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The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant
The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge
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Loïc Wacquant

The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge

Loïc Wacquant

missing page info • missing pub info (editions)

Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear by Jonathan Simon

Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

Jonathan Simon

330 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution by Hannah Arendt

Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

Hannah Arendt

252 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Criminological Imagination by Jock Young

The Criminological Imagination

Jock Young

252 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
The Police and Society: Touchstone Readings by Victor E. Kappeler

The Police and Society: Touchstone Readings

Victor E. Kappeler

586 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives by Hans Toch, Shadd Maruna

Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

Shadd Maruna, Hans Toch

244 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

informative medium-paced
Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America by Randall G. Shelden

Controlling the Dangerous Classes: A History of Criminal Justice in America

Randall G. Shelden

367 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton

449 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

192 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

144 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

nonfiction business mathematics science informative fast-paced