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  • Legal Plunder

    The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice

    by Joshua Page, Joe Soss ...
    A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America's poorest and most vulnerable communities.Alongside the rise of mass incarceration, a second profound and equally disturbing development has transpired. Since the 1980s, US policing and punishment have been remade into tools for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Work and the Welfare State

    Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics

    by Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Michael Lipsky, Flemming Larsen, Susan Lambert, Julia Henly, Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, Richard Fording0, Celeste Watkins-Hayes1, Martin Brussig2, Matthias Knuth3, Michael Adler4, Vicki Lens5, Rik van Berkel6 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Legal Plunder

    The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice

    by Joshua Page, Joe Soss ...
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    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics

    Unabridged

    15 hours 51 min

    A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.Alongside the rise of mass incarceration, a second profound and equally disturbing development has transpired. Since the 1980s, US policing and punishment have been remade into tools for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The New Jim Crow

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    How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

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    Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

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    Legalized Genocide of Colored People

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  • No More Police

    A Case for Abolition

    by Mariame Kaba, Andrea Ritchie ...
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  • Gradual

    The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

    by Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox ...
    A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place? In Gradual, Greg Berman and ... Read more

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

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    **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 ... Read more

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