Race, Incarceration, and American Values

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…

Rule of law, misrule of men

This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor of our democracy. She begins with the groundswell of local resistance to the 200…

DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice

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The Newgate calendar improved; being interesting memoirs of notorious charact…

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The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-…

An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection.In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is…

Inattentional blindness

"A Bradford book."Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the claim that there is no such thing - that there is no conscious perception of the visual wor…

Command and persuade :crime, law, and the state across history

"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The bias that divides us :the science and politics of myside thinking

"An examination of a common, but underappreciated cognitive bias that permeates or social and political worlds, written by a leading researcher in the field of rationality"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Lessons from the economics of crime : what reduces offending?

Reporting on research in the United States, Europe, and South America, this book discusses such topics as a cost-benefit analysis of additional police hiring, the testing of innovative policy interventions through field experiments, imprisonment and recidivism rates, incentives and disincentives for sports hooliganism and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.