Crime and criminology Books
Stanford University Press Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in
Book SynopsisSex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights.Trade Review"Thusi's compelling research provides unprecedented insights into the world of policing sex work, and supports arguments for decriminalizing sex work so that women may pursue options deemed beneficial, including selling sex." —Cathi Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand"Policing Bodies offers a fascinating, entirely unique analysis of the policing of prostitution within multiple street and indoor venues. A major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of prostitution and its control."—Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University"In this well-crafted examination of the sex industry in Johannesburg, Thusi heightens our understanding of the complex reality of sex work and the evolving nature of its policing. Not only does the book provide an excellent analysis of the situation, it is a really good read!" —Frances M. Shaver, Concordia University"With its numerous footnoted references and studies providing both support and additional bibliographic research opportunities, Policing Bodies is a unique scholarly consideration that should be considered a mainstay not in just South African libraries, but in any collection strong in social and legal issues in general and sex work and law enforcement in particular."—Diane C. Donovan, Midwest Book Review"What [Policing Bodies] clearly shows is the complexity of relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, and how criminalizing sex work is counterproductive. It makes an important and novel contribution to our understanding of the thorny issues around policing and sex work, as well as the state's obligation to protect the rights of sex workers while at the same time regulating their behavior."—Amanda Gouws, Signs: Journal of Women in Culutre and SocietyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. POLICING AND SEX WORK IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. MAPPING THE POLICING OF SEX WORK 3. INFORMAL POLICING IN ROSEBANK 4. POLICING BEAUTY 5. SEX WORK, FEMINISM, AND POLICY CONCLUSION
£79.20
Stanford University Press Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in
Book SynopsisSex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights.Trade Review"Thusi's compelling research provides unprecedented insights into the world of policing sex work, and supports arguments for decriminalizing sex work so that women may pursue options deemed beneficial, including selling sex." —Cathi Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand"Policing Bodies offers a fascinating, entirely unique analysis of the policing of prostitution within multiple street and indoor venues. A major contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of prostitution and its control."—Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University"In this well-crafted examination of the sex industry in Johannesburg, Thusi heightens our understanding of the complex reality of sex work and the evolving nature of its policing. Not only does the book provide an excellent analysis of the situation, it is a really good read!" —Frances M. Shaver, Concordia University"With its numerous footnoted references and studies providing both support and additional bibliographic research opportunities, Policing Bodies is a unique scholarly consideration that should be considered a mainstay not in just South African libraries, but in any collection strong in social and legal issues in general and sex work and law enforcement in particular."—Diane C. Donovan, Midwest Book Review"What [Policing Bodies] clearly shows is the complexity of relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, and how criminalizing sex work is counterproductive. It makes an important and novel contribution to our understanding of the thorny issues around policing and sex work, as well as the state's obligation to protect the rights of sex workers while at the same time regulating their behavior."—Amanda Gouws, Signs: Journal of Women in Culutre and SocietyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. POLICING AND SEX WORK IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. MAPPING THE POLICING OF SEX WORK 3. INFORMAL POLICING IN ROSEBANK 4. POLICING BEAUTY 5. SEX WORK, FEMINISM, AND POLICY CONCLUSION
£21.59
Stanford University Press Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History
Book SynopsisIn Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty. Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways. Trade Review"Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference powerfully explores how legal, economic, and cultural forces in Texas have undermined criminal defense attorneys' efforts to save their mentally ill clients from execution. Surveying over one hundred years of cases, Chloé Deambrogio offers a vital and harrowing account of why jurists, lay people, and even psychiatrists themselves have made mercy for the mentally ill the exception rather than the rule."—Daniel LaChance, Emory University"Chloe Deambrogio's engaging and insightful account sheds new light on the ways in which changing paradigms in psychiatry and law influenced outcomes in Texas trial courts in capital cases over the course of the twentieth century. Among its many strengths is its careful exposure of underlying assumptions about race, gender and sexuality in diagnostic and trial processes."—Nicola Lacey, The London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction 1. Heredity, Environment, and the Doctrine of Civilization 2. Biology, Insanity, and the Criminal Courts 3. Psychoanalysis, the Insanity Defense, and the Family-Centered Ideology 4. Psychoanalysis and the Construction of the Criminal Psychopath 5. The "New" Scientific Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Future Dangerousness 6. The Abused and Neglected as a "Continuing Threat to Society" Epilogue: Forensic Psychiatry and Trial Practices in the Twenty-First Century
£50.40
Stanford University Press Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the
Book SynopsisA thorough and engaging look at an unexpected driver of changes in the American criminal justice system Driving is an unavoidable part of life in the United States. Even those who don't drive much likely know someone who does. More than just a simple method of getting from point A to point B, however, driving has been a significant influence on the United States' culture, economy, politics – and its criminal justice system. Rules of the Road tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the steadily rising prominence, and now established supremacy, of the automobile. Spencer Headworth brings together research from sociology, psychology, criminology, political science, legal studies, and histories of technology and law in illustrating legal responses to changing technological and social circumstances. Rules of the Road opens by exploring the early 20th-century beginnings of the relationship between criminal law and automobility, before moving to the direct impact of the automobile on prosecutorial and criminal justice practices in the latter half of the 20th century. Finally, Headworth looks to recent debates and issues in modern-day criminal justice to consider what this might presage for the future. Using a seemingly mundane aspect of daily life as its investigative lens, this creative, imaginative, and thoroughly researched book provides a fresh perspective on the transformations of the U.S. criminal justice system.Trade Review"Rules of the Road provides a comprehensive, and necessary, account of the automobile's inextricable connection to the U.S. criminal legal system. It also challenges us to reimagine that relationship and our society's car dependence. This book is an essential read for anyone who cares about transforming policing, criminal laws, and American justice."—Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School"This deeply researched book elegantly lays out how cars and roads reflect broader social and legal choices about belonging, governance, punishment, and surveillance. After reading Rules of the Road, you will see the automobile everywhere and at every stage in the criminal legal system – even though it's always been hiding in plain sight."—Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark"Drawing on a wide array of secondary literature, the book's provocative discussion of the automobile's pervasive and profound impacts on the United States will likely appeal to readers interested in any of the interconnected issues of crime and punishment, individual independence, equality of opportunity, mobility, public health and spaces, the environment, and social justice."—Thomas J. Davis, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revolutions per Minute: The Automobile and a National Transformation 2. Calling All Cars: Police Modernization and Communication 3. Fifths and the Fourth: Prohibition and Searches 4. The Automotive Age of Majority: Youth, Driver's Licenses, and Legal Responsibility 5. City Planning, Suburbanization, and Vehicle Patrol 6. Discretion and Disparities in Car-Based Criminal Justice 7. Interstate Crime: Federalism, Highways, and Criminal Justice 8. MADD Prosecutors? Drunk Driving and Prosecutorial Discretion 9. Roadblocks: Collateral Consequences and Driving Privileges 10. Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Limits of the Criminal Law 11. Watching the Wheels 12. Monitoring Mobility Conclusion: Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
£64.80
Stanford University Press Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in
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
£19.79
Stanford University Press Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure
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?
