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  • Prisons of Debt

    The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers

    by Prof. Lynne Haney ...
    A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Coming Apart

    The State of White America, 1960-2010

    by Charles Murray ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times**In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Defund Fear

    Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment

    by Zach Norris ...
    A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishmentAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Losing Ground (10th Anniversary Edition)

    American Social Policy, 1950-1980

    by Charles Murray ...
    This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending that we abolish welfare reform, but his position launched a debate culminating in President ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Purchase of Intimacy

    by Viviana A. Zelizer ...
    In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Police in the Hallways

    Discipline in an Urban High School

    by Kathleen Nolan ...
    As zero-tolerance discipline policies have been instituted at high schools across the country, police officers are employed with increasing frequency to enforce behavior codes and maintain order, primarily at poorly performing, racially segregated urban schools. Actions that may once have sent students to the detention hall or resulted in their suspension may now introduce them to the criminal ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Cultivating Conscience

    How Good Laws Make Good People

    by Lynn Stout ...
    How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD

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  • It Still Takes a Candidate

    Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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