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HIGHLIGHTS THE NEW TRUE CRIME
SEX TOURISM IN THAILAND
How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence Diana Rickard
Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground Ronald Weitzer
How serialized crime shows became an American obsession
An in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billion-dollar sex industry
304 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479816040
352 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479813414
THE POLITICS OF INNOCENCE
THE IMMIGRATION LAW DEATH PENALTY
How Wrongful Convictions Shape Public Opinion Robert J. Norris, William D. Hicks, and Kevin J. Mullinix
Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance Sarah Tosh
The political dynamics that shape the Innocence Movement 256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815968
248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816286
THE RISE OF DIGITAL SEX WORK
Traces the role of the aggravated felony in today’s modern deportation regime
THE POLITICS OF CRIME PREVENTION
Kurt Fowler
Race, Public Opinion, and the Meaning of Community Safety Kevin H. Wozniak
How technology transformed the nature of sex work
An important understanding of the role public opinion plays in crime prevention policy 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479824205
328 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815753
THE SHAMING STATE
THE VIOLENT UNDERPINNINGS OF AMERICAN LIFE
How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need Sara Salman
How Violence Maintains Social Order in the U.S. Liam Downey
A riveting indictment of how the government fails to help citizens in need of help, protection, and humanity 248 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814541
320 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479814848
A damning examination of how violence serves to maintain social order and elite power in the United States
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POLICING POLICING THE RACIAL DIVIDE
POLICING UNREST
On the Front Lines of the Ferguson Protests Tammy Rinehart Kochel
Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation Daanika Gordon
Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminoloyg’s Division of Policing
280 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479807369
An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests
2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814053
THE VIGILANT CITIZEN
THE ETHICS OF POLICING
Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami Thijs Jeursen
192 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479816545
How the problematic behavior of individual citizens—and not just the police force itself— contributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racism
New Perspectives on Law Enforcement Edited by Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta
320 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479803736
COPS, CAMERAS, AND CRISIS
Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing Aaron Trammell A close look at innovations in policing and the law that should govern them
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine 200 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479850150
Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system
VIRTUAL SEARCHES
The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras Michael D. White and Aili Malm
The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras
A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city
272 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479812165
FORTHCOMING THE FUTURE OF POLICE REFORM
BEFORE THE BADGE
The U.S. Justice Department and the Promise of Lawful Policing Samuel Walker
272 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479826025
First thorough study of the Justice Department’s pattern or practice program—examining how it works and how court-imposed consent decrees implement needed reforms.
How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence Samantha J. Simon An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence
304 PP | CLOTH | $28.95 9781479813278
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PRISONS AND PUNISHMENT PRISON LIFE
CHALLENGING CONFINEMENT
Pain, Resistance, and Purpose Ian O’Donnell
Mass Incarceration and the Fight for Equality in Women’s Prisons Bonnie L. Ernst
2023 Winner of the Outstanding Book Award given by the American Society of Criminoloy’s Division of International Criminology 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479816156
How prisons around the world shape the social lives of their inhabitants
200 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479825561
COAL, CAGES, CRISIS
SNITCHING
Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Second Edition Alexandra Natapoff
The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia Judah Schept
Reveals the secretive, inaccurate, and often violent ways that the American criminal system really works 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479807703
328 PP | PAPER | $32 9781479858972
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE
328 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479818006
Psychological and Legal Perspectives Jeffrey S. Neuschatz and Jonathan M. Golding Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictions 208 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479803316
AMERICA’S JAILS
WOMEN DOING LIFE
The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration Derek Jeffreys
Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity Lora Bex Lempert The carceral experiences of women serving life sentences
320 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479827053
“Through this interdisciplinary study of the rural prison boom, Schept provides an invaluable state of the field in carceral and Appalachian studies,” ~The Journal of Southern History
JAILHOUSE INFORMANTS
Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison Doran Larson “A consistently searing indictment of the ways in which prisons harm prisoners...” ~Kirkus Reviews
Examines how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women’s prisons
A look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates 256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479814824
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IMMIGRATION AND STATE VIOLENCE THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF IMMIGRATION COURT
FORCED OUT
Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope Susan J. Terrio Features the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at home
Procedural Justice on Trial Maya Pagni Barak The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration court 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479821044
224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479823536
UNACCOMPANIED
MEDICAL LEGAL VIOLENCE
The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border Emily Ruehs-Navarro
Health Care and Immigration Enforcement Against Latinx Noncitizens Meredith Van Natta
Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States 248 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479838615
An urgent study on how punitive immigration policies undermine the health of Latinx immigrants 256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479807420
CONTESTED AMERICANS
GOD’S RESISTANCE
Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times Cassaundra Rodriguez
Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants Brad Christerson, Alexia Salvatierra, Robert Chao Romero, and Nancy Wang Yuen
Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved ones 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479800544
192 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479816422
MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATIONS IN IMMIGRATION COURT
ILLEGAL ENCOUNTERS
The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People Edited by Deborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio
A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals Virginia Barber-Rioja, Adeyinka M. AkinsulureSmith, and Sarah Vendzules
352 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479802616
A timely and important contribution to the study of immigration court from a psychological perspective
Explores the power of faith to drive resistance to antiimmigration policies in the United States
256 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479861071
The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth
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LAW NARRATIVES OF GUILT AND INNOCENCE
THE VICTIMS’ RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases Ralph Grunewald
288 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781479818198
Illustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges construct legal reality
What It Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong Michael Vitiello Outlines the successes and failures of the movement to support survivors of violence 256 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479820726
THE END OF FAMILY COURT
CAPITAL DEFENSE
Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers Jon B. Gould and Maya Pagni Barak
How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families Jane M. Spinak
384 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479814084
“Well-written and accessible, readers will appreciate this incisive review by a juvenile-court expert.” ~Library Journal
The unsung heroes who defend the accused from the ultimate punishment 304 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479873753
ENTICEMENTS
LAWYER NATION
Queer Legal Studies Edited by Joseph J. Fischel and Brenda Cossman
The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession Ray Brescia
Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex
Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation’s founding and what holds for the profession in the future 384 PP | PAPER | $40 9781479807611
312 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479823680
WHAT ROE V. WADE SHOULD HAVE SAID
THE TOUGHEST GUN CONTROL LAW IN THE NATION
The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision, Revised Edition Edited by Jack M. Balkin
344 PP | PAPER | $23,95 9781479823109
“The interest of the whole lies precisely in its depiction within a single volume of where the debate stands.” ~Federal Lawyer
The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act James B. Jacobs and Zoe Fuhr
256 PP | PAPER | $24 9781479825868
Real gun reform legislation with recommendations for better design, implementation and enforcement
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GENDER AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE VIOLENCE NEVER HEALS
TRANSGENDER INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women Allison Bloom
Transgender Intimate Partner Violence Edited by Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz
Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course 224 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479822058
410 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479890316
LATINAS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
RESEARCHING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
Victims, Targets, and Offenders Edited by Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko
Embodied and Intersectional Approaches Edited by April D.J. Petillo and Heather R. Hlavka
How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system
An interdisciplinary collection of critical, feminist reflections on interpersonal gender violence
376 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479891962
216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479812202
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM TRANSFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison
A roadmap for how the American criminal justice system can be reformed 456 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479818815
THE PLEA OF INNOCENCE
Restoring Truth to the American Justice System Tim Bakken
An Evidence-Based Agenda for Reform Edited by Jon B. Gould and Pamela R. Metzger
248 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479817122
PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION
LAW DEMOCRATIZED
Race and Reform in Criminal Justice Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony C. Thompson
A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis Renee Knake Jefferson A practical plan for providing legal help to all, regardless of resources
Provides compelling and manageable solutions for how to reform the criminal justice system from the inside out 312 PP | CLOTH | $45 9781479809950
A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence
320 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479820399
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MENTAL HEALTH AND PUBLIC SAFETY VIOLENCE AND MENTAL ILLNESS
THE VARIETIES OF SUICIDAL EXPERIENCE
Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis
208 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479801459
Shows that the mistaken belief that mental illness is strongly linked to violence makes us all less safe
DRAWING DEPORTATION
Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children Silvia Rodriguez Vega Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging 232 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479810451
A New Theory of Suicidal Violence Thomas Joiner
224 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479823475
Argues that a range of behaviors such as murdersuicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones
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DRUGS AND SOCIETY THE TAMING OF NEW YORK’S WASHINGTON SQUARE
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE BIRTH OF THE WAR ON DRUGS
A Wild Civility Erich Goode
336 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479898213
The surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City’s Washington Square Park
Andrew Monteith
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479817924
THE WAR ON DRUGS
BREAKING WOMEN
Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment Jill A. McCorkel
283 PP | PAPER | $30 9780814761496
Compelling interviews uncover why tough drug policies disproportionately impact women in the American prison system
A History Edited by David Farber A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”
376 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479811366
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REENTRY AND RECIDIVISM BEYOND RECIDIVISM
HALFWAY HOUSE
Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care Liam Martin
New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration Edited by Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen, and Johnna Christian
An inside look at the struggles former prisoners face in reentering society
Understanding reentry experiences after incarceration 400 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479853885
264 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479800698
AFTER LIFE IMPRISONMENT
CONVICTED AND CONDEMNED
Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration Marieke Liem
The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry Keesha M. Middlemass
What becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison?
