To understand California's deep and durable penal crisis, we must examine the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the labor union. Drawing on years of intensive research, Page uses the lessons of the CCPOA to explore how actors create, shape, and protect their preferred status quo.
The Toughest Beat uses the rise of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the state's powerful prison officers' union, to explore the actors and interests that have created, shaped, and protected the Golden State's sprawling, dysfunctional penal system -- and how it might yet be transformed.
The history of criminal justice in the U.S. is often described as a pendulum, swinging back and forth between strict punishment and lenient rehabilitation. While this view is common wisdom, it is wrong. In Breaking the Pendulum, Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps systematically debunk the pendulum perspective, showing that it distorts how and why criminal justice changes. The pendulum model blinds us to the blending of penal orientations, policies, and practices, as well as the struggle between actors that shapes laws, institutions, and how we think about crime, punishment, and related issues. Through a re-analysis of more than two hundred years of penal history, starting with the rise of penitentiaries in the 19th Century and ending with ongoing efforts to roll back mass incarceration, the authors offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing penal development. Their agonistic perspective posits that struggle is the motor force of criminal justice history. Punishment expands, contracts, and morphs because of contestation between real people in real contexts, not a mechanical "swing" of the pendulum. This alternative framework is far more accurate and empowering than metaphors that ignore or downplay the importance of struggle in shaping criminal justice. This clearly written, engaging book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and scholars seeking to understand the past, present, and future of American criminal justice. By demonstrating the central role of struggle in generating major transformations, Breaking the Pendulum encourages combatants to keep fighting to change the system.
Ashton’s fifth grade class settles into the classroom. Ms. Dusenbury starts the discussion of career week. The kids are really interested in it and want to learn more. Ashton knows very little about what his dad does so he goes home and says, “Dad, what do you do?” Ashton could have never imagined all the really cool things that his dad gets to do every day and all the really cool tools he gets to use. This is such a great week at school, and all the kids get to learn what their moms and dads do. What does your daddy do?
Juliet's fifth grade class settles into the classroom. Mr. Phillips starts the discussion of career week. The kids are really interested in it and want to learn more. Juliet knows very little about what her mom does, so she goes home and says, "Mom, what do you do?" Juliet could have never imagined all the really cool things that her mom gets to do every day and all the really cool tools she gets to use. This is such a great week at school, and all the kids get to learn what their moms and dads do. What does your mommy do?
In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.
Meagan Drew is shocked when memories surface during therapy: she had been High Priestess of a satanic cult, whose members now serve on the President's Cabinet. This cabal must kill who she told and her. Dr. Luke Elliot, her therapist, must free her from the demonic spirits, heal the pain they caused, and keep her alive to expose the powerful elite
In August of 2022 EYE AM Publshing released EYE AM By Joshua Seldon which is a children's book of affirmations that help the youth learn more about themselves while having fun reading with there parents. Filled with beautiful colors and amazing illustrations. Each affirmation is unique to the reader because they get to get a perspective of what the affirmation means to the author and then on the following page the reader had the opportunity to write down what the affirmation means to them. Also within the book the word "EYE" is used instead of the letter "I" which directly refers to the pineal gland or what some may call the third eye chakra. From birth to 7 years old the pineal gland/third eye chakra is open during those young aged so children use their imagination, creativity, knowledge, and wisdom. The young mind is more susceptible to retaining knowledge and wisdom as well other things for what they are allowing them to create their reality and let their imagination run wild. Often time, based on the experiences we may have faced during our young and innocent years, may experience things to create a different perspective in the mind. Which leads to changes in the way we see things and ultimately contribute to the development of our brain. EYE AM Publishing is here to say we are changing that narrative by creating books like EYE AM and a whole host of others in the future that will not only help guide and teach the youth but also open the eye in their mind to infinite possibilities. Us at EYE AM Publishing would like to thank you for your support, love, appreciation, and value of our works and we look forward to the bright future of our youth and continuously being the change we want to see in the world. Unity and Love Fam(ily) 💚🙏🏿
After an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Captain Midnight, a drunken Skyman accidentally kills an innocent man! Turns out he's not only an overly patriotic zealot; he's also a dangerous PR nightmare. Needing a new face for their initiative ASAP, the Skyman Program turns to US Air Force Sgt. Eric Reid: a wounded veteran on the ropes, looking for a new lease on life. But the new Skyman is nobody's stooge. They tried to make the perfect weapon, but they got a hero instead.
After an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Captain Midnight, a drunken Skyman accidentally kills an innocent man! Turns out he's not only an overly patriotic zealot; he's also a dangerous PR nightmare. Needing a new face for their initiative ASAP, the Skyman Program turns to US Air Force Sgt. Eric Reid: a wounded veteran on the ropes, looking for a new lease on life. But the new Skyman is nobody's stooge. They tried to make the perfect weapon, but they got a hero instead. Joshua Hale Fialkov is a writer of the Emmy-nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection and the Eisner-nominated Tumor.
Young life. Why do you carry guns and why do you carry the knife? Walking the streets now in your crew, getting stopped by boys in blue. Fighting and crime, thats all you see. Youre not even safe in your own community. Fighting in school got me kicked out, now Im on the streets dossing about. Getting in trouble and getting in strife finding some things to do with my life. Getting stopped and getting chased, oh my gosh now what a waste Walking on the streets I get pulled by a car. If you have a life like me you wont go far. Dave (15) Hope is rising within a generation I our community here in urban west Bradford. That hope shines out from the pages of this book. It is a hope that is giving young people the drive to achieve their dreams, to battle against circumstance so that they might impact their community, city and nation. The Joshua Project is a community organisation that is helping to welcome in this hope breakthrough by innovating inspirational reponses to the needs that young people in this area present. Dave (who wrote the rap above) has experienced that hope. Daves story is one of the many stories that is briefly spotlighted in this book, but there are many more. These stories have the power to turn your life upside down, they have the power to bring floods of tears to your eyes. Thats the health warning, now turn to the first page and enjoy.
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk of what we now know as the Talmud. This collection is not only massive; it is forbiddingly difficult and has accumulated numerous commentaries over the centuries since it first appeared. Recent translations have made it somewhat more accessible to English-language readers, but textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at tractate Zevachim (Sacrifices), which is mostly concerned with meat offerings slaughtered and presented at the Temple (when it stood). Joshua A. Fogel approaches the text, page by page, commenting with doses of humor and comparisons in a manner meant to explain and humanize the text for contemporary readers.
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