
    On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into subordinate positions. As a result of the conquest, race has become an enduring issue in the class ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Rogue Nation

    Fascinating, relevant, compelling – the one book about Australian politics you must read

    by Royce Kurmelovs ...
    Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism.The people and places he profiles tell the story of those independent political figures who have tried ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • After Prison

    Navigating Employment and Reintegration

    Edited by Rose Ricciardelli, Adrienne M.F. Peters ...
    Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries has aggravated the ability of former prisoners and people with criminal records to find gainful employment.After Prison opens with a former prisoner’s story of reintegration employment experiences. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Unlocked Memories

    Young Russians under German Rule

    by Alexey Vinogradov, Albert Pleysier ...
    Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns. Each lived under German rule after the Leningrad region was overrun and occupied by the enemy.The ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Being White in the Helping Professions

    Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness

    by Judy Ryde ...
    In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.Judy Ryde reveals how white people have implicit and explicit advantages and privileges that often go unnoticed by them. She suggests that in order to work effectively in a multicultural setting, this ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Tackling Addiction

    Pathways to Recovery

    by George De Leon, David Best, Wendy Dawson, Brian Kidd, Tim McSweeney, Mark Gilman, Alex Stevens, Betsy Thom, Albert Zandvoort, Kuladharini ...
    The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.Tackling ... Read more

    $32.79 USD