Crime and criminology Books

Book SynopsisA vital collection for reforming criminal justiceAfter five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, police practices, the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill, glaring racial disparity, the death penalty and more faces challenging questions. What exactly is criminal justice? How much of it is a system of law and how much is a collection of situational social practices? What roles do the Constitution and the Supreme Court play? How do race and gender shape outcomes? How does change happen, and what changes or adaptations should be pursued? The New Criminal Justice Thinking addresses the challenges of this historic moment by asking essential theoretical and practical questions about how the criminal system operates. In this thorough and thoughtful volume, scholars from across the disciplines of legal theory, sociology, criminology, Critical Race Theory, and organizational theory offer crucial insights into how tTrade ReviewAtremendous collection of thoughtful essays written by preeminent scholars. . . . a cohesive examination of what is wrong with the American criminal justice system, and how we might go about fixing it. * New York Journal of Books *[The book] offers several articles that will challenge the readers thinking and deepen the readers understanding of how the criminal justice works. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review *In a collection of 14 essays that engage criminal law and justice, this volume contains new concepts and deeply interesting ideas by some of today’s most erudite and recognizable scholars in ‘criminal justice system’ thinking. -- The Howard JournalThis book can profitably be read by criminal justice practitioners, policy makers, and students at all levels. It is a necessary read. * Choice *In The New Criminal Justice Thinking, Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff take on the ambitious project of understanding what the contemporary American criminal justice system is and what it does at this critical juncture in time. The volume reflects a remarkable willingness to rethink the complex of actors, institutions, laws, and dynamics that operate to police and punish crime. Resoundingly successful at decentering crime from our thinking about the criminal justice system, this book effects an intervention that is crucial to understanding and reforming its injustices. -- Bernard E. Harcourt,Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law SchoolIn making sense out of the U.S. criminal justice morass and pointing toward transformation, Dolovich and Natapoff have accomplished the nearly impossible. Here is an accessible guide to some of the best work of leading criminal justice scholars. Creative, visionary and erudite, The New Criminal Justice Thinking is a crucial intervention in crucial times. -- Paul Butler,Professor of Law at Georgetown LawThese essays mount an impressive and broad-ranging critique of the American criminal justice system, offering legal, sociological, psychological, and moral perspectives on the future of institutions that deeply mark our communities and collective life. An essential volume for anyone interested in changing our criminal justice system to produce a more equal and more just society. -- Carol Steiker,Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

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Book SynopsisMy breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them, confides Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make themselves sexually available to men and where same-sex experiences for both men and women bring great shame, incest is easily hidden, seldom discussed, and rarely reported to authorities. Through gripping, emotional narrative, González-López brings the deeply troubling, hidden, and unspoken issues of incest and sexual violence in Mexican families to light.González-López contends that family and cultural structures in Mexican life enable incest and the culture of silence that surrounds it. She examines the strong bonds of familial obligatioTrade ReviewA sensitive, ethical, humane, yet deeply sociological and intellectually robust analysis of a very delicate subject matter. Gloria González-López criticizes, debunks, sheds new light, and does so with an immense humanity. Her approach has true potential for bringing attention to this issue with an eye for real change. -- Cecilia Menjívar,author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in GuatemalaI have never read a more powerful, highly original, sophisticated, and brave book as Family Secrets. It is an absolutely wonderful and truly riveting ethnographic study that will forever change the way look at gender and sexuality among Mexican-origin populations. Written with enormous compassion and intelligence, it is destined to become the most highly-acclaimed and path-breaking contribution to Latino/a sexuality research to date. -- Tomas Almaguer,author of Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in CaliforniaGroundbreaking and revealing, this book offers a critical feminist examination of the social and cultural mechanisms that create the causes and conditions of incest and sexual violence in the family, complex realities existing in Mexican society. Besides unmasking a patriarchal taboo and analyzing it in depth, this moving, incisive, and thought-provoking book brings to light the human resiliency, puts forward the possibility of renewed social contracts and laws promoting the integrity, dignity, freedom, and safety of women, girls and boys, and other populations at risk, and calls for the defense and respect of their most basic human rights. -- Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos,author of Los cautiverios de las mujeres: madresposas, monjas, putas, presas y locasFamily Secretsresonates with authenticity, and makes us look deep within ourselves and our sanitized domestic histories to recover the forgotten whispers about & black sheep that lurk in the recesses of memory in virtually every family, everywhere. * New York Journal of Books *Apowerfully thought-provoking and courageous work that carries reverberations for understanding how incest and sexual violence within the family impact greater community and societal violence. After reading this work, the reader will never be the same. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contentsix Contents Acknowledgments / Con profunda gratitud xi 1. En familia: Sex, Incest, and Violence in Mexican Families 1 2. Conjugal Daughters and Marital Servants: The Sexual Functions of Daughters in Incestuous Families 31 3. A la prima se le arrima: Sisters and Primas 76 4. Nieces and Their Uncles 125 5. Men's Life Stories 180 6. Toward a Feminist Sociology of Incest in Mexico 232 Appendix A. Study Participants 263 Appendix B. Methodological Considerations 267 Appendix C. Incest in 32 Mexican State Penal Codes 271 Appendix D. Uncle-Niece Cases 273 Notes 275 References 301 Index 313 About the Author 321

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Book SynopsisInside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digital villains. But what do we actually know about them? In Hacked, Kevin F. Steinmetz explores what it means to be a hacker and the nuances of hacker culture. Through extensive interviews with hackers, observations of hacker communities, and analyses of hacker cultural products, Steinmetz demystifies the figure of the hacker and situates the practice of hacking within the larger political and economic structures of capitalism, crime, and control.This captivating book challenges many of the common narratives of hackers, suggesting that not all forms of hacking are criminal and, contrary to popular opinion, the broader hacker community actually plays a vital role in our information economy. Hacked thus explores how governments, corporations, and other institutions attempt to manage hacker culture through the creation of ideoTrade ReviewUltimately,Hackedwill hack open the true hacker spirit, and will compel its readers to widen, unshape and reshape their structural understandings of hacking and Internet crime in contemporary times. * International Journal of Law and Information *Steinmetz provides a provocative approach to understanding hacking, hackers, and the place of hackers within the larger U.S. economy through this framework, and he gives ample support for his approach that other researchers could easily use to further our empirical understanding of hacker as identity and hacking as practice. * American Journal of Sociology *WithHacked, Kevin Steinmetz has produced a skillful and original study that coaxes criminology onto new, and increasingly important, social terrain[For] anyone interested not only in what Steinmetz calls & technocrime (Steinmetz and Nobles, 2017), but also in how the Marxist analysis of crime and crime control can be revitalized in the context of 21st-century information capitalism,Hackedis highly recommended. * British Journal of Criminology *A sophisticated yet clearly written investigation into hacker activities through the lens of radical criminology. * Choice *One of the only books in criminology that takes seriously the intersection of hacker culture and political economy. Hacked is theoretically insightful, analytically rich, and well written. -- Victor E. Kappeler,co-author of The Mythology of Crime and Criminal JusticeA highly original, insightful, carefully researched and elegantly written study of hacker culture. Through an impressive synthesis of insights from critical and cultural criminology, classical and contemporary social theory, politics and political economy, Kevin Steinmetz delivers a new and provocative understanding of hacking and its place in contemporary information capitalism. A & must read for students and scholars of crime, new media and digital culture. -- Majid Yar,author of Cybercrime and SocietyWhile mainstream and public perceptions of hackers are filled with stereotypes, what Steinmetz does with great care and excellence in [Hacked] is surface the human voices of hacker culture in an effort to comprehend their perspectives and motivations. * STARRED Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policingpopularized for decades as a racial panaceais not the solution it seems to be. Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced community policing after the high-profile Rodney King riots. Drawing on over sixty interviews with officers, residents, and stakeholders in South LA's Lakeside precinct, they show how police tactics amplifiedrather than resolvedracial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability. Gascón and Roussell shine a new light on the residents of this neighborhood to address the enduringand frequently explosiveconflicts between police and communities. At a time when these issues have taken center sTrade ReviewThe persuasive evidence in The Limits of Community Policing raises very serious questions about the basic procedures for engaging the community in community policing programs and other police programs with a similar purpose. Based on five years of observational research on community meetings in Los Angeles, the authors persuasively document how police officials control the procedures and the outcomes of neighborhood meetings. In addition to controlling agendas, officials respond to the expressed concerns of meeting participants by accepting some, deflecting others away from police responsibility, or resisting them altogether. The most urgent community concerns about policing, in short, are never fully addressed. This is an extremely important book for scholars, police officials and policy-makers. -- Samuel Walker,co-author of The New World of Police Accountability, Third EditionThis meticulously researched ethnographic study of community policing in Los Angeles addresses the larger racial dynamics of the interaction between Black and Brown communities and the LAPD. In doing so, the authors offer compelling insight into the citizens wishes, and the departments response. An important work for anyone studying Los Angeles, or those examining the relationship between minority communities and police departments in challenging times. -- Jeannine Bell, author of Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-in Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in AmericaThrough extensive ethnographic research, The Limits of Community Policing challenges the taken for granted value of community policing by showing the ways that police produce and manage it and in the process exacerbate core problems of inequality in the Los Angeles landscape. -- Alex S. Vitale,author of The End of PolicingThere are many books on community policing, but this is the first to provide a detailed, reflective interdisciplinary approach to finding solutions in the 21st century. The Limits of Community Policing is an important book. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 ACJS Outstanding Book Award, given by the Academy of Criminal Justice SciencesA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading expertsThe juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth policy and crime policy. Its institutional practices reflect our changing ideas about children and crime control. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court provides a sweeping overview of the American juvenile justice system's development and change over the past century. Noted law professor and criminologist Barry C. Feld places special emphasis on changes over the last 25 yearsthe ascendance of get tough crime policies and the more recent Supreme Court recognition that children are different.Feld's comprehensive historical analyses trace juvenile courts' evolution though four periodsthe original Progressive Era, the Due Process Revolution in the 1960s, the Get Tough Era of the 1980s and 1990s, and today's Kids Are Different era. In each period, changes in the economTrade ReviewFeld has created a thorough and insightful history of the juvenile court system that is a worthy read for both those new to the field and those with extensive knowledge. Furthermore, the book is presented in a manner that is accessible to non-academics while supplying the depth and documentation that those in academia desire. Finally, through the breadth of the scholarship, the work has relevance to those whose focus is law, history, crime, policy, or social science. Feld has crafted a seminal book in the study and interpretation of the juvenile court. -- American Journal of SociologyIts about time someone wrote a book that informs readers about the unadulterated truth of how we treat kids in America. It isnt flattering, and worse, the future doesnt look promising despite reform movements peppered across our nation. * Juvenile Justice Information Exchange *Feld has delivered an important book that will enrich scholars understanding of race and juvenile justice in the recent American past. Though the work might have more closely examined the tensions within, and failures of, the US juvenile justice system since its inception-not just in the & Get Tough era-Feld nonetheless makes a compelling case for reform and restitution. * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Barry C. Feld has been a longtime advocate for young people and a critic of the juvenile justice system. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court culminates his career, bringing together broad and deep knowledge across numerous fields to make a powerful argument for change. The book will be highly valuable for scholars in various disciplines and for policy makers across the United States and beyond. -- The Journal of American HistoryFelds work contributes to our understanding of the transformations in the juvenile court across the 20th century[His] work provides a solid foundation from which to rethink the interplay of race, gender, and class as well as the social and political context in the criminalizing of children. -- Miroslava Chávez-García,Professor in the Department of History with affiliate status in the Departments of Chicana and ChicaProfessor Feld wrote (and continues to write) in a unique way, integrating legal and social science research, with an underlying passion for doing right by children and youth in our society[Most] recently, The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice provides an up-to-date, thorough, critical, and evidence-based assessment of past and current juvenile justice philosophy and system operations in our country. It is a book that should be read and utilized by policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and students. -- David L. Myers,Professor and Director of Criminal Justice PhD Program, University of New HavenNo one understands the creation, evolution, and transformation of the juvenile court more than Barry Feld. In The Evolution of the Juvenile Court, Feld reveals the recurring exploitation of delinquency as a politically-contested notion throughout the courts first century. Feld applies his vast knowledge of youth crime and juvenile justice to explain how enlightenment science has launched a new era to advance child development within the law. This book shows a path forward to realize the twin ideals of the juvenile court and the foundational rights of adolescents. -- Jeffrey Fagan,Co-editor of The Changing Borders of Juvenile JusticeProvides a comprehensive history of juvenile justice, from the creation of the first juvenile court to the current era. Feld applies his deep reading of legal, social, economic, demographic, and crime trends throughout the past century to help us understand how and why we punish children as we do, and what we should do better. Feld weaves together his background as legal scholar, historian, and sociologist to produce this extraordinary analysis - it is the most thorough and important treatment of juvenile justice I have read. -- Aaron Kupchik,Author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of FearStudents of juvenile justice, youth advocates, and policymakers need to read this book. They will undoubtedly learn the sad reality of late twentieth-century juvenile justice reforms, and why current policies disproportionately punish impoverished minority youth. No scholar has written more persuasively and boldly about the legal, sociological, and developmental reasons to pursue justice for all juveniles than Barry Feld. -- Simon I. Singer,Author of America's Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in SuburbiaFor readers interested in policy, this book highlights how economic and public policy decisions that disproportionately affected minority groups created many of the disparities that are seen in the juvenile justice system today... For other readers, this book is critical in educating them on the decisions and events that have shaped the juvenile justice system thus far, to ensure that there is a shift to the creation of a more effective justice system for children in the United States. * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *The book holds the juvenile court as the dependent variable and aims to examine the influence of social and political contexts, as well as perspectives on race, class, gender, age, and crime, on the changes to the juvenile system. [...] [It is] extremely effective in bringing attention to the influence that outside factors have on the juvenile justice system * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *

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Book SynopsisThe surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killerFor three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrestedand eventually sentenced to 759 years in prisonfor her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, and victimhood in the popular and criminological imagination.Marshaling ten years of research, and one of the only interviews that Juana Barraza Samperio has given while in prison, Susana Vargas Cervantes deconstructs this uniquely provocative story. She focuses, in particular, on the cTrade ReviewSerial murderers, lucha libre wrestlers, gender-transgressing vestidas, prejudiced scientists and disoriented policemen populate the pages of this insightful study of the cultural construction of crime and criminals in Mexico. Focusing on a case that challenged what Mexicans thought they knew about crime, Vargas examines performance, images, media languages and expert discourses, and uncovers their racist and machista premises. Her criticism is original but also urgently needed, as we see how the neglect of certain victims and the criminalization of those who do not conform to gender norms contribute to the dehumanizing levels of violence that Mexico is witnessing today. -- Pablo Piccato,author of A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in MexicoThis brilliant mixed-genre meditation on the life and crimes of Juana Barraza combines the pulse of true crime, a picaresque cast of historical characters, the contextual nuance of cultural history, the sophistication of queer theory, and disturbing new insights into Mexican identity and its complicated relationship with human mortalitya (trans)historical achievement of the highest order. -- Robert Marshall Buffington,author of A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910In addition to Samperio's story, Cervantes thoroughly analyzes subjects including Mexican history, lucha libre, anthropology, serial killing and gender roles and expectations. Fascinating … not your typical true crime book. * SLAM! Wrestling *

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Book SynopsisTraditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security, effectively changing its delivery, and overall role. In The Securitization of Society, Marc Schuilenburg establishes a new critical perspective for examining the dynamic nature of security and its governance. Rooted in the works of the French philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Gabriel Tarde, this book explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes that have impacted security in Western society from the 19th century to the present. By analyzing the new hybrid of public-private security, this volume provides deep insight into the processes of securitization and modern risk management for the police and judicial authorities as well as other emergingTrade ReviewThe Securitization of Society is a thoughtful and provocative work that announces Marc Schuilenburg as an insightful, and much-needed, new theoretical voice in the study of security. If you want to make sense of the myriad systems of surveillance and hybrid public-private security assemblages that dominate todays urban landscape, this is a must-read. -- Keith Hayward,co-author of Cultural Criminology: An InvitationSchuilenburg has brilliantly charted the slips that occur twixt the cup of security theory and the lip of day-to-day life. Combining insights from classic and contemporary social theory with the fruits of ethnographic exploration, he shows that things are never as simple as they seem. Legal scholars long ago realized the need to study both law in theory and law in action. Schuilenburg has laid the foundations for understanding securitization in action. -- Michael Tonry,author of Punishing Race: A Continuing American DilemmaThe Securitization of Society delivers a series of insightsabout the dynamic and unstable elements of the security world, about the difficulties of inter-agency action, about the fragility of even the most powerful security assemblagesthat, having now been stated, will quickly become our new common sense. -- David Garland,from the IntroductionAmajor contribution to the growing literature on & hybrid security . . . anchor[s] empirical research in some substantive theoretical footing. * Human Rights Review *

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Book SynopsisThe surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City's Washington Square Park Located in New York City's Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre public park that is perhaps best known for its historic Washington Square Arch, a landmark at the foot of 5th Avenue. Hundreds, if not thousands, pass through the park every day, some sit on benches enjoying the sunshine, play a game of chess, watch their children play in the playground, take their dog to the dog runs, or sit by the fountain or, sometimes, buy or sell drugs. The park has an extremely low crime rate. Sociologist, and local resident, Erich Goode wants to know why. He notes that many visitors do violate park rules and ordinances, even engaging in misdemeanors like cigarette and marijuana smoking, alcohol consumption, public urination, skateboarding and bike riding. And yet, he argues, contrary to the well-known broken windows theory, which suggests thatTrade ReviewBased on direct and perceptive observations, Erich gives us a complete, comparative and comprehensive view of what is going on in WSP. Very wisely, he contextualizes this view in more general perspectives of NYC, the U.S.A and relevant sociological perceptions. Consequently, readers are taken not only to a fascinating social tour of the park, but also absorb outstanding exposes of looking at WSP from different, relevant and insightful angles. This provides an absolutely engaging, pleasurable and a wonderfully positive reading and learning experience. This is a breathtaking text that people will love to read and enjoy. It is both descriptive and analytical, suggesting many insights and most of all, makes one think. -- Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Co-author of Fraud and Misconduct in ResearchWith knowing mind and perceptive eye, this veteran sociologist unlocks the hyper-civility of Washington Squareoften held as archetype for social richness in a public place. Goode displays how democratic values and complex accommodation can live through daily interactionin quarrels and kindness, decencies and, yes, some disrespect. It is, in ways we learn, the blemished agora of hybrid greatness. -- Harvey Molotch, Author of Against SecurityRich in detail and analysis, Eric Goode’s book portrays Washington Square Park through the eyes of an affectionate observer. His The Taming of New York’s Washington Square is an important addition to the literature on this famous public space -- Criminal Law and Criminal JusticeGoode’s study of Washington Square is a deep dive into how this space is used and what we can learn from the interactions within… an intimate exploration of a much-loved place, grounded in traditional sociological concepts. * American Journal of Sociology *The Taming of New York’s Washington Square offers ideas about safety and tolerance in public spaces in cities at a time when Americans are passionately debating the role of law enforcement in society. ... Washington Square Park, Erich Goode demonstrates, presents a model that prioritizes the responsibility of citizens in maintaining civility and relegates police to a secondary role. * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History *

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Book SynopsisHow the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for narcoterrorists such as Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the meth epidemic within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author's unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed meth epidemiTrade ReviewMeth Wars interrupts official discourse on drug use in America, drawing out the relationship between methamphetamine and the politics of fear. Linnemann invites us into the methamphetamine imaginary, deftly detailing how racism, the drug war and capitalism are manifested and maintained through pop culture, policing and state power. A compelling resource on a critical subject. -- Dawn Paley,author of Drug War CapitalismA scholarly page-turner, Meth Wars takes us on a journey through the cultural imaginary surrounding drug crime, policing, and punishment in the most thorough and illuminating way to date. Poetic, critical, and rigorous, Travis Linnemann frames how we 'see' meth and how our views lead others to 'see' meth as well through the power of misplaced drug war rhetoric. This study of whiteness, class, and privilege in drug imagery and drug wars is a profound contribution. -- Michelle Brown,author of The Culture of PunishmentLinnemanns book is a key text for understanding how moral panics about an infernal substance, and its diabolical seller, both stem from and further entrench the manifold contradictions of late capitalist society. * Antipode *Contributing to scholarly debates about the political and cultural intersections of drugs, rurality, and whiteness, Meth Wars shows how meth impacts not just individuals and institutions but also imaginations. Ultimately, this is a book about challenging the reader to think beyond the widespread justifications for sustaining the war on drugs and the popularized arguments for ending it. Questioning both leftwing and rightwing sensibilities on drugs, Linnemann provokes the reader into imagining a different worldone beyond the meth imaginary. -- Jennifer Carlson,Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of ArizonaA cultural criminological tour de force, Travis Linnemanns Meth Wars constitutes a brilliant counterpoint to everyday assumptions about drugs, crime, and policing. Moving from television dramas to public service announcements, from small town policing in rural America to global narcopolitics, Linnemann unpacks an insidious methamphetamine imaginary that has come to saturate contemporary social life. In doing so he reveals a deeper secret: if there is indeed a meth epidemic, it is one of epistemic proportions. -- Jeff Ferrell,author of Empire of Scrounge

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 DLC Outstanding Contribution Award, given by the American Society of CriminologyAn exploration of criminal trajectories, placing them in a developmental contextOver the past several years, notions of developmental trajectoriesparticularly criminal trajectorieshave taken hold as important areas of investigation for researchers interested in the longitudinal study of crime. This accessible volume presents the first full-length overview of criminal trajectories as a concept and methodology and makes the case for a developmental approach to the topic.The volume shows how a developmental perspective is important from a practical standpoint, helping to inform the design of prevention and early intervention programs to forestall the onset of antisocial and criminal activity, particularly when it begins in childhood. Crime in this view does not suit a one-size-fits-all model. There are different types of criminals who develop as the resultTrade ReviewAs the culmination of 25 years of criminal trajectory research, this work claims new capability for 'linking past events to future outcomes' through the authors' commitment to engaging developmental theory [...] This highly theoretical work will interest students and scholars of developmental psychology, life-course criminology, and risk and resilience studies. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisFrom Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of televisionIn Crime TV, Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick bring together an eminent group of scholars to show us the ways in which crimeand the broader criminal justice systemare depicted on television. From Breaking Bad and Westworld to Mr. Robot and Homeland, this volume highlights how popular culture frames our understanding of crime, criminological theory, and the nature of justice through modern entertainment. Featuring leading criminologists, Crime TV makes the key concepts and analytical tools of criminology as engaging as possible for students and interested readers. Contributors tackle an array of exciting topics and shows, taking a fresh look at feminist criminology on The Handmaid's Tale, psychopathy on The Fall, the importance of social bonds on 13 Reasons Why, radical social change on The Walking Dead, and the politics of punishment on Game of Thrones. CTrade ReviewCrime TV takes popular criminology’s necessary next step. Taking the televisual series that most fascinate us and coupling them with classical theories and urgent contemporary perspectives, we immerse into the screens and streaming frontiers of rapidly shifting forms of media consumption. Students and teachers will love this volume. -- Michelle Brown, author of The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and SpectacleCrime TV brilliantly capitalizes on entertainment habits that prompt most Americans to learn about criminality through dramas, many now streamed. Written by top-notch scholars and focusing on widely watched shows, the chapters use popular media to unmask prevailing justice myths and realities and to illuminate the relevance of theories of crime and punishment. Scholarly but accessible, this volume is a fascinating read for all and uniquely suited for classroom use with today’s students. -- Francis T. Cullen, co-author of Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have been set free in recent decades after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. In response to these exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the innocence movement. Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United STrade Review"[An] informative overview of the development of the innocence movement...A useful contribution to an important national conversation about crime and punishment." * Kirkus Reviews *"Exoneratedis the first complete and authentic history of the innocence movement. Robert J. Norris shows us how it came into being and how it evolved over the decades. He also shines light on the issues involved and the challenges the movement faces. With his unmatched academic credential, Norris has written a book that will benefit both students and experts of innocence movement." * The Washington Book Review *"Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents … Exonerated draws on social movements theory to explain in terms of political opportunities for legal reform, local actions of individuals and organizations, and the ways key players framed innocence to bolster its legitimacy." -- The Journal of American History"It (is) a valuable window into the effect of many factors that drive the criminal justice system (race, class, and gender) but not necessarily a means of addressing them. This careful attention to grounding his history makes the book a valuable reference for social scientists, graduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of change in the legal system." * International Criminal Justice Review *"This work is readily accessible to most adult audiences, and is especially recommended for all college, university, and seminary libraries." * Catholic Library World *"Robert J. Norris book,Exonerated,is the first complete and exhaustive treatment of the [innocence] movement itself. The book offers a deep dive. The fact that it is nonetheless eminently readable speaks to Norriss ability to merge impressive scholarship and research with fascinating stories, interesting interviews and anecdotal information. The result is an impressive history layered over with entertaining color." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Exonerated is the definitive account of how the innocence movement transformed public views about the everyday fallibility of the American criminal justice system in the late 20th century, and why preventing the wrongful convictions of the factually innocent remains more important than ever in the 21st century." -- Richard A. Leo,author, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four"Exonerated is the first serious, thorough history of the modern innocence movement. A major, innovative contribution to the scholarship on wrongful convictions and a true delight to read." -- Daniel S. Medwed,author, Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent"A timely and important new contribution to the literature, Exonerated is both an accessible history of the recent history of wrongful convictions, and a much needed analysis of the innocence movement as a social movement." -- Simon A. Cole,author, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification"Carefully researched and elegantly written, this book calls attention to the importance of wrongful convictions for the death penalty and beyond. It shows how the criminal justice system is at the heart of efforts to achieve social justice. This is an important book." -- Sister Helen Prejean,author, Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLatinas in the Criminal Justice System shines an important light on a topic long neglected by criminologists and criminology. Lopez and Pasko elevate the often ignored voices and situations of Latina girls and women, who are often invisible in the many debates about immigration. A must read. -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-author of Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and HypeContributing authors masterfully examine and vividly delineate the historical, social, legal, and ideological forces governing the Latina experience with the penal system and mainstream American society. In a highly charged political era, this book is a timely contribution to help educate readers about police, law and society, race/ethnic relations, and social and legal reform. -- M.G Urbina * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased attention to these causes, from St. Louis to Los Angeles, intense outrage at New York City's Stop and Frisk program and escalating anger over the effect of mass incarceration on the nation's African American community, the Trayvon Martin case brought the racialized nature of the American justice system to the forefront of our national consciousness. Deadly Injustice uses the Martin/Zimmerman case as a springboard to examine race, crime, and justice in our current criminal justice system. Contributors explore how race and racism informs how Americans think about criminality, how crimes are investigated and prosecuted, and how the media interprets and reports on crime. At the centeTrade ReviewDevon Johnson, Patricia Warren, and Amy Farrell have assembled an impressive array of scholars to focus on [a] set of thorny issues for our criminal justice system and for the vitality of American democracy....This volume, bringing together new research and fresh analyses from sociologists, criminologists, legal scholars, and political scientists takes huge steps toward the all-important...re-framing of issues that needs to happen. -- from the Foreword by Lawrence BoboDeadly Injustice strips away the willful racial blindsight that has frustrated scholars who seek to reveal the ways in which our legal institutions deny basic justice when state actors kill young black men and women.Johnson, Warren and Farrell have assembled outstanding scholars whose analytic skills shed new and harsh light into the dark corners of law and criminal justice to reveal the racialization and inequalities in the course of both egregious and everyday events.The analytic focus of this unique volume will sharpen theory and research on racial disparities in justice, and create a new scholarship that can shift our basic understanding of race, law and socio-legal culture to explain these undeniable and disturbing facts. -- Jeffrey A. Fagan,Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of LawAt a time when weve seen fundamental shifts in the policing and criminal justice terrain in our country, this important volume adds depth and dimension to our understanding of race, ethnicity and justice in America.This is must reading not only for scholars in the field but also for policymakers and practitioners committed to ensuring that our criminal justice system actually delivers justice. -- Laurie O. Robinson,Co-Chair, The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and former Assistant Attorney GeneralThis book provides a powerful and timely review of the need to see the connection between race, death, and injustice in America. It is time for us to have this much-needed conversation, which will help us, as a community, understand that far too many children are dying from the hands of assailants. We need to focus on life, rather than death, for our children. -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.,Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law SchoolThe opinions of the researchers point to a need for an overhaul of the criminal justice system and the beliefs espoused therein, as well as those expressed on social media. Highly readable and informative. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender's brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed born criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology? In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque descriTrade ReviewNicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque impressively document the genealogy of biological ideas in criminology. They show that criminology must take new biological ideas seriously and contextualize sociologically both the ideas and the phenomena in which biologists engage. Publication of this second expanded edition indicates that The Criminal Brain is receiving the attention it deserves. -- Joachim J. Savelsberg,author, Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in DarfurRafter, Posick, and Rocque painstakingly document the flaws of early attempts to theorize crime from a biological perspective. By putting a nail in the coffin of the Lombrosoian legacy, they show the humanistic value and promise of the contemporary biosocial criminology paradigm. The Criminal Brain, Second Edition is required reading for all criminologists, biosocial or otherwise. -- Matt DeLisi,co-editor, The Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology

