Bøger i Critical Issues in Crime and Society serien
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- Hate Crimes & State Crimes in the War on Terror
450,95 kr. Argues that the ""war on terror"" is a political charade that delivers illusory comfort, stokes fear, and produces scapegoats used as emotional relief. Drawing on topics such as the Abu Ghraib scandal, Guantanamo Bay, and the controversial Patriot Act, this work looks at the significance of knowledge, language, and emotion in a post-9/11 world.
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- A Year in the Life of Unit C
428,95 - 1.647,95 kr. This ethnographic text brings to light the challenges and complexities inherent in the US system of juvenile corrections. Building on over a year of field work at a boys' residential facility, the authors provide a context for contemporary institutions and highlight some of the system's most troubling tensions.
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- 428,95 kr.
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- Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government
501,95 kr. Brings together fifteen essays to show that those in positions of political and economic power frequently operate in collaboration, and are often all too willing to sacrifice the well-being of the many for the private profit and political advantage of the few.
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- 501,95 kr.
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- The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
431,95 - 1.398,95 kr. Explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice.
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- 431,95 kr.
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- Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
454,95 - 1.641,95 kr. After decades of the American ""war on drugs"" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women.
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- 454,95 kr.
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- How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
453,95 kr. - Bog
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426,95 - 1.643,95 kr. - Bog
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- 430,95 kr.
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- Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845
898,95 kr. - Bog
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- Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs
425,95 - 1.645,95 kr. - Bog
- 425,95 kr.
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- Cultures of Control in Public Education
436,95 kr. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools.
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- 436,95 kr.
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- Cultures of Control in Public Education
1.653,95 kr. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools.
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- 1.653,95 kr.
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- 451,95 kr.
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- Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
378,95 kr. Explores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, and sex offenders.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
353,95 - 1.398,95 kr. - Bog
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- Theories, Issues, and Movements
378,95 - 1.398,95 kr. An eye for an eye, the balance of scales - for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public's perception of justice. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to this topic, and argues that common conceptions of criminal justice are too limited.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- 333,95 kr.
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333,95 - 1.398,95 kr. There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. The consequences of this oppression and criminal victimization is perhaps the critical factor explaining why Indigenous people today are overrepresented as victims and offenders in the settler colonist criminal justice systems.
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- 333,95 kr.
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- Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons
308,95 - 1.398,95 kr. Considers how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about "real" men and "good" fathers, how prisoners negotiate their relationships with those outside of prison, and in what ways this negotiation reflects their understanding of masculinity.
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288,95 - 612,95 kr. The 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts.
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- 288,95 kr.
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- The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
434,95 - 1.398,95 kr. Examines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resisting a return to criminal activity, and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future.
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- 434,95 kr.
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- The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland
363,95 - 1.398,95 kr. Examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. Mike King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.
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- 363,95 kr.
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415,95 - 1.645,95 kr. Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how they should be policed in Los Angeles.
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- 415,95 kr.
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- 399,95 kr.