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Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era

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Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era
How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway
Michael O'Hear

“Serious students of modern sentencing reforms—as well as everyone eager to understand the roots of, and potential responses to, modern mass incarceration—must have this book on their reading list. O’Hear thoroughly canvasses the dynamic story of Wisconsin’s uniquely important sentencing reform history.”
—Douglas Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog

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Power without Restraint
The Post-9/11 Presidency and National Security
Chris Edelson

“A clear and powerfully argued direct comparison of the policies and rhetoric of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, demonstrating that they are more alike than different in their approaches to combating terrorism.”
—Michael A. Genovese, author of The Power of theAmerican Presidency

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American Surveillance
Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Anthony Gregory

“A cogent synthesis of the history of American surveillance and of its conflict with the right to privacy enshrined in the federal Constitution. Thoroughly researched and eloquent, American Surveillance traces government surveillance from colonial times to beyond 9/11.”
—William J. Cuddihy, author of The Fourth Amendment

Eclipse of the Assassins
The CIA, Imperial Politics, and the Slaying of Mexican Journalist Manuel Buendía
Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley
Fall 2015

From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua, Translated by Don E. Webster, Foreword by Scott Straus
Fall 2015

Words of Witness
Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era
Angela A. Ards
Fall 2015

Amending the Past
Europe’s Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
Alexander Karn
Fall 2015

Shaping the New Man
Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Alessio Ponzio
Fall 2015

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Jelmer Vos
Fall 2015

Protest on the Page
Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent
Edited by James L. Baughman, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, and James P. Danky
Spring 2015

Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly Duke Bryant
Spring 2015

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Mai Na Lee
Spring 2015

Drift and Mastery
An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Walter Lippmann
Spring 2015

Historical Justice and Memory
Edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson
Spring 2015

The Social Origins of Human Rights
Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s Oil Capital, 1919–2010
Luis van Isschot
Spring 2015

Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014

A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics
William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839–1917
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2014

An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
DeWitt Clinton Poole, Edited by Lorraine M. Lees and William S. Rodner
Fall 2014

Memory’s Turn
Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
Rebecca J. Atencio
Spring 2014

Archiving the Unspeakable
Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Michelle Caswell
Spring 2014

In a New Century
Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life
John D’Emilio
Spring 2014

Russian-Ottoman Borderlands
The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
Spring 2014

The Cross of War
Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War
Matthew McCullough
Spring 2014

Into New Territory
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
James G. Morgan
Spring 2014

The Human Rights Paradox
American Historians and the Concept of US Imperialism
Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Spring 2014

Through the Day, through the Night
A Flemish Belgian Boyhood and World War II
Jan Vansina
Spring 2014

The Education of an Anti-Imperialist
Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion
Richard Drake
Fall 2013

Emergency Presidential Power
From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror
Chris Edelson
Fall 2013

Afterimage of the Revolution
Cumann na nGaedheal and Irish Politics, 1922–1932
Jason Knirck
Fall 2013

The Government of Mistrust
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Ken MacLean
Fall 2013

Whispering Truth to Power
Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda
Susan Thomson
Fall 2013

Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013

Cold War University
Madison and the New Left in the Sixties
Matthew Levin
Spring 2013

American Evangelicals and the 1960s
Edited by Axel R. Schäfer
Spring 2013

Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Dean A. Strang
Spring 2013

Channeling the Past
Politicizing History in Postwar America
Erik Christiansen
Fall 2012

Against the Tide
Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
Sandra Lazo de la Vega and Timothy J. Steigenga
Fall 2012

How Difficult It Is to Be God
Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999
Carlos Iván Degregori, Edited and with an introduction by Steve J. Stern
Fall 2012

Negotiating Empire
The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898–1952
Solsiree del Moral
Fall 2012

The Shadow of a Year
The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory
John Gibney
Fall 2012

From the Womb to the Body Politic
Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia
Anna Kuxhausen
Fall 2012

Endless Empire
Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, America’s Decline
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, Josep M. Fradera, and Stephen Jacobson
Fall 2012

The Postcolonial State in Africa
Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010
Crawford Young
Fall 2012

Genocide Lives in Us
Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda
Jennie E. Burnet
Spring 2012