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Book SynopsisIn a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called Golden Triangle drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhangexamine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers in China and SoutTrade Review"Chin and Zhang are among the most influential criminologists working today, with a well-deserved international reputation. In this book, they join forces to bring us a most illuminating and ground-breaking study of a neglected topic, the rise of China as a major consumer of heroin. I doubt anybody can match their ingenuity and dedication to high quality scholarship, but we can all learn from them and admire." -- Federico Varese,author of Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories"Ko-lin Chin and Sheldon Zhang have produced an in-depth study of the political realities, social significance and dynamics of the heroin trade in Southeast Asia. This is an important book for those who would understand the cultivation and production of heroin, drug markets and drug use. There is perhaps no other team so well-suited to illuminate this topic and this book will be a valuable reference for years to come. It is a testament to the skills and experience of these two outstanding researchers." -- Scott Decker,author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community"This comprehensive study provides an in-depth analysis of a particular illegal market about which little has been known to date. This book makes a valuable addition to the still only small number of case studies that permit a comparison of the structure and dynamics of illegal markets across, space, time and socio-political contexts." -- Klaus von Lampe,co-author of Crime Business and Crime Money in EuropeTable of ContentsContents 1. The Chinese Connection 1 2. The Drug Market in Burma 24 3. Wholesale Heroin Trafficking 58 4. Low-Level Heroin Trafficking: Ants-Moving-House 85 5. The Social Organization of Entrepreneurial Traffickers 109 6. The Retail Heroin Market in China 135 7. Women in the Heroin Trade 173 8. Drug Treatment with a Chinese Characteristic 197 9. Combating Drug Trafficking 220 10. Conclusion 247 Notes259 References273 Index289 About the Authors303

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Book SynopsisThe surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City's Washington Square Park Located in New York City's Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre public park that is perhaps best known for its historic Washington Square Arch, a landmark at the foot of 5th Avenue. Hundreds, if not thousands, pass through the park every day, some sit on benches enjoying the sunshine, play a game of chess, watch their children play in the playground, take their dog to the dog runs, or sit by the fountain or, sometimes, buy or sell drugs. The park has an extremely low crime rate. Sociologist, and local resident, Erich Goode wants to know why. He notes that many visitors do violate park rules and ordinances, even engaging in misdemeanors like cigarette and marijuana smoking, alcohol consumption, public urination, skateboarding and bike riding. And yet, he argues, contrary to the well-known broken windows theory, which suggests thatTrade Review"Based on direct and perceptive observations, Erich gives us a complete, comparative and comprehensive view of what is going on in WSP. Very wisely, he contextualizes this view in more general perspectives of NYC, the U.S.A and relevant sociological perceptions. Consequently, readers are taken not only to a fascinating social tour of the park, but also absorb outstanding exposes of looking at WSP from different, relevant and insightful angles. This provides an absolutely engaging, pleasurable and a wonderfully positive reading and learning experience. This is a breathtaking text that people will love to read and enjoy. It is both descriptive and analytical, suggesting many insights and most of all, makes one think." -- Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Co-author of Fraud and Misconduct in Research"With knowing mind and perceptive eye, this veteran sociologist unlocks the hyper-civility of Washington Squareoften held as archetype for social richness in a public place. Goode displays how democratic values and complex accommodation can live through daily interactionin quarrels and kindness, decencies and, yes, some disrespect. It is, in ways we learn, the blemished agora of hybrid greatness." -- Harvey Molotch, Author of Against Security"Rich in detail and analysis, Eric Goode’s book portrays Washington Square Park through the eyes of an affectionate observer. His The Taming of New York’s Washington Square is an important addition to the literature on this famous public space" -- Criminal Law and Criminal Justice"Goode’s study of Washington Square is a deep dive into how this space is used and what we can learn from the interactions within… an intimate exploration of a much-loved place, grounded in traditional sociological concepts." * American Journal of Sociology *"The Taming of New York’s Washington Square offers ideas about safety and tolerance in public spaces in cities at a time when Americans are passionately debating the role of law enforcement in society. ... Washington Square Park, Erich Goode demonstrates, presents a model that prioritizes the responsibility of citizens in maintaining civility and relegates police to a secondary role." * Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History *

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Book SynopsisIn Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James JoyceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism Chapter 2 - Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an array ofpreviously classified materials andinterviews with security experts, Security Aid presents a critical analysis of the securitization of humanitarian aid.Trade Review"This book shines much-needed light on the underbelly of Canadian international assistance. It is a must-read for anyone interested in a myth-busting critical analysis of Canada's foreign policy, foreign aid, and security and defence policy, as well as its use of the whole-of-government approach." -- Stephen Brown, Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa "In Security Aid, Jeffrey Monaghan presents a powerful, well-researched, and clear argument that will be a welcome addition to the critical study of security as 'governmentality' in general, and of the Canadian policy process in particular." -- David Mutimer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, York UniversityTable of ContentsSecurity aid: An introduction Chapter One Canada and the transversal security community Chapter Two Mapping security aid and the geographies of (in)security Chapter Three Security interventions: Policing the transversal Chapter Four Security infrastructures: 'Hardware' of transversal security Chapter Five Security techniques: 'Software' of transversal security Conclusion(s): Security aid in an insecure world References Access to Information Act Requests cited

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Book SynopsisFrom 1819 to 1914, governments in northern North America struggled to deal with crime and criminals migrating across the Canadian-American border. Limited by the power of territorial sovereignty, officials were unable to simply retrieve fugitives and refugees from foreign territory. Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. For nearly a century, officials ranging from high court judges to local police officers embraced the ethos of transnational enforcement of criminal law. By focusing on common criminals, escaped slaves, and political refugees, Miller reveals a period of legal genesis where both formal and informal legal regimes were established across northern North America and around the world to extradite and abduct fugitives. Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law. This engrosTrade Review‘Miller’s excellent book is a welcome addition to work on extradition examining everyday legal practices and their underlying jurisprudence foundations… It provides an important study into the intersection between international, British imperial and Canadian law.’ -- Emily Whewell * Legal History vol 25:2017 *"An important and helpful book for legal historians of the Canada-US border, [Borderline Crime] lays a framework for examining how the border was interpreted as a legal and political entity during its most formative years in the nineteenth century. " -- Brandon Dimmel * BC Studies no. 198, Summer 2018 *"This is a scholarly, closely argued book, but it will have appeal to a wide audience. Bradley Miller illustrates his themes with engaging and entertaining examples and writes clearly and concisely…Borderline Crime should become required reading in colonial, early Canadian, and North American international and diplomatic history." -- Lori Chambers, Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part I: Sovereign Borders and Criminal Law in Northern North America Chapter 2: The Everyday Challenge of Sovereignty Chapter 3: The Low and High Law of Abduction in the Border Zone Part II: Uncertainty, Amorphousness, and Non-Law Chapter 4: International Law and Supranational Justice in Northern North America Chapter 5: The Non-Law of Refugees in British North America Part III: Law Formation in the Treaty Era Chapter 6: Civilization on the Continent: Law Reform and Imperial Power Chapter 7: Law Formation in the Common Law World Chapter 8: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisResponding to Human Trafficking provides a new framework for critical analyses of anti-trafficking and other rights-based and anti-violence interventions.Trade Review‘Kay’s work is a significant addition to the academic literature on anti-trafficking efforts in Canada and should be included in academic library collections.’ -- Angela Gibson * Canadian Law Library Review vol 43:01:2018 *‘Julie Kaye’s excellent and much needed intervention into contemporary trafficking debates is a must read for scholars…Responding to Human Trafficking is a profound contribution to both public and policy debates on the topic.’ -- Emily van der Meulen * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, January 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Production of International and Domestic Anti-Trafficking in Settler-Colonial Canada Chapter 2: Settler-Colonialism and the Construction of Anti-trafficking Chapter 3: Anti-Trafficking in Canada: Negotiating "Domestic" versus "International" Chapter 4: Settler Colonialism, Sex Work, Criminalization, and Human Trafficking Chapter 5: Anti-Trafficking and Border Secularization Conclusion: Anti-Trafficking Policy and Human Insecurity Appendix A Appendix B References Notes

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Book SynopsisBuilding on an original study with almost two hundred older incarcerated individuals, this book explores systemic problems that infiltrate the body of the Canadian federal correctional system and other institutions that engage with prisoners.Trade Review"In Punished for Aging, Adelina Iftene amplifies the little-heard voices of aging inmates incarcerated in Canadian penitentiaries. Iftene overlays those voices with compact, yet clear, analysis of the policy and legal context in which punishment is administered, attending specifically to how inmates experienced the process of aging whilst subject to the techniques and forms of incarceration." -- Joshua David Michael Shaw * Punishment & Society *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2021 *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsPreamble: The Actors Enter the Stage 1. Some Context: The Canadian Federal Correctional System 2. Age and Health Care Behind Bars 3. Reform for Older Prisoners: Release and Institutional Accommodation 4. Democracy in Action: Implementation of Policy Reform and Prison Oversight 5. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Administrative Boards and Tribunals 6. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Courts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA Conviction in Question follows the foundational and controversial trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a murderer whose trial is paramount in tracing the rapid evolution of international law.Trade Review"Freedman speaks directly with various participants in the trial and details events inside the courtroom… Readers will find themselves in the courtroom of the first ever international court and see how law is made." -- W.R. Pruitt * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *Table of ContentsMap of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Introduction A Note on Dialogue 1. The Way to Bunia 2. Museveni’s Divide and Plunder 3. Under Siege 4. From All Hell to The Hague 5. Low Lying Fruit 6. The End Before the Beginning 7. The First Witness 8. A Child Soldier in the Chamber Wars 9. The Paladin, The Warrior and His Lordship 10. Witness from The Front Lines 11. Muting the Victims 12. Lies, All Lies 13. Under the Judge’s Skin 14. Disorder in The Court 15. Sexual Violence 16. A Dubious Conviction Afterword References

