Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime
by William J. Chambliss, Westview Press, 1999
Review by Rick Card
"There is ... a huge chasm," says William Chambliss in his book, Power, Politics, & Crime , "between the reality of crime, the public's perception of it, and the information being disseminated to ...
by Joel Dyer, Westview Press, 2000 (318 pages)
Reviewed by Rick Card
An estimated 69 million people, or 44 percent of all households now own stock or invest in one of thousands of mutual funds. According to Joel Dyer, they are all "deriving at least a small portion of their ...
By Alfred W. McCoy
Lawrence Hill Books, 1991
Review by Rick D. Card
Imagine America, the great crusader against illicit drugs, a nation willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its citizens in the name of its War on Drugs. Now imagine that same sovereign secretly allied with known drug ...
by Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project,The New Press, 1999, 224 pages
Review by Rick Card
If understanding the social, political, and financial issues associated with our nation's massive prison system was a solution in itself, Marc Mauer's book, Race to Incarcerate, would spell the end of the prison industrial ...
by Scott Christianson,Northeastern University Press, 1998
Review by Rick Card
Prisoners have played an important role in the entire story of America. From the founding of the New World by Christopher Columbus to the economic power of their cheap labor today, convicts are as germane to America as apple pie ...
by Lee Dickenson, Lost Coast Press, 1999, 161 pages
Review by Rick Card
In a sequel to The Sounding Tree, published last year [PLN, May 1999], Lee Dickenson now offers a bundle of unrelated tales about his experience as a Connecticut prison guard. The stories range from administrative incompetence to ...
by D.A. Shelton, News and Letters, 71 pages
Reviewed by Rick Card
"Criminals have become the 'bogeyman' so that corporate America can continue to commit atrocities against the proletariat throughout the nation and around the world," says David Shelton in Voices From Within the Prison Walls. In a book that ...