Screen Nazis
Cinema, History, and Democracy
Sabine Hake
Spring 2012

Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia
Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw
Brian LaPierre
Spring 2012

Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2012

Mau Mau’s Children
The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
David P. Sandgren
Spring 2012

Thailand’s Political Peasants
Power in the Modern Rural Economy
Andrew Walker
Spring 2012

The Enemy of the New Man
Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
Lorenzo Benadusi
Fall 2011

The University and the People
Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
Scott M. Gelber
Fall 2011

The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948
A Documentary History
Edited by Eran Kaplan and Derek J. Penslar
Fall 2011

Countercultural Conservatives
American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to the New Christian Right
Axel R. Schäfer
Fall 2011

Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream
Establishing the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Harold C. Jordahl Jr., with Annie L. Booth
Spring 2011

Defeat Is the Only Bad News
Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931
Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges, Edited by David Newbury
Spring 2011

Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011

The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010

For Labor, Race, and Liberty
George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
Bruce L. Mouser
Fall 2010

Spain
A Unique History
Stanley G. Payne
Fall 2010

The Victorious Counterrevolution
The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War
Michael Seidman
Fall 2010

Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
Fall 2010

The Politics of Necessity
Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa
Elke Zuern
Fall 2010

African Women Writing Resistance
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin
Spring 2010

Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010

Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010

Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal
Alienation, Participation, and Modernity
Shannon L. Mariotti
Fall 2009

Some Measure of Justice
The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s
Michael R. Marrus
Fall 2009

Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

Dance and the Nation
Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka
Susan A. Reed
Fall 2009

An Uncompromising Generation
The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
Michael Wildt, Translated by Tom Lampert
Fall 2009

Emerson’s Liberalism
Neal Dolan
Spring 2009

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines
Vina A. Lanzona
Spring 2009

Colonial Crucible
Empire in the Making of the Modern American State
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
Spring 2009

Democracy in Print
The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009
Edited by Matthew Rothschild
Spring 2009

The Presidents We Imagine
Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online
Jeff Smith
Spring 2009

La Grande Italia
The Myth of the Nation in the Twentieth Century
Emilio Gentile
Fall 2008

Unsafe for Democracy
World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent
William H. Thomas Jr.
Fall 2008

Wisconsin Votes
An Electoral History
Robert Booth Fowler
Spring 2008

From Rebellion to Riots
Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
Jamie S. Davidson
Spring 2008

Autobiography and Decolonization
Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Philip Holden
Spring 2008

Human Goodness
Yi-Fu Tuan
Spring 2008

Anthropology Goes to War
Professional Ethics and Counterinsurgency in Thailand
Eric Wakin
Spring 2008

With Honor
Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics
Dale Van Atta
Spring 2008

Margaret Fuller
Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age
Edited by Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli
Fall 2007

The Flight of the Condor
Stories of Violence and War from Colombia
Translated and compiled by Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards, Foreword by Hugo Chaparro Valderrama
Fall 2007

Power in Colonial Africa
Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960
Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Fall 2007

Raising Hell for Justice
The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
David R. Obey
Fall 2007

Science and the University
Edited by Paula E. Stephan and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Fall 2007

Shaping Science and Technology Policy
The Next Generation of Research
Edited by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz
Fall 2006

Pretext for Mass Murder
The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2006

Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2005

The Slow Failure
Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973
Mary E. Daly
Fall 2005

The New Political Sociology of Science
Institutions, Networks, and Power
Edited by Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore
Fall 2005

Lowering the Bar
Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture
Marc Galanter
Fall 2005

Kicking and Screaming
Dragging Ireland into the 21st Century
Ivana Bacik
Spring 2005

Greater Milwaukee’s Growing Pains, 1950–2000
An Insider’s View
Richard W. Cutler
Spring 2005

Envisioning Brazil
A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States
Edited by Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Spring 2005

Business Confronts Terrorism
Risks and Responses
Dean C. Alexander
Fall 2004

Politics in the Laboratory
The Constitution of Human Genomics
Ira H. Carmen
Fall 2004

In the Land of Orpheus
Rural Livelihoods and Nature Conservation in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Barbara A. Cellarius
Fall 2004

The Rise and Fall of HMOs
An American Health Care Revolution
Jan Gregoire Coombs
Fall 2004

Recalling the Revolution
Memoirs of a Filipino General
Santiago V. Alvarez, Translated by Paula Carolina S. Malay
Spring 2004

The Inferno
A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile
Luz Arce, Translated by Stacey Alba Skar
Spring 2004

The Man from Clear Lake
Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson
Bill Christofferson
Spring 2004

Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 1
Concepts of Regionalism
Edited by Lothar Hönnighausen, Marc Frey, James Peacock, and Niklaus Steiner
Spring 2004

Inventing a Hero
The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio
Glenn Anthony May
Spring 2004

An Anarchy of Families
State and Family in the Philippines
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004

Lives at the Margin
Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2004

Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, Volume 2
Forms of Regionalism
Edited by James Peacock, Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke Ortlepp, and Niklaus Steiner
Spring 2004

Cultured Force
Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Barnett Singer and John Langdon
Spring 2004

Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia, 1892–1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman
Fall 2003

Yugoslavism
Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992
Edited by Dejan Djokic
Spring 2003

Sinn Féin
A Hundred Turbulent Years
Brian Feeney
Spring 2003

Iran
From Religious Dispute to Revolution
Michael M. J. Fischer
Spring 2003

Worship and Wilderness
Culture, Religion, and Law in Public Lands Management
Lloyd Burton
Fall 2002

Creating Spaniards
Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Sandie Holguín
Fall 2002

Beyond Earth Day
Fulfilling the Promise
Gaylord Nelson, with Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak
Fall 2002

We Alone Will Rule
Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency
Sinclair Thomson
Fall 2002

Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Jacobo Timerman, with a new introduction by Ilan Stavans
Fall 2002

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic
From Britain’s Renaissance to America’s New World
Kenneth Robert Olwig
Spring 2002

Education and Democracy
The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964
Adam R. Nelson
Spring 2001

Fieldwork Dilemmas
Anthropologists in Postsocialist States
Edited by Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick
Fall 2000

A Poverty of Imagination
Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform
David Stoesz
Fall 2000

Children Who Could Have Been
The Legacy of Child Welfare in Wealthy America
William M. Epstein
Fall 1999

When Government Was Good
Memories of a Life in Politics
Henry S. Reuss, With a Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith
Spring 1999

The Crusade for Justice
Chicano Militancy and the Government’s War on Dissent
Ernesto B. Vigil
Spring 1999

Who Owns America?
Social Conflict over Property Rights
Edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
Fall 1998

The Making of a Chicano Militant
Lessons from Cristal
José Angel Gutiérrez
Fall 1998

Indigenism
Ethnic Politics in Brazil
Alcida Rita Ramos
Fall 1998

Exploring Forgiveness
Edited by Robert D. Enright and Joanna North, With a Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Spring 1998

Academic Freedom on Trial
100 Years of Sifting and Winnowing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Edited by W. Lee Hansen
Spring 1998

The Cristal Experiment
A Chicano Struggle for Community Control
Armando Navarro
Spring 1998

Tropes of Politics
Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action
John S. Nelson
Spring 1998

Welfare in America
How Social Science Fails the Poor
William M. Epstein
Fall 1997

In the Realms of Gold
Pioneering in African History
Roland Oliver
Fall 1997

Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
Edited and Translated by Jack Zipes
Fall 1997

Splintered Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
Susan E. Marshall
Spring 1997

Reel Patriotism
The Movies and World War I
Leslie Midkiff DeBauche
Spring 1997

The Politics of Proverbs
From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes
Wolfgang Mieder
Spring 1997

Chippewa Treaty Rights
The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin’s Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective
Ronald N. Satz, With a Foreword by Rennard Strickland
Spring 1997

Russian Religious Thought
Edited by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard Gustafson
Fall 1996

Postwar Politics in the G-7
Orders and Eras in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Byron E. Shafer
Fall 1996

The Healthiest City
Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform: Wisconsin Edition
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Fall 1996

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops
Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields
Miriam Goheen
Spring 1996

State and Party in America’s New Deal
Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol
Fall 1995

After the USSR
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Anatoly M. Khazanov
Fall 1995

Folk Law
Essays in the Theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta
Edited by Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes
Fall 1995

Readings in American Health Care
Current Issues in Socio-Historical Perspective
Edited by William G. Rothstein
Fall 1995

The Game of Death in Ancient Rome
Arena Sport and Political Suicide
Paul Plass
Spring 1995

Fetal Rights, Women’s Rights
Gender Equality in the Workplace
Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
Spring 1995

Living Under Contract
Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts
Spring 1994

The La Follettes of Wisconsin
Love and Politics in Progressive America
Bernard A. Weisberger
Spring 1994

The Quills of the Porcupine
Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana
Jean Marie Allman
Fall 1993

Prescribing the Life of the Mind
An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
Charles W. Anderson
Fall 1993

Legislative Intent and Other Essays on Politics, Law, and Morality
Gerald C. MacCallum, Edited by Marcus G. Singer and Rex Martin
Fall 1993

Behind the Throne
Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898–1968
Edited by Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber
Fall 1993

The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism
The Nation-State at Bay?
Edited by Crawford Young
Fall 1993

Critical Theories of the State
Marxist, Neomarxist, Postmarxist
Clyde W. Barrow
Spring 1993

Race in America
The Struggle for Equality
Edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr.
Spring 1993

Spain’s First Democracy
The Second Republic, 1931–1936
Stanley G. Payne
Spring 1993

The Reagan Range
The Nostalgic Myth in American Politics
James Combs
1993

The Politics of Pensions
A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940
Ann Shola Orloff
Fall 1992

Political Attitudes over the Life Span
The Bennington Women after Fifty Years
Duane F. Alwin, Ronald L. Cohen, and Theodore M. Newcomb
Fall 1991

Colonial Situations
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
Fall 1991

Privatization and Its Alternatives
Edited by William T. Gormley, Jr.
Spring 1991

Watch on the Right
Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era
J. David Hoeveler Jr.
Spring 1991

Let’s Make a Deal
Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation
Herbert M. Kritzer
Spring 1991

Polpop 2
Politics and Popular Culture in America Today
James Combs
1991

Women, the State, and Welfare
Edited by Linda Gordon
Fall 1990

What’s Left?
The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Right
Diane Rubenstein
Fall 1990

Unemployment Insurance
The Second Half-Century
Edited by W. Lee Hansen and James F. Byers
Fall 1989

Race, Class, and Education
The Politics of Second-Generation Discrimination
Kenneth J. Meier, Joseph Stewart, Jr., and Robert E. England
Fall 1989

Inwardness and Existence
Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx, and Freud
Walter A. Davis
Spring 1989

The Rights of Nature
A History of Environmental Ethics
Roderick Frazier Nash
Spring 1989

Politics and the Muse
Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature
Edited by Adam J. Sorkin
1989

State Policy Choices
The Wisconsin Experience
Edited by Sheldon H. Danziger and John F. Witte
Fall 1988

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State
State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States
Peter K. Eisinger
Fall 1988

The Organizational State
Social Change in National Policy Domains
Edward O. Laumann and David Knoke
Fall 1987

Politics and Ambiguity
William E. Connolly
Spring 1987

Poverty Policy and Poverty Research
The Great Society and the Social Sciences
Robert H. Haveman
Spring 1987

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Political Writings
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Translated and edited by Fredrick Watkins; Foreword by Patrick Riley
Fall 1986

The Rhetoric of Economics
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Fall 1985

The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State
Crawford Young and Thomas Edwin Turner
Spring 1985

The Basque Insurgents
ETA, 1952–1980
Robert P. Clark
Spring 1984

Fascism
Comparison and Definition
Stanley G. Payne
Spring 1980

The American Jeremiad
Sacvan Bercovitch
Spring 1979

Republican Portugal
A Political History, 1910–1926
Douglas L. Wheeler
Spring 1978

The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
The Significant Chapters and Supporting Selections
Translated by Henry Bertram Hill
Fall 1961

La Follette’s Autobiography
A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences
Robert M. La Follette
1960