£19.79
Stanford University Press Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the
Book SynopsisA thorough and engaging look at an unexpected driver of changes in the American criminal justice system Driving is an unavoidable part of life in the United States. Even those who don't drive much likely know someone who does. More than just a simple method of getting from point A to point B, however, driving has been a significant influence on the United States' culture, economy, politics – and its criminal justice system. Rules of the Road tracks the history of the car alongside the history of crime and criminal justice in the United States, demonstrating how the quick and numerous developments in criminal law corresponded to the steadily rising prominence, and now established supremacy, of the automobile. Spencer Headworth brings together research from sociology, psychology, criminology, political science, legal studies, and histories of technology and law in illustrating legal responses to changing technological and social circumstances. Rules of the Road opens by exploring the early 20th-century beginnings of the relationship between criminal law and automobility, before moving to the direct impact of the automobile on prosecutorial and criminal justice practices in the latter half of the 20th century. Finally, Headworth looks to recent debates and issues in modern-day criminal justice to consider what this might presage for the future. Using a seemingly mundane aspect of daily life as its investigative lens, this creative, imaginative, and thoroughly researched book provides a fresh perspective on the transformations of the U.S. criminal justice system.Trade Review"Rules of the Road provides a comprehensive, and necessary, account of the automobile's inextricable connection to the U.S. criminal legal system. It also challenges us to reimagine that relationship and our society's car dependence. This book is an essential read for anyone who cares about transforming policing, criminal laws, and American justice."—Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School"This deeply researched book elegantly lays out how cars and roads reflect broader social and legal choices about belonging, governance, punishment, and surveillance. After reading Rules of the Road, you will see the automobile everywhere and at every stage in the criminal legal system – even though it's always been hiding in plain sight."—Sarah Lageson, Rutgers University-Newark"Drawing on a wide array of secondary literature, the book's provocative discussion of the automobile's pervasive and profound impacts on the United States will likely appeal to readers interested in any of the interconnected issues of crime and punishment, individual independence, equality of opportunity, mobility, public health and spaces, the environment, and social justice."—Thomas J. Davis, Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revolutions per Minute: The Automobile and a National Transformation 2. Calling All Cars: Police Modernization and Communication 3. Fifths and the Fourth: Prohibition and Searches 4. The Automotive Age of Majority: Youth, Driver's Licenses, and Legal Responsibility 5. City Planning, Suburbanization, and Vehicle Patrol 6. Discretion and Disparities in Car-Based Criminal Justice 7. Interstate Crime: Federalism, Highways, and Criminal Justice 8. MADD Prosecutors? Drunk Driving and Prosecutorial Discretion 9. Roadblocks: Collateral Consequences and Driving Privileges 10. Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Limits of the Criminal Law 11. Watching the Wheels 12. Monitoring Mobility Conclusion: Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
£23.39
Stanford University Press Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite this rapid circulation, however, we still know very little about the scientific knowledge underlying these expert evaluations. Hereditary traces the historical development of biosocial criminology in the United States from the 1960s to the present, showing how the fate of this movement is intimately linked to that of the field of criminology as a whole. In claiming to identify the biological and environmental causes of so-called "antisocial" behaviors, biosocial criminologists are redefining the boundary between the normal and the pathological. Julien Larregue examines what is at stake in the development of biosocial criminology. Beyond the origins of delinquency, Larregue addresses the reconfiguration of expertise in contemporary societies, and in particular the territorial struggles between the medical and legal professions. For if the causes of crime are both biological and social, its treatment may call for medical as well as legal solutions.Trade Review"Biological theories of 'antisocial behavior' have made a stunning comeback in scholarship and insinuated themselves in the criminal courts. Hereditary delves deep into their academic and intellectual histories to tell us how and why. It is an absolute must-read for reflexive criminologists, sociologists of knowledge and anthropologists of crime and expertise."—Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the "Underclass"
£86.40
Stanford University Press Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the
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
£21.59
Stanford University Press Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness of offenders. Despite this rapid circulation, however, we still know very little about the scientific knowledge underlying these expert evaluations. Hereditary traces the historical development of biosocial criminology in the United States from the 1960s to the present, showing how the fate of this movement is intimately linked to that of the field of criminology as a whole. In claiming to identify the biological and environmental causes of so-called "antisocial" behaviors, biosocial criminologists are redefining the boundary between the normal and the pathological. Julien Larregue examines what is at stake in the development of biosocial criminology. Beyond the origins of delinquency, Larregue addresses the reconfiguration of expertise in contemporary societies, and in particular the territorial struggles between the medical and legal professions. For if the causes of crime are both biological and social, its treatment may call for medical as well as legal solutions.Trade Review"Biological theories of 'antisocial behavior' have made a stunning comeback in scholarship and insinuated themselves in the criminal courts. Hereditary delves deep into their academic and intellectual histories to tell us how and why. It is an absolute must-read for reflexive criminologists, sociologists of knowledge and anthropologists of crime and expertise."—Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the "Underclass"
£23.39
Stanford University Press Smuggling Law
£87.55
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and
Book SynopsisWhile many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. This book uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Caitlin Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.Trade Review“Failing Moms is a tour de force, offering a timely and critical analysis of the myriad ways that mothers are failed by just about everyone. Killian offers compelling and disturbing evidence that American mothers are embattled and exhausted. Happily, she also offers a host of solutions, beginning with valuing mothers.”Monica Casper, San Diego State University“This book does a breathtaking job of illuminating the ways all women are imperiled by the denigration of mothers. This accepted cruelty is systemic, built into the legal system, state neglect, and social mores and codes with which all women must contend, but none more so than those who become (or who are suspected of becoming) birthing bodies.”Kate Baldwin, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction All Moms Are Bad Moms Pre-Conception Discrimination Criminal Pregnancies “Neglectful” Mothers Mothers of Maimed and Murdered Children Fighting Back, Fighting for the Future References
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and
