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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 …
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 …
Falling Back
Winner of the 2016 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book for the Academy of Criminal Justice Science …
Schools Under Surveillance
Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about …
Rape by the Numbers
Science plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed or …
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 …
Crimes of Power & States of Impunity
Since 9/11, a new configuration of power situated at the core of the executive branch of the U.S. government has taken hold. In Crimes of Power & States of Impunity, Michael Welch …
Mean Lives, Mean Laws
Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist …
Trapped in a Vice
Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ?Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of …
The Forgotten Men
Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, …