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Criminology

Murder in New Orleans The Creation of Jim Crow Policing

Adler Jeffrey S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226643311, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940 –...

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Crime and Justice, Volume 48 American Sentencing

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226644912, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"American Sentencing" surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce the use of imprisonment. The writers are the le...

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On the Outside Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration

Harding David J., Morenoff Jeffrey D., Wyse Jessica J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226607641, ISBN: HB: 9780226607504, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 8 tables

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year".On the Outside" examines the lives of twe...

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Crime and Justice, Volume 47 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226577043, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1979, the "Crime and Justice" series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series e...

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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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Women Studies

Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison

Habib Anjum Zamarud

ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

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Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...

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Crime and Justice, Volume 46 Reinventing American Criminal Justice

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226489407, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice" is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy...

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Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Anthropology

Truth about Crime Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

Comaroff Jean, Comaroff John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424910, ISBN: HB: 9780226424880, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves – it is by our crimes. Surveying...

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