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Prison and Social Death
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 …
Why We Harm
2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing …
The Globalization of Supermax Prisons
2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Supermax” prisons, conceived by the United States in the early 1980s, are typically reserved for convicted political criminals such as …
Social Justice
An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales – for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public’s perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including …
Law and Order
In living rooms across the country, Americans have fallen in love with law-related television programming. From primetime legal dramas such as Law and Order, The Guardian, CSI, …
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, …
Real Gangstas
Street gangs are a major concern for residents in many inner-city communities. However, gangs’ secretive and, at times, delinquent tendencies limit most people’s exposure to the …
Hidden Victims
"Sharp’s book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty—costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come."—Saundra D. …
Tough on Hate?
Why do we know every gory crime scene detail about such victims as Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. and yet almost nothing about the vast majority of other hate crime victims? …
Addicted to Rehab
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice Winner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from …
Life after Death Row
Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently …
Big Prisons, Big Dreams
The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical …