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Anyon, J. (1997) Ghetto schooling:  A political economy of urban educational reform. NY: Teachers College Press.

Brosio, R.A., (1994) A radical democratic critique of capitalist education. N.Y.: Peter Lang

Foucault, M.(1977) Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. Random House

Garland, D. (ed) (2001) Mass imprisonment: Social causes and consequences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

James, A., Bottomley, A.K., Liebling, A. etc. (1997). Privatizing prisons: Rhetoric and reality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Jewkes, Y. (2004). Media and crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Parenti, C. (2000) Lockdown America: Police and prisons in the age of crisis. Verso Books

Reiman, J. (1995). The rich get richer and the poor get prison:  Ideology, crime, and criminal justice. (4th ed). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon

Shelden, R. (2001). Controlling the dangerous classes:  A critical introduction to the history of criminal justice. Needham Heights: MA Allyn & Bacon

Welche, M. (2004) Ironies of imprisonment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Young, I. (1990).  Social justice and the politics of difference.  New Jersey: PrincetonUniversity

 

 

 

 

 

 

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