Uncertain Justice
Fixing the Problems with the Police, Prisons, Immigrants, Opioids, and the Divisions in America
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Paul Brakke
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Why is there so much uncertainty about how to reduce crime and fix what’s wrong with the criminal justice system?
How can we make these fixes and lower the high costs of incarceration? Uncertain Justice discusses recent problems and suggests some fixes.
To this end, it presents a commentary based on a recent series of press releases on current issues and is divided into these sections:
- Improving citizen-police relationships
- Promoting prison reform and better prison sentencing
- Healing the divisions in American society
- Dealing with illegal immigration
- Coping with the opioid crisis
- Portraying the criminal justice crisis in popular culture
- Using a social media and video campaign to help fix the criminal justice system.
The chapters in each section highlight what’s wrong in response to recent developments in legislation, in the news, and in research reports.
Then, each chapter concludes with some suggestions for reforming the system.
Today, these fixes are needed more than ever, given the spiraling costs of crime and imprisoning too many prisoners for much longer than necessary.
As the book describes, we need to have as many productive, understanding, legal, law-abiding citizens as possible to move the country forward.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world". Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started off great but devolved into case study
- De normal person en 10-16-21
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Locking Up Our Own
- Crime and Punishment in Black America
- De: James Forman Jr.
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics - and their impact on people of color - are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Book
- De Andrew en 12-13-17
De: James Forman Jr.
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A Savage Order
- How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
- De: Rachel Kleinfeld
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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From Georgia to Colombia to Ghana and Italy - crime exists in every democratic nation on earth, but in some places, it runs rampant, shaping all aspects of civic life. A Savage Order investigates why and how some places, riddled by inept government and states, are able to recover. Drawing on fifteen years of both academic and firsthand field research, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld documents the unambiguous measures that societies have taken to empower the strong civic movements, governments, and institutions that protect countries and mitigate atrocities that damage people's lives.
De: Rachel Kleinfeld
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Losing Ground
- American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and discrimination. Using widely understood and accepted data, it conclusively demonstrates that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made matters worse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A great book ruined by a terrible recording
- De Michael en 04-05-13
De: Charles Murray
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Please Stop Helping Us
- How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
- De: Jason L. Riley
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,131
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 977
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer Black college graduates than would otherwise exist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De Ken Larsen en 02-15-15
De: Jason L. Riley
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Dog Whistle Politics
- How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
- De: Ian Haney López
- Narrado por: Eric Yves Garcia
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 366
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 362
In Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney Lopez offers a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. Dog-whistle appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect the heartland against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote to slash taxes for the rich.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration like verbal water boarding
- De Mark Andreadis en 08-31-15
De: Ian Haney López
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Con Job
- How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division
- De: Crystal Wright
- Narrado por: Crystal Wright
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Black voters have overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party for the last fifty years - and for their loyalty, black Americans have been rewarded with worsening schools, collapsed families, skyrocketed incarceration rates, disappearing jobs, and rising crime. Crystal Wright, editor of the blog Conservative Black Chick, exposes how the Democratic Party has systematically betrayed black voters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome!
- De Tracy en 05-11-16
De: Crystal Wright
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The Complacent Class
- The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- De: Tyler Cowen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 254
Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist, and best-selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition - we're working harder than ever to avoid change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ
- De RJW en 05-06-17
De: Tyler Cowen
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Automating Inequality
- How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- De: Virginia Eubanks
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding, Through, Well Researched Book!
- De LISA en 07-11-24
De: Virginia Eubanks
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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- De: Mitchell Duneier
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- De Jean en 12-10-16
De: Mitchell Duneier
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- De: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For a very select audience
- De Andrew en 12-28-17
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American Psychosis
- How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
- De: E. Fuller Torrey
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
E. Fuller Torrey's audiobook provides an inside perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. On staff at the National Institute of Mental Health when the program was being developed and implemented, Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the program, extensive research, one-on-one interviews with people involved, and recently unearthed audiotapes of interviews with major figures involved in the legislation. As such, this book provides historical material previously unavailable to the public.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devastating analysis on US mental health policy!
- De Kevin en 07-13-14
De: E. Fuller Torrey
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Beyond the Messy Truth
- How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
- De: Van Jones
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
In Beyond the Messy Truth, Jones offers a blueprint for transforming our collective anxiety into meaningful change. Tough on Donald Trump but showing respect and empathy for his supporters, Jones takes aim at the failures of both parties before and after Trump's victory. He urges both sides to abandon the politics of accusation and focus on real solutions. Calling us to a deeper patriotism, he shows us how to get down to the vital business of solving, together, some of our toughest problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I never hated anyone before
- De Joanna Bugajska en 11-17-17
De: Van Jones
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Prey
- Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
- De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrado por: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 205
In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali presents startling statistics, criminal cases and personal testimony. Among these facts: In 2014, sexual violence in Western Europe surged following a period of stability. This violence isn’t a figment of alt-right propaganda, Hirsi Ali insists, even if neo-Nazis exaggerate it. It’s a real problem that Europe—and the world—cannot continue to ignore. She explains why so many young Muslim men who arrive in Europe engage in sexual harassment and violence, tracing the roots of sexual violence in the Muslim world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Feminist Must-Read
- De Annie Raks en 02-26-21
De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Socialist Temptation
- De: Iain Murray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Just 30 years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away — and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Full Of Important Insights
- De Ralph Alderson en 12-17-20
De: Iain Murray