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  • Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime

    by Irvin Waller ...
    Violent crime tragically ruins lives and communities, yet we know how to stop it and help victims. Governments agree on how to get results at the United Nations, but do not act locally.Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime is the result of a lifetime career working to get violence prevention science applied and frustration with too many preventable tragedies. Irvin Waller explains the proven ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • Contemporary Criminological Issues

    Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion

    by Gillian Balfour, Jeffrey Bradley, Chris Bruckert, Kathryn Campbell, Patrice Corriveau, Serena Dastouri, Jean-Denis David, Rachel Faytor, Maritza Felices-Luna, Matthew Ferguson, Christine Gervais, Chris Greco, Anouk Guiné, Katrin Hohl, Matthew S. Johnston, Jennifer Kilty, Tuulia Law, Sandra Lehalle, Britany Mario, Veronica Martinez, Leslie McGowran, Jeffrey Monaghan, Audrey Monette, Baljit Nagra, Anna Pratt, Gwénola Ricordeau, Elisa Romano, Carolina S. Boe, Professor Kevin Walby, Irvin Waller, Stephanie Wellman ...
    Series series Standalone titles
    Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues—from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts—,advances cutting-edge theories and methods to make sense of these issues, and proposes policy responses that promote social inclusion and security.This book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Rights for Victims of Crime

    Rebalancing Justice

    by Irvin Waller ...
    When the victims of injustice lose faith in their justice system, the crime they've endured cuts only deeper, adding insult to injury. The time has come to face the truth that most victims of crime will not have their needs met and often won't experience our systems of justice as just. This short book makes its readers experts in advocating rights for victims of crime. It empowers taxpayers, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Smarter Crime Control

    A Guide to a Safer Future for Citizens, Communities, and Politicians

    by Irvin Waller ...
    The U.S. is the world´s biggest jailor and one of the most affluent murderous countries, and yet its citizens pay more taxes to sustain law and order than their European counterparts. Yet, the U.S. has the most data in the world on the use of incarceration and its failure. Its researchers have identified more projects able to prevent violence than the rest of the world put together. Its ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • When Brute Force Fails

    How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

    by Mark A. R. Kleiman ...
    Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults—a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling, and poor people and minorities ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Incarceration Nation

    How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World

    by Peter K. Enns ...
    The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome to date. This book combines in-depth analysis of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns with sixty years of data analysis. The result is a sophisticated and highly accessible picture of the ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

    Transforming Crime and Punishment

    by William Kelly ...
    Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Beyond Bars

    A Path Forward from 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States

    Edited by Kristen M. Budd, David C. Lane, Glenn W. Muschert, Jason A. Smith ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The year 2023 marks 50 years of mass incarceration in the United States. This timely volume highlights and addresses pressing social problems associated with the US’s heavy reliance on mass imprisonment. In an atmosphere of charged political debate, including "tough on crime" rhetoric, the editors bring together scholars and experts in the ... Read more

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  • Decarcerating America

    From Mass Punishment to Public Health

    Edited by Ernest Drucker ...
    **“A powerful call for reform.”—NPRAn all-star team of criminal justice experts present timely, innovative, and humane ways to end mass incarceration**Mass incarceration will end—there is an emerging consensus that we’ve been locking up too many people for too long. But with more than 2.2 million Americans behind bars right now, how do we go about bringing people home? Decarcerating America ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding and Preventing Corruption

    by A. Graycar, T. Prenzler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Graycar and Prenzler present a readily accessible guide to the issues of public and private sector corruption, outlining the nature and dimensions of corruption problems in a variety of settings across the world, and providing a set of practical strategies to prevent corruption that also facilitate economic growth and development. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

    And Other Conversations About Race

    by Beverly Daniel Tatum ...
    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.“An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life.” ―Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing GraceWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Facing Reality

    Two Truths about Race in America

    by Charles Murray ...
    The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook