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  • New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History

    Sociocultural Alternatives

    by Lauren Dover, Catharine Dada, Lionel Obadia, Christopher Hartney, Emma Leverton, Jiro Sawai, Leonardo Sacco, Petra Tlcimuková, David W. Kim, Fabio Scialpi1, Nikolas Broy2 ...
    Series series Ethnographies of Religion
    This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals. The contributors argue that when traditional religions were powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, the leadership of NRMs adduced alternative principles, and the new teachings of each NRM attracted the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • American Corrections

    Concepts and Controversies

    by Barry A. Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, Christopher Hartney ...
    "It is a thorough and focused work on American corrections providing a solid opportunity for students to learn not only how the correctional system works but also to understand its ever increasing complexities."—Dorie Astle, Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityAmerican Corrections, Second Edition offers students a contemporary, issues-oriented introduction that covers every aspect of corrections ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

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  • Criminal (In)Justice

    What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

    by Rafael A. Mangual ...
    In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—a dangerously false ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • When Prisoners Come Home

    Parole and Prisoner Reentry

    by Joan Petersilia ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

    by David Hemenway ...
    On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of American Prisons

    Edited by Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams ...
    Series series Garland Studies in the History of American Labor
    Original essays by corrections experts The United States has the lightest incarceration rate in the world and crime is one of the major driving forces of political discourse throughout the country. Information about penal institutions, imprisonment, and prisoners is important to everyone, from judges on the bench to citizens on the street. Now for the first time, a comprehensive reference work ... Read more

    $345.99 USD

  • The Myth of Overpunishment

    A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public

    by Barry Latzer, Tom Cotton ...
    Justice is on trial in the United States.From police to prisons, the justice system is accused of overpunishing. It is said that too many Americans are abused by the police, arrested, jailed, and imprisoned. But the denunciations are overblown. The data indicates, contrary to the critics, that we don’t imprison too many, nor do we overpunish. This becomes evident when we examine the crimes of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crime and Criminal Justice in America

    by Joycelyn Pollock ...
    Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, addresses the major controversial issues in U.S. policing, courts, and the correctional system. This book features unique graphics and contemporary data and research, developed by Joycelyn Pollock, criminologist, and University Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas State University. The text’s question-and-answer model promotes a ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

    Edited by Mary F. Bosworth ...
    Click ′Additional Materials′ for downloadable samplesThe two-volume Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities aims to provide a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that has caused lawmakers, advocates, and legal professionals to rethink punishment policies as well ... Read more

    $331.99 USD

  • Corrections

    Foundations for the Future

    by Jeanne B. Stinchcomb ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    **"Jeanne Stinchcomb’s book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching corrections and as a practical inspiration for those students who will ultimately lead the profession. Stinchomb carefully crafts a balanced perspective that presents a powerful argument for why corrections is an important and necessary part of our criminal ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

  • Sentencing Fragments

    Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025

    by Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Most everyone agrees ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ethical Justice

    Applied Issues for Criminal Justice Students and Professionals

    by Brent E. Turvey, Stan Crowder ...
    This textbook was developed from an idiom shared by the authors and contributors alike: ethics and ethical challenges are generally black and white - not gray. They are akin to the pregnant woman or the gunshot victim; one cannot be a little pregnant or a little shot. Consequently, professional conduct is either ethical or it is not. Unafraid to be the harbingers, Turvey and Crowder set forth the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD