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Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
John Hagan
Princeton University Press
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9780691156156
2012
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Black Rage Confronts the Law (Critical America Series)
Paul Harris
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The Emerging Police State : Resisting Illegitimate Authority
William Kunstler
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Crime and Capitalism: Readings in Marxist Criminology
David F. Greenberg
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Higher Education Law: The Faculty
Steven G. Poskanzer
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Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Rebecca J. Cook
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A Primer on American Labor Law - 3rd Edition
William B. and IV Gould
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No Contest : Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America
Ralph Nader and WESLEY J. SMITH
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Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security
Carole Goldberg, David Cole, and James X. Dempsey
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Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Carl Schmitt and Ellen Kennedy
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Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
David Cole
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White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America Series)
Ian Haney-Lopez
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The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to the Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People
Nan D. Hunter, Courtney G. Joslin, and Sharon M. McGowan
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Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
Kristian Williams (Author) and Andrea Ritchie (Introduction)
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We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court, Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
Michael Avery
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Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition
Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Judith Butler, Davis Guggenheim, and Cory Doctorow
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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Tarleton Gillespie
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Criminal Justice in China: A History
Klaus Mühlhahn
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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Information Revolution and Global Politics)
Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain, and Miklos Haraszti
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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
Cory Doctorow
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Selected Writings (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
Jeremy Bentham and Stephen G. Engelmann
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Law and Marxism: A General Theory
Evgeny Pashukanis
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The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
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The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons
Colin Dayan
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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
Mary L. Dudziak
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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
William J. Stuntz
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The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (The Norton Series in World Politics)
Kathryn Sikkink
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From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
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Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial
Rebecca Wittmann
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Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society and the State
Julian C. H. Lee
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Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice
Karen Houppert
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The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Paul Craig Roberts (Author) and Lawrence M. Stratton (Author)
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
Lawrence Goldstone
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Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
Michael J. Bazyler
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A Copyright Masquerade: How Corporate Lobbying Threatens Online Freedoms
Monica Horten
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Why the Law Is So Perverse
Leo Katz
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
Kevin Cook (Author)
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The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time
Christopher J. Lebron (Author)
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Fugitive Slave on Trial: the Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage
Earl M. Maltz
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Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery
Earl M. Maltz
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Prigg V. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution
H. Robert Baker
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Roe v. Wade: the Abortion Rights Controversy in American History
N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer
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The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America
Bruce J. Dierenfield
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Brown V. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
Robert J. Cottrol and Leland Ware
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Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
W. Bradley Wendel
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Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet
Ronald J. Deibert
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The Global War for Internet Governance
Laura DeNardis
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The Counterinsurgent's Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars
Ganesh Sitaraman
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Criminalizing Women 2nd Ed: Gender and [in]justice in Neoliberal Times
Gillian Balfour and Elizabeth Comack
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Constitutional Calculus: The Math of Justice and the Myth of Common Sense
Jeff Suzuki
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Privacy and Freedom
Alan Westin
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Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of Doma
Roberta Kaplan and Lisa Dickey
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Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint
Lawrence O. Gostin and Lindsay F. Wiley
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Legalizing Lgbt Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood
Amanda Baumle and D'Lane Compton
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Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer
Nancy Levit
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Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law
Olufemi Taiwo
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
Marlene Trestman
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
James S. Liebman
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Law and the Rise of Capitalism
Michael E. Tigar and Madeleine R. Levy
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The ABA Practical Guide to Drafting Basic Islamic Finance Contracts
Dena H. Elkhatib
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Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution
Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain
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Witness: A Lawyer's Journey from Litigation to Liberation
Eric Sirotkin (Author)
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Welcoming New Americans?: Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
Abigail Fisher Williamson
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Political Trials
Theodore L. Becker (editor)
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Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology
Anthony J. Nocella II and Mark Seis
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Representing Radicals: A Guide for Lawyers and Movements
Tilted Scales Collective
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Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade
Sara Matthiesen
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Up Against the Law
Luca Falciola
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Crime in America: Observations on Its Nature, Causes, Prevention, and Control
Ramsey Clark
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Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
Alex Sayf Cummings
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The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet
Donald McRae
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A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
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Points of Rebellion
William O. Douglas
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The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
Sarah Burns
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Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
Daniel Gross and Staughton Lynd
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Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case that Captivated a Nation
Rabia Chaudry
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Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice
Gareth Peirce
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Victors' justice: from Nuremberg to Baghdad
Danilo Zolo
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Law In Anarchism
Thom Holterman (editor)
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Beat the Heat : How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement
Katya Komisaruk
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Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Tara Herivel and Paul Wright
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Slave Patrols : Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard Historical Studies)
Sally E. Hadden
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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison
Paula C. Johnson
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Joy James
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Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Michael Lynch
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Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison (Alternative Criminology)
K.C. Carceral and Thomas Bernard
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, and Barbara Becnel
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Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
Kristian Williams (Author) and Andrea Ritchie (Introduction)
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The Real Cost Of Prisons Comix
Craig Gilmore, Lois Ahrens, Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones, Susan Willmarth, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
Glenn C. Loury
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Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
Rickie Solinger, Paula C. Johnson, Martha L. Raimon, Tina Reynolds, and Ruby Tapia
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Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration
Tara Herival and Paul Wright
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Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America
Anne-Marie Cusac
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The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Bernard E. Harcourt
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Why are So Many Black Men in Prison?
Demico Boothe
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Alice Goffman
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Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Andrea James
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Inside this Place, Not of it: Narratives from Women's Prisons
Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Victor M. Rios
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The Eternal Criminal Record
James B. Jacobs
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Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver
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Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald P. Haider-Markel
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Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Marie Gottschalk
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Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
Juliet Ash
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Prisons of Poverty
Loïc J. D. Wacquant
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Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-industrial Complex
Julia Sudbury
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Loïc Wacquant
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Punishment and Inequality in America
Bruce Western
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
Nell Bernstein
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Locked Up, But Not Locked Down: A Guide to Surviving the American Prison System
Ahmariah Jackson and I. Atomic
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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
Maya Schenwar (Author)
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari (Author)
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Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment
Hadar Aviram
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Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness
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Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism
Andrew Dilts
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Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism and the Pull of Punishment
Michael Welch
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Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering
Joanne Minaker
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Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail
Mary E. Buser
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Incarceration Nations: In Search of Justice in Prisons Around the World
Baz Dreisinger
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Ferguson Is America: Roots of Rebellion
Jamala Rogers
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Up in Here: Jailing Kids on Chicago's Other Side
Mark Dostert
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Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers
Joyce A. Arditti
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Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future
Andrew Coyle, Helen Fair, Jessica Jacobson, and Roy Walmsley
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-Lan Price
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
Lezley McSpadden
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Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State
Stephen Dillon
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The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State
Naomi Murakawa
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A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Ernest Drucker
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Victoria Law and Laura Whitehorn (Introduction)
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Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie and Angela Yvonne Davis (introduction)
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Yvonne Davis
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Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (New edition 2008)
Christian Parenti
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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Annette Fuentes
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Abolition Democracy : Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Open Media Series)
Angela Yvonne Davis
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko (Author)
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
Marilynn S. Johnson
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