Sociology books: Criminal justice
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press panelists, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MNASA23. Code expires Oct. 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE // HEALTH POLICY // DISABILITY STUDIES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMAL STUDIES
URBAN STUDIES // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GLBT STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // LITERATURE AND POETRY
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // LABOR STUDIES
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Torture in the National Security Imagination Stephanie Athey 2023 Fall
- Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism
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Terrorism on Trial Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Nicole Nguyen 2023 Fall
- A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts
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The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring
- Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
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Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall
- Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair
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Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring
- This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
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Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
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First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
- Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
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For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall
- Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state