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  • SuperVision

    An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

    We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed—and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing field of surveillance studies, SuperVision uses examples drawn from everyday technologies to show how surveillance is used, who is using it, and how it ... Leer más

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  • Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law

    Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control

    de John Gilliom ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    Employee drug testing is an invasive and controversial new social control policy that burst into the American work place during the war on drugs of the 1980s. Workers, judges, and politicians divided over whether it was an unnecessary and unconstitutional program of surveillance or an effective and appropriate new weapon in the anti-drug arsenal. When the dust had settled, the new technique was ... Leer más

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  • The Poverty of Privacy Rights

    The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy ... Leer más

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Leer más

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  • Governing Through Crime

    How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen ... Leer más

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  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Leer más

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  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Incarceration

    Safety and True Criminal Justice

    de Paula Mallea ...
    Series Libro 8 - Point of View
    A call to replace Canada’s incarceration model, which has proven destructive, discriminatory, expensive, counterproductive, and — most of all — unnecessary.Imprisonment developed in the Western world as the punishment to suit all offences, from violent assault to victimless drug use. Centuries ago, incarcerating convicts represented progress on society’s part, since it came as a replacement for ... Leer más

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  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Leer más

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  • Survivor Injustice

    State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy

    de Kylie Cheung ...
    **Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state."An astonishingly original, powerfully honest vision for true survivor justice." —Kirkus, starred reviewFor readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.**Incisive ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

    de Don Lash ...
    "[An] excellent overview of the child welfare system . . . Most importantly, [the author] provides a discussion of how to create true change." —Tina Lee, author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare SystemA groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the American child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from ... Leer más

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  • The Common Good

    In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to “the common good.” Rejecting claims made by some liberal thinkers that it is not possible to balance individual rights with uncoerced civic responsibility, Etzioni explores a number of key issues which pose important questions ... Leer más

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