Nyu Press: 1737 books
Inner Lives
Voices of African American Women In Prison
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...
Girlfighting
Betrayal and Rejection among Girls
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...
by Ben Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
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...
Discretionary Justice
Pardon and Parole in New York from the Revolution to the Depression
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...
Benevolent Repression
Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement
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...
Phantom Limb
Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology
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”...
Judging Addicts
Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System
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...
Being Watched
Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
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...
Immigrants Under Threat
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
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...
The Supreme Court and Election Law
Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore
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...
The Law of Affirmative Action
Twenty Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies
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...
Control
A History of Behavioral Psychology
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...
Children of a New World
Society, Culture, and Globalization
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”...
Brown Bodies, White Babies
The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy
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...