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  • Elizabeth Detention Center

    A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States

    by Ulla D. Berg, Carolina Sánchez Boe, Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley0, Carolina Sanchez Boe2, Sarah Tosh3, Abdulai Bah4, Marguerite É Marty5, William Westerman6, Seth Kaper-Dale7, Edafe Okporo8, Kristyn Scorsone9, Pina N. Cirillo0, Kathy O'Leary1, Katherine M. Sastre2, Deirdre Conlon3, Nancy Hiemstra4, Julio Oseguera5, K. Sebastian León6, Xiomara Flores7, Mary Rizzo8, Whitney Strub9, Jessica Rofé0, Gloria d'Alessio1, Gabriela Viera2, Silky Shah3 ...
    The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Immigration Detention Inc.

    The Big Business of Locking up Migrants

    by Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon ...
    “Who knew that hatred driven by racism could be so lucrative? ... A resounding and meticulously researched exposé” Ravi Ragbir, immigration activist and co-founder of New Sanctuary Coalition“A vital and troubling look at the grotesque practices of the privatized immigration detention industry” Reece Jones, author of Nobody is Protected and White Borders“The most thorough breakdown of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention

    Critical perspectives

    Edited by Deirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    International migration has been described as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. While a lot is known about the complex nature of migratory flows, surprisingly little attention has been given to one of the most prominent responses by governments to human mobility: the practice of immigration detention.Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention provides a timely intervention, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    The History and Future of American Intelligence

    by Amy B. Zegart ...
    A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence expertsSpying has never been more ubiquitous—or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education ... Read more

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  • Rogue

    The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit

    by Johann van Loggerenberg, Adrian Lackay ...
    The story of a 'rogue unit' operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dirty Money

    Financial Crime in Canada

    Edited by Christian Leuprecht, Jamie Ferrill ...
    Series series The State of the Federation
    Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. Transactions are cloaked with apparent legality, which makes tracking criminal activity through economic or financial statistics a complex undertaking.This distinctive volume aims to stem in-, out-, and through-flows of vast sums of dirty money by enhancing Canada’s capacity to detect, disrupt, deter, ... Read more

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  • Money Laundering in Canada

    Chasing Dirty and Dangerous Dollars

    by Margaret E. Beare ...
    Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an efficient strategy in policing organized crime and, now terrorism. To this end, countries are encouraged to harmonize their policies and ... Read more

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  • The War on Guns

    Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies

    by John R. Lott Jr. ...
    When it comes to the gun control debate, there are two kinds of data: data that's accurate, and data that left-wing billionaires, liberal politicians, and media want you to believe is accurate. In The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, nationally-renowned economist John R. Lott, Jr. turns a skeptical eye to well-funded anti-gun studies and stories that perpetuate false ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Spying on Democracy

    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance

    by Heidi Boghosian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have ... Read more

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  • The Puppeteers

    The People Who Control the People Who Control Ameri

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhy does it feel like no matter what happens in American politics, the Democrats still get their way?When he left Congress in 2017, Jason Chaffetz still thought elections could save us. For generations, conservatives have hoped that freedom-loving congressional majorities could turn back the tide and restore America’s liberties and prosperity.But now, he says, ... Read more

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  • They Know Everything About You

    How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy

    by Robert Scheer ...
    They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking expos' of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy.The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates that we already live in a surveillance society. But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond ... Read more

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