Crime and criminology Books
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Duncker & Humblot Reformbedarf Bei Short-Attacken
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Brill Schoningh Wehrmacht Und Waffen-SS Im Partisanenkrieg:
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Brill Schoningh Soldaten Des Todes: Die 3. Ss-Divison Totenkopf
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Springer VS Drogen und Sucht
Book SynopsisDrogenwirkung.- Geschichte.- Folgen.- Entstehung.- Definitionen.
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Springer VS Perspektivwechsel das Hinterfragen des Selbstverständlichen
Book SynopsisKategorie Geschlecht: Geschlechterverhältnisse, Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Ansätze der Männlichkeitsforschung.- Methodologien.- Geschlossenheit und soziale Probleme.- Bildungsarbeit: Feministische Bewegung, politische und künstlerische Bildung interdisziplinäre Lehre und Zusammenarbeit.
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BoD - Books on Demand Wenn es ernst wird
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BoD - Books on Demand Verschollen in Panama
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S. Hirzel Verlag Totenschau: Autopsie-Geschichten: Ungewohnliche
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Pabst Science Publishers Prognose: Risikoeinschatzung in Forensischer
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Pabst Science Publishers Freier Wille Und Therapie: Erorterungen Zu
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Springer The State as Parent: International Research Perspectives on Interventions with Young Persons
Book SynopsisThe thirty-five chapters in this book are edited versions of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop, State Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth, which took place in Maratea, Italy, February 20-24, 1989. The Workshop was attended by leading child welfare researchers from most of the Western countries. Represented were scholars and practitioners from disciplines as diverse as law, social work, neurology, economics, political science, education, psychology, and psychiatry. This variety of disciplines considerably enriched the discussions at the Workshop and is reflected in a set of interesting and, we believe, potentially useful research papers. This book is divided into four sections, each dealing with dominant themes of state intervention. The first section deals with research on organizing for state intervention and related ways of providing accountability. The second section deals with research on young persons in conflict with the law, the third with research on child abuse and the final section with research on children in care. Many of the matters addressed in these papers relate to more than one of the topical theme headings and, therefore, might well have been located in different sections of the volume. Each section is introduced by an introductory statement that provides an overview of the papers and issues addressed, and suggests an agenda of research work to be undertaken. These introductions are based largely on workshop discussions and do not necessarily represent the views of their identified authors.Table of ContentsI Introduction: Research On Organization and Accountability For State Intervention.- 1. Independent Representation of Children in Protection Proceedings.- 2. Adolescent Childbearing and Prevention Strategies: Battleground for Testing the Limits of Government Intervention.- 3. The American Indian Child Welfare Act: Achievements and Recommendations.- 4. Policy Development as a Hegemonic Strategy: Example of the Child and Family Services Act in Ontario.- 5. Decentralizing Child Welfare Services: An Assessment of Service Impact, Costs and the Morale of Staff.- 6. Managing the Family Contacts of Children Absent in Care, Professional and Legislative Issues: The Experience of England and Wales.- 7. Efficiency in Foster Family Care: Proceeding with Caution.- 8. The State as Parent: Assessing Outcomes in Child Care.- 9. Child Care Placement Outcomes.- II Introduction: Research On Young Persons In Conflict With The Law.- 10. Social Change, Legal Transformation, and state Intervention: Youth Justice in the Arab Republic of Egypt.- 11. The Scottish Children’s Hearing System: Community or State Control?.- 12. Custodial Control or Community Alternative?: An Examination of the Impact of the 1982 Criminal Justice Act in One Local Authority.- 13. Evaluating Conflicts Between Intention and Outcome Within Changing Canadian Juvenile Justice Policy: Just Listen to What the Data Says!.- 14. Tackling the Conflict: A Framework Analysis of Dispute Settlement.- 15.Closed Units in Institutions for Children.- 16.Law Policies and Implications for the Youth Welfare System: The Hamburg Example.- 17. Hind the Gap: The Creation of the Non-Divertible.- 18. Deviant Interventions or Deviant Youth?.- III Introduction: Research On Child Abuse.- 19. Child Abuse, Social Theory, and Everyday State Practices.- 20. Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: State Intervention in Canada.- 21. Sexual Abuse Prevention Training: Issues of State Intervention.- 22. False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Implications for Policy and Practice.- 23. The Use of Criminal Sanctions in Child Abuse and Neglect.- IV Introduction: Research On Children In Care.- 24. Evaluation of Foster-Family-Based Treatment in Comparison with Other Programs: A Preliminary Analysis.- 25. Foster Care Breakdown: A Study of a Special Teenager Fostering Scheme.- 26. Intensive Home-Based Family Treatment: Client Outcomes and Issues for Program Design.- 27. A Belgian Approach to Work Rehabilitation.- 28. Research on Trends in Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth in Aarhus, Denmark.- 29. In Care, In Contact?.- 30. The Effectiveness of Permanent Substitute Family Placement for Older Children in Care.- 31. An Examination of Long Term Foster Family Care for Children and Youth.- 32. Patterns of Care: The First Twelve Months.- 33. Effectiveness Analysis of Residential Child Care Services in Belgium.- 34. Integrating Professional and Community Resources for Young Persons.- 35. The Transition From Long Term Care to Adoption.- Authors.- Name Index.
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The University of Chicago Press One Hour in Paris
Book SynopsisThrough frank discussions of sex and intimacy, the author explores the consequence of sexual violence on love and relationships, and she illustrates the steep personal cost of sexual violence and the obstacles faced by individual survivors in its aftermath.Trade Review"Freedman's terrifying and shattering story, One Hour in Paris, reveals the devastating truth about rape-that it is not confined to one terrible moment, but it determines and shapes a lifetime. If you want to understand why we need to do everything in our power to end rape, read this book." (Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues)"
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The University of Chicago Press Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
Book SynopsisAre postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealthan order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the south in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts.As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the p
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The University of Chicago Press Improper Advances
Book SynopsisThere are many political, psychological, and sociological answers to why men rape women, but few historical ones. This book explores the history of sexual violence in rural and Northern Ontario. The book expands the terms of debates about sexuality and sexual violence.
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The University of Chicago Press Cruel Attachments
Book SynopsisExploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders, this book details a secular ritual process aimed not only at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating an almost entirely new self.Trade Review"Cruel Attachments is wholly absorbing, in the sense that it is unputdownable, but also in the sense that it provides numerous occasions for what can feel like utterly contaminating, destabilizing emotional identifications: with victims, family members, therapists, prison guards, the anthropologist himself-and, however unnervingly, also perpetrators. It is no small feat to bring readers inside the emotional worlds of all these players. To have done so, and with such subtlety and nuance, is remarkable and unprecedented." (Dagmar Herzog, Graduate Center, City University of New York)
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The University of Chicago Press WrongDoing TruthTelling The Function of Avowal in
Book SynopsisThree years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain. These lectures provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. This book presents these lectures.Trade Review"Bringing together themes from two of Foucault's most important works-Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality-this book demonstrates a rethinking of the theoretical underpinnings of the former on the basis of his work on avowal in the latter. An excellent introduction lays out very clearly the background to these texts including insights into Foucault's prisoners' rights activism as well as some of his key differences with Sartre." -Kevin Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara "A stunning set of lectures given by Foucault that focus on the history of 'avowing' one's acts and the truth of who one is. Foucault seeks to understand at what point it became important not only to confess to a crime, but to avow one's act in public. For Foucault, avowal of one's criminality before an established authority becomes a way of reestablishing that authority, and resisting avowal becomes tantamount to civil disobedience. The political implications of his analysis become especially clear in the interviews included here. This is wonderful and arresting read." -Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "The publication of Foucault's Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, beautifully and rigorously established and commented upon by Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, is an important event in the contemporary blossoming of Foucault studies. In no way is it redundant with the lectures at the College de France, whose series is now practically complete. With this amazingly rich inquiry, focusing on the mythical, religious, and judiciary dimensions of 'avowal,' we are offered a unique possibility to understand how Foucault's genealogy articulated the order of discourse and the power of institutions." -Etienne Balibar, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, author of Politics and the Other Scene "Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is one of Foucault's most stirring inquiries into what he has named 'the hermeneutics of oneself.' These lectures stage the concept of avowal in performances as varied as Greek tragedy, criminal justice, and confessional practices; and they provide us with some of Foucault's most illuminating observations on the intimate and agonistic relations between sites of enunciation, orders of truth, and investments of power. The subject of avowal is never free of the ethical exigency and the discursive contingency of 'chang[ing] itself, transform[ing] itself, displac[ing] itself, and becom[ing] to some extent other than itself,' and Foucault's genius lies in providing us with critical and genealogical reflections on the worldly practices of avowal. Bernard Harcourt and Fabienne Brion's essential afterword provides both a frame and a ballast to the book. This is a considerable addition to the English archive of the work of Michel Foucault." -Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
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The University of Chicago Press Pattys Got a Gun
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The University of Chicago Press Drunk Driving An American Dilemma Studies in
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk driving.
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The University of Chicago Press The Truth about Crime
Book SynopsisIn this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violenc
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The University of Chicago Press Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution
Book SynopsisStarting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, this title details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution, from song sheets to MP3s.Trade Review"Kernfeld's rich and stimulating book makes a significant contribution to current debates over technology, copying, piracy, and the political economy of the music industry. He clarifies not just the history of legal and illegal music copying but also the arguments about these practices and the complicated relationships that have resulted among the law, corporations, entrepreneurs, consumers, and the media." (Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh)"
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The University of Chicago Press Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution
Book SynopsisStarting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, this title details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution, from song sheets to MP3s.Trade Review"Kernfeld's rich and stimulating book makes a significant contribution to current debates over technology, copying, piracy, and the political economy of the music industry. He clarifies not just the history of legal and illegal music copying but also the arguments about these practices and the complicated relationships that have resulted among the law, corporations, entrepreneurs, consumers, and the media." (Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh)"
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 45 Sentencing Policies
Book SynopsisSentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julian V. Roberts and Andrew Ashworth on the evolution of sentencing policy and practice in England and Wales from 2003 to 2015; Jacqueline Hodgson and Laurene Soubise on understanding the sentencing process in France; Anthony N. Doob and Cheryl Marie Webster on Canadian sentencing policy in the twenty-first century; Arie Freiberg on Australian sentencing policies and practices; Krzysztof Krajewski on sentencing in Poland; Alessandro Corda on Italian policies; Michael Tonry on American sentencing; and Tapio Lappi-Seppala on penal policy and sentencing in the Nordic countries.
