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.

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#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...

• Clear, modern-language adaptation—same plot and characters • Easy-to-navigate chapters with a clean, readable layout • Ideal for students and book clubs tackling Dostoevsky In the sweltering streets of St. Petersburg, former student Rodion Raskolnikov convinces himself that one bold act can solve his poverty—and prove a chilling theory about who deserves to live. When he murders a pawnbroker, the crime doesn’t bring freedom. It brings feverish guilt, paranoia, and a tightening net of suspicion led by the shrewd investigator Porfiry Petrovich. This Lumos Books edition is ...

"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 ...

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.

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...

Everyone knows the Ripper as a phantom in a top hat. What the Whitechapel workhouse ledgers actually reveal is that the real killer was poverty — Jack just signed the death certificates. If you've read every Ripper book that promises to finally reveal his identity, this is not that book. In this book, you'll read the inquest transcripts, the workhouse admission ledgers, and the police case files that four hundred "true suspect" books skip past on their way to another theory — and you'll come away understanding the case better than any of them. You are about to read a documentary history...

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 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 ...

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!

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools...

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...

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...

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...

Lady is forced to grow up fast when she and her siblings are abandoned by their drug-addicted mother. Raised by their grandparents, they were taught the values of life and responsibility in Newark, NJ.Her first love, Jungle, introduced her to the streets, love, and every part of the game until his untimely disappearance. Boogie, Reek, and Blackjack look out for Lady as she is forced to survive the escalating violence around her. With the streets saying that Blackjack and his brother Ripper had set Jungle up, Boogie and Reek put together a murderous plot to get revenge. As the bodies stack ...

Mary Catherine Hampton, a sixteen-year-old farm girl from Kentucky, yearning for a more glamorous experience in life, is enticed by Sonny, a young man traveling through her home own, and runs off with him to see a bigger world. It does not take long for her to learn that she has made a big mistake, trusting her future to this slippery deceiver. She is yet to learn that all evil does not reside in the psychopath with whom she is traveling. Even the system that is meant to protect its citizens, will turn against her. To whom can she turn? Where will she turn? How can she re-create the life ...

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...

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.