Book SynopsisWhile many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. This book uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Caitlin Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.Trade Review“Failing Moms is a tour de force, offering a timely and critical analysis of the myriad ways that mothers are failed by just about everyone. Killian offers compelling and disturbing evidence that American mothers are embattled and exhausted. Happily, she also offers a host of solutions, beginning with valuing mothers.”Monica Casper, San Diego State University“This book does a breathtaking job of illuminating the ways all women are imperiled by the denigration of mothers. This accepted cruelty is systemic, built into the legal system, state neglect, and social mores and codes with which all women must contend, but none more so than those who become (or who are suspected of becoming) birthing bodies.”Kate Baldwin, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAll Moms Are Bad MomsPre-Conception DiscriminationCriminal Pregnancies“Neglectful” MothersMothers of Maimed and Murdered ChildrenFighting Back, Fighting for the FutureReferences
£17.09
University Press of New England A Murder in Wellesley
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£18.05
University of Pennsylvania Press Patterns in Criminal Homicide
Book SynopsisThis volume is a statistical and sociological analysis of one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Combining original research and a review of all major previous studies on criminal homicide in America, this study attempts to discover and to analyze patterns in criminal homicide from among almost six hundred cases that occurred in the city of Philadelphia between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1952. The primary source of data utilized by Marvin E. Wolfgang was the files of the Homicide Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department. Answers were sought to a series of questions regarding 588 victims and 621 offenders involved in criminal homicide with respect to the following: race, sex, and age differences; methods and weapons used to inflict death; seasonal and other temporal patterns; spatial patterns; the relationship between the use of alcohol and homicide; the degree of violence in homicide; motives; the interpersonal relationship between victim and offender; homicide occurring during the commission of another felony; victim-precipitated homicide; homicide-suicide; unsolved homicide; the tempo of legal procedure; court disposition; and insanity as a factor in homicide. The broad range of material examined in this volume makes it one of the most comprehensive studies undertaken in recent years. Although dealing basically with records of homicide accumulated in Philadelphia, Patterns in Criminal Homicide has implications that hold true for every large urban community. It is a work of utmost importance to the student of sociology because of its general sociological perspective; to all students of criminology; to the police, especially the homicide division of any police department; to law students, lawyers, and judges; and to those agencies in the community concerned with the control and prevention of violent crime.
£79.20
Cognella, Inc Assessment and Classification of Juvenile
Book SynopsisAssessment and Classification of Juvenile Offenders: A Treatment Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners guides current and aspiring criminal justice professionals through the process of assessing, classifying, and correcting delinquent and criminal behaviors exhibited by youth offenders. The text employs a medical model, leveraging scientific insight into human thought and behavior, to demonstrate how criminality and delinquency, like physical illnesses, can be treated by prompt and accurate evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.Over the course of 19 chapters, readers learn about offenses generally committed by youth, why they commit such offenses, and how to prevent or control criminal and delinquent behaviors. The chapters provide broader understanding of what takes place—or what should take place—in the post-adjudication and prosecution phases of youth offenders. Through the medical lens model, readers learn about the roles played by protective, risk, and needs factors; how to use classification tools to effectively assess youth offenders; the difference between legal and clinical offenders; and social, economic, and political factors that can contribute to delinquency.Assessment and Classification of Juvenile Offenders is an ideal resource for courses in criminal justice, criminology, social work, psychology, and sociology.
£74.40
Cognella, Inc Juvenile Justice and Schools: Policing, Processing, and Programming
Book SynopsisJuvenile Justice and Schools: Policing, Processing, and Programming examines the complex relationship between educational institutions and the juvenile justice system. Readers learn about factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency, how schools can prevent and manage juvenile delinquency, and how individuals can leverage resources other than police or justice systems in response to behavioral concerns.Each chapter examines a specific topic and demonstrates how the topic intersects with school systems and juvenile justice systems. Dedicated chapters explore poverty and its impact on school readiness; the school-to-prison pipeline; racial and gender disproportionality in school discipline practices; and police presence in schools. Students learn about the juvenile justice system, peer mediation as a means to reduce conflicts, strategies for reducing school violence, anti-bullying programs, and more.Juvenile Justice and Schools is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate level courses in sociology, criminology, and criminal justice. It can also be used in minor programs in peace studies, education, and juvenile delinquency.
£76.80
University of Minnesota Press The Horror of Police
Book SynopsisUnmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police Year after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure world. Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged and order restored but as horror, Linnemann reveals the monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. “law and order.” Only when viewed through the refracted motif of horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits of police and imagine a world without them. Trade Review"We know this more clearly today than ever before: policing is monstrous, unleashing terror while cannibalistically devouring resources otherwise destined for more human things. Travis Linnemann turns our reality upside-down as he turns the horror genre inside-out, insisting that only by confronting the dreadful monsters in our midst can we build a truly different world."—Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete"Police stories are among the most popular in American culture. In this book—equally steeped in pop culture, the latest critical theory, and the history and contemporary reality of policing—Travis Linnemann reads those stories against the grain to argue that the police represent the monstrous core of our society and to challenge us to imagine a world without them."—Adam Kotsko, author of Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital"In this highly original take, Travis Linnemann looks beyond the flashy headlines of the grossest excesses of police violence to the monstrosity that lies beneath it: police power itself. Using the tropes and conventions of the horror literary genre, Linnemann parses not just the fear that the police inspire amongst ‘us’ but also what haunts the police: mutuality, collectivity, and solidarity."—Emma Russell, author of Queer Histories and the Politics of PolicingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Police Story, Horror Story1. Bad Cops and True Detectives2. The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line3. RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus4. Monsters Are Real5. The Unthinkable WorldAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexNotesIndex
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Bristol University Press Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in
