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Criminology

Beyond the Usual Beating The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

Baer Andrew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700472, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge's decades-long tenure...

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Islam

Burying Jihadis Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity

Kastoryano Riva

ISBN: HB: 9781849048859, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this di...

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Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

Eason John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226410340, ISBN: HB: 9780226410203, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country bu...

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America

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Ward Geoff K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226873183, ISBN: HB: 9780226873169, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones, 8 tables, 1 line illus.

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufact...

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Women Studies

Bombshell The Many Faces of Women Terrorists

Bloom Mia

ISBN: PB: 9781849041607, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The ultimate stealth weapon, female terrorists kill on average four times more people than their male counterparts. But why are more women drawn to terrorism than ever before? Do women volunteer to be terrorists, or are they co...

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