The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America
Author: Marie Gottschalk File Type: pdf The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding children and the elderly, is incarcerated today, a rate unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. What are some of the main political forces that explain this unprecedented reliance on mass imprisonment? Throughout American history, crime and punishment have been central features of American political development. This 2006 book examines the development of four key movements that mediated the construction of the carceral state in important ways the victims movement, the womens movement, the prisoners rights movement, and opponents of the death penalty. This book argues that punitive penal policies were forged by particular social movements and interest groups within the constraints of larger institutional structures and historical developments that distinguish the United States from other Western countries.
Author: Willem Frederik Hermans
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p itemprop=description Nooit meer slapen is het meesterlijke verhaal van de jonge geoloog Alfred Issendorf, die in het moerassige noorden van Noorwegen onderzoek wil verrichten om de hypothese van zijn leermeester en promotor Sibbelee te staven. Issendorf is ambitieus hij hoopt dat hem op deze reis iets groots te wachten staat, dat zijn naam aan een belangrijk wetenschappelijk feit zal worden verbonden. Deze ambitie hangt samen met het verlangen het werk van zijn vader, die door een ongeluk tijdens een onderzoekstocht om het leven kwam, te voltooien. Nooit meer slapen is een grootse roman over grote dromen. Recencie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie Klassieke roman, die wel als Hermans beste werk geldt. De geologiestudent Alfred gaat voor veldonderzoek naar Noorwegen. De fotos van een onherbergzaam gebied blijken zoek te zijn of te worden achtergehouden. Samen met drie Noren gaat hij toch op expeditie. Tijdens de tocht wordt hij geplaagd door zwermen muggen. Bovendien kan hij door de nooit ondergaande zon niet slapen. Halverwege de reis ontdekt hij dat een reisgenoot de door hem gezochte fotos bij zich draagt. De tocht verloopt dramatisch een van de jongens verongelukt. Het doet Alfred denken aan zijn vader die ook tijdens een expeditie het leven liet. Zijn motivatie om de verschrikkingen van een expeditie te weerstaan is het overtreffen van zijn vader. Tevergeefs, want hij komt zonder wetenschappelijk resultaat terug. Uitgave conform de 15e gewijzigde druk. Verzorgde gebonden editie. Kleine druk, krappe marge.br(Biblion recensie, Hans Renders.) (source Bol.com)
Author: Susie Scott
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This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying everyday life in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane micro level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes rituals and routines, social order, and challenging the taken-for-granted, with intriguing examples and illustrations. Theoretical approaches from ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism and social psychology are introduced and applied to real-life situations, and there is clear emphasis on empirical research findings throughout. Social order depends on individuals following norms and rules which are so familiar as to appear natural yet, as Scott encourages the reader to discover, these are always open to question and investigation. This user-friendly book will appeal to undergraduate students across the social sciences, including the sociology of everyday life, the sociology of emotions, social psychology and cultural studies, and will reveal the fascinating significance our everyday habits hold. **
Author: Zachary Michael Jack
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Most of us will never know what its like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So its our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they coverreturning with firsthand tales from inside the ropes. Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of todays best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the game.More than three dozen decorated writers take the field. Heirs apparent such as Tom Verducci, Jack McCallum, Melissa King, and Sam Walker join veterans Paul Gallico, George Plimpton, Davis Miller, Donald Katz, Tim Cahill, Grace Butcher, and James McManus in swinging for the journalistic fence. Together these thrill-seeking men and women capture the mojo of returning John McEnroes serve, taking a punch from Ali, paddling Jack Londons Alaskan river route, coaching the Phoenix Suns Steve Nash, umping Manny Ramirez. Forty eye-popping accounts offer the straight scoop as never beforenot just in the field but on it.**
Author: John R. Searle
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John R. Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas. They range widely across social ontology, where Searle presents concise and informative statements of positions developed in more detail elsewhere artificial intelligence and cognitive science, where Searle assesses the current state of the debate and develops his most recent thoughts and philosophy of language, where Searle connects ideas from various strands of his work in order to develop original answers to fundamental questions. There are also explorations of the limitations of phenomenological inquiry, the mind-body problem, and the nature and future of philosophy. This rich collection from one of Americas leading contemporary philosophers will be valuable for all who are interested in these central philosophical questions.Book DescriptionJohn Searle has made profoundly influential contributions to three areas of philosophy philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of society. This volume gathers together in accessible form a selection of his essays in these areas, and will be valuable for all who are interested in Searles work. About the AuthorJohn Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include Mind A Brief Introduction (2004), Consciousness and Language (2002) and Rationality in Action (2001, 2003).
Author: Christopher Thacker
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First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the codification of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the noble savage, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to primitive poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson. **
Author: Joanna Lillis
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Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putins Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinpings China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past and present. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, and travels across the length and breadth of this enigmatic country that lies along the ancient Silk Road and at the geopolitical and cultural crossroads where East meets West. Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically-struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering 21st-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life from strutting oligarch to sleeping villagers, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners.Traversing dust-blown deserts and majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities and dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives.**About the Author Joanna Lillis is a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia whose work has featured in the Guardian, The Economist and the Independent newspapers, the Eurasianet website and Foreign Policy and POLITICO magazines. Prior to settling in Kazakhstan in 2005, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan between 1995 and 2005, and worked for BBC Monitoring, the BBC World Services global media tracking service. While completing a BA in Modern Languages at the University of Leeds, she studied Russian in the Soviet republics of Belorussia and Ukraine before the collapse of the USSR, and has an MA in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Bradford.
Author: Lloyd L. Weinreb
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Legal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, urged by Edward Levi, Cass Sunstein, Richard Posner and others, which regards analogical reasoning as logically flawed or as a defective form of deductive reasoning. Lloyd Weinreb reveals that it is the same as the reasoning used routinely everyday--derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular, on which thought itself depends. Moreover, the use of analogical reasoning is dictated by the nature of law, which requires the application of rules to particular facts.ReviewThe author displays a rare ability to be concise and convincing, precise and gripping, ensuring that this book will serve as both a thought-provoking work to those familiar with legal thought and jurisprudence, and as an approachable book to legal novices. Harvard Law ReviewWeinreb has known where to put the spotlight on matters of criminal law and procedure, copywright, theories of natural law, environmental law and, in this case, pragmatic legal reasoning. The Law and Politics Book Review, Lief H. Carter, The Colorado College Book DescriptionLegal Reason describes and explains the process of analogical reasoning, which is the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view, which regards analogical reasoning as logically flawed or as a defective form of deductive reasoning. It shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as the reasoning used by all of us routinely in everyday life and that it is a valid form of reasoning derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular, on which thought itself depends.
Author: Antony Alumkal
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Explores the Christian Rights fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemy For decades, the Christian Rights high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert intelligent design creationism into public schools to climate change denial, efforts to cure gay people through conversion therapy, and opposition to stem cell research, the Christian Right has battled against science. How did this hostility begin and, more importantly, why has it endured? Antony Alumkal provides a comprehensive background on the war on sciencehow it developed and why it will continue to endure. Drawing upon Richard Hofstadters influential 1965 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Antony Alumkal argues that the Christian Right adopts a similar paranoid style in their approach to science. Alumkal demonstrates that Christian Right leaders see conspiracies within the scientific establishment, with scientists not only peddling fraudulent information, but actively concealing their true motives from the American public and threatening to destroy the moral foundation of society. By rejecting science, Christian Right leaders create their own alternative reality, one that does not challenge their literal reading of the Bible. While Alumkal recognizes the many evangelicals who oppose the Christian Rights agenda, he also highlights the consequences of the war on realityboth for the evangelical community and the broader American public. A compelling glimpse into the heart of the Christian Rights anti-science agenda, Paranoid Science is a must-read for those who hope to understand the Christian Rights battle against science, and for the scientists and educators who wish to stop it. **