Book SynopsisDisproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to the proportional overrepresentation of minority youth at each step of the juvenile justice system. This book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. Drawing on original data, including interviews with court and probation officers and juvenile self-reports, the authors call for a need to understand racial and ethnic inequality in the juvenile justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias. This unique research will contribute to larger discussions on how race operates in the United States.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policy Born Out of Racist Myth Occam’s Razor: Racial/Ethnic Inequality Throughout Society Law Enforcement Contact with Juveniles: Arrests and Citations The Juvenile Justice System: Intake Decisions and Outcomes Juvenile Self-Reports of Deviant and Criminal Behaviour Data Issues and the Case for Self-Report Data Police, Juvenile Court and Juvenile Specialist Interviews Conclusion and Discussion
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Bristol University Press A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers
Book SynopsisPolicing and security provision are subjects central to criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private police foundations, who operate on and are animated by a frontier, this book reveals why criminological inquiry must reach beyond traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st century. Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary and international book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously.Trade Review''By bringing the frontier into the foreground, Lippert and Walby challenge us to question established theories and empirical research into both the historical and contemporary roles and objectives of modern policing.'' Ian Warren, Deakin University''Lippert and Walby have been instrumental in pushing forward the study of plural policing into new and uncharted territory. This thought-provoking and imaginative book continues the journey.'' Adam White, University of Sheffield''This fascinating book breaks down both national and academic borders in order to present a much richer understanding of the increasing coalescence of policing and security provision at the vital but under-researched frontiers of service delivery.'' Sarah Charman, University of Portsmouth"This excellent book adds significantly to the rich body of international scholarship exploring diverse and novel policing and security developments. Utilising innovative methodological approaches, it develops new empirical and conceptual insights into the contemporary nature, logics, practices and working relations of public and private forms of policing.'' Stuart Lister, University of Leeds''Lippert and Walby forcefully show how studying policing and security frontiers is essential to understanding how a number of diverse institutions, actors, logics and strategies are transforming policing today." David Moffette, University of Ottawa''This book is an essential source of information for both scholars and practitioners interested in policing beyond the police: corporate security guards, community safety officers, ambassador patrols and others working on the frontiers of security.'' Ronald van Steden, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Policing and Security Frontiers Getting to the Frontiers: Methodologies Community Safety Officers and the British Invasion: Community Policing Frontiers Conservation Officers, Dispersal and Urban Frontiers Ambassadors on City Centre Frontiers Public Corporate Security Officers and the Frontiers of Knowledge and Credentialism Funding Frontiers: Public Policing, ‘User Pays’ Policing and Police Foundations Conclusion: Policing and Security Frontiers
£60.79
Bristol University Press A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers
Book SynopsisPolicing and security provision are subjects central to criminology. Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private police foundations, who operate on and are animated by a frontier, this book reveals why criminological inquiry must reach beyond traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st century. Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary and international book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policing and Security Frontiers Getting to the Frontiers: Methodologies Community Safety Officers and the British Invasion: Community Policing Frontiers Conservation Officers, Dispersal and Urban Frontiers Ambassadors on City Centre Frontiers Public Corporate Security Officers and the Frontiers of Knowledge and Credentialism Funding Frontiers: Public Policing, ‘User Pays’ Policing and Police Foundations Conclusion: Policing and Security Frontiers
£20.89
Bristol University Press A Criminology of War?
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.Trade Review''Solidly grounded in inter- and intra-disciplinary scholarship, McGarry and Walklate provide a sophisticated and critical analysis of complex connections between war and criminology. While bringing the study of war closer to the centre of modern criminological enterprise, this book will attract serious attention far beyond it'.'' Ali Wardak, University of South WalesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Can there be a “criminology of war”?; Theorising "war" within sociology and criminology; The war on terrorism: criminology’s “third war”; The “forgotten criminology of genocide”; From nuclear to “degenerate” war; The “dialectics of war” in criminology; Criminology’s “fourth war”? Gendering war and its violence(s); Conclusion: Beyond a “new” wars paradigm: bringing the periphery into view.
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Bristol University Press A Criminology of War?
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Can there be a “criminology of war”?; Theorising "war" within sociology and criminology; The war on terrorism: criminology’s “third war”; The “forgotten criminology of genocide”; From nuclear to “degenerate” war; The “dialectics of war” in criminology; Criminology’s “fourth war”? Gendering war and its violence(s); Conclusion: Beyond a “new” wars paradigm: bringing the periphery into view.
£20.89
Bristol University Press The Criminalisation of Social Policy in
Book SynopsisFrom anti-immigration agendas that criminalise vulnerable populations, to the punishment of the poor and the governance of parenting, this timely book explores how diverse fields of social policy intersect more deeply than ever with crime control and, in so doing, deploy troubling strategies. The international context of this book is complemented by the inclusion of specific policy examples across the themes of work and welfare; borders and migration; family policy; homelessness and the reintegration of justice-involved persons. This book incites the reader to consider how we can reclaim the best of the ‘social’ in social policy for the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction Introducing the ‘Criminalisation of Social Policy’ and an Overview of Relevant Scholarship Disciplining the Poor: Welfare Conditionality and Labour Market Activation Criminalising Borders, Migration and Mobility Criminalising Homelessness and Poverty Through Urban Policy Policing Parenting, ‘Family Support’ and the Discipline and Punishment of Poor Families Criminalising Justice-Involved Persons Through Rehabilitation and Reintegration Policies Re-Envisioning Alternative Futures
£28.49
Bristol University Press Case Studies of Famous Trials and the
