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Inner Lives

Voices of African American Women In Prison

by Paula Johnson, Angela J. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women constituting the largest percentage of this population. However, despite their extremely disproportional representation in correctional institutions, little attention has been paid to their experiences...
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Girlfighting

Betrayal and Rejection among Girls

by Lyn Mikel Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003

For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent...
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by Ben Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters...
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Discretionary Justice

Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression

by Carolyn Strange
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

The pardon is an act of mercy, tied to the divine right of kings. Why did New York retain this mode of discretionary justice after the Revolution? And how did governors’ use of this prerogative change with the advent of the penitentiary and the introduction of parole? This book answers these questions...
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Benevolent Repression

Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement

by Alexander W. Pisciotta
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994

The opening, in 1876, of the Elmira Reformatory marked the birth of the American adult reformatory movement and the introduction of a new approach to crime and the treatment of criminals. Hailed as a reform panacea and the humane solution to America's ongoing crisis of crime and social disorder, Elmira...
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Phantom Limb

Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology

by Cassandra S. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known—a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and “naturalness”...
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Judging Addicts

Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System

by Rebecca Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased criminalization of drugs and the medicalization...
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Being Watched

Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance

by Jeffrey L. Vagle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

A riveting history of the Supreme Court decision that set the legal precedent for citizen challenges to government surveillance The tension between national security and civil rights is nowhere more evident than in the fight over government domestic surveillance. Governments must be able to...
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Immigrants Under Threat

Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation

by Greg Prieto
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation...
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The Supreme Court and Election Law

Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore

by Richard Hasen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003

In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court’s role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, Hasen roots the Court’s intervention in political process cases...
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The Law of Affirmative Action

Twenty Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies

by Girardeau A. Spann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000

The debate over race in this country has of late converged on the contentious issue of affirmative action. Although the Supreme Court once supported the concept of racial affirmative action, in recent years a majority of the Court has consistently opposed various affirmative action programs. The Law...
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Control

A History of Behavioral Psychology

by John A. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000

Behaviorism has been the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology. However, the unquestioned and unquestioning nature of this dominance has obfuscated the complexity of behaviorism. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history...
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Children of a New World

Society, Culture, and Globalization

by Paula S. Fass
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006

Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children’s history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children’s lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the “work-centered”...
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Brown Bodies, White Babies

The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy

by Laura Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between...
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