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships.Trade Review"China’s Commercial Sexscapes gives a voice to women and men who otherwise remain largely voiceless and nameless in a nation which would rather pretend that they don’t exist." -- Mike Cormack * South China Morning Post, October 12, 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Method 1. Urban Sexscapes: A Snapshop of China’s Commercial Sex Industries Part Two: "Tempting Girls" and Clients in Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets 2. Finding Hope as a "Tempting Girl" in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individualism 3. Disappointed and Despondent: How Young-Adult Male Migrants Contest Masculinity in China’s Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets Part Three: Intimacy and Masculinity in High-End Niche Markets 4. Reframing Love with a "Dirty Girl": High-End Sex Work and Intimate Relations in Urban China 5. Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry Part Four: Social Policy Implications and Criminal Justice 6. Selling Commercial Sex as Edgework 7. Profit-Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of the Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers Conclusion: Understanding the New Trends in China's Commercial Sex Industry References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Canadian courts adapt international human trafficking laws, while also examining how trafficking cases are policed and prosecuted, defended, and judged.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Regimes 2. The Canadian Victim 3. Policing Trafficking 4. Trafficking on Trial 5. The Villain Conclusion Appendix A: Human Trafficking Cases: Race, Age, Gender, and Visual Depictions of Accused in Media Appendix B: Human Trafficking Charges and Outcomes Appendix C: Interview Participants Appendix D: Interview Questions Appendix E: Case Summaries Appendix F: Expanded Methods References

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Book SynopsisThe Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily. Writing at the rich juncture of cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, Paula M. Salvio draws on visual and textual representations including shrines to those murdered by the mafia, photographs, and literary and cinematic narratives, to explore how trauma and mourning inspire solidarity and a quest for justice among educators, activists, artists, and journalists living and working in Italy. Salvio reveals how the anti-mafia movement is being brought out from behind the curtains, with educators leading the charge. She critically analyses six cases of communal acts of anti-mafia solidarity and argues that transitional justice requires radical approaches to pedagogy that are best informed by journalists, educators, and activists working to remember, not only victims of trauma, but those who resist trauma and viTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Story-Taking, Public Pedagogy and the Challenges of Transitional Justice Chapter 1:'To Tarry With Grief': Spontaneous Shrines, Public Pedagogy and the Work of Mourning Chapter 2: 'Eccentric Subjects': Female Martyrs and the Antimafia Public Imaginary Chapter 3: 'Children of the Massacre': Public Pedagogy and Italy's Non-Violent Protest Against Mafia Extortion Chapter 4: On the Road to a New Corleone: Digital Screen Cultures and Citizen Writers Chapter 5: Reconstructing memory through the archives: public pedagogy, citizenship and Letizia Battaglia's photographic record of mafia violence Chapter 6: 'The Duty to Report': Political Judgment, Public Pedagogy and the Photographic Archive of Franco Zecchin EPILOGUE WORKS CITED NOTES INDEX

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Book SynopsisExploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China’s Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism. The book is based in large part upon interviews with sex workers and their clients the author conducted while undercover as a bartender in Dongguan, an important industrial city in Guangdong province and an explicit, complicated, and multidimensional setting for study. In the wake of the financial crisis, the purchasing of sex by single, young-adult males has become an increasingly socially acceptable way for men to perform and experience heteronormative masculinity. Investigating human rights, social policy, and the criminal justice system in China, this book applies the concept of edgework to the commercial sex industry in Dongguan to study how men and women interact within the changing global econoTrade Review"China’s Commercial Sexscapes gives a voice to women and men who otherwise remain largely voiceless and nameless in a nation which would rather pretend that they don’t exist." -- Mike Cormack * South China Morning Post, October 12, 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Method 1. Urban Sexscapes: A Snapshop of China’s Commercial Sex Industries Part Two: "Tempting Girls" and Clients in Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets 2. Finding Hope as a "Tempting Girl" in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individualism 3. Disappointed and Despondent: How Young-Adult Male Migrants Contest Masculinity in China’s Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets Part Three: Intimacy and Masculinity in High-End Niche Markets 4. Reframing Love with a "Dirty Girl": High-End Sex Work and Intimate Relations in Urban China 5. Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry Part Four: Social Policy Implications and Criminal Justice 6. Selling Commercial Sex as Edgework 7. Profit-Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of the Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers Conclusion: Understanding the New Trends in China's Commercial Sex Industry References Index

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Book SynopsisBuilt around the experiences of older prisoners, Punished for Aging looks at the challenges individuals face in Canadian penitentiaries and their struggles for justice. Through firsthand accounts and quantitative data drawn from extensive interviews, this book brings forward the experiences of federally incarcerated people living their golden years behind bars. These experiences show the limited ability of the system to respond to heightened needs, while also raising questions about how international and national laws and policies are applied, and why they fail to ensure the safety and well-being of incarcerated individuals. In so doing, Adelina Iftene explores the shortcomings of institutional processes, prison-monitoring mechanisms, and legal remedies available in courts and tribunals, which leave prisoners vulnerable to rights abuses. Some of the problems addressed in this book are not new; however, the demographic shift and the increase in people dying in pTrade Review"In Punished for Aging, Adelina Iftene amplifies the little-heard voices of aging inmates incarcerated in Canadian penitentiaries. Iftene overlays those voices with compact, yet clear, analysis of the policy and legal context in which punishment is administered, attending specifically to how inmates experienced the process of aging whilst subject to the techniques and forms of incarceration." -- Joshua David Michael Shaw * Punishment & Society *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2021 *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsPreamble: The Actors Enter the Stage 1. Some Context: The Canadian Federal Correctional System 2. Age and Health Care Behind Bars 3. Reform for Older Prisoners: Release and Institutional Accommodation 4. Democracy in Action: Implementation of Policy Reform and Prison Oversight 5. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Administrative Boards and Tribunals 6. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Courts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHuman trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue. The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, with a particular focus on the ways in which the intersecting factors of race, class, gender, and sexuality impact practice. Using a wide range of qualitative and empirically grounded research methods, including extensive analysis of court documents, trial transcripts, and interviews with criminal justice actors, this book contributes to much-needed research that examines, specifies, and sometimes complicates the narratives of how trafficking works as a criminal offence. The Domestication of Human Trafficking turns our attention to the ways in which the Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Regimes 2. The Canadian Victim 3. Policing Trafficking 4. Trafficking on Trial 5. The Villain Conclusion Appendix A: Human Trafficking Cases: Race, Age, Gender, and Visual Depictions of Accused in Media Appendix B: Human Trafficking Charges and Outcomes Appendix C: Interview Participants Appendix D: Interview Questions Appendix E: Case Summaries Appendix F: Expanded Methods References

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Book SynopsisPathways to Ruin? presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Early Years 3. The Teen Years/Early Adulthood: Officially Starting a Life of Crime 4. Adulthood 5. The Criminal Justice Experience and Specialization 6. Desistance 7. Conclusions Appendix: Methods References

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Book SynopsisPathways to Ruin? presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Early Years 3. The Teen Years/Early Adulthood: Officially Starting a Life of Crime 4. Adulthood 5. The Criminal Justice Experience and Specialization 6. Desistance 7. Conclusions Appendix: Methods References