Book SynopsisFrom the trials of Oscar Pistorius to O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, this innovative book provides a critical review of 11 high profile criminal cases. These case studies examine how ‘guilt’ and ‘innocence’ are constructed in the courts and in wider society, using the themes of evidence and narratives; credibility; rhetoric and oratory in the court room; social status; vulnerability and false confessions; diminished responsibility and the media and social judgments. Written for criminology, sociology, law, and criminal justice students, the book includes: • exercises to extend thinking on each case; • recommended readings for studying the cases and concepts discussed in each chapter; • an extensive specialist reference list including web links to videos and transcripts pertaining to many of the cases discussed in the book. The book delivers an accessible examination of the criminological, sociological, psychological and legal processes underpinning the outcome of criminal cases, and their representation in the media and wider society.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Death of Caylee Marie Anthony 2. Storytelling in the Trial of James Hanratty 3. Consistency and Inconsistency in Stories: The Case of Dr Crippen 4. The Role of Credibility and Believability in the Trial of Rosemary West 5. Techniques of Neutralisation and the Conviction of the Oklahoma Bomber, Timothy McVeigh 6. Language Style and Persuasion in the Criminal Trial of O.J. Simpson 7. Social Geometry and the Acquittal of Michael Jackson 8. The Role of Vulnerability in the Alleged False Confession and Subsequent Conviction of Brendan Dassey 9. The Defence of Diminished Responsibility and the Trial of Peter Sutcliffe 10. The ‘Reasonable Person’ (and Common Sense) in the Trial of Oscar Pistorius the Shooting of Reeva Steenkamp 11. Amanda Knox’s Trial in the Media Afterword
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Bristol University Press A Criminology of Moral Order
Book SynopsisMoral order is disturbed by criminal events. However, in a secularized and networked society a common moral ground is increasingly hard to find. People feel confused about the bigger issues of our time such as crime, anti-social behaviour, Islamist radicalism, sexual harassment and populism. Traditionally, issues around morality have been neglected by criminologists. Through theory, case studies and discussion, this book sheds a new and topical light on these concerns. Using the moral perspective, Boutellier bridges the gap between people’s emotional opinions on crime, and criminologists' rationalized answers to questions of crime and security.Trade Review“Over the past 35 years Hans Boutellier has become a leading diagnostician of Dutch society and beyond. His moral approach to crime is unique as well as provocative, and has transformed him into a new Durkheim for our liquid modern times. A Criminology of Moral Order will be the book that introduces his work to a truly global readership.” Tom Daems, Leuven Institute of CriminologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A conceptual exploration of moral space Part I: Complexity without direction Social order in a network society The radical secularization of moral space Part II: Security politics Criminal law as a moral stronghold Securitization in a safe new world Part III: Sex and identity Sexual offences and mutual consent Diversity, radicalization and populism Conclusion: Emerging morality
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Bristol University Press A Criminology of Moral Order
Book SynopsisPeople feel confused about the bigger issues of our time such as crime, anti-social behaviour, Islamist radicalism, sexual harassment and populism. Traditionally, issues around morality have been neglected by criminologists. Through theory, case studies and discussion this book sheds a new and topical light on these concerns.Trade Review“Over the past 35 years Hans Boutellier has become a leading diagnostician of Dutch society and beyond. His moral approach to crime is unique as well as provocative, and has transformed him into a new Durkheim for our liquid modern times. A Criminology of Moral Order will be the book that introduces his work to a truly global readership.” Tom Daems, Leuven Institute of CriminologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A conceptual exploration of moral space Part I: Complexity without direction Social order in a network society The radical secularization of moral space Part II: Security politics Criminal law as a moral stronghold Securitization in a safe new world Part III: Sex and identity Sexual offences and mutual consent Diversity, radicalization and populism Conclusion: Emerging morality
£20.89
Bristol University Press Climate Change Criminology
Book SynopsisLeading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food and tourism and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinized for their contribution to global warming. Ideas of ‘state-corporate crime’ and 'ecocide’ are introduced and explored in this concise overview of criminological writings on climate change. This sound and robust application of theoretical concepts to this ‘new’ area also includes commentary on topical issues such as the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, which draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.Trade Review"White's overall message is one of critique, connectivity, inclusion and collective enterprise. For him, a climate change criminology requires us to get to know our planet - what is going on where and why, and what we can do about it. It is an ambitious transdisciplinary challenge, but a sensible one it is hard to argue against it. There is no more pressing problem facing the continuation of the human species and Rob White has ensured that green criminology asserts a central place in the future of humanity and that of all living things." Reece Walters, Queensland University of Technology"With this book, Rob White is breaking new ground. The book is an important addition to the climate change literature. White establishes here the urgency of knowing who is doing what to prevent, stop, encourage and/or expand climate change, as well as the injustices produced by the phenomenon." Ragnhild Sollund, University of OsloTable of ContentsClimate change and criminology Global warming as ecocide In the heat of the moment Climate change catastrophes and social intersections Climate change victims Carbon criminals Criminal justice responses to climate change Criminological responses to climate change
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Bristol University Press The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of
Book SynopsisAs the percentage of people working in the service economy continues to rise, there is a need to examine workplace harm within low-paid, insecure, flexible and short-term forms of ‘affective labour’. This is the first book to discuss harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of the service economy, it investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism. It highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Challenging current thinking within sociology and policy analysis, it reconnects ideology and political economy with workplace studies and uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.Trade Review“…an exciting progression for social harm studies that offers tangible insight into how harm occurs in all facets of the workplace. I would recommend it to those influencing policy as providing concrete analytical tools for the design of labour market policies that can reduce harm... [and] academics who are already involved in the study of social harm as well as those wishing to gain a good overall insight into the field.” People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 – Reinterpreting social harm; Chapter 2 – Restructuring labour markets; Chapter 3 – Organisational culture and management practice; Chapter 4 – The absence of stability; Chapter 5 – The absence of protection; Chapter 6 – The positive motivation to harm; Chapter 7 – The violence of ideology; Conclusion.
£77.39
Bristol University Press The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism and highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Reconnecting ideology and political economy with workplace studies, it uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.Trade Review"Drawing on original and insightful ethnographic research, this book is indispensable for academics, practicioners and policy makers interested in the harms associated with contemporary service work. A compelling and thought-provoking read." Sam Scott, University of GloucestershireTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 – Reinterpreting social harm; Chapter 2 – Restructuring labour markets; Chapter 3 – Organisational culture and management practice; Chapter 4 – The absence of stability; Chapter 5 – The absence of protection; Chapter 6 – The positive motivation to harm; Chapter 7 – The violence of ideology; Conclusion.
