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  • Punishment for Sale

    Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

    by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks

    Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

    by Vincent C. Samarco, Phyllis L. Baker, Jennifer Beech, Bonnie Berry, Julie Harms-Cannon, Lyn Huxford, David Kauzlarich, Donna Selman-Killingbeck, Donna LeCourt, William Macauley, Daniel D. Martin, Mike Presdee, Dawn Rothe, Kent Sandstrom, Michael Shott, Livy A. Visano, Janelle Lynn Wilson, Stephen L. Muzzatti ...
    In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle class cultural capital on relatively new academics from the working class, and; iii) narratives that ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

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  • Agnes Grey

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    The simple but profound story of a governess working at several bourgeois families who leaves his father's house to learn about the world. ... Read more

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  • The Grangegorman Murders

    Dean Lyons, Mark Nash and the Story behind the Grangegorman Murders

    by Alan Bailey ...
    On the morning of 7 March 1997, the bodies of two elderly female patients were discovered in their sheltered accommodation at Grangegorman Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin.It would be a further 16 years before Mark Nash was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders, but not before Dean Lyons, an innocent man, spent months in prison for a crime he did not commit, only to tragically die of a ... Read more

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  • Executed on a Technicality

    Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

    by David R. Dow ...
    When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.It is these concrete accounts of the ... Read more

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  • Going Up the River

    Travels in a Prison Nation

    by Joseph T. Hallinan ...
    The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest ... Read more

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  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    by Kenneth T. Jackson ...
    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Read more

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  • The Gun Debate

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    by Philip J. Cook, Kristin A. Goss ...
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    No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate ... Read more

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  • A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

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    A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of ... Read more

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  • Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

    Transforming Crime and Punishment

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  • The Wrong Carlos

    Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution

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