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Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2003 by Peter Wagner published in Prison Legal News October, 2003, page 7
Filed under: Reviews, Crime/Demographics, Crime. Location: United States of America.
by Nils Christie, Routledge Press (2000 Rev. Ed.) 244 pages, Paperback

Review by Peter Wagner


The heavily revised third edition (2000) of Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style is an essential guide to understanding the incarceration boom and considering how we can turn it around. The first book …

Book Review: Law and the Rise of Capitalism

Loaded on April 15, 2003 by Peter Wagner published in Prison Legal News April, 2003, page 27
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access, Judiciary. Location: United States of America.
by Michael E. Tigar & Madeleine R. Levy, New (2000) Edition by Michael E. Tigar, Monthly Review Press, 348 pages, $18.00

Review by Peter Wagner

Famed litigator and scholar Michael Tigar has reissued his 1977 classic Law and the Rise of Capitalism with a new introduction and afterword that contains …