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Criminology

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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Criminology

Provisional Authority Police, Order, and Security in India

Jauregui Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9780226403700, ISBN: HB: 9780226403670, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studyi...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Chasin Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226276977, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing ra...

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Law

Criminology

Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law

Drobac Jennifer Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226301013, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 44 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226337579, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Volume 44 of "Crime and Justice" is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in knowledge concerning crime, its causes, and its control. Contents: include Robert D. Crutchfield on the...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Patty's Got a Gun Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

Graebner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226324326, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 17 halftones

It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army – who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. Bu...

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General

Criminology

Code of the Suburb Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

Jacques Scott, Wright Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226164113, ISBN: HB: 9780226164083, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere – even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools – and teenage users in t...

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Anthropology

Criminology

Cruel Attachments The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

Borneman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226233918, ISBN: HB: 9780226233888, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessme...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 43 Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why They Don't

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226208770, ISBN: HB: 9780226208633, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have noticed the common patterns and fewer have attempted to understand or explain them. Yet th...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 42 Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226105925, ISBN: HB: 9780226097510, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. Among the results four decades later are the world's harsh...

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