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Crime and prison

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

Carol S. Steiker

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

Hugo Adam Bedau

Law & Justice

Policing Disorder

Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?

Bernard E. Harcourt

Law & Justice, Race

Deadly Symbiosis

Rethinking race and imprisonment in twenty-first-century America.

Loïc Wacquant

Law & Justice, Politics

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

Loren Goldner

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