Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massi…
"Every year, approximately 13 million Americans are charged with misdemeanor offenses. Those cases make up the vast majority--over 80 percent--of the US criminal system. While the crimes are typically minor, the punishments often ruin people's lives. Although we now recognize ma…
"This book challenges the dominant approach to problems of justice in global normative theory and offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing i…
"This book challenges the dominant approach to problems of justice in global normative theory and offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing i…
Preface -- Why do the haves have and the -- Have-nots have less? -- Why are drivers in other countries so much worse than back home? -- Why are there more workers than patrons at this coffee house? : the tradeoff between capital and labor -- $50 billion to ride the bus!?! -- How…
"The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thou…
"Each year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes. In this groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, Gwilym David Blunt argues that the only people who will end this injustice are its victims, and that the global poor have the right to resist the causes of poverty.…
Über mehrere Jahre hat Geoffroy de Lagasnerie den Verhandlungen in einem Pariser Gericht beigewohnt. Er beobachtete, wie Menschen wegen Raub, Mord, Vergewaltigung oder Körperverletzung angeklagt und verurteilt wurden. Ausgehend von dieser eindringlichen Erfahrung, setzt er zu ei…
A frank analysis of the medical and emotional inequalities that pervade the healthcare process for critically ill children Families who have a child with a life-threatening illness face a daunting road ahead of them, one that not only upends their everyday lives, but also strike…
