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Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables
The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...
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Arresting Citizenship The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
ISBN: PB: 9780226137834, ISBN: HB: 9780226137667, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 figures, 5 tables
The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before h...
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Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables
In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...
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Hoodlums Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104638, ISBN: HB: 9780226847191, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes – individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black...
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Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
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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Crime and Justice, Volume 41 Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9780226009674, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United St...
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Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...
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Crime and Justice, Volume 40 Crime and Justice in Scandanavia
ISBN: PB: 9780226808833, ISBN: HB: 9780226808826, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
525 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 expl...
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Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.
In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...
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Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone
Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...
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