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"What's not to like about the Victims' Rights Movement? What about the fact that it has led to excessive punishment and to increased racial disparity in sentencing? What about its false promises to crime victims that they will experience "closure" by participating in the criminal justice process?"--

"Grounded in the illuminating stories of immigrants facing deportation, the family members who support them, and the attorneys who defend them, this book invites readers to question matters of fairness and justice in immigration court and beyond"--

"Set within a Latina program at an Intimate Partner Violence crisis center, this book explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course"--

"Crip Authorship: Disability as Method convenes leading scholars, activists, and artists to explore the shaping of cultural production, aesthetics, and media by disability across 35 short chapters"--

"As Ethnic Studies grows across campuses, traditional disciplines need to change. Disciplinary Futures brings together leading scholars who explain why and how fields of study can learn from one another in order to advance research on race/racism, white supremacy, and racial justice"--

"This book puts wrongful convictions into a narrative and comparative context, showing that processes of narrativization affect how legal reality is constructed and function as their own kind of evidence-the desire to tell a convincing story is universal and can override the regulatory and procedural setup of any given system"--

"This edited volume brings together expert legal scholars to identify and critique jurisprudential themes running through Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's opinions during her tenure as a jurist, including opinions relating to gender equality, voting rights, copyright law, civil and criminal procedure, immigration law, environmental law, bankruptcy, and more"--

"How the rise of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video has changed television and film storytelling in countries around the globe"--

An important understanding of the role public opinion plays in crime prevention policy"Defund the police." This slogan became a rallying cry among Black Lives Matter protesters following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. These three words evoke a fundamental question about America's policy priorities: should the nation rely predominantly upon the branches of the criminal justice system to arrest, prosecute, and imprison offenders, or should the nation prioritize fixing structural causes of crime by investing more heavily in the infrastructure and institutions of disadvantaged communities? To put it simply, do Americans actually prefer punishment over crime prevention?The Politics of Crime Prevention examines American public opinion about crime prevention in the twenty-first century with a particular focus on how average citizens would choose to prioritize resources between the criminal justice system and community-based institutions. Kevin H. Wozniak analyzes differences of opinion across lines of race, social class, and political partisanship, and investigates whether people's willingness to invest in communities depends upon the kind of communities that would receive money. This book moves beyond criminologists' typical focus on public opinion about punishment that follows acts of crime to instead examine public attitudes toward crime prevention. In this brilliant and compelling study, Wozniak reveals that politicians profoundly underestimate the American public's desire to prioritize community investment and that it is long past time to help communities thrive instead of turning to the criminal justice system to respond to every social problem.

"This book employs archival research and theoretical insights on the organizational production of risk to examine the hazards of atmospheric atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site and radioactive fallout, and the effects on the communities lying downwind"--

"With blackmail, bombings and kidnappings terrorizing New York, courageous Italian immigrant detectives teamed up as the NYPD's Italian Squad. This explosive story follows them across the first two decades of the twentieth century as they battle increasingly powerful gangsters and deeply engrained prejudice against their beloved immigrant community"--

"Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change"--

"This interdisciplinary book compares legal responses to social parenthood, exploring how legal systems recognize adults-including same-sex partners, stepparents, nonmarital partners, grandparents, fictive kin, and other caretakers-who are parenting children, but who are not typically treated as legal parents"--

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of womenPatriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploited these confines, transforming constraints into vehicles of female empowerment. Through a close reading of thousands of legislative, judicial, and institutional pleas across seventy years of history in three urban centers, Jacqueline Beatty illustrates the ways in which women in the revolutionary era asserted their status as dependents, demanding the protections owed to them as the assumed subordinates of men. In so doing, they claimed various forms of aid and assistance, won divorce suits, and defended themselves and their female friends in the face of patriarchal assumptions about their powerlessness. Ultimately, women in the revolutionary era were able to advocate for themselves and express a relative degree of power not in spite of their dependent status, but because of it.Their varying degrees of success in using these methods, however, was contingent on their race, class, and socio-economic status, and the degree to which their language and behavior conformed to assumptions of Anglo-American femininity. In Dependence thus exposes the central paradoxes inherent in American women's social, legal, and economic positions of dependence in the Revolutionary era, complicating binary understandings of power and weakness, of agency and impotence, and of independence and dependence. Significantly, the American Revolution provided some women with the language and opportunities in which to claim old rights-the rights of dependents-in new ways. Most importantly, In Dependence shows how women's coming to consciousness as rights-bearing individuals laid the groundwork for the activism and collective petitioning efforts of later generations of American feminists.

"Why are American women freezing their eggs? Motherhood on Ice answers this question through the stories of more than 100 women who pursued fertility preservation. Egg freezing is women's technological solution to the mating gap--or the lack of eligible, educated, and equal partners who are ready for marriage and parenthood"--

"Leading scholars introduce key terms, concepts, and debates about the meanings of health and illness in relation to equity and disparity, race, gender, sexuality, and disability, infection and contagion, democracy and repression, and other urgent topics at the core of our pandemic-era world"--

Offers a compelling look at how Orthodox Jewish LGBT persons in Israel became more accepted in their communities.Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of about a decade and a half, Orthodox LGBT people have forged social circles and communities and become much more visible. This has been a remarkable shift in a relatively short time span. Queer Judaism offers the compelling story of how Jewish LGBT persons in Israel created an effective social movement.Drawing on more than 120 interviews, Orit Avishai illustrates how LGBT Jews accomplished this radical change. She makes the case that it has taken multiple approaches to achieve recognition within the community, ranging from political activism to more personal interactions with religious leaders and community members, to simply creating spaces to go about their everyday lives. Orthodox LGBT Jews have drawn from their lived experiences as well as Jewish traditions, symbols, and mythologies to build this movement, motivated to embrace their sexual identity not in spite of, but rather because of, their commitment to Jewish scripture, tradition, and way of life. Unique and timely, Queer Judaism challenges popular conceptions of how LGBT people interact and identify with conservative communities of faith.