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Book SynopsisThe Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and accessible guide for students and professionals.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Part One: Getting Started 1. Thinking about Numbers 2. Variables Part Two: Describing Distributions 3. Describing Variable Distributions—First Steps 4. Measures of Central Tendency 5. Variability and Z-scores Part Three: Statistical Inference 6. Thinking about Statistical Inference 7. Doing Statistical Inference Part Four: Relations Among Variables 8. Regression and Correlation 9. Comparing Means 10. Categorical Variables 11. Multiple Regression and Logistic Regression 12. Reading Research Math Refresher Charts for Distributions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and accessible guide for students and professionals.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Part One: Getting Started 1. Thinking about Numbers 2. Variables Part Two: Describing Distributions 3. Describing Variable Distributions—First Steps 4. Measures of Central Tendency 5. Variability and Z-scores Part Three: Statistical Inference 6. Thinking about Statistical Inference 7. Doing Statistical Inference Part Four: Relations Among Variables 8. Regression and Correlation 9. Comparing Means 10. Categorical Variables 11. Multiple Regression and Logistic Regression 12. Reading Research Math Refresher Charts for Distributions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence in their lives? In this book, the contributors examine how social control developed under Stalin and Khrushchev. Drawing on deep archival research from across the former Soviet Union, they analyse the wide network of state institutions that were used for regulating individual behaviour and how Soviet citizens interacted with them. Together they show that social control in the Soviet Union was not entirely about the monolithic state imposing its vision with violent force. Instead, a wide range of institutions such as the police, the justice system, and party-sponsored structures in factories and farms tried to enforce control. The book highlights how the state leadership itself adjusted its policing strategies and moved away from mass repression towards legal pressure for policing society. Ultimately, Social Control undTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Introduction Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish Part I. Negotiating Terror and Social Discipline in the 1930s Controlling the Soviet Family through Alimony: Righteous Women, Starving Children, and Bad Fathers, 1925–39 Aaron B. Retish Nashi/ne Nashi, Individual Smallholders, Social Control, and the State in Ziuzdinskii District, Kirov Region, 1932–9 Samantha Lomb Social Control in the Workplace: Labour Discipline and Workers’ Rights under Stalin Maria Starun “Such was the Music, Such was the Dance”: Understanding the Internal and External Motivations of a Stalinist Perpetrator Timothy K. Blauvelt Part II. Forging Society in War and Peace Soviet “Hard Labour,” Population Management, and Social Control in the Postwar Gulag Alan Barenberg The Protection of Socialist Property and the Voices of “Thieves” Juliette Cadiot “They are afraid”: Medical Surveillance in Soviet Russia, 1940–54 Amanda McNair Part III. Post Stalin: Trajectories of Social Control From the Street to the Court (and Back): Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s Immo Rebitschek After the XX Congress: Liberalization and the Problem of Social Order Yoram Gorlizki From Mass Terror to Mass Social Control: The Soviet Secret Police’s New Roles and Functions in the Early Post-Stalin Era Evgenia Lezina Social Control in Post-Stalinist Courts: Housing Disputes and Citizen Demand of Legality Dina Moyal Stalin’s Socialisms David Shearer List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe National Rifle Association (NRA) is an important actor in the American gun debate. While popular explanations for the group’s influence often focus on the NRA’s lobbying and campaign donations, it receives lesser attention for the mass mobilization efforts that make these political endeavours possible. On Target explores why the NRA is so influential and how we can understand the group’s impact on firearms policy in the United States. The book looks at how the NRA both draws upon and shapes historical meta-narratives regarding the role of firearms in America’s national identity and how this is part of a larger effort to expand the community of gun owners. Noah S. Schwartz demonstrates how the NRA portrays a vision of the past through events such as its annual meeting; communications such as American Rifleman magazine and NRA TV; and points of contact including the National Firearms Museum. Based on fieldwork in Indiana anTable of ContentsAcronyms 1. Introduction to the Great Gun Debate 2. What Is the Gun Culture? 3. Narrative and Memory 4. On Paper and Online 5. Points of Contact: The NRA Annual Meeting 6. Home on the Range 7. The NRA Firearms History Museum 8. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPlaying the Supporting Role draws on interviews with strippers and strip club management to bring to life the daily routines, personalities, conflicts, and challenges of managing and working in the erotic dance sector.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Looking beyond the Stage to See the Workplace 1. Who Are Third Parties? Managers, DJs, Bouncers, and Others 2. Is It Exploitation? A Closer Look at the Employment Relationship 3. Backstage: A Divided Workplace 4. Front Stage: Impression Management in the “Party” Environment 5. Safety and Security: Unpacking Danger, Mitigating Risks 6. On Stigma, Stereotypes, and Solidarity Conclusion: The Good, the Bad, and the Future of Strip Club Management Appendix: Methodology References Cases Cited Legislation Cited Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPlaying the Supporting Role draws on interviews with strippers and strip club management to bring to life the daily routines, personalities, conflicts, and challenges of managing and working in the erotic dance sector.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Looking beyond the Stage to See the Workplace 1. Who Are Third Parties? Managers, DJs, Bouncers, and Others 2. Is It Exploitation? A Closer Look at the Employment Relationship 3. Backstage: A Divided Workplace 4. Front Stage: Impression Management in the “Party” Environment 5. Safety and Security: Unpacking Danger, Mitigating Risks 6. On Stigma, Stereotypes, and Solidarity Conclusion: The Good, the Bad, and the Future of Strip Club Management Appendix: Methodology References Cases Cited Legislation Cited Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEach year in Canada residential burglary accounts for the loss of more than 40 million dollars in property and cash. It is a crime which carries high maximum penalties, but it is often not reported to the police, and its perpetrators are seldom caught, prosecuted, or incarcerated. The situation demonstrates the widening gap between public demand for protection and the capacity of traditional law enforcement methods, focusing on deterring or rehabilitating the criminal, to provide it. This study focuses on the crime, its incidence and nature, and its victims, their experiences and reactions to it and their attitudes toward traditional and innovative sentencing practices. The analysis is based on a systematic survey of more than 1,600 households in Toronto, 5,000 police-recorded burglaries, census data, and interviews with convicted burglars. Although people are concerned about residential burglary, relatively few take precautions against it. It involves intrusion into personal

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Book SynopsisArrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and her experiences on hidden scraps of paper which amazingly she was able to smuggle out. These raw written scraps she fashioned into a manuscript, which has waited, unread for more than fifty years. Freedom Rider Diary is that account.Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to test the US Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation in interstate bus and terminal facilities. Brutality and arrests inflicted on the Riders called national attention to the disregard for federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation. Police arrested Riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses, but they often allowed white mobs to attack the Riders without arrest or intervention. This book offers a heretofore unavailable detailed diary from a woman Freedom Rider along with an introduction by historian Raymond Arsenault, author of the definitive history of the Freedom Rides. In a personal essay detailing her life before and after the Freedom Rides, Silver explores what led her to join the movement and explains how, galvanized by her actions and those of her compatriots in 1961, she spent her life and career fighting for civil rights. Framing essays and personal and historical photographs make the diary an ideal book for the general public, scholars, and students of the movement that changed America.Trade ReviewWhat does one take for a vacation in jail?’ When one’s destination is Mississippi’s infamous Parchman Prison Farm, this is not an idle query. During the summer of 1961, more than 300 Freedom Riders, including 110 women, were incarcerated in Parchman after testing the Supreme Court’s desegregation of interstate travel. Only one of these crusaders for civil equality managed to smuggle a diary out with her: Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year old Jewish New Yorker willing to put her liberty on the line in the spirit of Tikkun Olam—to heal the world. This vivid primary source allows an uncensored, unromanticized, and humbling view of the lived experience of young civil rights activists as they made the movement one day at a time, and of a foundational moment in what became Silver’s lifelong commitment to social justice and the daily pursuit of a more perfect Union."" - Jane Dailey, University of Chicago""Getting to know Carol Ruth Silver and other Freedom Riders has been an unforgettable experience. I am so pleased Carol Ruth Silver is sharing the personal diary she kept during that incredibly eventful and traumatic summer of 1961. It is never too late to hear more personal stories of individual acts of heroism. Her diary provides a first-person immediacy, which makes it such a page-turner. It’s also a unique look at the hope and excitement of a young, single woman living in New York, and a window into the mundane yet terrifying unknown of being imprisoned in Mississippi in the 1960s. Her diary shows the bond between her cell mates and what the fiercely focused efforts of average citizens can do: not only did they bring down the ugly signs of Jim Crow segregation, but they also broke down barriers among people of different races and backgrounds to make our country better for all.” — Laurens Grant, producer of Freedom Riders, recipient of a Peabody and three Primetime Emmy Awards""Carol Ruth Silver, thank you for making history as a Freedom Rider. Your courage and the courage of other Freedom Riders helped change American Society; no exclusions and freedom for all citizens.” —John Taylor, 1961 Freedom Rider""Carol Ruth Silver’s diary is a unique portrait of individual courage—a powerful story of idealism and hope, a reflection of a generation of young Americans who would no longer tolerate injustice and segregation. Her raw memories are a poignant reminder of a dark era of the past and of the need to continue our national ride to freedom, progress, and opportunity in our time."" - Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives (D–California)

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Book SynopsisHiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a fascinating exploration of a grim subject, Emmanuel Taïeb exposes the rituals and theatrical form of the death penalty and tells us who watched, who participated in, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle that the state called punishment. France''s abolition of the death penalty in 1981 has long overshadowed its suppression of public executions over forty years earlier. Since the Revolution, executions attracted tens of thousands of curious onlookers. But, gradually, there was a shift in attitude and the public no longer saw this as a civilized pastime. Why? Combining material from legal archives, police files, an executioner''s notebooks, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to 566 executionTrade ReviewThe author combines deep archival research with contextualization: this includes addressing Ancien Régime practices, the civilizing process, centralization, and transformations in penal and information technology. This fascinating historical-sociological study, originally published in 2011, expresses apprehension concerning concealed and virtual representations of violence in modern democracies. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Competition between Legal Publicity and the Press 2. Conservative Representations of Executions 3. The Impossible Task of Designating Execution Sites 4. The Liturgical Crisis of Executionary Rituals 5. Watching Executions 6. Hiding a Ritual of Obedience: From Legitimization to Civilization Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Police, Provocation, Politics, Deniz Yonucu presents a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Shedding light on counterinsurgency''s affect-and-emotion-generating divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the organization of political dissent in a way that both counters existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents emergent ones. Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and dissident populations liTrade ReviewAn astute analysis of the mutually constitutive relationship between police/military forces and sources of political dissent and resistance in working-class neighborhoods of Istanbul. * Choice *Police, Provocation, Politics presents a deep understanding of urban policing and surveillance practices and how community members receive and respond to them. Many of the book's themes, arguments, and concepts relate to critical surveillance studies literature and present ethnographically grounded, rich, and innovative insights. * Surveillance and Society *Police, Provocation, Politics is a groundbreaking contribution to the anthropology of policing, surveillance, and resistance * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *Police, Provocation, Politics makes a timely contribution to the rapidly growing critical scholarship on discriminatory and authoritarian policing, surveillance and security practices designed to disrupt, maintain or generate specific and selected socio-political orders. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *Presented with eloquent organization and lucid writing, the book exhibits ethnography at its prime. Yonucu's writing makes an invaluable contribution to both our understanding of the dialectical relationship between contemporary urban policing and politics, as well as the democratization of the scholarly field. * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology *Through her deeply situated ethnography of a revolutionary community that has found ways of embodying an intergenerational revolutionary politics within and outside the modern state, Yonucu shows abolitionists everywhere ways of embodying liberation. * American Ethnologist *An inspiring example of the recent generation of urban studies scholarship in Turkey, Police, Provocation, Politics offers a major contribution to the field. * New Perspectives on Turkey *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Population, Provocative Counterorganization, and the War on Politics 1. The Possibility of Politics: People's Committees, Sanctuary Spaces, and Dissensus 2. "Gazas of Istanbul": Threatening Alliances and Militarized Spatial Control 3. Provocative Counterorganization: Violent Interpellation, Low-Intensity Conflict, Ethnosectarian Enclaves 4. Good Vigilantism, Bad Vigilantism: Crime, Community Justice, Mimetic Policing,and the Antiterror Laws 5. Inspirational Hauntings: Undercover Policeand the Spirits of Solidarity and Resistance 6. Gezi Uprisings: The Long Summer of Solidarity,and Resistance and the Great Divide Epilogue: Policing as the Generation of (Dis)Order

