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  • Arresting Incarceration

    Pathways out of Indigenous imprisonment

    Despite sweeping reforms by the Keating government following the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has soared. What has gone wrong? In Arresting incarceration, Dr Don Weatherburn charts the events that led to Royal Commission. He also argues that past efforts to reduce the number of Aboriginal Australians in prison have failed to ... Leer más

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  • Hard Time

    Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail

    de Shaun Attwood ...
    Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door. Attwood found himself on remand in Maricopa Jail with a $750,000 cash bond and all of his assets seized. The nightmare was only just beginning as he was submerged in a jail in which rival gangs vied for control, ... Leer más

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  • Down Inside

    Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service

    de Robert Clark ...
    A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, ... Leer más

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  • Aboriginal Law

    Commentary and Analysis

    de Isaac ...
    In this 4th edition of Aboriginal Law, Thomas Isaac highlights the most important aspects of Canadian law as it impacts on Aboriginal peoples and their relationship with the wider Canadian society. Unlike the previous three editions, this version does not contain case or legislative excerpts, all of which are readily available on the internet. Instead, the author focuses on commentary and analysis ... Leer más

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  • Long Way Home

    A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him

    Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago’s very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial.Jovan grew up on the rough streets of Chicago’s Southeast Side. With one brother dead of HIV complications, another in jail for arson and murder, ... Leer más

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  • Hell Is a Very Small Place

    Voices from Solitary Confinement

    "An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement" from the prisoners who have survived it ( New York Review of Books ).On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on ... Leer más

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  • Fearmonger

    Stephen Harper's Tough-on-Crime Agenda

    de Paula Mallea ...
    According to Statistics Canada, all crime rates -- including violent crime -- have been trending downward over the last twenty years. Yet the Harper government continues to insist Canadians are in the midst of a crime epidemic. This is their rationale for spending billions on new prisons, and for legislation that will put thousands more behind bars and increase the likelihood that young Canadians ... Leer más

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  • Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Property Protection

    Cultural Signifiers in the Caribbean and the Americas

    Series series Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
    International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property. The adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the establishment of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore demonstrate an emerging trend towards the ... Leer más

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  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Leer más

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  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State

    The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership

    Indigenous Land Reform in Australia

    de Leon Terrill ...
    Series series Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
    Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous landowners and community residents. It also revisits the rationale for their introduction and discusses ... Leer más

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  • The Bail Book

    A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System

    Mass incarceration is one of the greatest social problems facing the United States today. America incarcerates a greater percentage of its population than any other country and is one of only two countries that requires arrested individuals to pay bail to be released from jail while awaiting trial. After arrest, the bail decision is the single most important cause of mass incarceration, yet this ... Leer más

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