Deadly Symbiosis
Author: Loïc Wacquant
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2014-12-08
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780745631233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
Rethinking Incarceration
Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2018-03-02
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0830887733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Exploring the history and foundations of mass incarceration, Dominique Gilliard examines Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion, assessing justice in light of Scripture, and showing how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles.
Mass Imprisonment
Author: David Garland
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001-07-12
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780761973249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture.
The Nazi Symbiosis
Author: Sheila Faith Weiss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0226891763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Nazi Symbiosis' offers a nuanced account of the myriad ways human heredity and Nazi politics reinforced each other before and during the Third Reich. It questions whether the motives of German geneticists were much different from the compromises that are faced by researchers from other countries and eras.
The Nazi Symbiosis
Author: Sheila Faith Weiss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0226891798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Faustian bargain—in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain—is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. Under the swastika, German scientists descended into the moral abyss, perpetrating heinous medical crimes at Auschwitz and at euthanasia hospitals. But why did biomedical researchers accept such a bargain? The Nazi Symbiosis offers a nuanced account of the myriad ways human heredity and Nazi politics reinforced each other before and during the Third Reich. Exploring the ethical and professional consequences for the scientists involved as well as the political ramifications for Nazi racial policies, Sheila Faith Weiss places genetics and eugenics in their larger international context. In questioning whether the motives that propelled German geneticists were different from the compromises that researchers from other countries and eras face, Weiss extends her argument into our modern moment, as we confront the promises and perils of genomic medicine today.
Prelude to Prison
Author: Marsha Weissman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0815652984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the close of the twentieth century, the United States became known for its reliance on incarceration as the chief means of social control, particularly in poor communities of color. The carceral state has been extended into the public school system in these communities in what has become known as the "school-to-prison pipeline." Through interviews with young people suspended from school, Weissman examines the impact of zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary approaches that have transformed schools into penal-like institutions. In their own words, students describe their lives, the challenges they face, and their efforts to overcome those challenges. Unlike other studies, this book illuminates the students’ perspectives on what happens when the educational system excludes them from regular school. Weissman draws attention to research findings that suggest punitive disciplinary policies and practices resemble criminal justice strategies of arrest, trial, sentence, and imprisonment. She demonstrates how harsh school discipline prepares young people from poor communities of color for their place in the carceral state. An invaluable resource for policy makers, Prelude to Prison presents recommendations for policy, practice, and political change that have the potential to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.
Cape Town After Apartheid
Author: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0816670005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
Pacifying the Homeland
Author: Brendan McQuade
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0520299752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.
Cooperation
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 023155799X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of participatory democracy and sustainability into every aspect of their lives. These forms of cooperation do not depend on electoral politics. Instead, they harness the longstanding practices and values of cooperatives: self-determination, democratic participation, equity, solidarity, and respect for the environment. Bernard E. Harcourt develops a transformative theory and practice that builds on worldwide models of successful cooperation. He identifies the most promising forms of cooperative initiatives and then distills their lessons into an integrated framework: Coöperism. This is a political theory grounded on recognition of our interdependence. It is an economic theory that can ensure equitable distribution of wealth. Finally, it is a social theory that replaces the punishment paradigm with a cooperation paradigm. A creative work of normative critical theory, Cooperation provides a positive vision for addressing our most urgent challenges today. Harcourt shows that by drawing on the core values of cooperation and the power of people working together, a new world of cooperation democracy is within our grasp.
The Challenge of Crime
Author: Henry S. Ruth
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2003-04-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780674008915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRejecting traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, this book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime.
