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  • Class, Race, Gender, and Crime

    The Social Realities of Justice in America

    by Paul Leighton, Allison Cotton, Gregg Barak, Carrie L. Buist, K. Sebastian León ...
    Inequality and injustice have long been part of the structure of our society, including law, crime, and the criminal justice system. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime, sixth edition explores the continuing impact of class, race, gender, sexuality, and their intersections – and how the “justice” system can recreate those oppressions. Broken into three parts, the book opens with an overview of the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    Thinking Critically About Class and Criminal Justice

    by Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton ...
    For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm?This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises of critical thinking ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm

    Edited by Pamela Davies, Paul Leighton, Tanya Wyatt ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This handbook explores the concept of 'harm' in criminological scholarship and lays the foundation for a future zemiological agenda. 'Social harm' as a theoretical construct has become established as an alternative, broader lens through which to understand the causation and alleviation of widespread harm in society, thus moving beyond criminology and state definitions of crime and extending the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Punishment for Sale

    Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge

    by Donna Selman, Paul Leighton ...
    Series series Issues in Crime and Justice
    Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Supporting Children and Families

    Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

    by Graham Bowpitt, Alison Edgley, Marjorie Finnigan, Brid Featherstone, Sarah Chaudhary, Mairi Ann Cullen, John Carpenter, Valerie Wigfall, Barbara Sianesi, Miranda Thurston, Alissa Goodman, Pamela Graham, Sharon Hodgson, Pauline Hall, Matthew Pearson, Susan McQuail, Nicky Nicholls, Ann Martin, Martin Manby, Lynn McKenna, Geoff Lindsay, Jill Jesson ...
    Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

    A Reader (2-downloads)

    by Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton ...
    This book shows students that much that goes on in the criminal justice system violates their own sense of basic fairness, presents evidence that the system malfunctions, and sketches a whole theoretical perspective from which they might understand the failures and evaluate them morally. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Handbook of Food Crime

    Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

    by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...
    Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • America, Compromised

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    An analysis of "the Trump era, but not about Trump. . . . but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption" ( New York Times Book Review)."There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are."So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of modern-day American institutions and the corruption that besets them—from the selling of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Invisible Punishment

    The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind, Marc Mauer ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Wall

    Poor, Young, Black, and Male

    by Cornel West ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given rise to wider stereotypes that limit the social capital of all young black males.Edited and with an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    by Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Read more

    $19.49 USD