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The Frankfurt School in New Times

Longstanding debates about neoliberalism in the United States center around whether it has created a culture of entrepreneurial selfhood or a carceral state. Credit, Cops, and Cages presents a novel theory and relevant empirical evidence arguing that capitalist individualism combines both of these tendencies.
The book's interdisciplinary authors first derive a critical framework and set of social-psychological hypotheses from the long-neglected criminological writings of the early Frankfurt School. They then test and explore these hypotheses with new data and analyses in a series of chapters that guide the reader down the ladder of capitalist individualism. In the process, the authors synthesize and critically examine scholarship of Constitutional law; big data on indebtedness, segregation, and police militarization; psychological surveys capturing and comparing attitudes and emotions around debt and policing; and the intimate testimony of those who are deeply in debt or are currently incarcerated. Unique in its combination of philosophy and social scientific research, this book restores the relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas and methods to a comprehensive understanding of contemporary U.S. society.

A Theory of Capitalist Individualism

Credit, Cops, and Cages

Key Ideas in Law

This book explores the law, philosophy, and wider implications of that brief but highly consequential moment when a judge imposes sentence on a convicted offender. Sentencing is one of the most contested aspects of contemporary criminal justice. It is an important field of study, both as an instance of coercive state power over the citizen and as the point at which the statutory purposes of punishment are given public expression. Focusing on England and Wales, with occasional comparative reference to sentencing practice around the world, topics include the legal and ethical implications of pleading guilty, the origin and development of sentencing guidelines, and the 'ordinary' language in which the sentence itself must be pronounced in open court. Tensions arise over the appropriate treatment of cohorts including the young, racialised, mentally disordered, and dangerous, and the disparate outcomes such treatment can generate.At a time of unprecedented crisis - from the phenomenon of 'sentence inflation' 50 years in the making, to the criminal court backlog, to an overcrowded prison estate - the book concludes with an appraisal and critique of the Sentencing Act 2026. The Act was pitched as a once-in-a-generation attempt at substantive justice reform, but its precise impact remains to be seen. Key Features · Offers an original account of a field in transition, equipping readers with a rich and robust evidence base · Reconciles classical theories of punishment with modern case law and sentencing practice · Comparative insights provide perspective and distance, enabling readers to form their own views on a complex field

Key Ideas in Sentencing

“There is no them, there is only us.” “Margulies tells the stories of people who have done monstrous things but are not monsters, are not forever defined by their worst acts. He writes beautifully of pain and loss, but also of redemption and transformation….A wonderfully hopeful book about what it means to be human.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking In Cast Out, civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are one of us and should be judged in a spirit of forgiveness. He explains that American society is too often unforgiving, preferring to cast out those we consider irredeemable by fixating narrowly on the question, “What did they do?”, and imagining that those who have done great wrongs have no past worth learning and no future worth preserving. But judgment in a forgiving spirit demands that we ask, “What happened?” What brought a human being to this place. Through intimate interviews, his rich chapters bring to life six men and women, sharing their (sometimes brutal) crimes, the grim but all-too-human paths that led them there, and their evolution and insights. Eye-opening and unflinching, Cast Out makes us truly see those society locks away—the so-called “worst of the worst”. It challenges the reader to see us in them and them in us, and in that way, to recognize the humanity we all share.

“There is no them, there is only us.” “Margulies tells the stories of people who have done monstrous things but are not monsters, are not forever defined by their worst acts. He writes beautifully of pain and loss, but also of redemption and transformation….A wonderfully hopeful book about what it means to be human.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking In Cast Out, civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are one of us and should be judged in a spirit of forgiveness. He explains that American society is too often unforgiving, preferring to cast out those we consider irredeemable by fixating narrowly on the question, “What did they do?”, and imagining that those who have done great wrongs have no past worth learning and no future worth preserving. But judgment in a forgiving spirit demands that we ask, “What happened?” What brought a human being to this place. Through intimate interviews, his rich chapters bring to life six men and women, sharing their (sometimes brutal) crimes, the grim but all-too-human paths that led them there, and their evolution and insights. Eye-opening and unflinching, Cast Out makes us truly see those society locks away—the so-called “worst of the worst”. It challenges the reader to see us in them and them in us, and in that way, to recognize the humanity we all share.

