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ALTERNATIVE CRIMINOLOGY SERIES

General Editor
Jeff Ferrell

The Alternative Criminology series addresses and encourages the ongoing development of new criminological perspectives that challenge conventional understandings of crime, justice, and social control. The series is founded on an eclectic, cutting-edge sensibility that seeks to broaden mainstream criminological thinking.

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featured books:    
  Empire of Scrounge Terrorist Identity

published:

Our Bodies, Our Crimes
The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
Jeanne Flavin

Graffiti Lives
Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground
Gregory J. Snyder

Terrorism as Crime
From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
Mark S. Hamm

The Terrorist Identity
Explaining the Terrorist Threat
Michael P. Arena and Bruce A. Arrigo

Empire of Scrounge
Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging
Jeff Ferrell

Prison, Inc.
A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison
K.C. Carceral, edited by Thomas J. Bernard

Pissing on Demand
Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry
Ken D. Tunnell

forthcoming:

Crimes of Dissent
Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice and the Politics of Conscience
Jarret S. Lovell

The Culture of Punishment
Prison, Society, and Spectacle
Michelle Brown