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Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration
Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population.
After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons , he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety. Simply put, throwing away the key is not the answer.
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Organic Supplements
From the hair of a famous dead poet to botanical ornaments and
meat pies, the subjects of this book are dynamic, organic
artifacts. A cross-disciplinary collection of essays, Organic
Supplements examines the interlaced relationships between
natural things and human beings in early modern and
eighteenth-century Europe. The material qualities of things as
living organisms-and things that originate from living organisms-
enabled a range of critical actions and experiences to take place
for the people who wore, used, consumed, or perceived them.
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Navigation and Robotics in Spine Surgery
A unique how-to guide for spine surgeons on state-of-the-art computer-assisted navigation and robotic surgery techniquesThe past decade has seen major advances in image-guided spine surgery techniques, with robotically assisted approaches emerging in the last five years.
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SURFIN' VIETNAM
\"I even swam in the [Harold Holt] pool,\" says [Normie Rowe]. \"How ironic is that? Now I've played him in a film.\" \"Then they'd come back and tell the military police: `Hey, there's a Yank down there with a surfboard which belongs to our Amenities Unit', and the MPs would go and get it. \"Think about it. It was the least dangerous thing an Aussie could do while you were in the country. You could get a beer, you weren't taking drugs, you didn't have to carry a weapon, you weren't shot at and you didn't get the clap.\"
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Unfortunately, [Malcolm Bosse] has given his readers a recognizable version of us, rather than a 14th-century otherness, in his new novel, ''Captives of Time.'' This world is not an alien one shaped by the teachings of a universal church, or imbued with a sacred sense of history, but a more familiar post-Enlightenment one driven by a mechanistic conception: ''The world we live in is nothing less than a great clock set in motion by God.'' The important question is not how did God create this clock, but how to make it run by itself, driven by springs rather than by weights. Given the title and the plot about the construction of tower clocks in the late Middle Ages, the book could be self-consciously querying notions of chronological periods -how we are all prisoners of our historical moments. But rather than posing questions about the contrast between medieval and modern values, their extratemporal transcendence vs. our everyday carnality, Mr. Bosse has simply got some details mixed up and misemphasized so they don't quite fit into his 14th-century European setting. The uncle of his intrepid heroine, for instance, is at first called a ''gunsmith'' but actually turns out to be a rather more acceptably medieval armorer. While gunpowder came to Europe from China in the 13th century and ''ordnance'' was known in the 14th century, gunsmithing was not an ordinary trade. Also, on the way to her uncle, she meets a number of people who smoke tobacco in clay pipes. Again, while Turkish tobacco was known in the 14th century, smoking was not introduced to Western Europe on a scale that would bring it the status of anything like the unexotic until Sir Walter Raleigh imported it from Virginia. The clay pipes seem to have strayed into the book from colonial America.
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