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The Crime of All Crimes

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In the Gender and Political Violence series WINNER OF THE 2014 DIVISION OF WOMEN AND CRIME DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY)

Breaking Women Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

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The Culture of Punishment Prison, Society, and Spectacle

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POLITICS The Twilight of Social Conservatism

From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business

JILL A. MCCORKEL

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Criminology Goes to the Movies

Punishment in Popular Culture

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Narrative Criminology Understanding Stories of Crime

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The Violence of Care

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A New Juvenile Justice System

TANYA MARIA GOLASH-BOZA

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The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases

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Focuses on how women cope with their no-exit sentences and explores how their lifetime imprisonment catalyzes personal reflection, accountability for choices, reconstruction of their stigmatized identities, and rebuilding of social bonds.

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Children, Sexuality, and the Law

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Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism

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Sex Worker Activism in Africa

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Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective

To Live Freely in This World

Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity

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Women Doing Life

Addressing Dramatic Shifts in Equality Jurisprudence

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Deported

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Adolescence, Discrimination, and the Law

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American Culture Wars in the Obama Era JOHN DOMBRINK

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Angel Patriots The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America ALEXANDER T. RILEY

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