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  • The Roots of Violent Crime in America

    From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression

    by Barry Latzer ...
    The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer’s comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence—including murder, assault, and rape—in the United States from the 1880s through the 1930s. Combining the theoretical perspectives and methodological rigor of criminology with a synthesis of historical scholarship as well as original research and analysis, Latzer challenges ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Myth of Overpunishment

    A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public

    by Barry Latzer, Tom Cotton ...
    Justice is on trial in the United States.From police to prisons, the justice system is accused of overpunishing. It is said that too many Americans are abused by the police, arrested, jailed, and imprisoned. But the denunciations are overblown. The data indicates, contrary to the critics, that we don’t imprison too many, nor do we overpunish. This becomes evident when we examine the crimes of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death Penalty Cases

    Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

    by Barry Latzer ...
    Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America

    by Barry Latzer ...
    A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that it frightened virtually all Americans and prompted significant alterations in everyday behaviors and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Angela Y. Davis ...
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    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

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  • The First Civil Right

    How Liberals Built Prison America

    by Naomi Murakawa ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that this shift began with the "tough on crime" policies advocated by Republicans and southern ... Read more

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  • DeathQuest

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

    by Robert M. Bohm ...
    This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment. It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

    Edited by Mary F. Bosworth ...
    Click ′Additional Materials′ for downloadable samplesThe two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that has caused lawmakers, advocates, and legal professionals to rethink punishment policies as well ... Read more

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  • Explaining U.S. Imprisonment

    by Mary F. Bosworth ...
    Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary issues, and social influences on prison reform. While focusing on prisons, this one-of-a-kind book is written within the context of the sociology of punishment and covers cutting-edge topics such as detaining immigrants, the War on Terror, and prison in the 21st ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

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  • The End of Policing

    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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