Race and Police

Ben Brucato

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race an... Lees meer

Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness

Patricia Erickson, Steven Erickson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to th... Lees meer

The Child Savers

Anthony M Platt

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system, this 40th anniversary edition of The Child Savers features a ne... Lees meer

Shattered Justice

Kimberly J Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Presents crime victims’ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Important lessons and anal... Lees meer

Crimes of Power & States of Impunity

Michael Welch

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Since 9/11, a new configuration of power situated at the core of the executive branch of the U.S. government has taken hold. In Crimes of Power & Stat... Lees meer

State Crime

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll.... Lees meer

When Riot Cops Are Not Enough

Mike King

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough , sociologist and activist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland m... Lees meer

Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control

Diana Rickard

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control , Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage... Lees meer

Pump and Dump

Robert H Tillman, Michael L Indergaard

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• In Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy , Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard argue that these scandals are symptoms of a corpor... Lees meer

Murder Town, USA

Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K Hitchens, Darryl L Chambers

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the in... Lees meer

Prison and Social Death

Joshua M Price

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humilia... Lees meer

Big Prisons, Big Dreams

Michael Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J... Lees meer

The Forgotten Men

Margaret E Leigey

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging fro... Lees meer

Schools Under Surveillance

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Sur... Lees meer

Colonialism Is Crime

Marianne Nielsen, Linda M Robyn

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. Achieving historical coloni... Lees meer

Way Down in the Hole

Angela J Hattery, Earl Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, W... Lees meer

Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control

Diana Rickard

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• The 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives--most notably, "Megan's Law"--designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers... Lees meer

Trapped in a Vice

Alexandra Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award - ASC DCCSJ​ Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promo... Lees meer

Everyday Desistance

Laura S Abrams, Diane Terry

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Winner of the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award In Everyday Desistance , Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of young... Lees meer

Falling Back

Jamie J Fader

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Winner of the 2016 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book for the Academy of Cr... Lees meer

Mass Deception

Scott A Bonn

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation's leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama b... Lees meer

State-Corporate Crime

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Enron, Haliburton, ExxonValdez, "shock and awe"-their mere mention brings forth images of scandal, collusion, fraud, and human and environmental destr... Lees meer

Out of the Red

Christian L Bolden

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​ Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans... Lees meer

Falling Back

Jamie J Fader

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Winner of the 2016 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book for the Academy of Cr... Lees meer