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Criminal Justice System
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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results65 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 4 Sources Library 9 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryAddiction and Control Skorodin, Morton Article 2009 Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in priso... Alternatives Article 1977 A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system. American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination Williams, Kristian Book 2006 A damning audit of the US record in underwriting human rights violations around the globe and at home, and about the centrality of rape, racism, and conquest to both the state and US national culture. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti Guthrie, Woody Audio 1946 An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed afte... Canadian Information Sharing Service: Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1978 The Capital Punishment Debate  Diemer, Ulli Article 1984 The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society. Connexions: Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 Connexions: Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 Connexions Digest: Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1988 Connexions Digest: Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1992 Convict Labor in America: Book review Ortiz, Paul Article 1998 Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and ... Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs": The Real Crime is the War Itself Nevins, Joseph Article 2012 Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is... Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail Darrow, Clarence Article 1902 So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousan... Crime and Punishment in America: Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will Currie, Elliott Book 1998 Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem. Deaths in Custody and Detention: Volume 33, No. 4 (2006) of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order Serial Publication (Periodical) 2006 A special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders' institutions). ... Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits: Six-part article Fitts, Catherine Austin Article 2006 Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches. Execution Day in Zhengzhou Hongda , Wu; Creger, John Article 1991 A first-hand account of an execution day in China. Eye for an Eye Griswold, Jack; Misenheimer, Mike; Powers, Art; Tromanhauser, Ed Book 1970 Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system. Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime Rodriguez, Dylan Book 2005 The dramatic rise and consolidation of America's prison system has devastated lives and communities, but it has also transformed prisons into sites of political discourse and resistance, as they have ... The foreign victims of criminal injustice Tatchell, Peter Article How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice. The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the U. S. Prison System Lichtenstein, Alexander C.; Kroll, Michael A. Book 1990 The economic role of the US Prison System examined. History is a Weapon: Lockdown America in 22 Minutes Parenti, Christian Audio 2001 A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correcti... Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion James, Joy (ed.) Book 2003 Anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals. In Conflict with the Law: Women and the Canadian Justice System Adelberg, Ellen; Currie, Claudia Book 1994 Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Fut... In Russian and French Prisons Kropotkin, Peter Book 1906 Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. Intractable: Hell Has a Name: Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison Matthews, Bernie Book 2006 A firsthand account spanning two generations of high-security confinement in the 1970s NSW Australian prison system. Jails for Jesus Shapiro, Samantha M. Article 2003 President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons? Justice Behind the Walls: Human Rights in Canadian Prisons Jackson, Michael Book 2003 An account of the state of justice in Canadian prisons, weaving together the threads of correctional history, penal philosophy, landmark court decisions, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and legisl... Live From Death Row Abu-Jamal, Mumia Book 1995 A collection of prison writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer after a dubious trial. Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis Parenti, Christian Book 1999 Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of... Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA Article 2007 More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Ind... A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System Article 1976 Outline of the council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments. The Movement Comes to Jena: Against The Current vol. 131 Dubinsky, Joanna Article 2007 The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2... The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle Book 2010 Argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass race-based incarceration as a system of social control. No Longer Barred From Prison Culhane, Claire Book 1991 An account of one individual's determined efforts to get inside prisons to see what is actually happening there. As her story makes clear, the penal system cannot tolerate such close scrutiny: she her... Obama's Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People Quigley, Bill; Warren, Vince Article 2010 The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees wh... Prison Abolition & Alternatives: Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists Article 1976 A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives. The Prison-Industrial Complex Schlosser, Eric Article 1998 Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars "the majority of them nonviolent offenders" mean jobs for depressed regio... Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man: Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995 Erlich, Reese Article 1995 Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America. Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor Herivel, Tara; Wright, Paul Book 2002 Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system. Prisons in Canada Gosselin, Luc Book 1996 Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on co... Quaker Prison Committee: A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee Morris, Ruth Article 1977 A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged. Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows: Against The Current vol. 131 Miah, Malik Article 2007 Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white populatio... Race, Incarceration, and American Values Loury, Glenn C., with Pamela Karlan, Tommie Shelby and Loïc Wacquant Book 2008 Glenn Loury argues that the extraordinary mass incarceration rate in the USA is not a response to rising crime rates. Instead, it is the product of a decision to become a more punitive society. He con... Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System Quigley, Bill Article 2010 The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission Donziger, Steven R. Book 1996 A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system. The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement Cummins, Eric Book 1994 A history of California's prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror Parenti, Christian; Rossetti, Chip (eds.) Book 2004 Parenti explores the history of American surveillance from colonial times to the present. What this historical evidence clearly reveals is a continuum of the culture of surveillance. The weakest, most... Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire Perkinson, Robert Book 2010 A history of imprisonment, race, and politics from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most locked-down state in the USA. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition Article 2013 A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The article... Trial of Leonard Peletier Jim Messerschmidt Book 1990 An examination of Peletier's role in the American Indian Movement, his struggle to protect the rights and land of his people and the history and role of the FBI. Messerschmidt traces the evolution of ... Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada Boctor, Lillian Film/Video 2013 Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since chil... Two Systems of Justice: One for the Corporate Class; One for the Rest of Us Mokhiber, Russell Article 2011 We have two systems of justice. One for the corporate class. And one for the rest of us. Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance Faith, Karlene Book 1994 Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of ... The Violence of Incarceration Scraton, Phil; McCulloch, Mude (eds.) Book 2008 Argues that the revelations of extreme brutality perpetrated by allied soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo represent the inevitable end-product of domestic incarceration predicated on the us... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesHistory & Policy History & Policy:
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* Increases the influence of... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryThe Central Park Five - review Against The Current vol. 162 S., George 2013 A review of 'The Central Park Five', a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. Criminal Law & Crime Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to criminal law and crime in the Sources directory for the media. Life Sentence Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges) Blatchford, Christie 2016 Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, u... From the Connexions ArchivesBulletin of the Quaker Jails and Justice Committee Vol. 1 No. 5 Bishop, Elaine; Harkins, Kathy (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1977 Irregularly published newsletter outlining some of the current concerns and activities of the Quaker Committee. The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Periodical profile published 1989 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1989 Native Courtworkers and Counselling Association of British Columbia Organization profile published 1977 Organization 1977 The Native Courtworkers and Counselling Association of British Columbia was formed in 1973 in response to the fact that whereas Indians represented 5 per cent of the general population, they represent... Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Organization profile published 1982 Organization 1982 QUAKER COMMITTEE ON JAILS AND JUSTICE (AQCJJ) holds, as its long-term goal, the abolition of prisons; that is the building of supportive community which has no need of prisons. A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter Serial Publication (Periodical) 1979 A newsletter that argues against capital punishment. |
