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  • Policing Space

    Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department

    by Steve Herbert ...
    Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to control its vast, heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level look at the relationship between the control of space and the exercise of power.Author Steve Herbert spent eight months observing one patrol division of the LAPD on the job. A compelling story in itself, his ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Too Easy to Keep

    Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration

    by Steve Herbert ...
    “Some guys don’t break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don’t commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They’re usually our easiest keepers.”Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisoners—the large and growing population of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Banished

    The New Social Control In Urban America

    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance" or "broken window" policing efforts to clear the streets of unwanted people. ... Read more

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    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gender of Crime

    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

    $33.99 USD

  • Down, Out &Under Arrest

    Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

    "A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior." — Los Angeles TimesIn his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enforcing Order

    An Ethnography of Urban Policing

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Is Killing Wrong?

    A Study in Pure Sociology

    by Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Studies in Pure Sociology
    "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those ... Read more

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  • Insurgent Love

    Abolition and Domestic Homicide

    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

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  • In the Name of Hate

    Understanding Hate Crimes

    by Barbara Perry ...
    In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Police: A Field Guide

    A radical guide to the language of policingThis field guide arms activists—and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse—with critical insights that ultimately redefine the very idea of policing. When we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through euphemism. So state sexual assault becomes “body-cavity search,” and ruthless beatings “non-compliance ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gangs and Society

    Alternative Perspectives

    Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs ... Read more

    $34.99 USD