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Book SynopsisIn this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border. Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, he argues, are not unprecedented. Rather, they are the outcome of an escalatory dynamic already in motionbut now played out on a far bigger stage, with higher stakes, and in new security and political contexts. Focusing on the power of symbolic politics and policy feedback effects, Andreas traces the logic behind such buildup. Border policing is an attractive political mechanism for handling the often unintended consequences of past policy choices, signaling a commitment to territorial integrity and projecting an image of territorial authority. Yet its negative aftermath is not only frequently glossed over; it also fuels further escalation. With new chapters on the border policies of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, Border Trade ReviewAn engaging and readable book. This slim volume is recommended for all levels. * Choice *Andreas's insightful and rigorous study is an important contribution to the literature on globalization and transnational illicit trade. * American Political Science Review *This outstanding book is a much-needed addition to the literature on the policing of international boundaries. Because it is so well written and concise, it fits beautifully into political geography curricula at the undergraduate as well as at the graduate level. * The Professional Geographer *

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Book SynopsisDespite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing. Under these circumstances, Johannesburg has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where the yawning gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has fueled a turn toward redistribution through crime. While wealthy residents have retreated into heavily fortified gated communities and upscale security estates, the less affluent have sought refuge in retrofitting their private homes into safe houses, closing off public streets, and hiring the services of private security companies to protect their suburban neighborhoods. Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city's evolving siege architecture, the transformation of policing, and obsession with security that has fueled unprecedented private consumption of 'protection services.' Martin Murray analyzes the symbiotic relationship between public law enforcement agencies, private security companies, and neighborhood associations, wherein buyers and sellers of security have reinvented ways of maintaining outdated segregation practices that define the urban poor as suspects.Trade Review"South African cities have long been exemplars of the damning effects of fear—and of its exploitation by urban designers and 'security' industries. Post-apartheid hopes of the 'Rainbow Nation' have often unraveled on the back of rampant insecurity and moral panics. In Martin J. Murray's superb book, we learn in forensic detail why and how this has happened. A brilliant and searing critique of the 'hardening' of cities into fortresses, and the mushrooming of a whole array of 'security' industries, this book is an absolute must-read for anyone concerned with our fast-urbanizing world."—Stephen Graham, author of Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers"Panic City shows a grim picture of Johannesburg as paradigm for the 'urbanization of panic.' This very thorough and wide-ranging book focuses on the private security industry, which has become an inextricable part of the social fabric. A must-read for all those who want to know how the future policing of urban space in our dualized societies might look."—Lieven De Cauter, author of The Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear"Panic City is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the politics of crime in South Africa, particularly students, teachers and researchers on post-apartheid Johannesburg. Urban geographers and students of urban studies, environmental psychology, planning, architecture and urban design as well as politicians, policymakers and ordinary residents will find this book revealing and very telling about the ugly stereotypes and gangster proclivities of private security in the suburbs. The book provides its readers with a unique reference point, as well as a stimulus for further research."—Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Dystopic, meticulously researched, and brilliantly written, Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries of Johannesburg engages with a variety of disciplinary fields, including critical criminology, urban geography, bordering, and the sociology of punishment."—Gail Super, American Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisDespite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing. Under these circumstances, Johannesburg has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world, where the yawning gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has fueled a turn toward redistribution through crime. While wealthy residents have retreated into heavily fortified gated communities and upscale security estates, the less affluent have sought refuge in retrofitting their private homes into safe houses, closing off public streets, and hiring the services of private security companies to protect their suburban neighborhoods. Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city's evolving siege architecture, the transformation of policing, and obsession with security that has fueled unprecedented private consumption of 'protection services.' Martin Murray analyzes the symbiotic relationship between public law enforcement agencies, private security companies, and neighborhood associations, wherein buyers and sellers of security have reinvented ways of maintaining outdated segregation practices that define the urban poor as suspects.Trade Review"South African cities have long been exemplars of the damning effects of fear—and of its exploitation by urban designers and 'security' industries. Post-apartheid hopes of the 'Rainbow Nation' have often unraveled on the back of rampant insecurity and moral panics. In Martin J. Murray's superb book, we learn in forensic detail why and how this has happened. A brilliant and searing critique of the 'hardening' of cities into fortresses, and the mushrooming of a whole array of 'security' industries, this book is an absolute must-read for anyone concerned with our fast-urbanizing world."—Stephen Graham, author of Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers"Panic City shows a grim picture of Johannesburg as paradigm for the 'urbanization of panic.' This very thorough and wide-ranging book focuses on the private security industry, which has become an inextricable part of the social fabric. A must-read for all those who want to know how the future policing of urban space in our dualized societies might look."—Lieven De Cauter, author of The Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear"Panic City is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the politics of crime in South Africa, particularly students, teachers and researchers on post-apartheid Johannesburg. Urban geographers and students of urban studies, environmental psychology, planning, architecture and urban design as well as politicians, policymakers and ordinary residents will find this book revealing and very telling about the ugly stereotypes and gangster proclivities of private security in the suburbs. The book provides its readers with a unique reference point, as well as a stimulus for further research."—Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Dystopic, meticulously researched, and brilliantly written, Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries of Johannesburg engages with a variety of disciplinary fields, including critical criminology, urban geography, bordering, and the sociology of punishment."—Gail Super, American Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisUnlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold. This figure provides an apt analogy for the scholar at the center of this unique book. In Rocking Qualitative Social Science, Ashley Rubin provides an entertaining treatise, corrective vision, and rigorously informative guidebook for qualitative research methods that have long been dismissed in deference to traditional scientific methods. Recognizing the steep challenges facing many, especially junior, social science scholars who struggle to adapt their research models to narrowly defined notions of "right," Rubin argues that properly nourished qualitative research can generate important, creative, and even paradigm-shifting insights. This book is designed to help people conduct good qualitative research, talk about their research, and evaluate other scholars' work. Drawing on her own experiences in research and life, Rubin provides tools for qualitative scholars, synthesizes the best advice, and addresses the ubiquitous problem of anxiety in academia. Ultimately, this book argues that rigorous research can be anything but rigid.Trade Review"In this utterly refreshing account, Rubin makes the research process fun again. By deconstructing the limits we place upon ourselves as qualitative researchers, this book opens up new pathways for rigorous, empirical research that is grounded in thoughtful and reflective processes. Those new to the field and those seeking to build confidence or rethink their strategies will benefit from this readable and inspiring guide." -- Sarah Lageson * author of Give Methods a Chance *"Rocking Qualitative Social Science is Ashley Rubin's love letter to her fellow dirtbaggers—we DIY-minded scholars who ask unconventional questions, find and forge new ways to untangle complex social problems, and obsessively track down leads and explore unusual spaces. Packed with useful advice for every stage of the research process, Rubin's methodological mixtape celebrates the robust community of gritty, dedicated investigators and storytellers pushing social science forward." -- Joshua Page, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law * University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction to Dirtbagging chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science research. The chapter lays out the main themes and arguments of the book, contrasting the Dirtbagging approach to the traditional approaches, and argues that there is no One Right Way of doing research. It also introduces rock climbing as the major motif for the book and what we can learn from rock climbers. 2Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods? chapter abstractThis chapter tries to define qualitative methods, while discussing some of the difficulties with the most common ways to define them. We begin with a rundown of the typical methods of qualitative data collection but note that qualitative data can also be quantitatively analyzed. We then review a lot of the traditional ideas or even stereotypes about qualitative methods, pointing out that they have been repeatedly challenged lately. Consequently, the easy markers of qualitative methods recited in various texts no longer hold up very well. Finally, we discuss when qualitative methods are appropriate and what type of research they let you do. 3Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question chapter abstractThis chapter seeks to do four things. First, it describes the role of research questions in the larger research process. Second, and building on that first discussion, this chapter dispels some misconceptions about research questions, especially what counts as a research question and why people disagree about this. Third, the chapter discusses strategies for coming up with a research question. Finally, it identifies some of the secrets about research questions relating to challenges and opportunities that can arise, particularly when you are Dirtbagging about in the field. 4On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor chapter abstractThis chapter discusses how to anchor your work to the academic literature. Importantly, even though there is a lot of advice out there on how to do this, much of it is unhelpful. So this chapter discusses some of the key ways in which people tend to evaluate research—not so much in its nitty gritty details of research design and analysis, but in terms of whether your entire project is worthwhile. I maintain that you can pretty much make any project valuable, but you have to be able to do certain things to convince people of your project's worth. If you can't do those things, then maybe it's not actually a good project. 5Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters chapter abstractThis chapter is the first of three chapters on research design. Research design is how you explain or justify your decisions about how to collect and analyze your data. Your explanation may not actually be what guided your decisions (the conventional idea of research design is that it takes place before you collect and analyze your data). But your ability to defend your choices is key to how we evaluate research. This chapter addresses general things about planning and executing your research, such as whether you want to map everything out carefully ahead of time or play it by ear. Keeping these things in mind—not necessarily acting on them immediately but letting them inform your decisions—will lead to a better project. 6Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection chapter abstractThis chapter reviews the various considerations that go into case selection, which everyone has to do (whether you think you do or not). We start with some strategies for figuring out how to select a case if you are in the design phase and don't know which case(s) to choose. Then we turn the various types of cases we use in social science; each type of case comes with its own justifications for why you might choose this case and not that case. Thinking about these justifications can also remind you about the limits of the type of case you have selected and thus what you can (and can't) claim with your study. The type of case you choose will substantially impact what you can do with your project and what type of relationship your study will have with existing theories. 7Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample chapter abstractThis chapter examines the issues you need to think about carefully when it comes to your data collection. For starters, we discuss how you decide what data to actually collect. Next, we return to one of the banes of a qualitative scholar's existence: the question of how much data are enough; but rather than worrying about what other people think is the answer to this question, we will answer it on our own terms. Finally, we talk about what you can do to really think through the limitations of your data and how to make your project stronger. Skipping these steps can (justifiably) open you up to criticism. Doing them carefully will protect you against some bad falls. 8Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the process of collecting data in "the field," which I define broadly to include any place you collect your data. I have adopted this ethnographic language because it provides a broadly useful model, even for those of us doing online or archival research. In this chapter, I review the specific strategies fieldworkers use that I have found useful in my work. Some readers, who have never conducted ethnographies, will recognize these strategies, because the strategies are not unique to ethnographers. Most of the non-ethnographic methods texts I have come across have not said much about the mundane realities of data collection, while this is something at which ethnographers excel. 9The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the central tools you will need as a qualitative social scientist to analyze your data. While there are certainly more advanced analysis tools, content analysis (open and focused coding) and analytic memos (notes to yourself with varying degrees of analysis) will get you through most projects. Designed and perfected by ethnographers, these tools are once again broadly applicable, whether you are conducting formal interviews, using archival data, or reviewing websites and online documents. They allow you to systematically review your data and keep track of the many insights your mind will be swimming with as you do so. 10Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data chapter abstractThis chapter discusses the tricks and tools you can use to establish causal claims and, ultimately, to give yourself—and your audience—confidence that you aren't just making shit up. The more of these tricks you use, the more confidence you will have. I think of it like climbers laying down pro—the more nuts and cams you embed on the wall, the less likely it is that you will plummet to the ground if you miss a handhold and fall. One piece of pro might pop out if it's poorly placed or there's some loose rock, but if you have several pieces placed, you're still safe. Likewise, the more of these extra steps you take, the more confidence you can have—and if you are wrong, the more you can be forgiven for believing you had it right. 11Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research chapter abstractQualitative scholars frequently face skepticism about their ability to produce high-quality research—and in sufficient amounts. There are many implicit critiques of qualitative methods vis-á-vis quantitative methods when it comes to things like defining qualitative methods (Chapter 2) or making causal inference (Chapter 10). Underlying these critiques are basic misconceptions—on the part of not only critics but also over-eager qualitative researchers—about qualitative methods' inherent limitations. (Bad qualitative research is, sadly, one contributor to these misconceptions.) So part of learning about qualitative methods requires understanding common critiques of qualitative methods, both so you can be prepared to defend your choice of methods and so you can defend against rote critiques. 12The Sweeper chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the Dirtbagging approach to qualitative social science and revisits why having a flexible, inclusive approach to qualitative research is beneficial for everyone.

