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Pagan Family Values
Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second‑generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family...
Policing Hatred
Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation’s attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention...
When Governments Break the Law
The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Obama has repeatedly emphasized his Administration’s commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve...
by Steven Leinen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1985
"Extremely informative. . . deserves a wide readership, both inside and outside police departments."
-Publishers Weekly
"An imaginative and insightful account of the day-to-day life of the black police officer in a large urban environment. A must read for all police officers, white...
The New Kinship
Constructing Donor-Conceived Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from the donation. Donors typically enter into contracts with fertility clinics or sperm banks which promise them anonymity. The parents may know the
donor’s...
Sustainability
Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines
Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another....
Empire of Scrounge
Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
“Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take.”
—From the Introduction
In December...
Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles
Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
From Megan’s Law to Jessica’s Law, almost every state in the nation has passed some law to punish sex offenders. This popular tough-on-crime legislation is often written after highly-publicized cases have made the gruesome rounds through the media, and usually features harsh sentences, lifetime...
Jammed Up
Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature and causes of police misconduct. While police departments are notoriously protective of their own—especially personnel...
Life without Parole
America's New Death Penalty?
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as “the new death penalty.” Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together...
American Muslim Women
Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a “model minority” against African Americans. However,...
Islam Is a Foreign Country
American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger...
Living Out Islam
Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Muhsin is one of the organizers of Al-Fitra Foundation, a South African support group for lesbian, transgender, and gay Muslims. Islam and homosexuality are seen by many as deeply incompatible. This, according to Muhsin, is why he had to act. “I realized that Im not alone—these people are going through...
Arabs and Muslims in the Media
Race and Representation after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase...