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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known...
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Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply...
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Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$164.99$164.99 - $164.99Current price $164.99| /Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into the trends and ...
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With a New Foreword The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped...
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Representation, Resistance and the Digiqueer: Fighting for Recognition in Technocratic Times
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /Digital media technologies have enabled some LGBTQ+ individuals and communities to successfully organize for basic rights and justice. But these te...
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Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimagining Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /This accessible book introduces the key concepts and theoretical developments of queer criminology and explains what they mean for modern criminal ...
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Queer Victimology: Understanding the Victim Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This book provides a much-needed focus on the victimization experiences of those within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, intersex, o...
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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes: Glimpses of China's Hidden Past
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China's hidden past through the native's point...
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Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /China's Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped global notions of surveillance, making it into European Union legislation and hundreds of ...
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Gender-Based Violence, Law, and African Society
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book offers contemporary perspectives on the different forms of gender-based violence in Africa through a legal, cultural, and sociological le...
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, h...
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, h...
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican ...
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Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1992, at the end of a twelve-year civil war, El Salvador was poised for a transition to democracy. Yet, after longstanding dominance by a smal...
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I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to...
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Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government’s response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled majo...
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Life on Drugs in Iran: Between Prison and Rehab
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /When they initiated a war on drugs in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world's harshest drug penalties and as an opponent of...
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Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from the American Library Association Selected as one of “The ...
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Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from the American Library Association Selected as one of “The ...
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Uprising
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From the authors of Nation Conscious Rap comes a powerfully raw, intimate history of gang life in South Central L.A. In detailed interviews, gang m...
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKSLONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ...
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The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-...
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The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings-...
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Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A powerfully moving book that "could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations" (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purp...
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