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"Challenging Confinement is an examination of how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women's prisons during the era of mass incarceration"--
Women prisoners --- Reformatories for women --- Feminism --- Civil rights --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- History --- Activism. --- Battered Women. --- Clemency. --- Clubwomen. --- Detroit. --- Equality. --- Gender. --- Incarceration. --- Mass incarceration. --- Prison litigation. --- Prison. --- Race. --- Reform. --- Rights. --- Strike. --- Women.
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This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars--members of the Reparations Planning Committee--who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward. The first section of The Black Reparations Project crystallizes the rationale for reparations, cataloguing centuries of racial repression, discrimination, violence, mass incarceration, and the immense black-white wealth gap. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in economics, history, law, public policy, public health, and education, the second section unfurls direct guidance for building and implementing a reparations program, including draft legislation that addresses how the program should be financed and how claimants can be identified and compensated. Rigorous and comprehensive, The Black Reparations Project will motivate, guide, and speed the final leg of the journey for justice.
African Americans --- Racial justice --- Slavery --- Racism --- African Americans --- Reparations. --- Social conditions. --- Jim Crow. --- discrimination. --- economic history. --- education. --- how to economics guide. --- law. --- mass incarceration. --- public health. --- public policy. --- racial wealth gap. --- slavery. --- solutions to race inequality. --- unarmed Black people. --- what are reparations.
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"As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters too. Many of these governance problems wound up in court. Businesses filed claims with their insurance for lost commerce; when they were denied, some sued. Defense attorneys tried to get people released from prison, where people lived in dangerous conditions. As state governments ordered closures and otherwise tried to adapt, interest organizations that had long sought to limit government authority challenged them in court. Political officials railed against litigation they argued would stop businesses from reopening. The United States, like other countries, governs partly through litigation, and litigation is one way of seeing the multiple governance failures during the pandemic. Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and the websites of advocacy groups and law firms, Susan Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic, or in any disaster, must include the human institutions intertwined with the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters"--
COVID-19 (Disease) --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- 2020. --- COVID. --- Pandemic. --- SARS COV-2. --- civil rights. --- climate change. --- climate covid and expertise. --- closures due to COVID. --- conservative legal movements. --- courts. --- disaster cascade. --- disaster studies. --- experts expertise. --- face masks. --- free exercise of religion. --- governance. --- government authority. --- government officials. --- insurance. --- liability. --- mandates. --- mass incarceration. --- pandemic politics. --- politics of courts. --- private insurance. --- public health. --- rule of law.
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"How serialized crime shows became an American obsession TV shows and podcasts like Making a Murderer, Serial, and Atlanta Monster have taken the cultural zeitgeist by storm, and contributed to the release of wrongly imprisoned people--such as Adnan Syed. The popularity of these long-form true crime docuseries has sparked greater attention to issues of inequality, power, social class, and structural racism. More and more, the American public is asking, Who is and is not deserving of punishment, and who is and is not protected by the law? In The New True Crime, Diana Rickard argues that these new true crime series deserve our attention for what they reveal about our societal understanding of crime and punishment, and for the new light they shine on the inequalities of the criminal justice system. Questioning the finality of verdicts, framing facts as in the eye of the beholder--these new series unmoor our faith in what is knowable, even as, Rickard critically notes, they often blur the lines between "fact" and "fiction." With a focus on some of the most popular true crime podcasts and streaming series of the last decade, Rickard provides an in-depth analysis of the ways in which this new media--which allows for binge-listening or watching--makes crime into a public spectacle and conveys ideological messages about punishment to its audience. Entertainment values have always been entwined with crime news reporting. Newsworthy stories, Rickard reminds us, need to involve sex, violence, or a famous person, and contain events that can be framed in terms of individualism and conservative ideologies about crime. Even as these old tropes of innocent victims and deviant bad guys still dominate these docuseries, Rickard also unpacks how the new true crime has been influenced by the innocence movement, a diverse group of organizers and activists, be they journalists, lawyers, formerly incarcerated people, or family members, who now have a place in mainstream consciousness as DNA evidence exonerates the wrongly convicted. The New True Crime questions the knowability of truth and probes our anxieties about the "real" nature of true crime media. For fans of true crime shows and anyone concerned about justice in America, this book will prove to be essential reading."--
True crime stories. --- Crime in mass media. --- Judicial error. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Adnan Syed. --- Making a Murderer. --- Netflix. --- Paradise Lost. --- Sarah Koenig. --- The New Jim Crow. --- The Staircase. --- alternative facts. --- books about true crime. --- burden of proof. --- crime reporting. --- crime scene. --- criminal justice system. --- criminal justice. --- criminology. --- cultural criminology. --- ethics of true crime. --- evidence. --- false confessions. --- innocence. --- law. --- mass incarceration. --- media and crime. --- media studies. --- media. --- murder. --- police reform. --- popular culture studies. --- post truth. --- serial. --- social media. --- state harm. --- the innocence project. --- true crime docuseries. --- true crime podcast. --- true crime reporting. --- true crime. --- victim. --- wrongful conviction.
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