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Book SynopsisHow one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movement In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours before a government shutdown. It was one of few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move toward reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to revolutionary reform, in Reform Nation, Colleen P. Eren investigates it as a symbol for the larger movement's trajectory. Its unlikely passage during a period of political polarization was testament to the power of a new constellation of advocates, stakeholders, and strange bedfellow alliances. These intriguing and complex dynamics are indicative of a longer, twenty-year shift in which the movement became nationalized and mainstreamed. Using in-depth interviews with major players in the national movement, formerly incarcerated activists, celebrities, and donors, this is the first book to turn the mirror back on the criminal justice reform movement itself—the frames used, the voices heard, the capital activated among elite participants, and the bitter controversies. This snapshot in time raises much larger questions about how our democratic processes inform criminal justice policy, and where we are going in the decades to come.Trade Review"A critical look behind the scenes at the way 'criminal justice reform' has blossomed into not just a movement but also, at times, a kind of industry. Eren's book is vital to our understanding of how change happens—and doesn't."—Baz Dreisinger, author, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World"Reform Nation is well-timed for the current moment in criminal justice reform. Colleen Eren captures the political and social dynamics of recent years and lays out a compelling set of issues and challenges for the reform movement moving forward."—Marc Mauer, Senior Advisor, The Sentencing Project"Reform Nation is an invaluable and timely gift. This lively, behind-the scenes narrative brilliantly documents the emergence of a broad, bipartisan, and highly effective justice reform coalition. Energized by the leadership of justice-impacted individuals, this coalition brings together business leaders, philanthropists, civil rights advocates, religious organizations and strange-bedfellow politicians. By comparing this political development with other social movements, and contrasting this consensus with the realities of our deeply divided democracy, Eren elevates her narrative to that rare scholarly voice that speaks to the challenges of the moment. Reform Nation offers reasons for hope and caution at a time when our forward momentum faces new winds of opposition. This book should serve as a new guide for the justice reform movement in the next chapter of a long struggle."—Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at the Justice Lab at Columbia University, President Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice"Eren's book is a masterful account of how grassroots activism on a cause that very few people really cared about blossomed into a win for not just better treatment of people convicted of certain crimes but a better use of tax dollars. She blends original interviews with major players in the reform movement with great storytelling and a sociological framework that illuminates the complexities of all reform efforts."—Nick Gillespie, ReasonTable of Contents1. The First Step Act Puzzle 2. Mainstreamization and the Movement 3. Billionaires, Philanthropy, and Reform 4. Celebrity Activism and Reform 5. Reform®: Corporate Social Activism and Reform 6. Strange Bedfellows 7. Formerly Incarcerated Activists and the Future of Criminal Justice Reform

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Book Synopsis"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised." Most of us have encountered this warning while watching television at some point. It is typically attached to a brand of reality crime TV that Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance call "crimesploitation": spectacles designed to entertain mass audiences by exhibiting "real" criminal behavior and its consequences. This book examines their enduring popularity in American culture. Analyzing the structure and content of several popular crimesploitation shows, including Cops, Dog: The Bounty Hunter, and To Catch a Predator, as well as newer examples like Making a Murderer and Don't F**K with Cats, Kaplan and LaChance highlight the troubling nature of the genre: though it presents itself as ethical and righteous, its entertainment value hinges upon suffering. Viewers can imagine themselves as deviant and ungovernable like the criminals in the show, thereby escaping a law-abiding lifestyle. Alternatively, they can identify with law enforcement officials, exercising violence, control, and "justice" on criminal others. Crimesploitation offers a sobering look at the depictions of criminals, policing, and punishment in modern America. Trade Review"Insisting that the consumption of other people's pain is a defining feature of the neoliberal carceral state, Crimesploitation will not let us meaninglessly 'escape' into our true crime media streaming and listening. Instead, Kaplan and LaChance move us toward a critical reckoning with the exploitative forms of (un)freedom that media's spectacle of crime and punishment have conjured. A powerful dose of thoughtful accountability, this volume points the way to getting truly 'real' about—and intervening in—the suffering that a culture of punishment has produced. I cannot wait to cite, teach, and buy copies of this book for friends and family."—Michelle Brown, The University of Tennessee"Kaplan and LaChance show that crimesploitation programs help to maintain the status quo of the neoliberal carceral state. Crimesploitation's focus on individual pathology as a cause of crime and 'law and order' as the solution to crime steers viewers away from important structural causes of crime and the need for reform in the criminal justice system and society-at-large. They do so while exploiting people in their worst moments, showing a 'reality' of crime that carefully avoids being too real."—Andrew J. Baranauskas, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"[Crimesploitation] presents a well-grounded, readable argument for rethinking crime and justice reality television. It is unhesitantly recommended."—Ray Surette, Criminal Justice Review"Kaplan and LaChance provide excellent and easily digestible accounts of the politics of reality TV crimesploitation, and their emphasis on connecting media representations of crime and punishment to existing social, political, and economic inequalities in the neoliberal era will provide political scientists, sociologists, and media scholars with abundant resources to continue exploring the relationship between popular culture and the practices and ideologies of policing in America."—Emma Cytrynbaum, Law, Culture, and HumanitiesTable of Contents1. Humiliation, Inc.: Policing the Criminal on Primetime 2. Watching the Night Creatures: Crimesploitation and Boredom 3. Cuffs of Love: Punishment and Redemption in Crimesploitation 4. Middlebrow Crimesploitation Epilogue: W(h)ither Crimesploitation?

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Book SynopsisTwenty to forty percent of the US prison population will spend time in restricted housing units—or solitary confinement. These separate units within prisons have enhanced security measures, and thousands of staff control and monitor the residents. Though commonly assumed to be punishment for only the most dangerous behaviors, in reality, these units may also be used in response to minor infractions. In Surviving Solitary, Danielle S. Rudes offers an unprecedented look inside RHUs—and a resounding call to more vigorously confront the intentions and realities of these structures. As the narratives unfold we witness the slow and systematic damage the RHUs inflict upon those living and working inside, through increased risk, arbitrary rules, and strained or absent social interactions. Rudes makes the case that we must prioritize improvement over harm. Residents uniformly call for more humane and dignified treatment. Staff yearn for more expansive control. But, as Rudes shows, there also remains fierce resilience among residents and staff and across the communities they forge—and a perpetual hope that they may have a different future. Trade Review"In this landmark study, Rudes shines an essential light on the lives of prisoners and workers in these facilities. It is essential reading that should make an impact well beyond academic criminology."—Shadd Maruna, Queen's University Belfast"This important, insightful book treats the people in RHUs with deep respect, and it tells their story with honesty and power. Rudes has provided an always eloquent, admirably fair, and sometimes shocking portrayal of what our incarceration policies have given us. Many readers will think we should end the practice; those who do not will find a persuasive set of ideas about how to make the RHU world better for those we kept there and for their keepers."—Todd Clear, Rutgers University Law School"Thoughtful and nuanced, this book is pathbreaking for its sensitive portrayal of residents and staff in RHUs. Books this timely, relevant, and important are all too rare."—Chris Uggen, University of Minnesota"Rudes, two colleagues, and more than a score of undergraduate, graduate, and scholarly researchers offer a brilliant 'behind the walls' ethnographic study of incarcerated persons and security staffs.... The result is an exceptionally candid, far-ranging articulation of issues.... Highly recommended."—R. D. McCrie, CHOICE

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