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  • Prisoners of Politics

    Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration

    by Rachel Elise Barkow ...
    A CounterPunch Best Book of the YearA Lone Star Policy Institute Recommended Book“If you care, as I do, about disrupting the perverse politics of criminal justice, there is no better place to start than Prisoners of Politics.”—James Forman, Jr., author of Locking Up Our OwnThe United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The social consequences of this fact—recycling people ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Justice Abandoned

    How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration

    by Rachel Elise Barkow ...
    Series series
    An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of its prisoners, America indisputably has a mass incarceration problem. How did it happen? Tough-on-crime politics and a racially loaded drug war are obvious and important culprits, but another factor ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Prosecutors in the Boardroom

    Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct

    Edited by Anthony S. Barkow, Rachel E. Barkow ...
    Who should police corporate misconduct and how should it be policed? In recent years, the Department of Justice has resolved investigations of dozens of Fortune 500 companies via deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, where, instead of facing criminal charges, these companies become regulated by outside agencies. Increasingly, the threat of prosecution and such prosecution ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States

    by David Gray Adler, Pierre Avril, Rachel E. Barkow, Jesse Choper, Erwin Chemerinsky, Louis Fisher, John W. Fox, Richard L. Hasen, Nancy Kassop, Nathaniel Persily, Jonathan R. Siegel, Mark Tushnet ...
    The application of the Political Question Doctrine is at a crucial crossroads as the Supreme Court continues to test new "War on Terrorism" initiatives. Historically, the political question doctrine has held the courts from resolving constitutional issues that are better left to other departments of government, as a way of maintaining the system of checks and balances. However, the doctrine's many ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    Prisoners of Politics

    Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration

    by Rachel Elise Barkow ...
    Narrated by Katherine Fenton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    The United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison more likely. As awful as that truth is for individuals and their families, its social consequences?recycling offenders through an overwhelmed criminal-justice system, ever-mounting costs, unequal treatment before the law, and a growing class of permanently ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

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  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    "Illuminating. . . . [Tribe and Matz] offer well-crafted overviews of key cases decided by the Roberts Court [and] chart the Supreme Court's conservative path." — Chicago TribuneFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Case Against the Supreme Court

    by Erwin Chemerinsky ...
    A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred yearsMost Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense and always has been. The Court is made up of fallible individuals who base decisions on their own biases ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    by Hugo Adam Bedau;Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    by Alexandra Natapoff ...
    From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminalsPunishment Without Crime offers an urgent new perspective on inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar ... Read more

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  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... Read more

    $17.99 USD