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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. The Age of Outrage
    Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
  2. Beyond Sovereignty
    Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
  3. Blame the victim instead
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Blaming the victims of sexual assault.
  4. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  5. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  6. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  7. Converse
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    The role of church people in the correctional system.
  8. Crime
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
  9. Crime and Criminals
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
  10. Crime and Punishment in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
  11. Crime, Prison and Alternatives
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1978
  12. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  13. The Drugs Myth
    Why the Drug Wars Must Stop

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
  14. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
  15. The Illegals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1908
    For the anarchist, if he doesn’t care about bourgeois legality and honesty, must above all aim at preserving himself as long as possible for action and realizing to the greatest extent possible for himself the life he desires . His work, rather than appearing harmful and destructive, should be a work of life, a long apostolate of stubborn labor, of goodness, of love.
  16. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906   Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
  17. International conference on prison abolition
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
  18. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  19. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  20. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  21. Paradise Lost at Sea
    Rethinking Cruise Vacations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
  22. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  23. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  24. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  25. Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
  26. RCMP vs. the People
    Inside Canada' Security Service

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  27. The Real War on Crime
    The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system.
  28. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  29. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  30. Shadow boxing in the drug ring
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
  31. The Suburban Nation
    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
  32. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
  33. Thinking Outside the Box
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
  34. Towns for People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.

Experts on Crime in the Sources Directory

  1. International Court of Justice
  2. International Criminal Court
  3. International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
  4. Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.
  5. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
  6. University of Winnipeg



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