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• Winner of Winner, 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association.

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There simply is not another book quite like this, making Lara-Milla'&n's work groundbreaking. * A.R.S. Lorenz, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *

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Armando Lara-Millan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is an ethnographer and historical sociologist. He studies how powerful organizations generate truths and rationalize problems, shaping the life fortunes of large numbers of people. He has undertaken studies in a wide range of contexts, including law, medicine, criminal justice, economic pricing, and urban poverty governance. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Criminology, and in the volume The Many Hands of the State. He is also the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, Law and Society Association, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Sociological Association.

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