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  • Rethinking the American Prison Movement

    by Dan Berger, Toussaint Losier ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Unsettling Canada

    A National Wake-Up Call

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson ...
    Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the differences between them are in many ways even more interesting. Arthur Manuel is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Question of Freedom

    A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison

    by Dwayne Betts ...
    A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's lifeAt the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia, carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Betts would be treated as an ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Cuz

    An American Tragedy

    by Danielle Allen ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf AwarenessA School Library Journal "In the Margins" Recommendation“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle A... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Angels with Dirty Faces

    Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption

    by Walidah Imarisha ...
    "There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards, I knew nothing about that made me safer. This is the heart of this country's prison system. And the prison system has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Voices of Freedom

    An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s

    by Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer ...
    “A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and others, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived itJoin brave and terrified ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Casting Out

    The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics

    by Sherene Razack ...
    Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged to use political, military, and legal force to defend itself against a menacing third world population ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • After Prison

    Navigating Employment and Reintegration

    Edited by Rose Ricciardelli, Adrienne M.F. Peters ...
    Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries has aggravated the ability of former prisoners and people with criminal records to find gainful employment.After Prison opens with a former prisoner’s story of reintegration employment experiences. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Addicted to Rehab

    Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration

    by Allison McKim ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social JusticeWinner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and CrimeAfter decades of the American “war on drugs” and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Good Kids, Bad City

    A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America

    by Kyle Swenson ...
    From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.In the early 1970s, three African-American men—Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson—were accused and convicted of the brutal ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Prison and Social Death

    by Joshua M. Price ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson’s term for the utter isolation of slavery, to suffer “social death.” In Prison and Social Death, Joshua Price exposes the unexamined cost that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD