Appealing to Justice : Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic by
This book is a study and a rare glimpse of daily life inside the most closed of institutions. Quoting extensively from their interviews with prisoners and officials, the authors give voice to those who are almost never heard from. This book reveals a system fraught with impediments and dilemmas, which delivers neither justice, nor efficiency, nor constitutional conditions of confinement.
Criminal Justice Issues in the United States by
This book examines criminal justice issues we are currently facing in the United States: mandatory minimum sentencing, gun laws, domestic terrorism, human trafficking, etc.
Punishment for Sale: Private prisons, big business, and the incarceration binge by
This book is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad publicity. The book provides a balanced telling of the story of private prisons and the resistance they engendered within the context of criminology, and it is intended for supplemental use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, social problems, and race and ethnicity.
