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  • Criminal Justice in Divided America

    Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy

    How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together.American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the system. American democracy is in crisis, too, as the chasm of loathing and incomprehension that divides political ... Leer más

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  • A Pattern of Violence

    How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice

    A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague our entire criminal justice system—from mass incarceration to police brutality.We take for granted that some crimes are violent and others aren’t. But how do we decide what counts as a violent act? David Alan Sklansky argues that legal notions about ... Leer más

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    Criminal Justice in Divided America

    Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy

    Narrado por Mike Lenz ...

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    How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together.Criminal Justice in Divided America shows how police, courts, and prisons helped to break American democracy and how better approaches to public safety and criminal accountability can help to repair it. Engaging critically with concerns from both the left and the right, ... Leer más

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    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

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    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Leer más

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  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar ... Leer más

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  • 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 ... Leer más

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  • Policing Black Lives

    State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

    de Robyn Maynard ...
    New Revised and Expanded Edition available now!!Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned survei... ... Leer más

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  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Leer más

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  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st CenturyNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and ZoraA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Highe... ... Leer más

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  • Is Killing Wrong?

    A Study in Pure Sociology

    de Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Studies in Pure Sociology
    "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those ... Leer más

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

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    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Leer más

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  • Locked In

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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