The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
By: David Garland
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in…
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1. Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
By: None , John F. Pfaff
4.07
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
"A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is prob… read more
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2. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more
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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
3. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
4. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
5. Burial Rites
By: Hannah Kent
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of mu… read more
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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7. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more
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8. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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9. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
By: None , Mark Olshaker
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer i… read more
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10. Aliss
By: Patrick Senécal
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alice, une jeune fille curieuse, deluree, fonceuse et intelligente de Brossard (Quebec, Canada). A … read more
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11. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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12. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
13. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
14. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
15. Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: Annette Lareau
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
This book will help Understand the importance of talking to others, including listening to feedbac… read more
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16. The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
By: David Garland
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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17. Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing
By: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
3.92
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City’s dramatically expanded policing of low-level… read more
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18. The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
By: Aya Gruber
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commen… read more
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19. Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
By: Jonathan Simon
3.89
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory d… read more
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20. The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Anne Gray Fischer
4.59
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimat… read more
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21. Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
By: Mark Warr
3.63
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The idea of peer influence as a cause of delinquency has been around since the 1930s, when Edwin Su… read more
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