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        A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry

        by Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild

        Foreword by Winifred R. Poster

        Afterword by Winifred R. Poster

        ISBN: 9780262048699

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 13, 2024

        An illuminating collection of candid interviews and photographs with workers in America's burgeoning security state.
        Get Off My Neck

        Get Off My Neck

        Get Off My Neck

        Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform

        by Debbie Hines

        ISBN: 9780262048910

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 26, 2024

        A deeply revealing exposé of the American prosecutorial system and its historic and present racial inequities—and how we can transform the system to one of fairness and justice.
        Command and Persuade

        Command and Persuade

        Command and Persuade

        Crime, Law, and the State across History

        by Peter Baldwin

        ISBN: 9780262546027

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 2, 2023

        Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before?
        Bordered Lives

        Bordered Lives

        Bordered Lives

        Immigration Detention Archive

        by Mary Bosworth, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Christoph Balzar

        ISBN: 9783956793714

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        The experience of detention from the perspective of the immigrant, drawing on the fields of art, design, and criminology.
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