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  • Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in the Second Decade of the 21st Century in the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe
    Daurius Figueira
    This work is an analysis of the power relations between Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) and the apex trafficking States of the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Venezuela, French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe in the second decade of the 21st Century. This analysis focuses on the business models of TOC groups involved in these apex trafficking states of the Caribbean Basin, ...
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    15,93 €

  • My Letter to Dr. William (Bill) Henry Cosby
    Marilyn Louise Steede / Marilyn Steede
    Marilyn Louise Steede’s My Letter to Dr. William (Bill) Henry Cosby acknowledges the internationally renowned celebrity who took a well-publicized turn from being famous to infamous.This book is not what is customarily presented by authors, i.e., being the judge, jury, and executioner regarding Bill Cosby’s current plight. Rather it is written from the objective of recognizing ...
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    7,63 €

  • Culture, Crime and Punishment
    Ronald Kramer
    This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place. It describes and discusses the field’s theoretical and methodological foundations, its links to other theoretical traditions, and its limits and criticisms. By exploring substantive areas s...
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    60,41 €

  • Culture, Crime and Punishment
    Ronald Kramer
    This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place. It describes and discusses the field’s theoretical and methodological foundations, its links to other theoretical traditions, and its limits and criticisms. By exploring substantive areas s...
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    193,69 €

  • American Evil
    Eric Cullen
    Based on clinical experience of killers. Includes a selection of USA/UK serial killer studies. Exposes police and other failings and shortcomings and the perversity of ‘defences’, ‘excuses’, etc. Strongly critical of USA gun laws and attitudes or perspectives making for an unhealthy environment, moral vacuum and lack of official/individual awareness and responsibility.Dr Eric C...
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    36,06 €

  • Mothering from the Inside
    Kelly Lockwood
    The book takes a holistic approach to highlight and explore the range of issues specifically associated with mothering and imprisonment, from sentencing, through custody to resettlement and focusing on the perspective of mothers and their children. ...
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    142,83 €

  • Death in Custody
    Dr Jo Easton
    Death in Custody shows that procedural justice theory is relevant for participation in processes investigating human rights violations. It includes key recommendations on how to ensure participation can be fair and effective. ...
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    142,77 €

  • Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
    The fifteen chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance discuss a number of issues researchers in the fields of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice theorize, conceptualize, and measure racialization and counter-radicalization. ...
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    174,32 €

  • Law in popular belief
    Anthony Amatrudo
    This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the law. ...
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    37,06 €

  • Online Anti-Rape Activism
    Rachel Loney-Howes
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book examines the nature, use and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism, offering a critical commentary on its limitations and potentials. ...
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    46,20 €

  • Women in American Prisons
    Jessie L. Krienert / Jessie LKrienert / Mark S. Fleisher / Mark SFleisher
    A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors. ...
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    96,25 €

  • Women in American Prisons
    Mark S. Fleisher / Mark SFleisher
    A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors. ...
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    129,48 €

  • Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice
    Anthony Walsh / Lee Ellis / Richard D. Hartley / Richard DHartley
    The second edition of Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. This text offers a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply the methods and concepts discussed to a multitude of scenarios. Within the first five chapters, ...
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    194,93 €

  • Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice
    Anthony Walsh / Lee Ellis / Richard D. Hartley / Richard DHartley
    The second edition of Research Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. This text offers a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply the methods and concepts discussed to a multitude of scenarios. Within the first five chapters, ...
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    96,18 €

  • Feeling the heat
    Alan March / James Ogloff / Janet Stanley
    In the context of climate change, world population growth and crashing ecological systems, wildfire is often a catastrophic and traumatic event. Its impact can include loss of life, life-changing injuries, long-term psychological stress; increases in domestic violence; destruction of properties, business and livestock; long-term housing insecurity; increased insurance premiums,...
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    58,79 €

  • Banished
    G Cledwyn Jenkins / G. Cledwyn Jenkins
    Banished presents a detailed review of the sex offender; the pedophile and the child molester, and directly explores his thinking processes, reasoning and related issues that offer a clear and concise exposé in these most hated people. In addition to covering the adult offender, this work also exemplifies the thought processes of child and adolescent offenders in order to offer...
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    69,73 €

  • A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic
    Bruno Meini
    In the world of the 21st century, epidemics are common biological and social occurrences, with HIV perhaps emphasising this better than any other disease. Medical scientific research has undoubtedly made significant steps forward; meanwhile, the social research field is still in its initial stages, with many awaiting an equally auspicious response. A Socio-Criminological Analys...
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    58,60 €

  • Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry
    William Muth
    Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry: Presencing as a Framework and Method asks scholars, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners to rethink family reentry in a new light, to seek to understand both the urgent and intolerable loss as well as the real and present potential of families. There are almost one million parents of minor-aged children currently serving time in U.S....
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    54,22 €

  • Video Games, Crime and Next-Gen Deviance
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy. ...
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    45,95 €

  • The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change
    Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change.|Emerald Studies in Criminology, Fe...
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    280,22 €

  • Jack Katz
    David Polizzi
    This book is a timely re-introduction to the work and life of one of criminology’s more respected theorists, Jack Katz, to the next generation of thinkers in this field. For nearly 40 years, his work has offered an alternative philosophical perspective to study crime and criminal behavior that is not defined by quantitative method or approach. ...
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    143,35 €

  • Imprisoned by Fear
    Kathy Lange
    Byron Smith moved back to his family home in Little Falls, Minnesota, to care for his elderly mother and enjoy a quiet retirement from the US State Department. On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Byron shot and killed two teens who broke into his home by breaking a bedroom window. It was the sixth burglary in less than six months. Previous burglaries included over fifty thousand dollars ...
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    14,98 €

  • Uncontrollable Blackness
    Douglas J. Flowe / Douglas JFlowe
    Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, b...
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    41,16 €

  • Uncontrollable Blackness
    Douglas J. Flowe / Douglas JFlowe
    Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the lives of these men, whose lawful conduct itself was often surveilled and criminalized, b...
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    126,68 €

  • The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book II
    Deana Pollard Sacks
    Following her first groundbreaking work, The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein, Professor Deana Pollard Sacks now takes on two other monstrous sex abusers: Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Sacks not only presents their dark stories of fraud, manipulation, and coercion, but she broadens the perspective to reveal the other types of abuse commonly aimed at women, si...
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    15,34 €

  • The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide
    Martha Smithey
    This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of ’good’mothering. ...
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    53,32 €

  • The Citizen and the State
    Angus Nurse
    The Citizen and the State examines the conflict between criminal justice and civil liberties from a critical criminology perspective. It argues that far from being a search for truth or justice, contemporary criminal justice represents the power of the state against the individual. ...
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    143,10 €

  • Contemporary Criminological Issues
    Contemporary Criminological Issues tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts.This book advances cutting-edge theories and methods, with the aim of moving beyond the scholarship that reproduces insecurity and exclusion.The breadth of approaches encompasses muc...
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    56,86 €

  • Punishing the Black Body
    Dawn P. Harris
    Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and classed bodies on the receiving end of punishment. Dawn P. Harris uses theories of...
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    36,91 €

  • Lookout For Shorts
    Garrett Phillips
    An arrest and conviction for trafficking ecstasy can be comical. The character-strewn path of corrections that followed is entertaining and enlightening. This is the story of a 'book-learnin’ smart-ass' who endured a three-year minimum-security tour of the slammer and lived to make fun of it. And who emerged a humbled and better man.Lookout For Shorts is a departure from hardco...
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    11,52 €


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