Law, Meaning, and Violence

Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment by David von Drehle

Among the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment

Law, Meaning, and Violence

David von Drehle

469 pages • paperback

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Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement by Helena Silverstein

Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Helena Silverstein

320 pages • hardcover

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Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence by Peter Goodrich, David Gray Carlson

Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Peter Goodrich, David Gray Carlson

328 pages • hardcover

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The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the "big House," 1920-1955 by Charles Bright

The Powers That Punish: Prison and Politics in the Era of the "big House," 1920-1955

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Charles Bright

326 pages • hardcover

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The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India by Jinee Lokaneeta

The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Jinee Lokaneeta

262 pages • hardcover

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From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State by Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn

From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn

256 pages • paperback

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Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control by John Gilliom

Surveillance, Privacy, and the Law: Employee Drug Testing and the Politics of Social Control

Law, Meaning, and Violence

John Gilliom

190 pages • paperback

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Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters Between Law and Colonialism by Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan

Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters Between Law and Colonialism

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Jennifer Balint, Julie Evans, Nesam McMillan

218 pages • hardcover

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The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law by Nasser Hussain

The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law

Law, Meaning, and Violence

Nasser Hussain

194 pages • hardcover

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The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish by William Lyons

The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish

Law, Meaning, and Violence

William Lyons

256 pages • paperback

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