Poverty Crime

In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in 11 African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration's War on Drugs, Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise of mass incarceration to an ironic source: the social welfare programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at the height of the civil rights era.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New...

As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished, in one of the richest countries on Earth we have effectively made it a crime to be poor.

Unlock the hidden dynamics behind criminal behavior with "The Economics of Crime." This compelling eBook delves deep into the intricate relationship between economic factors and criminal activities, offering a panoramic view of how our financial landscape shapes and influences crime rates. Begin your journey with an introductory exploration into the economic dimensions of crime, tracing historical studies and key theories that link economics and criminality. From there, navigate through the complex interplay between poverty and crime, examining the geographic disparities and insightful case...

This classic southern noir follows the seemingly dim-witted small-town sherriff Nick Corey as his bid for re-election takes him down a path of lies, manipulation, and deception. Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows...

On the morning of 31 August 1888, a carman named Charles Cross found a woman lying in Buck's Row. He thought she was a bundle of rags. Her name was Mary Ann Nichols. She was forty-three years old. She had five children, a failed marriage, a pair of cracked boots, and a new black bonnet she was enormously proud of. The night before she died, she laughed at the lodging-house deputy and told him she'd soon have her doss money. She never came back. Mary Ann Nichols sold her bonnet to pay for a bed. Annie Chapman made paper flowers with arthritic hands when her lungs allowed it. Elizabeth Stride...

The 11-year-old school bully has gone missing- seemingly vanished into thin air. Everyone says that they know nothing about her mysterious disappearance... ...everyone is lying. Nelly Chester gave a lot of people a lot of reasons to dislike her. She had no respect for authority; was a burden on her poverty-stricken parents; routinely broke all the rules and, worst of all, was a nasty, vicious and merciless bully. So when Nelly disappears from school one Friday afternoon, at first all fingers are pointed at the mother of one of her weakest victims... until the police discover that the ...

In the Thinlands, behind every throne, whispered voices plot the destruction of man, or so claims the Order of the Ashes. The second book of the Ashfyre Series, following A Work of Demons begins A Knife in Every Promise, weighing in at 323,000 words of Epic, Grimdark, and Dark fantasy. On the run, Selka and the deposed Prince Sadisar struggle to piece together what remains after betrayal fractures everything they knew. Selka carries a secret that could shift the balance of power itself, the stolen Witchstone, coveted by rulers across a myriad of nations. After the chaos in King Cerric’s ...

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life—and Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth in this hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons...

THE POLITE ENGLISH MURDER IS A COMFORTING FICTION. In the cosy world of golden-age detective novels, violence is a matter of inheritance, solved neatly in the library before supper. The reality of Britain’s industrial provinces between 1876 and 1959 operated by a considerably harder set of rules. Behind the soot-blackened brick of the terraced courts and the deafening roar of the cotton mills lay environments of crushing, unprecedented anonymity. Here, absolute poverty reduced human life to a calculable price, and predators could hide in plain sight among the shifting, exhausted ...

"Blacks are 13% but commit half of the crime!" Using statistics, facts, charts, arguments never heard before, and common sense, this book factually challenges many firmly held beliefs, such as “Blacks make up 13% of the population but commit half of the violent crimes.” Offering a comprehensive examination of street crime in America's inner cities, it navigates diverse topics with clarity. Drawing from various disciplines, the author explores how mental illness, systemic racism, black apathy, drugs, family breakdown, American values, and the financial gains from illicit activities fuel ...

Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current. From Poverty to Power is a concise and informative guide to the development of the human spirit. These two books in one: "The Path to Prosperity" and "The Way of Peace," are both inspirational and motivational!

Les Miserables is set in the Parisian underworld. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. After his release, Valjean plans to rob monseigneur Myriel, a saint-like bishop, but cancels his plan. However, he forfeits his parole by committing a minor crime, and for this crime Valjean is haunted by the police inspector Javert. Valjean eventually reforms and becomes a successful businessman, benefactor, and mayor of a northern town.

The Pharmaceutical State: How Governments and Corporations Turned Human Beings into Raw Material When a military veteran walked into the VA seeking help, he was offered a prescription instead of a conversation. That moment sparked a year-long investigation into a question most people never think to ask: How did we get here? The Pharmaceutical State traces a documented, unbroken line of medical exploitation from the plantation laboratories of the antebellum South to the strip-mall plasma centers of modern America. Drawing on declassified government records, congressional testimony, Nuremberg...

It doesn’t take long for Ray Spalding to realise that prison is nothing like an Elvis Presley movie. The warden has no intention of throwing a party and the only bands Ray encounters are gangs of hard men. When an old adversary seeks him out, Ray decides his only chance for survival is escape. Ray’s son, Jesse, is discovering that being on the run in the middle of winter is no fun. With his stamina stretched to the limits, he’s ready to surrender himself to social services. At least that way he can see his girlfriend again. Danny Boy is the man in the middle. He thinks he can break ...

Most twelve-year-old boys are preoccupied with comics and playing with their friends. Twelve-year-old Frank Heeney, however, is about to start three years of hell at Ireland’s notorious St. Joseph’s Industrial School in Letterfrack County Galway. St. Joseph’s is an inferno of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the administrators. Many children, some as young as four, die from such conditions and are secretly disposed of in the surrounding wilderness. As Frank spends three years at St. Joseph’s Letterfrack and two years at St. Patrick’s children’s prison, he is...

A small town in Oklahoma is haunted by a mystery that has held its residents in its grip for years in this mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Where the Heart Is. In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the...

Epic Fantasy. A bit of Grimdark. A touch of romance. Deep characters, big plots, and sword & sorcery. Welcome to the Freebooters. Freebooters 1 will stay at 1.99c to attract new readers to the massive series! The Witch and the Blade follows the journey of Eruch, the Twilight Blade, as he struggles to rebuild his shattered life in the wake of costly mistakes during the Libertan War (at the conclusion of the Espa Chronicle). Seeking redemption and purpose, Eruch joins the Freebooters, a millennia-old mercenary company that thrives on unorthodox methods and loyalty. Parallel to Eruch's story ...

Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D...