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  • Which Lives Matter?

    Factors Shaping Public Attention to and Protest of Officer-Involved Killings

    by Traci Burch ...
    Series series Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
    This Element explores the factors that lead the public to pay attention to and mobilize in support of victims of officer-involved killings. The author argues that race is the most important factor shaping both attention and mobilization. Black victims are statistically significantly more likely to trend on Google and get protested than victims of other races. Deaths of low threat Black victims are ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Trading Democracy for Justice

    Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

    by Traci Burch ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented. What’s more, they tend to come from just a few of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the country. While the political costs of this phenomenon ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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  • Predict and Surveil

    Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    by Sarah Brayne ...
    The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data is hotly contested, very little is known about how the police actually use it in daily operations and with what consequences. In Predict and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Unforgiving Places

    The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

    by Jens Ludwig ...
    What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren’t what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig’s revelatory portrait of gun violence in America’s most famously maligned ... Read more

    $19.49 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

    $33.99 USD

  • Uneasy Peace

    The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence

    by Patrick Sharkey ...
    “Admirably connects two stories about the criminal legal system that are usually told separately. One is that the country that Americans live in is safer than it has been for a long time. The other story is that for some citizens, especially African-American men, the country that they live in is not free.” —Paul Butler, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Crime in Canada

    by Diane Crocker ...
    In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Canadian Policing in the 21st Century

    A Frontline Officer on Challenges and Changes

    by Robert Chrismas ...
    How can police remain effective and vital in an era of unprecedented technological advances, access to information, and the global transformation of crime? Written by a long-serving officer, Canadian Policing in the 21st Century offers a rare look at street-level police work and the hidden culture behind the badge. Robert Chrismas shares experiences from his years of service to highlight areas ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Prison by Any Other Name

    The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

    by Maya Schenwar ...
    With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration”Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Gangs

    by Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley ...
    Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of responses to it. The authors look at the many influences on gangs’ operation, growth, prevention, and enforcement.The authors provide ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Criminal (In)Justice

    What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

    by Rafael A. Mangual ...
    In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—a dangerously false ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crisis in Canada's Policing

    Why change is so hard, and how we can get real reform in our police forces

    by John Sewell ...
    In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. In the days and weeks following, the deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto and Chantel Moore in New Brunswick showed that police violence is also a Canadian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD