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  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    A Reader (2-downloads)

    This book shows students that much that goes on in the criminal justice system violates their own sense of basic fairness, presents evidence that the system malfunctions, and sketches a whole theoretical perspective from which they might understand the failures and evaluate them morally. ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    Thinking Critically About Class and Criminal Justice

    For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm?This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises of critical thinking ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • As Free and as Just as Possible

    The Theory of Marxian Liberalism

    Series Book 35 - Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
    Grafting the Marxian idea that private property is coercive onto the liberal imperative of individual liberty, this new thesis from one of America's foremost intellectuals conceives a revised definition of justice that recognizes the harm inflicted by capitalism's hidden coercive structures.Maps a new frontier in moral philosophy and political theoryDistills a new concept of justice that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Death Penalty

    For and Against

    Series series Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues
    Two distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the lives of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Gewirth

    Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community

    Series series Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
    As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. This book provides a picture of Gewirth's theory and its applications, including such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sartre. ... Read more

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    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

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  • America, Compromised

    An analysis of "the Trump era, but not about Trump. . . . but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption" ( New York Times Book Review)."There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are."So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of modern-day American institutions and the corruption that besets them—from the selling of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible Punishment

    The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    “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

    $30.99 CAD

  • Unusually Cruel

    Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism

    The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Punishment Imperative

    The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America

    Clear and Frost chart the rise of penal severity in the U.S. and the forces necessary to end itOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD