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  • Uniform Feelings

    Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing

    by Jessi Lee Jackson ...
    In Uniform Feelings, American studies scholar and abolitionist psychotherapist Jessi Lee Jackson reads policing as a set of emotional and relational practices in order to shed light on the persistence of police violence. Jackson argues that psychological investments in U.S. police power emerge at various sites: her counseling room, manuals for addressing bias, museum displays, mortality statistics ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Six Sleeps to Gigi's

    by Alan Noble, Jessi Lee ...
    Series Book 8 - A Young Solomon
    "Six Sleeps to Gigi's" is a charming and heartwarming children's book that takes young readers on a delightful journey filled with anticipation and joy. As the title suggests, the story unfolds over six days, with each day bringing the children one sleep closer to their much-awaited visit to their grandmother Gigi's house.The narrative skillfully blends everyday moments with the children's vivid ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt ...
    Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...
    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Insurgent Love

    Abolition and Domestic Homicide

    by Ardath Whynacht ...
    Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Mad at School

    Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

    by Margaret Price ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, critical pedagogy, literacy education, professional development for disability and learning specialists in access centers and student counseling centers, as well as the broader domains of sociology and education."---Melanie Panitch, Ryerson University"Ableism is alive ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Stigma Revisited

    Implications of the Mark

    Edited by Stacey Hannem, Chris Bruckert ...
    Series series Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
    Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a collection of qualitative, empirical studies of populations who experience stigma. Discrimination, marginality and social injustice are recognized as indelibly tied to the phenomena of stigma. This volume builds on the work of Erving Goffman and integrates a larger, structural understanding of stigma based in Michel Foucault’s governmentality ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Against the Wall

    Poor, Young, Black, and Male

    by Cornel West ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given rise to wider stereotypes that limit the social capital of all young black males.Edited and with an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    by Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Transgender Exigency

    Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century

    by Edward Schiappa ...
    At no other point in human history have the definitions of "woman" and "man," "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," been more contentious than now. This book advances a pragmatic approach to the act of defining that acknowledges the important ethical dimensions of our definitional practices.Increased transgender rights and visibility has been met with increased opposition, controversy, ... Read more

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  • Demystifying the Big House

    Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations

    by Emily Plec, Adina Schneeweis, Amanda Barnes Cook, Sarah Fenstermaker, Valerie Jenness, J. David Wolfgang, Pauline Matthey, Kathryn M. Whiteley, Meredith Huey Dye, S. Lenise Wallace, Rebecca Kern, Kalen Churcher, Joy Jenkins, L. Clare Bratten, Le’Brian A. Patrick ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore ... Read more

    $17.99 USD