£27.54
Bristol University Press Sex Work and the New Zealand Model:
Book SynopsisMore than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel Part I ~ Legislative Change in New Zealand ‘On the Clients’ Terms’: Sex Work in New Zealand Before Decriminalisation ~ Jan Jordan Stepping Forward Into the Light of Decriminalisation ~ Dame Catherine Healy, Annah Pickering and Chanel Hati The Future of Feminism and Sex Work Activism in New Zealand ~ Carisa R. Showden Part II ~ The Diversity of Sex Workers in New Zealand The Impacts of Decriminalisation for Trans Sex Workers ~ Fairleigh Gilmour Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice?: Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19 ~ Lynzi Armstrong, Gillian Abel, and Michael Roguski “My Dollar Doesn’t Mean I’ve Got Any Power or Control Over Them”: Clients Speak Out About Purchasing Sex ~ Shannon Mower Part III ~ Perceptions of Sex Workers in New Zealand "Genuinely Keen to Work": Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media ~ Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith The Disclosure Dilemma: Stigma and Talking About Sex Work in the Decriminalised Context ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Cherida Fraser Contested Space: Street-based Sex Workers and Community Engagement ~ Gillian Abel
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Bristol University Press Visual Criminology
Book SynopsisFrom fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research. This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.Trade Review“McClanahan has unquestionably achieved the stated aims of the New Horizons in Criminology series, producing a clear and concise introduction to and argument for a recent development in the discipline. I have no hesitation in recommending the monograph, which makes an indispensable contribution to criminology and is an excellent resource for research and teaching alike.” Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsIntroducing Visual Criminology The Visual in Social Science Visual Methods in Criminology Environmental Harm and the Visual Drugs and the Visual Punishment, Prisons, and the Visual Police and the Visual New Horizons in Visual Criminology
£60.79
Bristol University Press Visual Criminology
Book SynopsisFrom fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research. This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.Table of ContentsIntroducing Visual Criminology The Visual in Social Science Visual Methods in Criminology Environmental Harm and the Visual Drugs and the Visual Punishment, Prisons, and the Visual Police and the Visual New Horizons in Visual Criminology
£20.89
Bristol University Press A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction
Book SynopsisCriminology has been reluctant to embrace fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm. In this philosophical enquiry, McGregor uses examples from films, television, novels and graphic novels to demonstrate the extensive criminological potential of fiction around the world. Building on previous studies of non-fiction narratives, the book is the first to explore the ways criminological fiction provides knowledge of the causes of crime and social harm. For academics, practitioners and students, this is an engaging and thought-provoking critical analysis that establishes a bold new theory of criminological fiction.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Narrative, Criminology, and Fiction Narrative Criminologies Fictional Criminologies Phenomenological Criminology Counterfactual Criminology Mimetic Criminology Criminological Cinema Conclusion: Criminology Of Narrative Fiction
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Bristol University Press A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction
Book SynopsisCriminology has been reluctant to embrace fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm. In this philosophical enquiry, McGregor uses examples from films, television, novels and graphic novels to demonstrate the extensive criminological potential of fiction around the world. Building on previous studies of non-fiction narratives, the book is the first to explore the ways criminological fiction provides knowledge of the causes of crime and social harm. For academics, practitioners and students, this is an engaging and thought-provoking critical analysis that establishes a bold new theory of criminological fiction.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Narrative, Criminology, and Fiction Narrative Criminologies Fictional Criminologies Phenomenological Criminology Counterfactual Criminology Mimetic Criminology Criminological Cinema Conclusion: Criminology Of Narrative Fiction
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Bristol University Press Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention: A Model
Book SynopsisThe UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children’s poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision, protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on Ireland’s experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book demonstrates how children’s rights can be implemented in detention. This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy of international application, the book shares practical insights into how theory can be translated into practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Children’s Rights in Detention 2 An International Perspective 3 Irish Youth Justice Law and Policy 4 Introducing Child Detention in Ireland 5 Oberstown and the Process of Change 6 Implementing Children’s Rights in Detention 7 Children’s Rights to Protection from Harm 8 Staff Wellbeing and Communication 9 International and National Influences and Advocacy 10 Reflections: Enablers and Barriers to Reform
£76.00
Bristol University Press Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention: A Model
Book SynopsisThe UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children’s poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision, protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on Ireland’s experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book demonstrates how children’s rights can be implemented in detention. This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy of international application, the book shares practical insights into how theory can be translated into practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Children’s Rights in Detention 2 An International Perspective 3 Irish Youth Justice Law and Policy 4 Introducing Child Detention in Ireland 5 Oberstown and the Process of Change 6 Implementing Children’s Rights in Detention 7 Children’s Rights to Protection from Harm 8 Staff Wellbeing and Communication 9 International and National Influences and Advocacy 10 Reflections: Enablers and Barriers to Reform
£23.74
Bristol University Press Reimagining Black Art and Criminology: A New
Book SynopsisIt is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible.Table of ContentsReimagining a Black Art Infused Criminology The People Speak: The Importance of Black Arts Movements Shadow People: Black Crime Fiction as Counter-Narrative Staging the Truth: Black Theatre and the Politics of Black Criminality Beyond The Wire: The Racialization of Crime in Film and TV Strange Fruit: Black Music (Re)presenting the Race and Crime Of Mules and Men: Oral Storytelling and the Racialization of Crime Seeing the Story: Visual Art and the Racialization of Crime Speaking Data and Telling Stories Locating the Researcher: (Auto)-Ethnography, Race, and the Researcher Towards a Black Arts Infused Criminology
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Bristol University Press Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective
Book SynopsisFor many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm. Aimed at academics, youth workers and policy makers, the book presents a new way to make sense of this pressing social problem. The authors also propose measures to substantially improve the lives of Britain’s young people in areas ranging from the early years to youth services and the criminal justice system.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Against Youth Violence and Against ‘Youth Violence’ A harmful society Why are we ‘against youth violence’? Structure and style 1. The Nature and Scale of Interpersonal Violence in Britain Introduction Sources of data: strengths and limitations Interpersonal violence in England and Wales Interpersonal violence in London Conclusion 2. Developing an Approach to Social Harm Introduction Why not simply focus on ‘crime’ in children and young people’s lives? From crime to social harm Our approach to social harm Conclusion 3. The Importance of Mattering in Young People’s Lives Introduction The importance of mattering An insecure society? Social changes and global processes affecting young people’s sense of mattering in Britain today Conclusion 4. Social Harm and Mattering in Young People’s Lives Introduction Poverty and inequality Declining welfare support: under-resourced communities and social care systems Schools and education Unemployment and ‘marginal work’ Housing and homelessness Harm and subjectivity, structure and agency Relative prevalence of social harms Conclusion 5. Social Harm, Mattering and Violence Introduction The functions of violence and the factors most commonly associated with it Social harm, the struggle to matter and the propensity to engage in violence Conclusion 6. Harmful Responses to ‘Youth Violence’ Introduction An age-old mythology perennially resurfacing with ‘perpetual novelty’ Demonize them Punish and control them Save them Conclusion Conclusion: Towards a Less Harmful Society for Young People Introduction The central arguments of this book: social harm, mattering and violence between young people 2030: a near-future dystopia The changes that we need to improve life for Britain’s young people Address harm, reduce inequality, enhance care
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Bristol University Press Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological
Book SynopsisThe people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. Building on the ‘nothing about us without us’ social movement, this edited volume advocates an inclusive approach to criminology that gives voice to historically marginalized, silenced, and ignored groups. Incorporating the experiences of service users, academics, and state and grassroots practitioners, this volume considers how researchers might bridge the gap between theory and lived experience. It furthers criminological scholarship by capturing the voices of marginalized groups and exploring how criminology can authentically incorporate these voices.Table of ContentsPART I: Conceptualizing ‘Nothing about Us without Us’ and Researching Marginalized Peoples 1 Introduction: ‘Nothing about Us without Us', a History and Application for Criminology ~ Yasmine Ahmed, James Windle, and Orla Lynch 2 Working Together to Create Change: Theory, Experience, and Praxis ~ Maggie O’Neill and Rosie Campbell 3 Whitewashing the White Collar ~ Ciaran McCullagh PART II: Insider Voices 4 Institutional Abuse in Ireland: Lessons from Magdalene Survivors and Legal Professionals ~ Maeve O’Rourke, Jennifer O’Mahoney, and Katherine O’Donnell Re-storying Off ending Behaviour: A Normal Response to an Overdose of Trauma? ~ Jane Mulcahy 6 Sexual and Gender- Based Violence against Refugee Women as a Continuum of Violence ~ Dimitra Mouriki 7 Reconsidering the 1991 Blackbird Leys Rioters as an Underclass: An Insider Perspective ~ James Windle 8 An Autobiographical Account of Desistence and Recovery ~ James Leonard PART III: Policy Responses and Reforms 9 Access Denied: Sex Worker Health and Well-Being in the Context of Criminalization ~ Kathryn McGarry, Paul Ryan, Adeline Berry, and Belle Guarani 10 Care versus Crime: Safe Injecting Facilities as a Legal Crossroads in Ireland ~ Marcus Gatto and Sarah Bryan O’Sullivan 11 Giving Voice to Convicted Perpetrators of Sexual Harm: Assisted Desistance in the Community ~ Clare Cresswell 12 Reforming Ireland’s Adversarial Trial for Victims of Crime with Intellectual Disabilities ~ Alan Cusack 13 The Inside- Out Prison Exchange Programme: Its Origin, Essence, and Global Reach; A Reflection ~ Lori Pompa
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Bristol University Press Contemporary Intersectional Criminology in the
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection dedicated to the use of intersectionality as theory, framework and methodology in criminological research. It draws together contemporary British research to demonstrate the value of intersectionality theory in both familiar and innovative applications, including race, gender, class, disability, sexual orientation and age. Experts explore a range of experiences relating to harm, hate crimes and offending, and demonstrate the impacts of oppression on complex personal identities that do not fit neatly in homogenised communities. Challenging conventional perspectives, it positions intersectionality firmly into the mainstream of criminology.Table of Contents1. Introduction to this Collection - Jane Healy and Ben Colliver Part 1: Examining the Theoretical and Conceptual Contributions of Intersectionality to Criminology 2. Intersectionality and Criminology: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? - Jane Healy 3. A Narrative Exposition of British Colonial Rule in the Americas - Melsia Tomlin-Kräftner 4. Healing from Identity-Based Violence: An Intersectional Discussion - James Pickles Part 2: Crime, Harm and Criminal Justice Systems: Intersectionality’s Engagement with Crime and Deviance 5. Navigating Probation and Managing Substance Use: The Roles of Gender and Class - Melindy Duffus 6. Young Men’s Perspectives on Child Criminal Exploitation and Their Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing: An Intersectional Analysis - Hannah Marshall 7. Navigating Constructions of the ‘Ideal Victim’ among Men Who Experience Childhood DVA and Gang Involvement - Jade Levell 8. Intersectional Studies in Prisons Research: Prisons and Punishment in England and Wales - Saabirah Osman Part 3: New Frontiers in Hate Crime Research 9. Intersectional Oppression and Transgender People’s Experiences of Discrimination - Ben Colliver 10. Hateful Subjectivities: Using Intersectionality to Inform a Critical Hate Studies Perspective - Katie McBride and Zoë James 11. ‘Why Do You Hate Me So Much?’ Examining Disability Hate Crime Experiences through an Intersectional Lens - Jane Healy 12. Using Intersectionality to Understand Abuse against Elders: A Conceptual Examination - Emma Finnegan 13. Intersections of LGBTQ+ Social Spaces Using Gender Analysis and the Social Model - Lisa Overton and Joshua Hepple 14. Conclusion: Where Next for Intersectional Criminology? - Ben Colliver and Jane Healy
£76.50
Bristol University Press Contemporary Intersectional Criminology in the
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection dedicated to the use of intersectionality as theory, framework and methodology in criminological research. It draws together contemporary British research to demonstrate the value of intersectionality theory in both familiar and innovative applications, including race, gender, class, disability, sexual orientation and age. Experts explore a range of experiences relating to harm, hate crimes and offending, and demonstrate the impacts of oppression on complex personal identities that do not fit neatly in homogenised communities. Challenging conventional perspectives, it positions intersectionality firmly into the mainstream of criminology.Table of Contents1. Introduction to this Collection - Jane Healy and Ben Colliver Part 1: Examining the Theoretical and Conceptual Contributions of Intersectionality to Criminology 2. Intersectionality and Criminology: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? - Jane Healy 3. A Narrative Exposition of British Colonial Rule in the Americas - Melsia Tomlin-Kräftner 4. Healing from Identity-Based Violence: An Intersectional Discussion - James Pickles Part 2: Crime, Harm and Criminal Justice Systems: Intersectionality’s Engagement with Crime and Deviance 5. Navigating Probation and Managing Substance Use: The Roles of Gender and Class - Melindy Duffus 6. Young Men’s Perspectives on Child Criminal Exploitation and Their Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing: An Intersectional Analysis - Hannah Marshall 7. Navigating Constructions of the ‘Ideal Victim’ among Men Who Experience Childhood DVA and Gang Involvement - Jade Levell 8. Intersectional Studies in Prisons Research: Prisons and Punishment in England and Wales - Saabirah Osman Part 3: New Frontiers in Hate Crime Research 9. Intersectional Oppression and Transgender People’s Experiences of Discrimination - Ben Colliver 10. Hateful Subjectivities: Using Intersectionality to Inform a Critical Hate Studies Perspective - Katie McBride and Zoë James 11. ‘Why Do You Hate Me So Much?’ Examining Disability Hate Crime Experiences through an Intersectional Lens - Jane Healy 12. Using Intersectionality to Understand Abuse against Elders: A Conceptual Examination - Emma Finnegan 13. Intersections of LGBTQ+ Social Spaces Using Gender Analysis and the Social Model - Lisa Overton and Joshua Hepple 14. Conclusion: Where Next for Intersectional Criminology? - Ben Colliver and Jane Healy