288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479882823
Examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisoners 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9780814770627
GREEN CRIMINOLOGY TOXIC LAKE
DOWNWIND OF THE ATOMIC STATE
Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake Thomas Shevory
Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society James C. Rice
The environmental history of “the most polluted lake in America.”
312 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479815685
376 PP | CLOTH | $38 9781479815340
THE WRONG COMPLEXION FOR PROTECTION
TOXIC COMMUNITIES
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility Dorceta Taylor
How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright
320 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9780814799949
Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race
How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West
Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards 352 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479861781
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PARTNER PRESSES THAT’S A PRETTY THING TO CALL IT
THE BOOK OF JUDITH
Opening Hearts Through Poetry Edited by Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, and Sara Press
Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions Edited by Leigh Sugar Frank, eye-opening writing by “arts in corrections” educators 304 PP | PAPER | $24.95
A New Village Press title
9781613322116
224 PP | PAPER | $19.95 9781613321744
PORTRAITS OF EARTH JUSTICE
PORTRAITS OF RACIAL JUSTICE
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists
A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power
A New Village Press title
A New Village Press title 128 PP | CLOTH | $34.95 9781613321638
THE LIFE SENTENCES OF RIK MCWHINNEY
DEFINING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
Power, Media, and #MeToo Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider
Rik McWhinney Edited by Jason Demers
Through poetry, letters, essays, and interviews, Rik McWhinney describes his harrowing experiences of nearly thirty-five years in prison A University of Regina Press title
368 PP | PAPER | $25.95 9780889778092
Traces contemporary shifts in power in relation to the increased recognition and censure of sexual misconduct A University of Regina Press title
THE PROSECUTION OF PROFESSOR CHANDLER DAVIS
BLACK X
Liberatory thought in Azania Tendayi Sithole
McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom Steve Batterson
What does it mean to be Black in an anti-Black world? A Wits University Press title 200 PP | PAPER | $20 9781776148684
A New Village Press title
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
128 PP | CLOTH | $34.95 9781613321874
304 PP | PAPER | $21.95 9780889778979
An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students
200 PP | PAPER | $26 9781685900359
Exposes the destruction of academic careers—and the complicity of educational institutions—in McCarthy’s America A Monthly Review Press title
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GREAT FOR COURSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH EDITION
HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT
Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America Jennifer E. Cobbina
An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory
224 PP | PAPER | $20 9781479818259
Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism 288 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479874415
GENDER VIOLENCE, THIRD EDITION
THE COLOR OF CRIME, THIRD EDITION
256 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479843152
Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms Katheryn Russell-Brown
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan
How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter
An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence
600 PP | PAPER | $39 9781479820801
THE SOCIOLOGY OF BULLYING
TRANSGRESSED
Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives Xavier L. GuadalupeDiaz
Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents Edited by Christopher Donoghue
Transgender survivors of violence tell their stories
The first volume to explore what bullying research looks like from a sociological perspective 344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479803880
224 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479827855
PUNISHED
CRIME TV
Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys Victor M. Rios
Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture Edited by Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick
A classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize Black and Latino boys
240 PP | PAPER | $30 9780814776384
From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television 376 PP | PAPER | $35 9781479884971
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