A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration

Cast Out

Die Digitalisierung stellt die Strafprozesspraxis vor neue Herausforderungen, im Hinblick auf behördliche Ermittlungsbefugnisse, die Masse an elektronischem Beweismaterial sowie die Dokumentation der Hauptverhandlung. Dabei rücken aber auch die Grundsätze des Strafprozesses selbst neu in den Blick.&nbsp;Im Sinn einer echten Theorie-Praxis-Verklammerung bringt der Tagungsband Wissenschaft und Praxis in einen Dialog über den digitalen Strafprozess.

Die Digitalisierung stellt die Strafprozesspraxis vor neue Herausforderungen, im Hinblick auf behördliche Ermittlungsbefugnisse, die Masse an elektronischem Beweismaterial sowie die Dokumentation der Hauptverhandlung. Dabei rücken aber auch die Grundsätze des Strafprozesses selbst neu in den Blick.&nbsp;Im Sinn einer echten Theorie-Praxis-Verklammerung bringt der Tagungsband Wissenschaft und Praxis in einen Dialog über den digitalen Strafprozess.

Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog

Digitales im Strafprozess

Cornerstone on...

Inquests and inquiries form a distinct area of law in which the aim of the tribunal is to discover what happened, rather than who is right, wrong, or at fault. Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries provides an accessible, go-to guide to this area of practice, useful for both practitioners and parties involved. It looks at the field as a whole, acknowledging the commonalities between inquests and public inquiries, and providing a practical approach to each. The book also covers the field of parliamentary inquiries.

Cornerstone on Inquests and Inquiries

Through a collection of carefully curated readings, The Law Behind the Wall: An American Corrections Anthology offers a critical exploration of the United States correctional system. It traces the history, philosophy, and structure of American corrections, examining the operation of jails and prisons, community supervision, juvenile detention, death row, and more. The anthology also illuminates theories of punishment and the social and ethical implications of correctional practice.

Bringing together diverse perspectives, the volume investigates the relationship between individual behavior and broader societal forces within the realm of corrections. Its selections address key themes such as mental and physical health challenges in confinement, equity in treatment for underrepresented groups, evaluation of prison education programs, and the enduring tension between punishment and justice. Each section includes learning objectives, discussion questions, and written assignments to support both student learning and faculty instruction. Designed to move beyond surface-level understanding, the anthology encourages thoughtful engagement with the complexities and contradictions of modern corrections.

The Law Behind the Wall is ideally suited for undergraduate courses in corrections, criminal justice, and criminology. It deepens students' comprehension of correctional philosophy, inmate experiences, and special populations within the correctional system, offering a comprehensive and pedagogically structured overview of the field.

An American Corrections Anthology

The Law Behind the Wall

UPDATED AND EXPANDEDOn a hot July night in 1995, Janet Downing was stabbed 98 times inside her Somerville, Massachusetts, home. Within hours, police identified 15-year-old Eddie O'Brien, the best friend of one of her sons, as the suspect.Eddie had no criminal history, no clear motive, and no apparent opportunity. Yet his case emerged during a national panic over juvenile "superpredators," when Massachusetts officials were pushing to prosecute more children as adults. His highly publicized trial helped change the state's juvenile laws.Attorney Margo Nash, appointed as Eddie's guardian ad litem, attended every court session and later gained access to the case files, forensic reports, and trial transcripts. Her conclusion was disturbing: Eddie could not have committed the murder.In this expanded second edition of The Politics of Murder, Nash goes deeper into newly unearthed evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, withheld exculpatory material, and manipulated forensic findings.Was Eddie O'Brien used to advance a political agenda? What will it take to overturn his wrongful conviction?

The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case"

The Politics Of Murder 2nd Edition

Beacon Classics

The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of the color line. --from the new Preface First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters was a national best-seller, and it has since become a groundbreaking classic on race in America. Race Matters contains West's most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans, as it helps us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.