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Bristol University Press Experiences of the Sex Industry
Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection
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Bristol University Press Experiences of the Sex Industry
Book SynopsisUsing unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interviews the participants to reflect on their original interviews, their experience of engaging in research and of managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to policymakers and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, law and qualitative methods, the text seeks to navigate through the difficult politics of the sex industry and re-focus our understanding on the lived experiences of those involved.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods and Ethics 3. Female Independent Sex Workers 4. Male Independent Sex Workers 5. Managed Brothel Workers 6. Erotic Dancers and Strippers 7. Sex Buyers 8. Reflection
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Bristol University Press Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending
Book SynopsisThere is growing acknowledgement that torture is too narrowly defined in law, and that psychological and/or sexualised violence against women is not adequately recognized as torture. Clearly conceptualising torturous violence, this book offers scholars and practitioners critical reflections on how torture is defined and the implications that narrow definitions may have on survivors. Drawing on over a decade of research and interviews with psychologists, practitioners and women seeking asylum, it sets out the implications of the social silencing of torture, and torturous violence specifically. It invites us to consider alternative ways to understand and address the impacts of physical, sexualized and psychological abuses.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why ‘Torture and Torturous Violence’? 1. Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of ‘Torture’ 2. ‘Wandering Throughout Lives’: Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture 3. ‘I Wouldn’t Call It Torture’: Conceptualising Torturous Violence 4. Sexualised Torture and Sexually Torturous Violence 5. Experiential Epistemologies: Embedding the Lived Experience of Women Survivors 6. Unsilencing 7. Addressing and Responding to Torture and Torturous Violence
£76.50
Bristol University Press Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending
Book SynopsisThere is growing acknowledgement that torture is too narrowly defined in law, and that psychological and/or sexualised violence against women is not adequately recognized as torture. Clearly conceptualising torturous violence, this book offers scholars and practitioners critical reflections on how torture is defined and the implications that narrow definitions may have on survivors. Drawing on over a decade of research and interviews with psychologists, practitioners and women seeking asylum, it sets out the implications of the social silencing of torture, and torturous violence specifically. It invites us to consider alternative ways to understand and address the impacts of physical, sexualized and psychological abuses.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why ‘Torture and Torturous Violence’? 1. Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of ‘Torture’ 2. ‘Wandering Throughout Lives’: Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture 3. ‘I Wouldn’t Call It Torture’: Conceptualising Torturous Violence 4. Sexualised Torture and Sexually Torturous Violence 5. Experiential Epistemologies: Embedding the Lived Experience of Women Survivors 6. Unsilencing 7. Addressing and Responding to Torture and Torturous Violence
£23.74
Bristol University Press Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st
Book SynopsisGender-based violence (GBV) can take many forms and have detrimental effects across generations and cultures. The triangulation of GBV, rurality and rural culture is a challenging and essential topic and this edited collection provides an innovative analysis of GBV in rural communities. Focusing on under-studied and/or oppressed groups such as immigrants and LGBTQIA+ people, the book explores new theories on patterns of violence. Giving insights into GBV education and prevention, the text introduces community justice and victim advocacy approaches to tackling issues of GBV in rural areas. From policy review into actionable change, the editors examine best practices to positively affect the lives of survivors.Table of Contents1. Understanding Rurality and Gender-based Violence - Ziwei Qi, April N. Terry & Tamara J. Lynn Part I: Rurality and Gender-based Violence 2. What is 'Rural', Anyway? - Millan Alexander AbiNader 3. Gender Blindness for At-risk Girls in Rural Communities - April N. Terry, L. Susan Williams, Mari Esther-Edwards & Kelli Grant 4. ‘Raise Your Hand If…’ Teen Dating Violence Prevention in Rural Secondary Schools - Kaiti Blackburn, Christie Brungardt, Jennifer Farrington & Rachel Moravek 5. College Students’ Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence - Madison Bainter, Abigail Hammeke, Joshua McDowell & Tamara J. Lynn Part II: Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide: Critical Issues in Gender-based Violence 6. 'Trying to Avoid Coyotes': The Nexus of Rurality, Violence, and Inequality - Amy M. Magnus 7. Comparing Characteristics of Rural and Urban Intimate Partner Violence Against Women - Nicholas J. Richardson, Samuel J.A. Scaggs, Camara Wooten & Kelle Barrick 8. Urban and Rural Media Reporting on Violence Against Transgender People - Lisa M. Olson, Marc Settembrino, Sam Allen & Megan Howard 9. Religious Responses for Rural Sexual Assault Survivors - April N. Terry Part III: Access to Rural Justice: Economic Consequences and Policy Implications 10. The Needs of Intimate Partner Violence Victims in Rural America - Ziwei Qi, Cristina Jimenez, Viviana Lizarraga & Brandi Hanson 11. ‘Nowhere to Go’: Intimate Violence and Opioid Use in Rural Vermont - Rebecca Stone, Nafisa Halim, Julia K. Campbell, Diane Kinney & Emily F. Rothman 12. Rural Rape Crisis Centres and Extreme Financial Deprivation - Anne Kirkner 13. Gender-based Violence Against New Immigrants - Carly E. McPeak & Valerie K. Sprout 14. Understanding Gender-based Violence and Rurality: Conclusion and Future Implications - Ziwei Qi, April N. Terry & Tamara J. Lynn
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Bristol University Press Gendered Perspectives on Preventing Violent
Book SynopsisThe UK’s ‘Prevent’ strategy aims to dissuade vulnerable groups from supporting terrorism, and women have been involved since its inception in 2006. Sam Andrews argues that women are still viewed within a traditional gendered framework as primarily peaceful and are mostly engaged as mothers, enlisted by Prevent to watch over and guide their families and communities. Drawing on interviews and case studies, this book reveals how Prevent goes beyond simple counter-terrorism messaging to fund a diverse array of projects, from support for victims of domestic violence to parenting courses, shaping wider engagement with women in society.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Women in Terrorism and Extremism in Theory and Practice 3. Prevent: A Policy Overview From 2006 to 2018 and Beyond 4. Women in the National Policy Framework 5. National Projects Post-2011: Shanaz and Prevent Tragedies 6. Delivering Prevent Locally 7. How do Prevent Professionals Understand Women? 8. Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of Prevent: Muslim and Secular Black and Minority Ethnic Women, and Right- wing Women 9. Conclusion: Ideologies and Counterterrorism Practice
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