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  Locked In - The True Causes of...

  John F. Pfaff

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  Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations—the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons—tell us much less than we think. 
   
   
   
  Pfaff urges us to look at other factors instead, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before. He describes a fractured criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no choice but to think differently about how to deal with people convicted of violent crimes—and why some people are violent in the first place.

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  Summary and Analysis of Profiles...

  Worth Books

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  So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Profiles in Courage tells you what you need to know—before or after you read John F. Kennedy’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of Profiles in Courage includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersDetailed timeline of key eventsImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work About Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy:   John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage takes an in-depth look at eight US senators who displayed courage by going against their political party’s platform and acting on integrity and convictions. These timeless stories of political courage and inner strength are no less poignant today than upon the book’s original publication in 1955.   The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.   

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  Prison Industrial Complex For...

  James Braxton Peterson

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  Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States.Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a “complex” in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower described the Military Industrial Complex. Like its institutional “cousin,” the Prison Industrial Complex features a critical combination of political ideology, far-reaching federal policy, and the neo-liberal directive to privatize institutions traditionally within the purview of the government. The result is that corporations have capital incentives to capture and contain human bodies.The Prison Industrial Complex relies on the “law and order” ideology fomented by President Nixon and developed at least partially in response to the unrest generated through the Civil Rights Movement. It is (and has been) enhanced and emboldened via the US “war on drugs,” a slate of policies that by any account have failed to do anything except normalize the warehousing of nonviolent substance abusers in jails and prisons that serve more as criminal training centers then as redemptive spaces for citizens who might re-enter society successfully.Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a primer for how these issues emerged and how our awareness of the systems at work in mass incarceration might be the very first step in reforming an institution responsible for some of our most egregious contemporary civil rights violations.

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  Rule-breakers – Why 'Being...

  Niamh Hourigan

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  Ireland is a nation on a value system that equates 'being good' with 'being there for each other'. As a society we favour 'minding our own' over 'doing what we're told'. So far, so Irish.It's become a commonplace to refer to the excesses of the Celtic Tiger years as an aberration, the product of a short-lived and inexplicable mania for cheap credit and unregulated consumption. But what if the roots of Ireland's economic crisis ran far deeper than the property boom or the hubris of the establishment elites who enabled it?In this, a ground-breaking survey of the Irish national character from its colonial history to its current day dramas, acclaimed sociologist Niamh Hourigan draws on a wealth of new and compelling research to reveal the fundamental conflict at the heart of the Irish society: that between our traditional faith in the politics of intimacy, all handshakes and favours, and the ruling systems in which we've invested power.The Ireland that emerges from her research is a country where outcomes are decided by who rather than what you know, and where – for good or for bad – rules are very much made to be broken.'Probing, perceptive and highly readable exploration of the Irish value system'J. J. Lee, New York University'Compulsively readable'Kathy Sheridan, The Irish Times'Lucid, engaging and persuasive … every politician should read this – and so should every voter'Colin Murphy, The Guarantee

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  How to Survive a Terrorist...

  Agency Federal Emergency...

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  Recent improvised explosive device (IED) and active shooter incidents reveal that some traditional practices of first responders need to be realigned and enhanced to improve survivability of victims and the safety of first responders caring for them. This multi-disciplinary edition translates evidence-based response strategies based on military experience in responding to and managing casualties from IED and/or active shooter incidents and from its significant investment in combat casualty care research into the civilian first responder environment. 
  Table of Contents:
  Executive Summary 
  Purpose 
  General Information:  
  Improvised Explosive Device 
  Active Shooter 
  Take an Active Role in Your Own Safety: 
  Explosions 
  Active Shooter Incident 
  First Responder for Improving Survivability in Improvised Explosive Device and/or Active Shooter Incidents 
  Background: 
  Defining First Responders 
  Defining the Threat 
  Military Lessons Learned and Civilian Adaptation 
  Improvised Explosive Device Incidents 
  Active Shooter Incidents 
  Hemorrhage Control 
  Protective Equipment 
  Response and Incident Management 
  Responder Guidelines: 
  Hemorrhage Control 
  Protective Equipment 
  Response and Incident Management 
  Summary 
  Threat-based Scenarios: 
  Large-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack 
  Medium-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Medium-scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Small Scale Terrorist/insurgency Attack  
  Involuntary Suicide Bomber  
  Discovery/recovery of Homemade Explosives (Not an Attack)  
  Active Shooter With Access Denial to First Responders  
  Active Shooter in a Public Commercial Facility  
  Active Shooter in an Open, Outdoor, Unbounded Location  
  Active Shooter in a Public Sports Complex 
  Provide First Aid After Improvised Explosive Device and/or Active Shooter Incidents 
  Stop the Bleeding and Protect the Wound
  First Aid for Specific Injuries
  List of Major Bombing Incidents in the United States 2007-2017 
  List of Major Mass Shootings in the United States 2007-2017

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  Confronting Empire

  Eqbal Ahmad

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  The Pakistani political thinker and activist shares his insight into global emancipatory politics in this interview collection—foreword by Edward W. Said. 
   
  Edward W. Said once urged the legendary Eqbal Ahmad not to “leave your words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who don’t have the privilege of knowing you will know what a truly remarkable, gifted man you are.” 
   
  Unfortunately, Ahmad died suddenly before Said's wish came to fruition. But in Confronting Empire, Ahmad's most provocative ideas are available to future generations of activists. In these intimate and wide-ranging conversations, Ahmad discusses nationalism, ethnic conflict, the politics of memory, and liberation struggles around the world.

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