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The Story of Cruel and Unusual

by Colin Dayan

ISBN: 9780262551960

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 30, 2024

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.

Whiteness

by Martin Lund

ISBN: 9780262544191

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

The socially constructed phenomenon of whiteness: how it was created, how it changes, and how it protects and privileges people who are perceived as white.

Carceral Capitalism

by Jackie Wang

ISBN: 9781635900026

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: February 23, 2018

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

The Privacy Advocates

Resisting the Spread of Surveillance

by Colin J. Bennett

ISBN: 9780262514873

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2010

An analysis of the people and groups who have emerged to challenge the increasingly intrusive ways personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated.