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Book SynopsisWhy do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill, frequently poor people of color? Via multiple re-framings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a "persecution of the prophetic" at the heart of the contemporary criminal justice system. This interdisciplinary book draws on criminology, theology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and psychiatric history to consider the increasingly intractable issue of mass incarceration. Inviting a new, collaborative conversation on penal reform as a fundamentally "life-affirming" project, it defends the dignity of those diagnosed as mentally unstable and their capacity for spiritual transcendence.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Overview of the Problem of Mental Illness and Incarceration 2. How We Think About the Mentally Ill 3. Why Do We Punish the Mentally Ill? 4. A Profile of the "Mad" Prophet 5. Prophetic Types and the Penal Sanctuary Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe ‘ndrangheta – the Calabrian region of Italy’s mafia – is one of wealthiest and most powerful criminal organizations today. It is considered Italy’s most powerful mafia; it’s not only the main object of concern for anti-mafia units in Italy, but also for joint investigative teams in Europe and beyond. Combining autobiography, travel ethnography, memoir, academic rigour and investigative journalism, this book provides a global outlook on the ‘ndrangheta, taking the reader to small villages and locations in Italy and abroad to Australia, Canada, United States and Argentina.Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Mafia, Memories and Journeys 2. Wine, Cannabis and Ancestors: Rural Australia 3. Aspromonte, the Roots 4. From St Kilda to Kings Cross 5. Bombs, Bridges and Gold 6. North American Hybrids 7. The Port, the Sea and the Wrong Sun 8. ’Ndrangheta City and Spiderwebs Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn times of increasing migration flows, Greece is often viewed as the gateway to Europe for significantly high numbers of asylum-seeking individuals, including unaccompanied minors. Between 2016 and 2020, under Greek law unaccompanied children were to be temporarily placed in a protective environment upon irregular entry, pending referral to suitable accommodation. However, in reality they were being subjected to detention procedures instead. Giving voice to migrant children and professionals throughout, the author combines legal analysis with criminology and unveils the discrepancy between the law and practice. The findings demonstrate that unaccompanied children in Greece are criminalised through detention processes, while being deprived of the right to be heard. This book promotes child-friendly practices in the international migration setting, with a view to safeguarding the fundamental rights of unaccompanied minors experiencing detention upon arrival in host countries.Table of ContentsDisclaimer List of Diagrams and Tables List of Abbreviations (in Alphabetical Order) List of International Legislation (in Chronological Order) List of National Legislation (in Chronological Order) Abstract Notes on Author Recent Publications Preface Chapter 1: Introducing the Problem Statement I. From Current Aims… II. …to Chapter Analysis Chapter 2: Children’s Rights and Methodologies I. Focusing on the Right To Be Heard II. Achieving a Phenomenological Result III. Conducting Ipa in the Context of Migration Chapter 3: Criminals in Waiting I. Entering the Country Irregularly II. Addressing Detention Issues Chapter 4: Under the Research Lens I. Exploring Crimmigration II. Voicing Children Chapter 5: Recruitment and Data Collection I. Listening to the Minors’ Insights II. Witnessing the Practitioners’ Experience III. Combining Ipa With Focus Groups IV. Holding a Focus Group Session Chapter 6: Emergent Discussion Themes I. Concerns on Hygiene Matters II. Problematic Detention Setting III. Absence of Proper Services IV. Incidents of Abusive Behaviour Chapter 7: Ultimate Reflections I. Understanding Detention II. Implementing Changes Chapter 8: Reaching a Conclusion I. From Final Remarks… II. …to Future Research Paths References

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Book SynopsisRobbery can be planned or spontaneous and is a typically short, chaotic crime that is comparatively under-researched. This book transports the reader to the streets and focuses on the real-life narratives and motivations of the youth gang members and adult organized criminals immersed in this form of violence. Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the material and emotional gains and losses to offenders and victims, and offers policy recommendations to reduce occurrences of this common crime.Table of Contents1. On Robbery 2. From Robbing Places to Robbing People 3. The Will to Rob 4. Robbery in Action 5. Trust No One 6. Life After Robbery 7. Conclusion

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Book Synopsis‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture. With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives of young people. It addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.Table of ContentsForeword by Claudia Bernard 1. Introduction: Youth and On-Road – Making Gender and Race Matter - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle 2. Black, British Young Women On-Road: Intersections of Gender, Race and Youth in British Interwar Youth Penal Reform - Esmorie Miller 3. Tainted Love: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Violence On-Road - Yusef Bakkali and Ezimma Chigbo 4. (The) Trouble with Friends: Narrative Stories of Friendship and Violence On-Road - Tara Young 5. The Sexual Politics of Masculinity and Vulnerability On-Road: Gender, Race and Male Victimisation - Jade Levell 6. The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence - Lambros Fatsis 7. On-Road Inside: Music as a Site of Carceral Convergence - Chris Waller 8. Jeta e Rrugës: Translocal On-Road Hustle, Within and from Albania - Jade Levell and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 9. ‘He’s shown me the road’: Role Model and Roadman - Peter Harris 10. Diary of an On-Road Criminologist: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection - Martin Glynn 11. Conclusions, Compromises and Continuing Conversations - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle

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Book SynopsisHow is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations – the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral commitments that influenced policy outcomes – explains why there is no such thing as 'evidence-based' drug policy. Drawing on his participation in high-level policy discussions, and a novel approach to policy analysis, Stevens presents three recent cases involving key issues in UK illicit drug policy – medical cannabis, drug-related deaths and the government’s 10-year drug strategy.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Drug Policy Constellations Part I: Contexts, Concepts and Methods for Studying Drug Policy Constellations 2. Facts and Narratives of the UK Drug Policy Context 3. Power and Morality in Policy Making 4. Policy Constellation: A Critical Realist Approach 5. Studying Policy Constellations in the Real World Part II: Morality and Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations 6. Moralities in Action: The Ethico-Political Bases of UK Drug Policy 7. Mapping UK Drug Policy Constellations 8. Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations Part III: Cases in Drug Policy Making in the UK 9. The Legalisation of Medical Cannabis 10. Responses to the Drug Deaths Crisis: Explaining Differences at UK and Scottish Levels 11. The UK’s Ten-Year Drug Strategy 12. A Retroductive Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe original essays in Crimes of Colour explore the link between "race" and "crime" in the Canadian context. Much of the literature on race and crime to date has treated the category of "race" unproblematically; debate on this topic has focused primarily on the assumption that members of certain racial groups are most likely to commit crimes. In charting a different path, the authors in this collection provide critical and historical analyses of the connections between processes of "racialization" and "criminalization" in Canada. The book seeks to engage the reader in thinking critically about how conceptualizations of racial identity and crime are interwoven. The editors begin by arguing for a need to shift from an analysis of "race" to an analysis of "racialization" in order to create the space for new ways of looking at the connections between race and crime. They investigate the history of the treatment of racialized people in Canada, looking at the processes through which First Nations people, immigrants, and people of colour have been defined in racialized terms and the way in which state policy has racialized individuals and groups. The insights provided by the historical backdrop situates the problematic legal positions First Nations people and people of colour occupied vis-a-vis the criminal justice system. Contemporary analyses of "race" and crime continue to highlight the on-going, complex, and subtle nature of the issues. Understanding how individuals are racialized in the legal system forms one of the main themes in this collection. Specifically, these discussions involve identifying the processes through which racialized groups and individuals are criminalized. The processes of racialization and criminalization come together in many contexts including various criminal justice institutions like the police and social institutions like the media.Table of ContentsPreface * The Racialization and Criminalization of Canadian Society - Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan Part I: History * Settler Capitalism and the Construction of Immigrants and 'Indians' as Racialized Others - Andrea McCalla and Vic Satzewich * Defining Sexual Promiscuity: 'Race', Gender and Class in the Operation of Ontario's Female Refuges Act, 1930-60 - Joan Sangster Part II: Racialization and the Legal System * The Criminalization of Race/the Racialization of Crime: there are no 'race shield laws' - Yasmin Jiwani * Looking at Law Through the Lens of Culture: A Provocative Case - Audrey Macklin * Racism and the Collection of Statistics relating to Race and Ethnicity - Julian Roberts Part III: Processes of Racialization and Criminalization * Police Constructions of Race and Gender in Street Gangs - Gladys L. Symons * The Criminalization of Aboriginal Women: Commentary by a Community Activist - Colleen Anne Dell * The Justice System and Canada's Aboriginal People: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination - John Hylton * "Making Sense" of Moral Panics: The "Young, Black Mugger" and Other Contemporary Folk Devils - Chris Doran * The Social and Legal Banishment of Anti-Racism: A Black Perspective - Akua Benjamin * The Dangerous Duality: The "Net Effect" of Immigration and Deportation on Jamaicans in Canada - Annmarie Barnes Appendix Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Crime That Pays is a study of higher-level drug syndicates and organized criminals who have achieved huge incomes and status in their deviant occupation. Based on interviews with drug couriers, drug investigators, and 70 higher-level drug traffickers, the book describes the characteristics of offenders, their modus operandi, the entrepreneurial aspects of organized crime, and the significance of friendship, kinship, race, and ethnicity in the development of criminal networks.Most of the dealers in this study operated at the wholesale level for years, had realized huge profits, and lived extravagant lifestyles. For many, their arrest occurred only after the police had undertaken a sophisticated and proactive criminal investigation that took years to complete. Included in the text are an analysis of the police strategies used to combat drug trafficking and the social policy implications from this and other research studies.The book includes original research both on the RCMP and on higher-level drug trafficking. Also included are analyses of Canadian drug laws and a critique of social policy relating to drug use and drug trafficking.Trade ReviewThe Crime that Pays is a thorough and thoughtful analysis of an area that for too long been dominated by sensationalist journalism and political hyperbole. Desroches’s book should be studied carefully by criminologists, policy planners and anyone else interested in a sober assessment of how high-level drug markets operate in this country."" - Dr. Vince Sacco, Professor of Sociology at Queen’s UniversityTable of Contents Chapter 1: Drug Trafficking: The Crime That Pays Chapter 2: Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Canadian Legislation and Case Law Chapter 3: Organized Crime and Higher-Level Drug Trafficking Chapter 4: The Motivation and Lifestyle of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers Chapter 5: The Modus Operandi of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers: Marketing, Organization, and Security Chapter 6: The Modus Operandi of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers: Fronts, Debts, and Violence Chapter 7: Police Investigations of Higher-Level Drug Traffickers Chapter 8: Higher-Level Drug Trafficking in Canada: Social Policy Implications

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Book Synopsis\u0022One of the most remarkable developments of the twentieth century has been the worldwide growth of public concern for the environment. Efforts to translate that concern into effective public policy have posed formidable challenges for the legal system. Even as our understanding of environmental problems has improved, we have become acutely aware of the complexity and uncertainty that bedevil efforts to trace the effects of human activities on the environment.\u0022 --from the Preface Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader brings together for the first time some of the most important original work on environmental policy by scientists, ecologists, philosophers, historians, economists, and legal scholars. Each of the book's four parts provides a different focus on the nature and scope of environmental problems and attempts to use public policy to address these concerns. Part I examines how ecology, economics, and ethics analyze environmental problems and why they support collective action to respond to them. Part II examines the history and present state of environmental law, from early attempts to engage the government to current debate over the effectiveness of environmental policy. Part III explores the process by which environmental law gets translated into regulatory policy. Part IV considers the future of environmental law at a time when international environmental concerns have become a major force in global diplomacy and international trade agreements. In drawing together a wide variety of perspectives on these issues, Robert V. Percival and Dorothy C. Alevizatos offer a comprehensive examination of how society has responded to the difficult challenges posed by environmental problems. The selections provide a rich introduction to the complexities of environmental policy disputes.Trade Review"As a multidisciplinary collection introducing environmental law, the book works well and encourages the reader to consult the original texts in order to gain more in-depth understanding. This will serve best those who wish to learn more about the area of environmental policy, but are bewildered by the number of books on the market." -Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Perspectives on Environmental Problems 1. ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1877) - George Perkins Marsh * A Sand County Almanac (1949) - Aldo Leopold * Fundamentals of Ecology (1959) - Eugene P. Odum * The Diversity of Life (1992) - Edward O. Wilson * The Nonequilibrium Paradigm in Ecology and the Partial Unraveling of Environmental Law (1994) - A. Dan Tarlock 2. ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery (1954) - H. Scott Gordon * The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (1986) - Arthur F. McEvoy * The Problem of Social Cost (1960) - Ronald H. Coase * The Economy of the Earth (1988) - Mark Sagoff * Environmental Faust Succumbs to Temptations of Economic Mephistopheles, or, Value by Any Other Name Is Preference (1989) - Carol M. Rose * The Shadow of the Future: Discount Rates, Later Generations, and the Environment (1993) - Daniel A. Farber and Paul A. Hemmersbaugh 3. ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis (1967) - Lynn White, Jr. * Ways Not to Think about Plastic Trees: New Foundations for Environmental Law (1974) - Laurence H. Tribe * The Case for Animal Rights (1983) - Tom Regan * Review of Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (1985) - J. Baird Callicott * The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects (1986) - Arne Naess 4. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE The Threat of Environmental Racism (1993) - Robert D. Bullard * The Poison Poor Children Breathe (1982) - George F. Will * Environmental Equity: A Law and Planning Approach to Environmental Racism (1992) - Robert W. Collin * Locally Undesirable Land Uses in Minority Neighborhoods: Disproportionate Siting or Market Dynamics? (1994) - Vicki Been * Principles of Environmental Justice (1991) - First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit * The Meaning and Promotion of Environmental Justice (1994) - Richard J. Lazarus Part II: Environmental Law and Regulatory Policy 5 . ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution (1974) - Joel Franklin Brenner * Wilderness and the American Mind (1982) - Roderick Nash * A "Gift of God"?: The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline during the 1920s (1985) - David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz * A Fierce Green Fire (1993) - Philip Shabecoff 6. THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION Federal Regulation in Historical Perspective (1986) - Robert L. Rabin * Toward a Theory of Statutory Evolution: The Federalization of Environmental Law (1985) - E. Donald Elliott, Bruce A. Ackerman, and John C. Millian * Politics and Procedure in Environmental Law (1992) - Daniel A. Farber * Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (1987) - Samuel P. Hays * The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes (1989) - William H. Rodgers, Jr. 7 . ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: A STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996) - Robert V. Percival, Alan S. Miller, Christopher H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape * Why the Clean Air Act Works Badly (1981) - William F. Pederson, Jr. * Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (1996) - Robert V. Percival, Alan S. Miller, Christopher H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape * Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the "Race-to-the-Bottom" Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation (1992) - Richard L. Revesz * Safety and the Second Best: The Hazards of Public Risk Management in the Courts (1985) - Peter W. Huber * Risk, Courts, and Agencies (1990) - Clayton P. Gillette and James E. Krier 8. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO REGULATION Reforming Environmental Law: The Democratic Case for Market Incentives (1988) - Bruce A. Ackerman and Richard B. Stewart * Ideal Versus Real Regulatory Efficiency: Implementation of Uniform Standards and "Fine-Tuning" Regulatory Reforms (1985) - Howard A. Latin * Not So Paradoxical: The Rationale for Technology-Based Regulation (1991) - Sidney A. Shapiro and Thomas O. McGarity * Rethinking Environmental Controls: Management Strategies for Common Resources (1991) - Carol M. Rose * Environmental Policy Tools: A User's Guide (1995) - Office of Technology Assessment Sustainable America: A New Consensus-Building a New Framework for a New Century (1996) - President's Council on Sustainable Development Part III: The Regulatory Process in a Participatory Democracy 9. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) - Edward Abbey * DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (1981) - Thomas R. Dunlap * Defending the Environment: A Strategy for Citizen Action (1971) - Joseph L. Sax * Should Trees Have Standing?-Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) - Christopher D. Stone 10. THE REGULATORY PROCESS Implementing Federal Environmental Policies: The Limits of Aspirational Commands (1978) - James A. Henderson, Jr., and Richard N. Pearson * The Seven Statutory Wonders of U.S. Environmental Law: Origins and Morphology (1994) - William H. Rodgers, Jr. * Regulatory Failure, Administrative Incentives, and the New Clean Air Act (1991) - Howard A. Latin 11. RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATORY PRIORITIES Risk in a Free Society (1984) - William D. Ruckelshaus * The Gospel of Risk Management: Should We Be Converted? (1984) - David Doniger * The Role of the Courts in Risk Management (1986) - Richard B. Stewart * Reclaiming Environmental Law: A Normative Critique of Comparative Risk Analysis (1992) - Donald T. Hornstein Part IV: Global Environmental Concerns and the Future of Environmental Law 12. INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY International Environmental Policy: Emergence and Dimensions (1990) - Lynton Keith Caldwell * Our Common Future (1987) - World Commission on Environment and Development * Declaration of Principles (1992) - United Nations Conference on Environment and Development * Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement (1991) - Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger * From Adjustment to Sustainable Development: The Obstacle of Free Trade (1992) - Herman Daly * Sustainable America: A New Consensus-International Leadership (1996) - President's Council on Sustainable Development 13. THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY Stopping the Pendulum (1995) - William D. Ruckelshaus * A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (1995) - Gregg Easterbrook * A Moment of Truth: Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth (1995) - Environmental Defense Fund * Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992) - Al Gore * Toward a New Environmental Paradigm (1993) - Robert W. Hahn * The Gnat Is Older Than Man: Global Environment and the Human Agenda (1993) - Christopher D. Stone Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNo longer content with accepting whiteness as the norm, critical scholars have turned their attention to whiteness itself. In Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, numerous thinkers, including Toni Morrison, Eric Foner, Peggy McIntosh, Andrew Hacker, Ruth Frankenberg, John Howard Griffin, David Roediger, Kathleen Heal Cleaver, Noel Ignatiev, Cherrie Moraga, and Reginald Horsman, attack such questions as: *How was whiteness invented, and why? *How has the category whiteness changed over time? *Why did some immigrant groups, such as the Irish and Jews, start out as nonwhite and later became white? *Can some individual people be both white and nonwhite at different times, and what does it mean to \u0022pass for white\u0022? *At what point does pride in being white cross the line into white power or white supremacy? *What can whites concerned over racial inequity or white privilege do about it? Science and pseudoscience are presented side by side to demonstrate how our views on whiteness often reflect preconception, not fact. For example, most scientists hold that race is not a valid scientific category -- genetic differences between races are insignificant compared to those within them. Yet, the \u0022one drop\u0022 rule, whereby those with any nonwhite heritage are classified as nonwhite, persists even today. As the bell curve controversy shows, race concepts die hard, especially when power and prestige lie behind them. A sweeping portrait of the emerging field of whiteness studies, Critical White Studies presents, for the first time, the best work from sociology, law, history, cultural studies, and literature. Delgado and Stefancic expressly offer critical white studies as the next step in critical race theory. In focusing on whiteness, not only do they ask nonwhites to investigate more closely for what it means for others to be white, but also they invite whites to examine themselves more searchingly and to \u0022look behind the mirror.\u0022Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: How Whites See Themselves 1. The End of the Great White Male - John R. Graham 2. White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century - Charles A. Gallagher 3. The Skin We're In - Christopher Wills 4. The Way of the WASP - Richard Brookkiser 5. Hiring Quotas for White Males Only - Eric Foner 6. Innocence and Affirmative Action - Thomas Ross 7. Doing the White Male Kvetch (A Pale Imitation of a Rag) - Calvin Trillin 8. Growing Up White in America? - Bonnie Kae Grover 9. Growing Up (What) in America? - Jerald N. Marrs 10. White Images of Black Slaves (Is What We See in Others Sometimes a Reflection of What We Find in Ourselves?) - George Fredrickson Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part II: How Whites See Others 11. The White Race Is Shrinking: Perceptions of Race in Canada and Some Speculations on the Political Economy of Race Classification - Doug Daniels 12. Ignoble Savages - Dinesh D'Souza 13. Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self - D. Marvin Jones 14. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - Toni Morrison 15. Transparently White Subjective Decisionmaking: Fashioning a Legal Remedy - Barbara J. Flagg 16. The Rhetorical Tapestry of Race - Thomas Ross 17. Imposition - Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic 18. Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of Liberation - Derrick A. Bell, Tracy Higgins, and Sung-Hee Suh, Editors 19. The Tower of Babel - Eleanor Marie Brown 20. The Quest for Freedom in the Post-Brown South: Desegregation and White Self-Interest - Davison M. Douglas 21. "Soulmaning": Using Race for Political and Economic Gain - Luther Wright, Jr. 22. Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and Miseducation - Joyce E. King Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part III: Whiteness: History's Role 23. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism - Reginald Horsman 24. The Invention of Race: Rereading White Over Black - James Campbell and James Oakes 25. "Only the Law Would Rule between Us": Antimiscegenation, the Moral Economy of Dependency, and the Debate over Rights after the Civil War - Emily Field Van Tassel 26. The Antidemocratic Power of Whiteness - Kathleen Neal Cleaver 27. Who's Black, Who's White, and Who Cares - Luther Wright, Jr. 28. Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture - Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic 29. Back to the Future with The Bell Curve: Jim Crow, Slavery, and G - Jacqueline Jones 30. The Genetic Tie - Dorothy E. Roberts Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part IV: Whiteness: Law's Role 31. White Law and Lawyers: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood - Peter Halewood 32. Social Science and Segregation before Brown - Herbert Hovenkamp 33. Mexican-Americans and Whiteness - George A. Martinez 34. Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education - Frances Lee Ansley 35. The Transparency Phenomenon, Race-Neutral Decisionmaking, and Discriminatory Intent - Barbara J . Flagg 36. Toward a Black Legal Scholarship: Race and Original Understandings - Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. 37. Identity Notes, Part One: Playing in the Light - Adrienne D. Davis 38. The Constitutional Ghetto - Robert L. Hayman, Jr., and Nancy Levit Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part V: Witeness: Culture's Role 39. Do You Know This Man? - Daniel Zalewski 40. The Curse of Ham - D. Marvin Jones 41. Los Olvidados: On the Making of Invisible People - Juan F. Perea 42. White Innocence, Black Abstraction - Thomas Ross 43. Race and the Dominant Gaze: Narratives of Law and Inequality in Popular Film - Margaret M. Russell 44. Residential Segregation and White Privilege - Martha R. Mahoney 45. Mules, Madonnas, Babies, Bathwater: Racial Imagery and Stereotypes - Linda L. Ammons 46. The Other Pleasures: The Narrative Function of Race in the Cinema - Anna Everett Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part VI White Privilege 47. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies - Peggy McIntosh 48. From Practice to Theory, or What Is a White Woman Anyway? - Catharine A. MacKinnon 49. Racial Construction and Women as Differentiated Actors - Martha R. Mahoney 50. The GI Bill: Whites Only Need Apply - Karen Brodkin Sacks 51. Making Systems of Privilege Visible - Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis 52. Race and Racial Classifications - Luther Wright, Jr. 53. Reflections on Whiteness: The Case of Latinos(as) - Stephanie M. Wildman 54. Stirring the Ashes: Race, Class, and the Future of Civil Rights Scholarship - Frances Lee Ansley 55. The Social Construction of Whiteness - Martha R. Mahoney Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part VII: The Ladder of Whiteness 56. The Mind of the South - W. J . Cask 57. Old Poison in New Bottles: The Deep Roots of Modern Nativism - Joe R. Feagin 58. The First Word in Whiteness: Early Twentieth-Century European Immigration - David Roediger 59. Life on the Color Line - Gregory Williams 60. Others, and the WASP World They Aspired To - Richard Brookkiser 61. Beyond the Melting Pot - Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynikan 62. The Economic Payoff of Attending an Ivy-League Institution - Philip J . Cook and Robert H. Frank 63. Useful Knowledge - Mary Cappello 64. Stupid Rich Bastards - Laurel Johnson Black 65. How Did Jews Become White Folks? - Karen Brodkin Sacks 66. How White People Became White - James R. Barrett and David Roediger 67. Paths to Belonging: The Constitution and Cultural Identity - Kenneth L. Karst 68. Is the Radical Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic? - Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part VIII: The Color Line: Multiracial People and "Passing for White" 69. Passing for White, Passing for Black - Adrian Piper 70. Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin 71. The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, and Culture - Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. 72. Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother? - James W. Gordon 73. Learning How to Be Niggers - Gregory Williams 74. What Does a White Woman Look Like? Racing and Erasing in Law - Katherine M. Franke 75. La Guera - Cherrie Moraga 76. Notes of a White Black Woman - Judy Scales-Trent 77. Our Next Race Question: The Uneasiness between Blacks and Latinos - Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West 78. A Review of Life on the Color Line - Martha Chamallas and Peter M. Shane 79. What Is Race, Anyway? - Tod Olson Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part IX: Biology and Pseudoscience 80. The Misleading Abstractions of Social Scientists - Jerome Kagan 81. Caste, Crime, and Precocity - Andrew Hacker 82. Embodiment and Perspective: Can White Men Jump? - Peter Halewood 83. Bell Curve Liberals: How the Left Betrayed IQ - Adrian Wooldridge 84. Brave New Right - Michael Lind 85. Race and Parentage - Dorothy E. Roberts 86. The Sources of The Bell Curve - Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane 87. Hearts of Darkness - John B. Judis 88. Thank You, Doctors Murray and Herrnstein (Or, Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?) - Derrick A. Bell 89. Dangerous Undertones of the New Nativism - Daniel Kanstroom Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part X: White Consciousness, White Power 90. The Rise of Private Militia: A First and Second Amendment: Analysis of the Right to Organize and the Right to Train - Joelle E. Polesky 91. The Changing Faces of White Supremacy - Loretta J . Ross and Mary Ann Mauney 92. Hatelines: Week of Sunday, April 7, 1996 - Compiled by the Center for Democratic Renewal 93. Blue by Day and White by [K]night - Robin Barnes 94. The Race Question and Its Solution - James Armstrong, Jr. 95. The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today - Elinor Lunger 96. Talking about Race with America's Klansmen - Raphael S. Ezekiel 97. Antidiscrimination Law and Transparency: Barriers to Equality? - Barbara J . Flagg 98. White Supremacy (And What We Should Do about It) - Frances Lee Ansley 99. White Superiority in America: Its Legal Legacy, Its Economic Costs - Derrick A. Bell Synopses of Other Important Works From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings Part XI: What Then Shall We Do? A Role for Whites 100. Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity - An lnterview with Noel lgnatiev of Race Traitor Magazine 101. How to Be a Race Traitor: Six Ways to Fight Being White - Noel lgnatiev 102. Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy - Richard Delgado 103. Obscuring the Importance of Race: The Implications of Making Comparisons between Racism and Sexism (or Other Isms) - Trina Grillo and Stephanie M. Wildman 104. White Men Can Jump: But Must Try a Little Harder - Peter Halewood 105. "Was Blind, but Now I See": White Race Consciousness and the Requirement of Discriminatory Intent - Barbara J . Flagg 106. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness - Ruth Frankenberg 107. Resisting Racisms, Eliminating Exclusions: South Africa and the United States - David Theo Goldberg 108. Dysconscious Racism: The Cultural Politics of Critiquing Ideology and Identity - Joyce E. King 109. What Should White Women Do? - Martha R. Mahoney 110. Confronting Racelessness - Eleanor Marie Brown 111. A Civil Rights Agenda for the Year 2000: Confessions of an Identity Politician - Frances Lee Ansley 112. What We Believe - The Editors of Race Traitor Magazine 113. Segregation, Whiteness, and Transformation - Martha R. Mahoney 114. White Out - Roger Wilkins From the Editors: Issues and Comments Suggested Readings About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis selection of works -- many by Native American scholars -- introduces selected topics in federal Indian law. Readings in American Indian Law covers contemporary issues of identity and tribal recognition; reparations for historic harms; the valuation of land in land claims; the return to tribal owners of human remains, sacred items, and cultural property; tribal governance and issues of gender, democracy informed by cultural awareness, and religious freedom. Courses in federal Indian law are often aimed at understanding rules, not cultural conflicts. This book expands doctrinal discussions into understandings of culture, strategy, history, identity, and hopes for the future. Contributions from law, history, anthropology, ethnohistory, biography, sociology, socio-legal studies, and fiction offer an array of alternative paradigms as strong antidotes to our usual conceptions of federal Indian law. Each selection reveals an aspect of how federal Indian law is made, interpreted, implemented, or experienced. Throughout, the book centers on the ever present and contentious issue of identity. At the point where identity and law intersect lies an important new way to contextualize the legal concerns of Native Americans.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1 IDENTITY Identity in Mashpee James Clifford Mashpee: The Story of Cape Cod's Indian Town Francis G. Hutchins The Mashpee Indians: Tribe on Trial Jack Campisi Identity as Idiom: Mashpee Reconsidered Jo Carrillo 2 LAND CLAIMS Fort Sill Apache Tribe of State of Oklahoma v. United States Original Indian Title Felix S. Cohen Original Indian Title (Revisited) Wilcomb E. Washburn Indian Claims in the Courts of the Conqueror Nell Jessup Newton Epilogue Nancy Oestreich Lurie The Creation of a "Court of Indian Affairs" Vine Deloria, Jr. Imagining the Reservation Sherman Alexie 3 CONSTITUTIVE INCOMMENSURABLES: LAND, CULTURE, HISTORY A Song from Sacred Mountain: Lakota-Dakota and Cheyenne Interviews Arvol Looking Horse A Song from Sacred Mountain: Lakota-Dakota and Cheyenne Interviews Charlotte Black Elk Who Owns the West? William Kittredge Legally Mediated Identity: The National Environmental Policy Act and the Bureaucratic Construction of Interests Wendy Espeland Large Binocular Telescopes, Red Squirrel Pinatas, and Apache Sacred Mountains: Decolonizing Environmental Law in a Multicultural World Robert A. Williams, Jr. Revision and Reversion Vine Deloria, Jr. 4 THE REPATRIATION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY A Brief Historical Survey of the Expropriation of American Indian Remains Robert E. Bieder Give Me My Father's Body Kenn Harper The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Background and Legislative History Jack F. Trope and Walter R. Echohawk Congressional Hearings Implementing the National Policy of Understanding, Preserving, and Safeguarding the Heritage of Indian Peoples and Native Hawaiians: Human Rights, Sacred Objects, and Cultural Patrimony Rennard Strickland 5 TRIBAL GOVERNANCE / GENDER Native American Women Rayna Green Native American Women: An Update Jo Ann Woodsum Gender or Ethnicity: What Makes a Difference? A Study of Women Tribal Leaders Melanie McCoy Mankiller: A Chief and her People Wilma Mankiller The Legal Rights of American Indian Women Genevieve Chato and Christine Conte Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States Gloria Valencia-Weber and Christine P. Zuni 6 RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION The Peyote Religion: A Narrative Account Silvester J. Brito Appendix A to a Brief Submitted by the Native American Rights Funding the Case of Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of the State of Oregon v. Smith Omer C. Stewart Other Studies [of Sacred Places]: What They Did and How They Did It Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis Appendix K to Defendant's Exhibit G Dorothea Theodoratus, "Cultural Resources of the Chimney Rock Section, Gasquet-Orleans" in Lying v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association United States on Behalf of the Zuni Tribe of New Mexico v. Earl Platt The Sacred Trail to Zuni Heaven: A Study in the Law of Prescriptive Easements Hank Meshorer Achieving True Interpretation Edmund J. Ladd Books Cited About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAIDS Alibis tackles the cultural landscape upon which AIDS, often accompanied by poverty, drug addiction, and crime, proliferates on a global scale. Stephanie Kane layers stories of individuals and events -- from Chicago to Belize City, to cyberspace -- to illustrate the paths of HIV infection and the effects of environment, government intervention, and social mores. Linking ordinary yet kindred lives in communities around the globe, Kane challenges the assumptions underlying the use of police and courts to solve health problems. The stories reveal the dynamics that determine how the policy decisions of white-collar health care professionals actually play out in real life. By focusing on life-changing social problems, the narratives highlight the contradictions between public health and criminal law. Look at how HIV has transformed our social consciousness, from intimate touch to institutional outreach. But, Kane argues, these changes are dwarfed by the United States's refusal to stop the war on drugs, in effect misdirecting resources and awareness. AIDS Alibis combines empirical and interpretive methods in a path-breaking attempt to recognize the extent to which coercive institutional practices are implicated in HIV transmission patterns. Kane shows how th e virus feeds on the politics of inequality and indifference, even as it exploits the human need for intimacy and release.Trade Review"AIDS Alibis represents contemporary engaged anthropology at its best. Drawing upon intensive research in Belize and Chicago...each ethnographically focused chapter is powerful in its own right. Jointly they make for an innovative, deeply reasoned, and powerful critique of our own understandings-social, legal, medical, ethical-and help us move towards consequential reconsiderations." -Don Brenneis, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz "This wise and affecting work reveals the limitations of current public health and criminal justice approaches to the AIDS pandemic. It also teaches us how to do fieldwork. The passionate rendering of 'stories that fall between the prescribed categories of analysis' tells us more about AIDS than any work I have yet encountered." -Shirley Lindenbaum, Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "[This book] unveils the political unconscious of AIDS and reveals AIDS as a 'master signifier' circulating and mutating throughout different discursive formations. Kane juxtaposes media sources, conversations, dialogues, oral tales, statistics and official accounts. This innovative ethnography not only captures the elusive cultural meanings of AIDS, it is a first-rate example of how anthropologists can study 'fluid' phenomena that have no well-defined boundaries, phenomena that flow effortlessly across national, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, and in the process, transform themselves and their hosts." -Stephen A. Tyler, Herb S. Autrey Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Rice University "Stephanie Kane performs a timely and passionate ethnographic drama of misguided drug wars, risky bodily practices, panicky cultural logic, and the political unconscious of AIDS... a subtle, poetic and activist account of the ritual intersection between dangerous institutional forces and the everyday enactment of sex, labor, pleasure, and crime." -Stephen Pfohl, Sociology, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I. Work 2 Prostitution North 3 Folk Surveillance 4 Prostitution South Part II. Escape 5 Death Rite 6 Losing It 7 Illusion and Control 8 Easter in Livingston Part III. Crime 9 Desperate 10 The Positively Arrogant Mishap 11 Outtakes 12 Everything I Have Is Yours Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the frightening ways in which our prisons mirror the worst aspects of society-wide gender relations. It is part of the growing research on men and masculinities. The collection is unusual in that it contributions from activists, academics, and prisoners. The opening section, which features an essay by Angela Davis, focuses on the historical roots of the prison system, cultural practices surrounding gender and punishment, and the current expansion of corrections into the \u0022prison-industrial complex.\u0022 The next section examines the dominant or subservient roles that men play in prison and the connections between this hierarchy and male violence. Another section looks at the spectrum of intimate relations behind bars, from rape to friendship, and another at physical and mental health. The last section is about efforts to reform prisons and prison masculinities, including support groups for men. It features an essay about prospects for post-release success in the community written by a man who, after doing time in Soledad and San Quentin, went on to get a doctorate in counseling. The contributions from prisoners include an essay on enforced celibacy by Mumia Abu-Jamal, as well as fiction and poetry on prison health policy, violence, and intimacy. The creative contributions were selected from the more than 200 submissions received from prisoners.Trade Review"A remarkable book, which confirms our worst fears about the ongoing failure of the U.S. prison system. And yet if offers real hope, real ideas for change. Every legislator in America should be locked in Solitary and forced to read Prison Masculinities." -Tom Fontana, creator of Oz "The enforced sequestration of men and women results in hard time, and invites adaptive responses that can often be unseemly, ugly, and destructive. This book shows how male prisons have becme stages for the display and posturing of caricatured masculinity, including the victimization of vulnerable fellow-prisoners. The contribution is impotant, timely, and challenging." -Hans Toch, Distinguished Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Mosaic of Despair and Corrections: A Humanistic Approach "...an intricate puzzle piece to anyone wishing to comprehend the byproducts of American culture and the criminal justice system." -BLU "This sobering collection of essays, scientific findings, poems and heart-breaking testimonials paints a picture of a prison system held hostage by troubled masculinity." -Empire: Gay Man's Guide to Life "Prison Masculinities provides an insightful look at the way that masculinity circulates in prisons and on the street. ...a long overdue examination of the hypermasculinity adopted within prisons in response to the fact that prisons are intended, among other things, to emasculate inmates. ... This book is a call to arms to not only re-examine the oppressive structures of prison, but to look at prisons as a microcosm of a society that has perverted the definition of manhood, so that it has come to oppress not only women, but men as well." -Fortune NewsTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction Gender and the Politics of Pubishment Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London Part II: Historical Roots and Contemporary Trends Penitence for the Priviledged: Manhood, Race, and Penitentiaries in Early America Mark E. Kann Race, Gender, and Prison History: From the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison Angela Y. Davis Crime, Politics, and Community Since the 1990s Marc Mauer The Elements of Crime Anthony Thomas A World Without Softness Willie London Slave Ship Steve Fraley Part III: The Social Construction of Prison Masculinities Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports and Prison Don Sabo Masculinities, Crime, and Prison James W. Messerschmidt Grappling With Issues of Privilege: A Male Prison Worker's Perspective David Denborough The Culture of Transgression: Initiations Into the Homosociality of a Midwestern State Prison Carl Bryan Homberg Male Prisoners: Privacy, Suffering, and the Legal Construction of Masculinity Nancy Levit Boyz II Men Horace Bell Devil's Den Horace Bell My Mother Death Willie London Prison Friendships Derrick Corley Part IV: Sexualities, Sexual Violence, and Intimacy in Prison Rape and the Prison Code Terry A. Kupers A Million Jockers, Punks, and Queens Stephan "Donny" Donaldson The Story of a Black Punk Anonymous The Wall of Silence: Prison Rape and Feminist Politics Susanne V. Paczensky A Moment O'Neil Stough Caged and Celibate Mumia Abu-Jamal The Phone Michael Keck Be Not So Quick to Judge Alice Reflections Carlos Hornsby Skin Blind Dan Pens Once More I Dream Stephan Wayne Anderson Part V: Men's Health in Prison Preventative Health Strategies for Men in Prison Will H. Courtenay and Don Sabo Sentence -- Death By Lethal Infection: IV-Drug Use and Infectious Disease Transmission in North American Prisons Carol Polych and Don Sabo Deliberate Indifference O'Neil Stough Mental Health in Men's Prisons Terry A. Kupers Night Crier Rudy Chato Paul Sr. Part VII: Prison Reform, Reforming Prison Masculinities Scars Jarvis Masters Boys are Not Men: Notes on Working With Adolescent Males in Juvenile Detention Jackson Katz Support Groups for Men in Prison: The Fellowship of the King of Hearts Harris Breiman and T. Pete Bonner The Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism, 1977-78 Daniel Burton-Rose Men Helping Men: Facilitating Therapy Groups For Sex Offenders Charles J. Sabatino Litigation, Advocacy, and Self-Respect Donald Specter and Terry A. Kupers Rehabilitating Prison Labor: The Uses of Imprisoned Masculinity Christian Parenti Reentry: Prospects for Postrelease Success Lige Dailey Jr. For Further Reading About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights; correspondingly, in 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that many facets of the 1996 statutes were unconstitutional. Michael Welch shows how what he calls "moral panic" led to the passage of the 1996 laws and the adverse effects they have had on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, producing a booming detainee population and an array of human rights violations. Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex offers sensible recommendations for reform along with an enlightened understanding of immigration. In an epilogue, Welch examines closely the government's campaign to fight terrorism at home, especially the use of racial profiling, mass detention, and secret evidence. Recently, the INS, particularly its enforcement and detention operations have expanded dramatically. This book will offer many readers their first look inside that system. It will be an invaluable guide to thinking through whether the system is fit to take on the additional responsibilities being asked of it in the post-September 11th world. Author note: Michael Welch is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is author of numerous articles on penology and criminalization campaigns. His other books include Punishment in America: Social Control & the Ironies of Imprisonment, Corrections: A Critical Approach, and Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest.Trade Review"Michael Welch offers not just a comprehensive review of the devastating impact of U.S. anti-immigrant laws and policies since 1996, but a compelling explanation for how a nation of immigrants could adopt an 'us versus them' attitude toward newcomers. This book should be required reading for policy makers and citizens concerned about our nation's just treatment of immigrants."-Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. "This is a timely and striking study. Michael Welch shows the ugliness of the formidable powers given to the INS ('Expedited Removal,' 'Indefinite Detention'): asylum seekers criminalized; refugees stigmatized and illegal immigrants warehoused (20,000 in 2001, many in local jails and detention centers run for corporate profit). Detained demands an audience well beyond its subject and geographical borders."-Stanley Cohen, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics "Welch shows in riveting detail how American immigration law and policy have increasingly relied on incarceration, locking up thousands of immigrants not because they pose any real danger, but as a collective expression of moral panic and hostility toward perceived outsiders. In the wake of September 11, as government officials exploit immigration law for criminal law ends, Welch's cogent analysis could not be more timely and important. This is critical reading for anyone concerned with how this nation of immigrants treats immigrants in the years to come."-David Cole, professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and legal affairs correspondent, The Nation "A well written and timely analysis of INS detention policies and the controversies surrounding them. The hallmark of Welch's work, both here and in his previous publications, is the care he takes in presenting controversial issues...Welch has written a fine book that provides a framework for understanding the extraordinary tradeoffs between security and civil liberties."-Michael Hamm, Indiana State University and author of The Abandoned Ones: The Imprisonment and Uprising of the Mariel Boat People "In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Welch argues that 'moral panic' led to the passage of the 1996 laws, and that the laws have had adverse effects on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, producing a booming detainee population and an array of human rights violations."-Law and Social Inquiry, Book Notes "The book is most useful in recounting [the detainee's] plight to a new and wider audience."-International Migration Review "...offers invaluable insights that extend our understanding of both recent immigration policy and criminal justice policy."-Athan Theoharis, Political Science Quarterly "[Welch] provides insight into a topic that has been driven by fear, anecdotes, impressions, and stereotypes. Against the backdrop of September 11, the analysis in Detained is quite powerful...given the void in the literature and the many positive contributions it offers to sociologists, Detained moves the immigration and crime literature one major step forward in shattering the stereotypes of the crime-prone immigrant."-Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Moral Panic over Immigrants3. The Campaign against Immigrants4. Ironies of Immigration Control5. Criminalizing Asylum Seekers and the Indefinitely Detained6. Warehousing Illegal Immigrants7. Neglecting Unaccompanied Children8. The INS Detention Industry9. Reforming the SystemEpilogue: September 11, 2001, and the Challenge AheadNotesReferencesCasesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn argument for more judicial discretion in sentencing childrenTrade Review"The book reveals Judge Corriero's passion for justice and due process through his daily experiences, supported by extensive research; it is both personal and academic, instructive and moving. It is political and philosophical." Justice Emily Jane Goodman, The New York Law Journal "Corriero deserves much praise for his thoughtfully critical challenge to the policy of prosecuting children as adults. At the least, Corriero's strong embrace of a revised legal structure for juvenile justice, planted firmly in the soil of judging children as children, should foment interest in further exploration of this thorny legal terrain. Criminologists, child advocates, criminal justice experts, child development specialists, judges, lawyers, public policy makers, legislators, social workers, behavioral scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists are among those who professionally may benefit greatly from scrutiny of the information and ideas put forth by Corriero." Metapsychology Online, 27th January 2009Table of ContentsPrologue 1 The Proposition; 2 The Nature of Adolescence; 3 The Criminal Responsibility of Juveniles; 4 Sentencing Children Tried in Adult Courts; 5 Our Hardest to Love Children; 6 Interactive Justice; 7 Fridays in the Youth Part; 8 The Experiment that Failed; 9 Creation of the Youth Part; 10 The Youth Part Model; 11 A Model Juvenile Justice System; 12 Juvenile Justice Policy Reform

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Book SynopsisA cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictionsTrade Review"An important step in showing that even the best criminal justice systems occasionally convict the innocent. Huff and Killias, two of the world’s most accomplished criminologists, have given us a collection of essays that are both first-rate and truly sobering"—Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, and author of In Spite of InnocenceTable of ContentsPart I: Cross-National Perspectives and Issues 1. Introduction 2. Wrongful Conviction and Moral Panic: National and International Prespectives on Organized Child Sexual Abuse 3. Judicial Error and Forensic Science: Pondering the Contribution of DNA EvidencePart II: North American Perspectives and Issues 4. Wrongful Convictions in the United States 5. The Adversary System and Wrongful Conviction 6. Fatal Errors: Compelling Claims of Executions of the Innocent in the Post-Furman Era 7. The Fallibility of Justice in Canada: A Critical Examination of Conviction ReviewPart III: European and Israeli Perspectives and Issues 8. Wrongful Convictions in Switzerland: The Experience of a Continental Law Country 9. The Vulnerability of Dutch Criminal Procedure to Wrongful Conviction 10. Criminal Justice and Miscarriages of Justice in England and Wales 11. A Comparative Analysis of Prosecution in Germany and the United Kingdom: Searching for Truth or Getting a Conviction? 12. Wrongful Conviction in France: The Limits of "Pourvoi en Revision" 13. The Sanctity of Criminal Law: Thoughts and Reflections on Wrongful Conviction in Israel 14. Wrongful Convictions in Poland: From the Communist Ero to the Rechtstaat ExperiencePart IV: Conclusions 15. Wrongful Convictions: Conclusions from an International OverviewContributors Index

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Book SynopsisA major re-examination of who the delinquent girl is, the crimes she commits, and why she commits themTrade Review“I have no doubt that this book, which includes some very thorough work on girls' delinquency in the field of criminology, will become a cited reference work for years to come.”—The New York Law JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Contribution of "Mainstream" Theories to the Explanation of Female Delinquency 2. Feminist Theories of Girls' Delinquency 3. Trends in Girls' Delinquency and the Gender Gap: Statistical Assessment of Diverse Sources 4. Biopsychological Factors, Gender, and Delinquency 5. Family Influences on Girls' Delinquency 6. Peer Influences on Girls' Delinquency 7. Girls, Schooling, and Delinquency 8. Gender Differences in Neighborhood Effects and Delinquency 9. The Context of Girls' Violence: Peer Groups, Families, Schools, and Communities 10. Young Women and Street Gangs 11. Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Appendix: Girls Studt Group Members Notes References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA major re-examination of who the delinquent girl is, the crimes she commits, and why she commits themTrade Review“I have no doubt that this book, which includes some very thorough work on girls' delinquency in the field of criminology, will become a cited reference work for years to come.”—The New York Law JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Contribution of "Mainstream" Theories to the Explanation of Female Delinquency 2. Feminist Theories of Girls' Delinquency 3. Trends in Girls' Delinquency and the Gender Gap: Statistical Assessment of Diverse Sources 4. Biopsychological Factors, Gender, and Delinquency 5. Family Influences on Girls' Delinquency 6. Peer Influences on Girls' Delinquency 7. Girls, Schooling, and Delinquency 8. Gender Differences in Neighborhood Effects and Delinquency 9. The Context of Girls' Violence: Peer Groups, Families, Schools, and Communities 10. Young Women and Street Gangs 11. Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Appendix: Girls Studt Group Members Notes References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCrime and Behavior combines theories of crime causation with their implications for key policy questions relevant to today's world. The anthology integrates theory and contemporary issues, and provides encyclopedic readings by leading theorists of crime.The introductory chapter provides an overview of theories that link criminal acts and crime events to individual, social, cultural and structural causes. Each section of Crime and Behavior includes an introduction to the ideas that are presented in the readings that follow. The first section of the text examines micro-level theories of crime and behavior, specifically individual and social process theories including classical and rational choice theory, and social learning. In the second part of the text, students consider macro-level theories such as social ecology, anomie and strain, and a variety of critical criminological theory from Marxist to anarchist and from feminist to postmodernist explanations. The interesting, student-friendly articles lay the foundation for a systematic and more profound understanding of the roots of crime in the 21st century. Crime and Behavior can be used in courses on criminology, sociology of crime and deviance, public affairs, and criminal justice.

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Book SynopsisThe United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding print culture afforded authors and publishers unprecedented opportunities to reflect on these important social developments. Carl Ostrowski traces the impact of these related historical processes on American literature, identifying a set of culturally resonant narratives that emerged from criminal justice-related discourse to shape the period's national literary expression.Drawing on an eclectic range of sources including newspaper arrest reports, prison reform periodicals, popular literary magazines, transatlantic travel narratives, popular crime novels, anthologies of prison poetry, and the memoirs of prison chaplains, Ostrowski analyzes how authors as canonical as Nathaniel Hawthorne and as obscure as counterfeiter/poet/prison inmate Christian Meadows adapted, manipulated, or rejected prevailing narratives about criminality to serve their artistic and rhetorical ends. These narratives led to the creation of new literary subgenres while also ushering in psychological interiority as an important criterion by which serious fiction was judged. Ostrowski joins and extends recent scholarly conversations on subjects including African American civic agency, literary sentimentalism, outsider authorship, and the racial politics of antebellum prison reform.

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Book SynopsisNews media and popular culture in the United States have produced a conventional narrative of the outcomes of sexual abuse: someone perpetrates sexual violence, goes to trial, and is then punished with prison time. Survivors recede into the background, becoming minor characters in their own stories as intrepid prosecutors, police officers, and investigators gather evidence and build a case.Leland G. Spencer explains how the stories we tell about sexual assault serve to reinforce rape culture, privileging criminal punishment over social justice and community-based responses to sexual violence. Examining a broad range of popular media, including news coverage of the Brock Turner case, Naomi Iizuka’s popular play Good Kids, the television program Criminal Minds, and the book turned television show 13 Reasons Why, Spencer demonstrates how these representations shore up the carceral state, perpetuate rape myths, blame victims, and excuse those who harm. While increased discussion about sexual violence represents feminist progress, these narratives assume that policing and prosecution are the only means of achieving justice, sidelining other potential avenues for confronting perpetrators and supporting victims.Trade Review “This outstanding book is clear and easy to read, while engaging with important, complicated issues. Spencer uses the case study chapters in effective ways to invite viewers—and scholars—to see the chosen texts from a different point of view.”—Jennifer C. Dunn, coeditor of Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse: Advancing Conversations across Disciplines “Rape, Agency, and Carceral Solutions makes a significant contribution to the literature on rape culture, media, and popular culture, while also offering possibilities for ‘worldmaking narratives’ that present alternatives to our current overreliance on the carceral state.”—Nickie D. Phillips, author of Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media

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Book SynopsisTeaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches by Samuel Totten, a renowned scholar of genocide studies and Professor Emeritus, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a culmination of 30 years in the field of genocide studies and education. In writing this book, Totten reports that he “crafted this book along the lines of what he wished had been available to him when he first began teaching about genocide back in the mid-1980s. That is, a book that combines the best of genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and how to teach about such complex and often terrible and difficult issues and facts in a theoretically, historically and pedagogically sound manner.” As the last book he will ever write on education and educating about genocide, he perceives the book as his gift to those educators who have the heart and grit to tackle such an important issue in their classrooms.Table of Contents Introduction. Chapter I: Genocide: An Overview. Raphael Lemkin: Coining the Term “Genocide” and Advocating for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Genocide in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries. Typologies of Genocide. The Process of Genocide. The Wretched Record of the International Community vis-a -vis the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. More Positive Actions and News vis-a -vis Prevention and Intervention. Fighting Impunity: At Least Somewhat. Working to Prevent Genocide and/or Intervene in a Timely and Effective Fashion. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 2: Genocide: What It Is And Isn’t. The Crafting of the UNCG. Intent: One of the Keys to the UNCG Definition of Genocide in Regard to Whether the Perpetration of Atrocities Constitute Genocide or Not. The Focus of Genocide: Groups, Not Individuals. The Word “Destroy.” The Wording “in Whole or in Part.” Those Groups That Are and Are Not Protected Under the UNCG. The Wording “As Such.” Acts That Constitute Genocide Punishable Under the UNCG. Perpetrators and Their Prosecution. Conclusion. Notes. References. Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, And Genocide: Key Distinctions. Crimes Against Humanity. Ethnic Cleansing. Genocide. Key Distinctions Between Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and Ethnic Cleansing. Perhaps a Focus on Crimes Against Humanity and Not Genocide Would Be More Sagacious. A Classroom Learning Activity cum Evaluation: The Significance of the Distinctions Between and Amongst Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide. Conclusion. Notes. References. Appendix: Excerpt from Talk by Professor William Schabas, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 4: Misconceptions, Inaccuracies, And Myths That Often Plague Teaching And Learning About Genocide. Select Examples of Misconceptions. Conclusion. Notes. Contents. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 5: The Prevention And Intervention Of Genocide. The Best Way to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Is Before They Begin. Early Warning Signals. Preventive Diplomacy: A Wide Array of Early Measures to Ease Tensions, Stave Off Violence, and Bring a Modicum of Stability to a State or Region. Sticky and Sticking Issues. A Pedagogical Approach. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 6: Issues Of Rationale: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Issues of Rationale. Major Questions That Might Be Wise to Ask at the Outset of One’s Planning: Why Genocide? Why Not Human Rights? Why Not Crimes Against Humanity? So What? Examples of Issues of Rationale: Genocide. Reflecting on One’s Rationales in Order to Ascertain if Lacuna Exist. Helping Students Reflect on Issues of Rationale. Conclusion. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 7: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity: Instructional Issues, Teaching Strategies And Learning Activities. The Null Curriculum. Weak Pedagogy Plagues Many Lessons and Units on Genocide. Key Pedagogical Concerns When Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Addressing More Than the Holocaust or a Single Case of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide Per Year. The Significance of Carefully Selecting and/or Crafting and Implementing Solid Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities. Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities That Challenge Students to Dig More Deeply. An Activity to Carry Out Prior to the Start of the Unit of Study. Written Responses to Readings: Preparation for Class Discussions/Short Lectures. Reflective Journals. Crafting a Critical Biographical Analysis of a Major Figure (Other Than a Victim or Perpetrator) Related to the Issue of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide. Extra Credit. Closing Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 8: Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Value of Contemporaneous Accounts. Issues to Ponder/Consider When Using First-Person Accounts of Genocide in the Classroom. Incorporating First-Person Accounts into a Study of Genocide: Learning Activities. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 9: Incorporating Primary Documents Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Primary Documents. Primary Documents and Genocide. A Sample of Those Primary Documents That Are Both Highly Informative and Revelatory. The Value of Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Genocide. Pedagogical Approaches for Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Incorporating Documents at Critical Points in the Study. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography: Incorporating Primary Documents Into a Study of Genocide. Chapter 10: Denying Deniers The Opportunity To Deceive And Influence One’s Students: Educators And Students Beware: Deniers And Their Efforts At Denying Facts Are Found All Across The Internet. The Deniers and Distorters. Approaches and Tactics of Deniers and Characteristics of Denial. Provide Students With a List of Major Deniers of Various Genocides. Learning Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 11: Who Isn’t A Bystander To Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity? What Is a Bystander? The Bystanders in the Region of the Killing Fields? Outside the Region? Both Those Inside and Outside? How Does One Avoid Becoming a Bystander? Conclusion. References. Select Annotated. Bibliography. Appendices: A. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. B. Crimes Against Humanity. C. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisTeaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches by Samuel Totten, a renowned scholar of genocide studies and Professor Emeritus, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a culmination of 30 years in the field of genocide studies and education. In writing this book, Totten reports that he “crafted this book along the lines of what he wished had been available to him when he first began teaching about genocide back in the mid-1980s. That is, a book that combines the best of genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and how to teach about such complex and often terrible and difficult issues and facts in a theoretically, historically and pedagogically sound manner.” As the last book he will ever write on education and educating about genocide, he perceives the book as his gift to those educators who have the heart and grit to tackle such an important issue in their classrooms.Table of Contents Introduction. Chapter I: Genocide: An Overview. Raphael Lemkin: Coining the Term “Genocide” and Advocating for the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Genocide in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries. Typologies of Genocide. The Process of Genocide. The Wretched Record of the International Community vis-a -vis the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide. More Positive Actions and News vis-a -vis Prevention and Intervention. Fighting Impunity: At Least Somewhat. Working to Prevent Genocide and/or Intervene in a Timely and Effective Fashion. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 2: Genocide: What It Is And Isn’t. The Crafting of the UNCG. Intent: One of the Keys to the UNCG Definition of Genocide in Regard to Whether the Perpetration of Atrocities Constitute Genocide or Not. The Focus of Genocide: Groups, Not Individuals. The Word “Destroy.” The Wording “in Whole or in Part.” Those Groups That Are and Are Not Protected Under the UNCG. The Wording “As Such.” Acts That Constitute Genocide Punishable Under the UNCG. Perpetrators and Their Prosecution. Conclusion. Notes. References. Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, And Genocide: Key Distinctions. Crimes Against Humanity. Ethnic Cleansing. Genocide. Key Distinctions Between Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and Ethnic Cleansing. Perhaps a Focus on Crimes Against Humanity and Not Genocide Would Be More Sagacious. A Classroom Learning Activity cum Evaluation: The Significance of the Distinctions Between and Amongst Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide. Conclusion. Notes. References. Appendix: Excerpt from Talk by Professor William Schabas, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 4: Misconceptions, Inaccuracies, And Myths That Often Plague Teaching And Learning About Genocide. Select Examples of Misconceptions. Conclusion. Notes. Contents. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 5: The Prevention And Intervention Of Genocide. The Best Way to Prevent Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Is Before They Begin. Early Warning Signals. Preventive Diplomacy: A Wide Array of Early Measures to Ease Tensions, Stave Off Violence, and Bring a Modicum of Stability to a State or Region. Sticky and Sticking Issues. A Pedagogical Approach. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 6: Issues Of Rationale: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Issues of Rationale. Major Questions That Might Be Wise to Ask at the Outset of One’s Planning: Why Genocide? Why Not Human Rights? Why Not Crimes Against Humanity? So What? Examples of Issues of Rationale: Genocide. Reflecting on One’s Rationales in Order to Ascertain if Lacuna Exist. Helping Students Reflect on Issues of Rationale. Conclusion. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 7: Teaching About Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity: Instructional Issues, Teaching Strategies And Learning Activities. The Null Curriculum. Weak Pedagogy Plagues Many Lessons and Units on Genocide. Key Pedagogical Concerns When Teaching About Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Addressing More Than the Holocaust or a Single Case of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide Per Year. The Significance of Carefully Selecting and/or Crafting and Implementing Solid Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities. Teaching Strategies and Learning Activities That Challenge Students to Dig More Deeply. An Activity to Carry Out Prior to the Start of the Unit of Study. Written Responses to Readings: Preparation for Class Discussions/Short Lectures. Reflective Journals. Crafting a Critical Biographical Analysis of a Major Figure (Other Than a Victim or Perpetrator) Related to the Issue of Crimes Against Humanity or Genocide. Extra Credit. Closing Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 8: Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Incorporating First-Person Accounts Into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Value of Contemporaneous Accounts. Issues to Ponder/Consider When Using First-Person Accounts of Genocide in the Classroom. Incorporating First-Person Accounts into a Study of Genocide: Learning Activities. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 9: Incorporating Primary Documents Into A Study Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity. Primary Documents. Primary Documents and Genocide. A Sample of Those Primary Documents That Are Both Highly Informative and Revelatory. The Value of Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Genocide. Pedagogical Approaches for Incorporating Primary Accounts into a Study of Crimes Against Humanity and/or Genocide. Incorporating Documents at Critical Points in the Study. Conclusion. Note. References. Select Annotated Bibliography: Incorporating Primary Documents Into a Study of Genocide. Chapter 10: Denying Deniers The Opportunity To Deceive And Influence One’s Students: Educators And Students Beware: Deniers And Their Efforts At Denying Facts Are Found All Across The Internet. The Deniers and Distorters. Approaches and Tactics of Deniers and Characteristics of Denial. Provide Students With a List of Major Deniers of Various Genocides. Learning Activities. Conclusion. Notes. References. Annotated Bibliography. Chapter 11: Who Isn’t A Bystander To Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity? What Is a Bystander? The Bystanders in the Region of the Killing Fields? Outside the Region? Both Those Inside and Outside? How Does One Avoid Becoming a Bystander? Conclusion. References. Select Annotated. Bibliography. Appendices: A. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. B. Crimes Against Humanity. C. Implementing the Responsibility to Protect. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisCriminology (from Latin cr?men, “accusation”; and Greek -?????, -logia) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels. The term was first used in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as criminologia. In this book we will cover the bases regarding victims, crime and police in hope that this will awake the desire for further reading and studying of this legal discipline. We will start from the historical development of Criminology and Cesare Lombroso in Chapter 2 as the most colorful person in history of this discipline because he connected anthropology and crime. Although his theories are outdated his work is a must-know for every Criminologist. This is the reason he is chosen from many to be mentioned in the beginning of this book. Chapter 3 offers theoretical foundations for adopting Problem Based Learning in the study of crime and criminal justice. While problem-based learning (PBL) has been successfully used in many disciplines for over 30 years, it has not yet been widely adopted by criminal justice instructors. Chapter 4 brings partial test of Agnew’s general theory of crime and delinquency. Relying on a sample of adolescents and employing measures of the self, family, school, and peers domains, this study examines the contemporaneous and lagged effects of these four life domains on the likelihood of consuming alcohol and using marijuana. Given the increased criminalization of young people in poor communities, and the possibilities for change at this very moment, progressive criminological ideas have never been more important. Paper in the Chapter 5 discusses possible partnerships between progressive criminology and social justice organizations struggling to transform the criminal justice systems. Often people are focusing only on urban areas, research on rural communities and crime in Chapter 6 is examined as a way to criticize and challenge mainstream criminological theories and concepts like social disorganization and collective efficacy, and to remind critical criminologists of the importance for developing critical perspectives for place-based or ecological theories of crime. Some awarded experts are claiming that administrative criminology deserves much more positive appraisal than it has been given to date. You can read more about their standings in the Chapter 7 while Chapter 8 is dealing with white collar crime and sentencing in these cases. This study is saying: “It is important to strive for a sentencing system that is classless, but in doing so it is also important to respect real differences”.Chapter 9 research the fact that exposure to crime and the density of alcohol outlets in one’s neighborhood will be positively associated with the incidence of hospitalization for and mortality from traumatic injuries, independent of other neighborhood characteristics. Victims and victimization are in the center of criminology interests. You need to know the categorization of victims of crime to then enter deeper into this world and learn the specifics of every category and group so you would eventually start finding ways of stopping further victimization of the given group. Chapter 10 gives you just outline of divisions among different victims. For many people, the primary interaction they have with the criminal justice system is with law enforcement. Open Data series in the Chapter 11 has been exploring the benefits and challenges of working with individual-level data in the criminal justice context. Criminology cannot be developed only academically but it need strong and well educated practitioners also. More on “predictive policing” you can read in this Chapter. Chapter 12 will bring qualitative methods in criminological research (labeling approach and critical criminology) closer to you. Qualitative methodology has to a large extent been developed in sociological research. Stable supplies of affordable energy could adversely affect quality of life and interrupt patterns of social cohesiveness. Chapter 13 investigates a hypothesized link between patterns of energy consumption and instrumental violence across 868 U.S. counties while next Chapter traces aspects of the development of a `green’ criminology and its perspectives. Criminology can not afford to exclude law enforcement from its studies. That is why Chapters 15, 16 and 17 are dedicated to this aspect of fighting against crime. Chapter 18 introduces the construction and methodological benefits of a series of new data sets that amalgamate approximately 30 years of public data on crime, victimization, fear of crime, social and political attitudes with national socio-economic indicators in England and Wales. Little research to date has accounted for the full spectrum of victimization to which adolescents can be exposed while Chapter 19 defines Child victimization. Final Chapter takes its starting point in the seminal work of Jock Young, The Criminological Imagination, published in 2011. He laid down a challenge for the future of the discipline in this book. These Chapter exposes different issues that have a vital presence in which the connections between them are unspoken. Given that the editor himself is a supporter of Green criminology as the future of all criminological work, I hope that this text will encourage someone to work further on establishing the foundations of this new direction of thoughts, providing us all with better results in practice.

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Book SynopsisIt seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime – in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities – go hand in hand. A companion book to the later glory days of the Sydney underworld from Sydney Noir, here Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern tell the story of a time when many Australians were not as patriotic as we have been told. With soldiers’ pockets full of cash and the freedom of being on leave, criminal possibilities opened up during World War II. Told from the ground – or the gutter – up, World War Noir is a raw and broad-ranging tale that confounds expectations and reveals a grittier truth. Sales Points Vividly describes the leading characters of the Sydney underworld during World War II including corrupt cops, prostitutes, gunmen, sly grog traders and bookmakers Provides an alternative history of Sydney during World War II, depicting a city far less patriotic, and far more hell bent on pleasure, than we have been led to believe Taps into the popular non-fiction crime genre Written in the same bold, engaging style as their successful book Sydney Noir Duffy and Hordern are experienced journalists known for their interest in Sydney’s crime history A new way of thinking about war on the homefront, especially around Anzac Day Duffy and Hordern created and run the Sydney Crime Museum website and its associated Facebook page. [Duffy is about to start posting on the blog and FB again] Table of Contents Introduction: Sydney in wartime Important people 1939: Phoney war 1940: Waiting gaily here 1941: A lot of gazelles 1942: In the mood 1943: As bad as can be conceived 1944: Normal, banal, familiar 1945: You’ll come out the other side of Christmas Epilogue: Don’t fence me in List of illustrations Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe book Application of Criminal Psychology in Different Types of Crime discusses how criminal psychologists examine criminals such as robbers, rapists, white-collar criminals, and identity thieves, especially their thoughts, intentions, and motives, reactions, emotions and feelings when individuals engage in these criminal acts. The purpose of this book is determining why an offender commits a crime, from the time the criminal decision was made to the time the person appeared in court. The book emphasizes that effective criminal psychologists will use their knowledge to help find and capture criminals, thus ensuring the world is safe for everyone. This book mentions that criminal psychology is a niche profession in the field of psychology, in which psychologists hold various positions, including working with law enforcers to determine the profile of people who may have committed a particular crime, and giving their opinion in court where they describe the mental state of the offender, or work directly with the captured offender to catch others in their criminal network. This book explains how criminal psychologists understand the inner mechanisms of the human mind and brain. And apply their accumulated knowledge and professional training to evaluate a person's mental and physical state by studying the person and talking with them.

