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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
Marilynn S. Johnson
Beacon Press
Paperback
9780807050231
2003
$28.00
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Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City
Marilynn S. Johnson
Beacon Press
Hardcover
9780807050224
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$30.00
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Beat the Heat : How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement
Katya Komisaruk
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Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
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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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Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan
John Hagan
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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
$15.95
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko (Author)
$19.99
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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