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Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy

Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen - Social Science - 2006 - 376 pages
5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting age adults-- are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several ...
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

Marie Gottschalk - Political Science - 2006 - 265 pages
The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is ...
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Framing the Victim: Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems

Nancy Berns - Social Science - 2004 - 206 pages
This book unabashedly examines not only domestic violence, but also the larger picture of how politics and processes shape our responses to social problems. It also ...
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When Crime Waves

Vincent Sacco - Law - 2005 - 228 pages
A critical examination of crime waves aimed at an undergraduate audience. Historical & contemporary examples are drawn primarily from the US, but international examples are ...
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Race and Crime

Shaun L. Gabbidon, Helen Taylor Greene - Business & Economics - 2009 - 393 pages
"The Second Edition of the popular Race and Crime addresses two major goals. First, the text examines the history of how racial and ethnic groups (including African Americans ...
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The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World

A. David Napier - Philosophy - 2010 - 344 pages
In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology—that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self ...
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Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post ...

Alessandro De Giorgi - Law - 2006 - 190 pages
Examining the political economy of punishment, this book debates the view that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist ...
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