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 46 Justice Futures
Book SynopsisJustice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy; Harold Pollack on drug treatment; David Hemenway on guns and violence; Edward Mulvey on mental health and crime; Edward Rhine, Joan Petersilia, and Kevin Reitz on parole policies; Daniel Nagin and Cynthia Lum on policing; Craig Haney on prisons and incarceration; Ronald Wright on prosecution; and Michael Tonry on sentencing policies.
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 46
Book SynopsisJustice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy; Harold Pollack on drug treatment; David Hemenway on guns and violence; Edward Mulvey on mental health and crime; Edward Rhine, Joan Petersilia, and Kevin Reitz on parole policies; Daniel Nagin and Cynthia Lum on policing; Craig Haney on prisons and incarceration; Ronald Wright on prosecution; and Michael Tonry on sentencing policies.
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The University of Chicago Press Building the Prison State Race and the Politics
Book SynopsisA history of the rise of mass incarceration in America that shows how it was built on a foundation of racist thinking and bad political incentives.
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The University of Chicago Press Down Out and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday
Book SynopsisA close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States.
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 47 A Review of Research
Book SynopsisSince 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology. Volume 47 will be a review volume featuring, among other selections, a top-of-class impact ranking.
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The University of Chicago Press Murder in New Orleans
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 49 Organizing Crime
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsOrganized Crime: Less Than Meets the EyePeter Reuter and Michael Tonry The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime in the United StatesJames B. Jacobs Italian Organized Crime since 1950Maurizio Catino What Makes Mafias Different?Letizia Paoli How Similar Are Modern Criminal Syndicates to Traditional Mafias?Peter Reuter and Letizia Paoli How Mafias Migrate: Transplantation, Functional Diversification, and SeparationFederico Varese Women in Organized CrimeRossella Selmini Organized Crime and Criminal CareersEdward Kleemans and Vere van Koppen Collaboration and Boundaries in Organized Crime: A Network PerspectiveMartin Bouchard Human Smuggling: Structure and MechanismsPaolo Campana Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Organized CrimeKlaus von Lampe and Arjan Blokland Understanding the Laundering of Organized Crime MoneyMike Levi and Melvin Soudijn
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The University of Chicago Press The JackRoller
Book SynopsisVivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or own story as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.
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The University of Chicago Press The Professional Thief Midway Reprint
Book SynopsisThis monograph by a professional thiefwith the aid of Edwin H. Sutherland's expert comments and analysesis a revealing sociological document that goes far to explain the genesis, development, and patterns of criminal behavior. Chic Conwell, as the author was known in the underworld, gives a candid and forthright account of the highly organized society in which the professional thief lives. He tells how he learned to steal, survive, succeed, and ultimately to pay his debt to society and prepare himself for full and useful citizenship. The Professional Thief presents in amazing detail the hard, cold facts about the private lives and professional habits of pickpockets, shoplifters, and conmen, and brings into focus the essential psychological and sociological situations that beget and support professional crime.
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The University of Chicago Press The Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin
Book SynopsisCrime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. This title addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of kidnappings on investment, mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime.
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 50 A Review of Research
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this volume, Tonry gathers nine articles... he writes of 'doing justice in sentencing,' a topic that is as much in need of review and reflection as it was when this series began." * Journal of Community Justice *
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The University of Chicago Press The Punishment of Pirates Interpretation and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Punishment of Pirates is an absorbing examination of how societal views toward piracy transformed from acceptable and tolerated to immoral and intolerable. It provides readers with a better understanding of this change, and allows them to view pirates and the fight against them in a new and intriguing light." * Pirates and Privateers *"Matthew Norton's The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire looks at the figure of the pirate both for its own sake and 'as a case that can shed its specific light on the more general social scientific question of how groups create, maintain, and enforce social orders' . . . Undoubtedly a mark of an excellent book is that, in addition to a wealth of insights across several disciplines, it throws up questions for further study, research and consideration." * KULT Online *“Brilliant and innovative, Norton bridges literature on social coordination (which is often in economic or political science) to cultural sociology. Providing a wealth of information about piracy, privateering, and attempts at policing both, The Punishment of Pirates is certain to be read and enjoyed by cultural sociologists, comparative historical sociologists, state-theorists, theorists of power, and scholars of empire.” -- Emily Erikson, Yale University“Highly original and based on a detailed examination of primary documents, The Punishment of Pirates explains how the English state gained control of piracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In addition to providing an innovative cultural explanation for how the English were able to quash piracy, Norton points the way toward a richer understanding of the sources of institutional power, and the problems of coordination inherent in them that economic approaches tend to overlook.” -- Damon Mayrl, Colby College
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The University of Chicago Press Crime and Justice Volume 52
Book SynopsisVolume 52 is an annual survey of cutting-edge issues by preeminent criminology scholars. Since 1979, Crime and Justice has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology. Table of ContentsPrefaceMichael Tonry Virtual Reality for Criminologists: A Road MapJean-Louis van Gelder Delegated Vigilantism and Less-than-Lethal Lynching in Twenty-First-Century AmericaMichael Tonry The Everyday Life of Drugs in PrisonSandra Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty, and Luca Berardi Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and CanadaPatrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, and Elizabeth L. Jeglic The Criminalization of Dissent and ProtestRossella Selmini and Anna Di Ronco Why Americans Are a People of Exceptional ViolenceMichael Tonry Victimization and Its Consequences over the Life CourseJillian J. Turanovic Sentencing Members of Minority Groups: Problems and Prospects for Improvement in Four CountriesJulian V. Roberts, Gabrielle Watson, and Rhys Hester (Re)Considering Personality in Criminological ResearchIsabel Thielmann Collateral Consequences and Criminal Justice Reform: Successes and ChallengesAlessandro Corda Collective Guardianship, Reactive and ProactiveDaniel S. Nagin, Shaina Herman, and Timothy C. Barnum
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The University of Chicago Press Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral
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The University of Chicago Press Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior
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The University of Chicago Press An American Travesty Legal Responses to
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. This book discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders.Trade Review"An opinionated, articulate, and forceful critique of current politics and practices.... I would recommend this book for anyone interested in rethinking the fundamental questions of how our courts and systems should respond to these cases." - Law and Politics Book Review "One of the most important new books in the field of juvenile justice.... Zimring offers a thoughtful, research-based analysis of what went wrong with legal policy development." - Barry Krisberg, president, National Council on Crime and Delinquency "Franklin Zimring is one of the preeminent legal scholars in the United States today, and this exceptional, meticulous book shows why such status is so richly deserved." - Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"
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Columbia University Press How They Got Away With It
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe have clearly not learned the lessons of past financial debacles, a central one being that crime has played a significant role in them. Unlike traditional economic and legal analyses, this volume starts from the (correct) premise that criminal offending was a central phenomenon in the meltdown. Its contents provide diverse and penetrating analyses of how fraud occurred and how it might best be prevented. This work provides an excellent foundation for further academic research and needs to be on the desk of every legislator dealing with financial regulation. -- Henry N. Pontell, University of California, Irvine, coauthor of Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America Criminology failed the challenges of the global financial crisis. In this book, leading criminologists put this right by explaining impunity for the crimes of financial capitalism. It is rich with insight on how Wall Street games regulation. When Goldman Sachs takes fat fees to help Greece conceal its debt, is fraud involved? Are millions of unemployed Greeks victims of fraud? Are we all? What of Goldman Sachs then placing bets on the failure of the Greek economy? These are the questions considered in this important work. -- John Braithwaite, Australian National University ...this book is a valuable resource for details about the financial crisis. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Roots of the Crisis 1. Wall Street: Crime Never Sleeps David O. Freidrichs 2. The Logics of Finance: Abuse of Power and Systemic Crisis Saskia Sassen 3. America's Ponzi Culture Susan Will 4. Bernie Madoff Jock YoungPart II: Enablers of Fraud 5. Unaccountable External Auditors and Their Role in the Economic Meltdown Gilbert Geis 6. And Some with a Fountain Pen: Mortgage Fraud Subprime Bubble Harold C. Barnett 7. Generating the Alpha Return: How Ponzi Schemes Lure the Unwary in an Unregulated Market David ShapiroPart III: Perverted Justice 8. The Technological Advantages of Stock Market Traders Laureen Snider 9. Why CEOs Are Able to Loot with Impunity-and Why It Matters William K. Black 10. The Facade of Enforcement: Goldman Sachs the Politics of Blame Justin O'BrienPart IV: Perspectives from Afar 11. Reappraising Regulation: The Politics of "Regulatory Retreat" in the United Kingdom Steve Tombs and David Whyte 12. How They Still Try to Get Away with It: Crime in the Dutch Real Estate Sector Before and After the Crisis Hans Nelen and Luuk Ritzen 13. Economic and Financial Criminality in Portugal Rita Faria 14. Greece "For Sale": Casino Economy and State-Corporate Crime Sophia Vidali 15. Financial Fraud in China: A Structural Examination of Law and Law Enforcement Hongming ChengEpilogue Can They Still Get Away with It? Appendix A Short (Global) History of Financial Meltdowns Compiled by Alex Holden Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press On the Parole Board
Book SynopsisAn inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.Trade ReviewOn the Parole Board is an excellent book and opens up the black box of parole hearings to the public. But more than simply describing the procedures followed in conducting a hearing (which he does incredibly well), Frederic G. Reamer puts a personal face on the process. -- Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School As both a social worker and a parole board member, Reamer offers an insider's view into prisons and the work of a parole board. Brief case histories help provide real-world insight into the back end of the criminal justice system. -- Howard Abadinsky, author of Probation and Parole: Theory and Practice Reamer has brought a lens of humanity to both inmates and their victims. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the U.S. penal system and those often forgotten in its wake. -- Edward Latessa, professor and director, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati Reamer combines a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system with a generous and deeply personal account of crime's human impact. Publishers Weekly Readers who are unfamiliar with the criminal justice system will find all of this information like the beam of a flashlight in a black hole... For students and teachers in the field of criminal justice and general readers who are curious about the parole system. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface Note to Readers 1. Getting Started 2. Goodness and Evil 3. On Being a Victim 4. Punishment, Retribution, and Shame 5. Redemption and Hope 6. The Pursuit of Justice Notes
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Columbia University Press The Gang Paradox
Book SynopsisRobert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.Trade ReviewThe Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image, and provides ample data to make his point. This book is educational in the best sense and should be welcomed. -- John Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta CultureAnchored in a critical revisionist history of the Southwest borderlands and the social construction of 'the Hispanic gang,' The Gang Paradox offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the origins, composition, and cultural significance of gangs as a site of group identity. Drawing upon theories of racial formation, settler colonialism, applied ethnography, criminology, and personal knowledge as a former gang member, sociologist Robert J. Durán pushes back against the dominant claims that gang members are criminals, and that gangs embody dysfunction. Rather, Durán situates gangs as social identities within a complex matrix of racial oppression, militarization, and social justice activism in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. This theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated book will change the way we think about gangs in the modern era. -- Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State University, author of ¿Qué Onda? Urban Youth Culture and Border IdentityThe Gang Paradox delivers keen insight on Mexican-origin crime and contradicts fearmongering claims regarding border violence. In it, he draws from his decade-long ethnographic research to draw out the complex relationship among crime, gang activity, ethnicity, and inequality on the U.S.-Mexico border. This revealing and highly engaging tome provides penetrating insight on gang activity, making sense of seemingly contradictory historical trends and cross-city comparisons, while painstakingly placing his investigation in the intersections of race, class and gender. More than just a strong read, this book sets an agenda for the next generation on how, and why, border residents have lower rates of violence and gang membership than urban residents in many locations across the nation. The Gang Paradox is a critical and well-timed research asset. -- Ramiro Martinez Jr., author of Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community and coeditor of Punishing ImmigrantsTakes a social justice, social activist approach, using narrative and dispelling many myths about gang violence spilling over the border...[this] book is approachable and doesn't simply offer doom and gloom: he also offers glimmers of hope for at-risk youth. * Choice *A comprehensive profile of the historical and contemporary elements that contextualize delinquency and gang issues in several communities...[The Gang Paradox] is a masterful research project. -- Mike Tapia * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: A Revisionist History1. The Context for the Origination of Gangs: Double Colonization2. The Formation of Gangs in El Chuco3. Moral Panic Under a Research Microscope: The Organizational Scene Prior to ArrivalPart II: An Ethnographic Foundation4. How Youth of Mexican Descent Encounter Criminalization5. Contradictions in Law Enforcement6. Participatory Action Research Teams at a Minority-Serving Institution7. Empirical Miracles and Where Do We Go from Here?ConclusionAppendix 1: MethodsAppendix 2: Development of Gangs Timeline in the New Mexico/Texas RegionNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Gang Paradox
Book SynopsisRobert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.Trade ReviewThe Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image, and provides ample data to make his point. This book is educational in the best sense and should be welcomed. -- John Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta CultureAnchored in a critical revisionist history of the Southwest borderlands and the social construction of 'the Hispanic gang,' The Gang Paradox offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the origins, composition, and cultural significance of gangs as a site of group identity. Drawing upon theories of racial formation, settler colonialism, applied ethnography, criminology, and personal knowledge as a former gang member, sociologist Robert J. Durán pushes back against the dominant claims that gang members are criminals, and that gangs embody dysfunction. Rather, Durán situates gangs as social identities within a complex matrix of racial oppression, militarization, and social justice activism in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. This theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated book will change the way we think about gangs in the modern era. -- Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State University, author of ¿Qué Onda? Urban Youth Culture and Border IdentityThe Gang Paradox delivers keen insight on Mexican-origin crime and contradicts fearmongering claims regarding border violence. In it, he draws from his decade-long ethnographic research to draw out the complex relationship among crime, gang activity, ethnicity, and inequality on the U.S.-Mexico border. This revealing and highly engaging tome provides penetrating insight on gang activity, making sense of seemingly contradictory historical trends and cross-city comparisons, while painstakingly placing his investigation in the intersections of race, class and gender. More than just a strong read, this book sets an agenda for the next generation on how, and why, border residents have lower rates of violence and gang membership than urban residents in many locations across the nation. The Gang Paradox is a critical and well-timed research asset. -- Ramiro Martinez Jr., author of Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community and coeditor of Punishing ImmigrantsTakes a social justice, social activist approach, using narrative and dispelling many myths about gang violence spilling over the border...[this] book is approachable and doesn't simply offer doom and gloom: he also offers glimmers of hope for at-risk youth. * Choice *A comprehensive profile of the historical and contemporary elements that contextualize delinquency and gang issues in several communities...[The Gang Paradox] is a masterful research project. -- Mike Tapia * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: A Revisionist History1. The Context for the Origination of Gangs: Double Colonization2. The Formation of Gangs in El Chuco3. Moral Panic Under a Research Microscope: The Organizational Scene Prior to ArrivalPart II: An Ethnographic Foundation4. How Youth of Mexican Descent Encounter Criminalization5. Contradictions in Law Enforcement6. Participatory Action Research Teams at a Minority-Serving Institution7. Empirical Miracles and Where Do We Go from Here?ConclusionAppendix 1: MethodsAppendix 2: Development of Gangs Timeline in the New Mexico/Texas RegionNotesReferencesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism
Book SynopsisMark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected individuals and recognizing patterns of indoctrination. A combination of personal and political grievances lead lone wolves to befriend online sympathizers.Trade ReviewCovering characters as diverse as James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Mark Essex, Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Jared Loughner, Wade Page, and Christopher Dorner, Hamm and Spaaij have written an excellent and well-researched survey of lone wolf terrorists in the United States-and a major addition to the field. -- Charles B. Strozier, founding director, Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice The study of lone wolf terrorism takes a significant leap forward in this important book. Hamm and Spaaij provide a thoughtful analysis and critical insights about the nature of lone wolf terrorism and terrorists. The book is a must-read for scholars, policymakers, and law enforcement officials. -- Steven Chermak, Michigan State University A careful, detailed, original contribution to a vitally important debate. -- Richard English, Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice, Queen's University Belfast If you read only one book on lone wolf terrorism, this should be it. It sets the benchmark on what we know about this threat and what can be done to safeguard the future. Superb. -- Andrew Silke, University of East London Defined variously as a 'radical loser,' a 'lunatic assassin,' or more grandiosely as a symptom of our fractured political age, the lone wolf terrorist is a much-commented-upon but frequently misunderstood phenomenon. Thankfully, with the publication of Hamm and Spaaij's compelling new work, The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, we now have the definitive resource with which to explore both the mindset and the motivations of this most perplexing of political extremists. Crisply written and extraordinarily rich in empirical detail, this is essential reading for students of terrorism, criminologists concerned with political violence, and anyone else interested in the evolving nature of late modern radicalization. -- Keith Hayward, University of Copenhagen A searing, eye-opening, and comprehensive depiction of the evolving nature of terrorism in the United States, The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism is certain to become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding both the factors leading to terrorism and new ways of approaching counterterrorism. Hamm and Spaaij's detailed analysis of the connection between personal circumstances and contemporary social and political realities shed light on aspects of terrorism that are all too often overlooked. Their work is an indispensable primer for policy makers, counterterrorism experts, and students of terrorism. -- Karen J. Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham University The enduring merit of The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism is that it provides an empirically robust and theoretically nuanced framework for addressing how ordinary individuals can become the agents of extraordinary violence and destruction. -- from the foreword by Simon CotteeTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism 1. Identifying Commonalities Among Lone Wolf Terrorists 2. Old Wine in New Skin: Reimagining Lone Wolf Terrorism 3. The American Lone Wolf Terrorist: Trends, Modus Operandi, and Background Factors 4. The Roots of Radicalization 5. The Enablers 6. Broadcasting Intent: The Key to Preventing Lone Wolf Terrorism 7. Triggering Events 8. The Radicalization Model of Lone Wolf Terrorism 9. The Little Rock Military Shooting 10. The Pittsburgh Police Shooting 11. Lone Wolf Sting Operations 12. Lone Wolf Terrorism and FBI Mythmaking Conclusion: Countering Lone Wolf Terrorism Appendix: List of Cases Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Chinas War on Smuggling
Book SynopsisPhilip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China’s War on Smuggling traces how different regimes sought to police maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed, offering new insights into Chinese social, legal, and economic history.Trade ReviewAn exemplar of everything that scholarship on modern Chinese history can be. . . . China’s War on Smuggling is a richly researched and well-argued tour de force. It links the macro to the micro, the domestic to the transnational, and the regional to the longer trajectory of modern China’s state building. Economic, institutional, and legal historians will all find much to like, and this volume will deservedly find its place on many a syllabus and many a bookshelf. * American Historical Review *Philip Thai skillfully explores how smuggling remade the Chinese state by enabling it to establish better protection of its borders and its revenues and by standardizing regulations; he also examines the ways that political and economic disruptions constantly challenged this process. Thai weaves together a creative combination of social, political, economic, and legal history, ranging from a sophisticated technical discussion of tariff autonomy to a clever explication of the visual representation of smuggling in the public imagination of 1930s China. The combination of a broad theme—illicit economic activities interacting with state power—with many smaller case studies of smuggling incidents brings the story alive. -- Elisabeth Köll, University of Notre DameBreaking chronological and geographic conventions, this important book places Nationalist-period state-building and the struggle for sovereignty in a framework of the long-term growth of infrastructural state power in China. By linking the rise of policing, legal regulation of production and consumption, and government intrusion in the economy with the operation of markets and economic life, Philip Thai accomplishes the remarkable feat of a fresh perspective on China from the bottom to top. -- Brett Sheehan, University of Southern CaliforniaThai makes important contributions across the fields of Qing, Republican, and PRC history, and his book will be required reading for scholars and students of late imperial and modern China. -- Peter Thilly * Journal of Asian Studies *A well-researched and finely written first book by a historian well-versed in modern Chinese history as well as smuggling and state-building in a wider range of historical contexts. * Journal of Social History *China’s War on Smuggling is a fascinating study of the complicated links between tariff policy, smuggling, and the development of the modern Chinese state. . . . Thai’s book will be of interest to economic and fiscal historians, but also to those concerned with how the Chinese state was able to strengthen its capacity to control markets and trade. -- Linda Grove * The Economic History Review *Thai provides a fresh, insightful take on the development of the modern state during a period of dramatic change and challenges. China’s War on Smuggling will appeal to those interested in the history of commerce, law, and criminology in modern China. -- Laurie Dickmeyer * New Books in East Asian Studies *Highly recommended. * Choice *His work will be of interest for both historians and scholars of Chinese studies, especially those who seek to understand how defiance and repression shaped and reshaped state power in China. * Strategic Analysis *A remarkable history of the Chinese state’s war against coastal smuggling from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Tables, and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Coastal Commerce and Imperial Legacies: Smuggling and Interdiction in the Treaty Port Legal Order2. Tariff Autonomy and Economic Control: The Intellectual Lineage of the Smuggling Epidemic3. State Interventions and Legal Transformations: Asserting Sovereignty in the War on Smuggling4. Shadow Economies and Popular Anxieties: The Business of Smuggling in Operation and Imagination5. Economic Blockades and Wartime Trafficking: Clandestine Political Economies Under Competing Sovereignties6. State Rebuilding and New Smuggling Geographies: Restoring and Evading Economic Controls in Civil War China7. Old Menace in New China: Symbiotic Economies in the Early People’s RepublicConclusionCharacter ListNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Vice Crime and Poverty
Book SynopsisVice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Dominique Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience.Trade ReviewDominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. Vice, Crime, and Poverty examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an imaginary shaped discursively in the nineteenth century by a widespread if morbid fascination with the apparent dangers of urban life. -- Edward Berenson, author of Europe in the Modern WorldThis is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, Vice, Crime, and Poverty also represents an important contribution to the histoire des mentalités, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in terms of social changes at those times. The transnational aspect greatly enhances this study, making it a significant contribution to the field by offering insights into both European and American history. -- Venita Datta, author of Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National IdentityKalifa is the leading historian still teaching and writing about modern French history in France. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, he shows how the lowest of the lower classes came to be represented by, or analogized with, indigenous colonized peoples. He offers interesting reflections on the successors of the inhabitants of the bas-fonds and the emergence of new designations for them, along with the internationalization of crime. Yet again, Kalifa provides much to discuss. -- John Merriman, author of Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque ParisKalifa’s research is virtuosic, incorporating every type of source under the sun—poetry, sociology, films, popular songs, literature, journalism—and is endlessly entertaining. -- Hadley Suter * Los Angeles Review of Books *An expertly drawn picture of a lost myth. . . . This accessible work should find ready use in the classroom and among a wide readership . . . interested in urban history, class, and nineteenth-century culture. * American Historical Review *A rich book. . . . Kalifa makes the case for the abundant possibilities in study of the social imaginary. * Journal of Social History *Kalifa extensively catalogs the language, imagery, and discursive forms in which the underworld has been evoked over time. * Journal of Modern History *In theory, we've left those ideas behind. In practice, the poor, the mentally ill, and those classified as deviant are all still seen too often as a single stigmatized mass, to be cured, saved, policed, condescended to, and enjoyed as lurid entertainment by those who consider themselves their social superiors. * Pacific Standard *A blurring of any distinction between the place and the population runs throughout the texts Kalifa draws on, which include novels, police memoirs, newspaper articles by undercover reporters and pleas by social reformers. * Inside Higher Ed *The breadth of insights contained in Vice, Crime, and Poverty is breathtaking. . . . Engaging, methodologically sophisticated, and thought-provoking. * H-France *Colorfully written, jargon free, and nicely translated, this volume suggests that every generation gets the underworld it needs. * Choice *Beautiful book, rich of literature, anecdotes, stories. . . . Highly recommended. * Al Femminile *Kalifa insightfully demonstrates how languages and vocabularies originating in the descriptions of the underworld by nineteenth-century contemporaries created inaccurate, misinformed, exaggerated, and sensationalized images of the poor and socially marginal. * Labor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionPart I: The Advent of the Lower Depths1. In the Den of Horror2. Courts of Miracles3. “Dangerous Classes”Part II: Scenarios of Society’s Underside4. Empire of Lists5. The Disguised Prince6. The Grand Dukes’ Tour7. Poetic FlightPart III: Ebbing of an Imaginary8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld9. Persistent Shadows10. Roots of FascinationConclusionNotesIndex
£75.15
Columbia University Press Vice Crime and Poverty
Book SynopsisVice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Dominique Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience.Trade ReviewDominique Kalifa is one of the best French cultural historians of his generation and a worthy successor to Alain Corbin at the Sorbonne. Vice, Crime, and Poverty examines the urban ‘underworld,’ not in the twentieth-century sense of organized crime but as an imaginary shaped discursively in the nineteenth century by a widespread if morbid fascination with the apparent dangers of urban life. -- Edward Berenson, author of Europe in the Modern WorldThis is a lively and fun read. More than tracing the evolution of living conditions of the poor and indigent, Vice, Crime, and Poverty also represents an important contribution to the histoire des mentalités, telling us how different eras viewed the poor in terms of social changes at those times. The transnational aspect greatly enhances this study, making it a significant contribution to the field by offering insights into both European and American history. -- Venita Datta, author of Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, Politics, and National IdentityKalifa is the leading historian still teaching and writing about modern French history in France. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, he shows how the lowest of the lower classes came to be represented by, or analogized with, indigenous colonized peoples. He offers interesting reflections on the successors of the inhabitants of the bas-fonds and the emergence of new designations for them, along with the internationalization of crime. Yet again, Kalifa provides much to discuss. -- John Merriman, author of Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque ParisKalifa’s research is virtuosic, incorporating every type of source under the sun—poetry, sociology, films, popular songs, literature, journalism—and is endlessly entertaining. -- Hadley Suter * Los Angeles Review of Books *An expertly drawn picture of a lost myth. . . . This accessible work should find ready use in the classroom and among a wide readership . . . interested in urban history, class, and nineteenth-century culture. * American Historical Review *A rich book. . . . Kalifa makes the case for the abundant possibilities in study of the social imaginary. * Journal of Social History *Kalifa extensively catalogs the language, imagery, and discursive forms in which the underworld has been evoked over time. * Journal of Modern History *In theory, we've left those ideas behind. In practice, the poor, the mentally ill, and those classified as deviant are all still seen too often as a single stigmatized mass, to be cured, saved, policed, condescended to, and enjoyed as lurid entertainment by those who consider themselves their social superiors. * Pacific Standard *A blurring of any distinction between the place and the population runs throughout the texts Kalifa draws on, which include novels, police memoirs, newspaper articles by undercover reporters and pleas by social reformers. * Inside Higher Ed *The breadth of insights contained in Vice, Crime, and Poverty is breathtaking. . . . Engaging, methodologically sophisticated, and thought-provoking. * H-France *Colorfully written, jargon free, and nicely translated, this volume suggests that every generation gets the underworld it needs. * Choice *Beautiful book, rich of literature, anecdotes, stories. . . . Highly recommended. * Al Femminile *Kalifa insightfully demonstrates how languages and vocabularies originating in the descriptions of the underworld by nineteenth-century contemporaries created inaccurate, misinformed, exaggerated, and sensationalized images of the poor and socially marginal. * Labor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionPart I: The Advent of the Lower Depths1. In the Den of Horror2. Courts of Miracles3. “Dangerous Classes”Part II: Scenarios of Society’s Underside4. Empire of Lists5. The Disguised Prince6. The Grand Dukes’ Tour7. Poetic FlightPart III: Ebbing of an Imaginary8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld9. Persistent Shadows10. Roots of FascinationConclusionNotesIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press Views from the Streets
Book SynopsisViews from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago’s South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.Trade ReviewI am very excited about Views from the Streets. It addresses central questions in contemporary gang research: What’s going on in Chicago? Why have the highly touted interventions there had little effect? Why are there so many killings? It does so by offering what is deeply needed but rarely accomplished in this field: a grounded analysis providing a convincing, cogent understanding of local history and social dynamics. Moreover and most refreshingly, it appreciates rather than ironicizes and pathologizes the voices of gang members. This is the book I’ve been waiting for: a nuanced explanation that matters. -- Robert Garot, author of Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the StreetsThe most important book on Chicago gangs in decades, Views from the Streets vividly describes how and why African American gangs in Chicago fractured and radically transformed. In recounting this story, Roberto R. Aspholm gives voice to the anguished cries of young men trying desperately to create meaning in impossible conditions. -- John Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta CultureIn this path-breaking book, Roberto R. Aspholm reminds us that our understandings of contemporary gang culture remain mired in nostalgia and urban legend. Views from the Streets provides an unprecedented look at the new social dynamics resulting from public housing demolitions, displacement, and pervasive carceral control. It is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary gangs and for all who hope to end urban violence. -- Cedric Johnson, author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American PoliticsIn Views from the Streets, Aspholm brings research on Chicago gangs into the twenty-first century where social media, cell phones, and an unabashed sense of individualism and democracy have brought about the demise of the city’s once monolithic corporate gangs. Aspholm's nuanced study provides a new—and much needed—theoretical lens on contemporary gang life that will set the stage for a new generation of gang scholars. -- Andrew Papachristos, Northwestern UniversityAspholm dares to tell a complex and layered story of life in Chicago. By dismissing the commonplace deficit-based narratives on Black life in street organizations (gangs), readers are challenged to confront the residual affects of disinvestment and displacement. Instead of a 'gang problem,' Chicago has a white supremacy problem rooted in tactics of fracture, isolation, marginalization, and containment. -- David Stovall, University of Illinois at ChicagoRoberto Aspholm is to be commended for his excellent study of the remarkable transformation of gang violence among Chicago's street gangs. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Shattering of Chicago’s Black Street Gangs2. From Street Organizations to Cliques: Black Street Gangs in Chicago Today3. The Anatomy of Contemporary Gang Violence in Chicago4. Understanding the Persistence of Gangs and Violence in Chicago5. A Critical Appraisal of Violence Prevention FailuresConclusion: Reducing Gang Violence from the Streets UpAppendix: Notes on Positionality, the Politics of Representation, and Research MethodologyA Partial Glossary of Chicago Gang SlangNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.00