The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of the color line. --from the new Preface First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters was a national best-seller, and it has since become a groundbreaking classic on race in America. Race Matters contains West's most powerful essays on the issues relevant to black Americans today: despair, black conservatism, black-Jewish relations, myths about black sexuality, the crisis in leadership in the black community, and the legacy of Malcolm X. And the insights that he brings to these complicated problems remain fresh, exciting, creative, and compassionate. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americans, as it helps us to build a genuine multiracial democracy in the new millennium.

Race Matters

Longstanding debates about neoliberalism in the United States center around whether it has created a culture of entrepreneurial selfhood or a carceral state. Credit, Cops, and Cages presents a novel theory and relevant empirical evidence arguing that capitalist individualism combines both of these tendencies. The book's interdisciplinary authors first derive a critical framework and set of social-psychological hypotheses from the long-neglected criminological writings of the early Frankfurt School. They then test and explore these hypotheses with new data and analyses in a series of chapters that guide the reader down the ladder of capitalist individualism. In the process, the authors synthesize and critically examine scholarship of Constitutional law; big data on indebtedness, segregation, and police militarization; psychological surveys capturing and comparing attitudes and emotions around debt and policing; and the intimate testimony of those who are deeply in debt or are currently incarcerated. Unique in its combination of philosophy and social scientific research, this book restores the relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas and methods to a comprehensive understanding of contemporary U.S. society.

What if we abolished police, courts, and prisons? Where would we turn for justice? Do we need laws? Punishment? These questions are not just the preoccupation of an abolitionist pipedream. Their answers already exist, if only we know where to look.
Professor Sitrin introduces readers to communities worldwide that resolve harms and conflicts without looking to the state or the judiciary. The book focuses on alternative forms of justice, peace-keeping, and adjudication in selected locations, with particular attention to indigenous and women-led movements from across Mexico, Argentina, Rojava, and the USA. Marina Sitrin traces how each came to be and examines the theoretical and political underpinnings of the process.
We Make Our Own Justice&nbsp;allows the reader to reflect on how these alternative forms of justice and adjudication have been planted and nurtured over time-often over decades-and to consider the possibilities for other communities and regions to produce something similar. We Make Our Own Justice offers an invaluable resource, fostering optimism and open-mindedness as we seek to transform our neighborhoods, groups, and communities into abolitionist spaces, both in theory and in practice.

Global Alternatives to Policing and Prisons

We Make Our Own Justice

This book examines criminal justice from the complementary vantage points of forensic science, law, and criminology, through perspectives from India. It showcases original work with practical implementation and comprehensive reviews for future developments. Its eighteen original contributions offer readers from all three communities a substantive yet accessible engagement with the questions that define the pursuit of justice in 21st century, and deliberately builds bridges across disciplinary boundaries that too often remain separate.&nbsp; The book explores its themes along two closely intertwined lines of inquiry. On the scientific and technological front, it examines machine learning in document forensics, nuclear and metabolomic techniques in toxicological analysis, three-dimensional crime scene reconstruction, the deepfake challenge in the Indian context, and digital forensics in financial cybercrime. On the legal and criminological front, it addresses rape perpetration, domestic violence, prisoner mental health and suicidality, post-incarceration social reintegration, probation theory, capital punishment, euthanasia attitudes, and the role of forensic and medical evidence in proceedings of Supreme Court of India, together painting a picture of a justice system navigating profound human and procedural challenges. The readers who find important learnings in this volume include forensic scientists, legal professionals, law enforcement practitioners, criminologists, policymakers, academicians, and students who seek a holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of how science, law, and society converge in the administration of criminal justice.

This book brings together studies in forensics, law and criminology, which are all equally essential for a fair criminal justice system. It gives a comprehensive view to a wide variety of readers from the three communities across the globe to connect the dots which link all these three subjects, thus catalyzing interdisciplinary collaborations. The book explores the topics through four themes -- exploring forensic science in the 21st century; looking at law and criminal justice in the new millennium; contemporary trends in criminology; and, medico-legal aspects of human identification.The readers who will find important learnings in the book include scientists, legal and law enforcement practitioners, academicians and students to create a holistic environment for cumulative and collaborative approach towards the criminal justice system.

Perspectives from India on Empowering Criminal Justice in 21st Century

Trends in Forensics, Law and Criminology

The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley

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