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  • The Cage of Days

    Time and Temporal Experience in Prison

    Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs ... Leer más

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  • The Cage of Days

    Time and Temporal Experience in Prison

    Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Prison, Inc.

    A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison

    de K.C. Carceral ...
    Series Libro 14 - Alternative Criminology
    Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, not much is known about how these facilities are run and whether or not they can effectively watch over this ... Leer más

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  • Lifers

    Seeking Redemption in Prison

    de John Irwin ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Leer más

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  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Leer más

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  • In the President's Secret Service

    Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

    After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his ... Leer más

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  • Crisis of Character

    A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

    de Gary J. Byrne ...
    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, a former secret service officer reveals what he saw of Bill and Hillary Clinton's behavior while on protection duty."Byrne's What-the-Butler-Saw style account is particularly damning [. . .] so much of his testimony rings true based on what the world knows about goings-on at the Clinton White House. It is little wonder the Clinton camp has not only denounced ... Leer más

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    de Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Leer más

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  • Newjack

    Guarding Sing Sing

    de Ted Conover ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • An acclaimed journalist sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing.“Newjack is about as good as it gets—by turns gripping, funny, frightening, and sad.” —The Washington Post Book World**When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State ... Leer más

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  • Rough Sleepers

    Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

    de Tracy Kidder ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “excellent and immersive” (The Wall Street Journal) story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, ... Leer más

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  • Halfway Home

    Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

    A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.Reuben Miller, a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Why We Love Serial Killers

    The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers

    de Scott Bonn ...
    For decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish celebrities. Similarly, the popularity of fictional characters such as Hannibal The Cannibal” Lecter or Dexter demonstrates just how eager the public is to be frightened by these human predators.But ... Leer más

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