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Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive study of Italy's "art police", an organisation devoted to protecting cultural artefacts. Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and built legal cases resulting inhigh profile repatriations of cultural property. Their actions have effectively changed an art market that previously depended upon theft and criminal behaviour. Italy is a nation that greatly values its ancient past alongside its artistic present, and it is this appreciation that has led to the creation of the world's premier police force dedicated to law enforcement in the arts, heritage and archaeology. As the TPC's dedicated officers work to protect every aspect of Italy's rich cultural heritage, their organisation, training, approach, missions and successes offer valuable lessons for all who share the goal of protecting and recovering cultural property. Laurie Rushis a Board Member of the US Committee of the Blue Shield, and employed as an archaeologist by the US army; Luisa Benedettini Millington is a Faculty member of the Community College of Vermont, US.Trade ReviewThe illicit trafficking of works of art and antiquities is not a problem solely for the police and art experts. It affects us all...It is better to educate and forestall than to pursue and prosecute after the event: public information campaigns are needed. Such campaigns might usefully draw on the many instances highlighted in this important, timely chronicle and celebration of the work of the Carabinieri * TPC. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY *Should be required reading not just for public authorities, but for collectors, curators, archaeologists and art historians concerned by the current ramifications of crimes against art and hoping to implement practical solutions to combat them. * THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE *Table of ContentsForeword The Carabinieri TPC: an Introduction and Brief History. Perche' l'Italia? Why Italy? Headquarters, the Databank and Operative Department in Rome Carabinieri Public Outreach and Education Central Italy and the Adriatic: Lazio, Florence, Bologna and Ancona Activities in the North: Genova, Monza, Torino and Venezia The Regional Offices: Naples, Bari and the South The Challenges of the Island Regions: Sicily, Sardinia and the Palermo, Siracusa and Sassari Nuclei Investigation Techniques Repatriation of Works of Art to Italy: From Siviero to the Medici Conspiracy Fakes, Forgeries and Money Laundering Who Are the Officers of the Carabinieri TPC? The Carabinieri, Peacekeeping and Foreign Relations: The Carabinieri Mission to Iraq 'The Italian Model' Bibliography and References About the Authors

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Book SynopsisCrimes associated with the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and fish stocks, and pollutants and waste have become increasingly transnational, organized and serious. They warrant attention because of their environmental consequences, their human toll, their impact on the rule of law and good governance, and their links with violence, corruption and a range of cross-over crimes. This ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary Handbook examines key transnational environmental crime sectors and explores its most significant conceptual, operational and enforcement challenges. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this book presents in-depth analysis based on extensive academic research and operational and enforcement expertise. The sectors covered include illegal wildlife, timber, pollutant and waste trades and crimes in the carbon market. The contextual chapters examine criminal networks and illicit chains of custody, local sociocultural, economic and political factors, the effectiveness of policy and operational responses, and international jurisdictional challenges.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics, international environmental law, and environmental criminology as well as for regulatory and enforcement practitioners working to meet the challenges of transnational environmental crime.Contributors include: J. Ayling, L. Bisschop, G. Broussard, A. Cardesa-Salzmann, M. Cassidy, D.W.S. Challender, E. Clark, M.Á. Clemente Muñoz, E. de Coning, R. Duffy, L. Elliott, C. Gibbs, D. Humphreys, Y. Jia, N. Liu, D.C. MacMillan, C. Middleton, R. Ogden, G. Pink, G. Rose, V. Sacré, S. Saydan, W.H. Schaedla, S. Sinha, V. Somboon, T. Terekhova, E. van Asch, T. WyattTrade Review'This Handbook makes a creative and considered contribution towards this important topic. It provides a well-balanced mix of chapters from scholars and practitioners on issues that we must better understand if we are to successfully tackle these serious transnational environmental crimes. I warmly congratulate the editors and authors for focusing on these critical and contemporary questions, including the criminal networks involved, pervasive impact of corruption, criminal justice responses and exemplary collaborative initiatives, such as ICCWC. This timely publication will help to further shape our responses and assist us to better combat these highly destructive crimes.' --John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General'This timely and very comprehensive book sheds light into the shadowy areas of environmental policy that we have neglected for too long: transnational environmental crime, ranging from illegal trade in timber and wildlife to criminal use of ozone-depleting substances, illegal fishing and novel ''carbon crimes'' around emissions trading. The Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime, superbly edited by Elliott and Schaedla, combines insightful conceptual chapters with in-depth empirical research and practitioner contributions. The book is essential reading not only for scholars of environmental governance but also for criminologists, conservationists, regulators and other practitioners.' --Frank Biermann, Utrecht University, the Netherlands'This extensive work beautifully covers all major transnational environmental crimes and efforts to combat these crimes, from a broad perspective. It stands out for incorporating chapters written by leading green criminologists but also by policy makers and members of the enforcement community. It is truly a handbook of great value to the increasing number of academics, practitioners and students who are interested in environmental crimes and green criminology.' --Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: PART I CONTEXT AND SCENE-SETTING 1. Transnational Environmental Crime: Excavating the Complexities – An Introduction Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla 2. Criminal Networks and Illicit Chains of Custody in Transnational Environmental Crime Lorraine Elliott 3. Local Sociocultural, Economic and Political Facilitators of Transnational Wildlife Crime William H. Schaedla 4. The Securitization of Transnational Environmental Crime and the Militarization Of Conservation Lorraine Elliott 5. Criminality and Costs: The Human Toll of Transnational Environmental Crime Sophie Saydan PART II KEY SECTORS AND CASE STUDIES 6. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Global Perspective Rosaleen Duffy 7. The Uncharismatic and Unorganized Side to Wildlife Smuggling Tanya Wyatt 8. Fisheries Crime Eve De Coning 9. Forest Crimes and the International Trade in Illegally Logged Timber David Humphreys 10. Illegal Trade in Hazardous Waste Lieselot Bisschop 11. Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances Ning Liu, Vira Somboon and Carl Middleton 12. Crimes in the Carbon Market Carole Gibbs and Michael Cassidy 13. Greater China and Transnational Environmental Crime: Understanding Criminal Networks and Enforcement Responses Yunbo Jiao 14. Wildlife Trade in South Asia Samir Sinha PART III GOVERNANCE, AGENCY AND STRATEGIES 15. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Illegality Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann 16. International Jurisdictional Challenges in the Suppression of Transnational Environmental Crime Gregory Rose 17. Reducing Demand for Illicit Wildlife Products: Crafting a ‘Whole-Of-Society’ Response Julie Ayling 18. Witnessing WENs: Origins and Future Directions William H. Schaedla and Samir Sinha 19. Forensics in Transnational Environmental Crime Rob Ogden PART IV PRACTITIONER CONTRIBUTIONS 20. The Montreal Protocol and OzonAction Networks Ezra Clark 21. The Basel Convention: A Tool for Combating Environmental Crime and Enhancing the Management of Hazardous and Other Wastes Tatiana Terekhova 22. The Role of Cites in Ensuring Sustainable and Legal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora Margarita África Clemente Muñoz 23. Interpol’s Nest: Building Capability and Capacity to Respond to Transnational Environmental Crime Grant Pink 24. The Evolving Role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Fighting Wildlife and Forest Crimes Giovanni Broussard 25. The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) Edward Van Asch 26. EU–TWIX: Ten Years of Information Exchange and Co-Operation Between Wildlife Law Enforcement Officials in Europe Vinciane Sacré 27. Transnational Environmental Crime: More than an Enforcement Problem Daniel W.S. Challender and Douglas C. Macmillan Index

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Book SynopsisSince the UK Gambling Act of 2005 was introduced, gambling has stopped being seen, politically and legally as an inherent vice and is now viewed as a legitimate form of entertainment. Gambling Regulation and Vulnerability explores the laws around gambling that aim to protect society and individuals, examining the differences between regulatory rhetoric and the impact of legislative and regulatory measures. Malgorzata Carran finds that although the Gambling Act introduced many positive changes to gambling regulation, it has created an environment in which protection of vulnerable individuals becomes difficult. Carran challenges the existing legislative premise that regulation alone is able to balance the effect of liberalisation for those who are vulnerable.Uniquely, this book?s findings are underpinned by empirical data from focus groups carried out with children and young people in secondary schools. The young people interviewed have experienced the transition from a contained, to liberalised gambling industry and unless there is a reversal in policy, no comparable empirical data is ever likely to be collected.This title will appeal to academics exploring regulation, sociology, and law and society. Similarly, regulators and those working with the gambling industry will find this an insightful and illuminating text.Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. The concept of vulnerability and gambling-related harm 2. Regulatory responses 3. Gambling meaning and categorisations: Are English definitions sufficiently inclusive for the protection of minors? 4. Prevention of underage gambling 5. Minors and gambling advertising 6. Minors and social gaming Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. It is becoming more important in the modern, globalized period to understand the power of illicit and illegal acts and actors in shaping our world. Opening with chapters that look across the diverse terrain of global crime, this Research Agenda moves on to consider key specific areas, including: organised crime, cyber crime, war crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. Offering both critical reviews of key theories and in-depth case studies, this Research Agenda challenges the notion that criminal acts in a global age are solely the preserve of organised criminal groups, highlighting the role of other actors including governments, armies and corporations. A vital source of reference for criminology and sociology undergraduate, and post-graduate students, as well as those from a host of other social science disciplines, this Research Agenda will provoke thought and discussion across these topics. It will also be of great benefit for policy makers and practitioners working to better understand and combat transnational crime.Trade Review'This is a book that shows how legality and illegality are indeed limited concepts when it comes to global and transnational crimes. It successfully explores legal and conceptual diversities, but also procedural and thematic convergence in our globalized world where, to quote Hannah Arendt and to echo the authors of this text, certain harmful conducts simply ''explode the limits of legal thought'', leading to a constant need for deeper tools for analysis.' --Anna Sergi, University of Essex, UK, and University of Turin, Italy'Adopting the perspective that our world is increasingly tied together by flows that combine both licit and illicit, this timely volume pushes criminology into dialogue with wider debates about transnationalism and globalism, showing that crime can usefully be examined through a relational and geographical lens. But more than this, the book represents the state of the art in contemporary criminology, showing how the discipline is expanding to encompass multiple forms of economic and environmental exploitation, from human trafficking and drug smuggling through to corporate crime and environmental abuses. An exciting collection that underscores the value of inter-disciplinary thinking on questions of crime and criminology.' --Philip Hubbard, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Thinking through global crime and its research agendas Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia 2. Economic geographies of the (il)legal and the (il)licit Ray Hudson 3. Faces in the clouds: criminology, epochalism, apophenia, and transnational organized crime Dick Hobbs 4. War, terrorism and criminal justice John Lea 5. War crimes, genocide and the value of a social harm approach in a post-accountability world Daniel Mitchell 6. Environmental crimes: controversies and perspectives Rosalba Altopiedi 7. Transnational governance and cybercrime control: dilemmas, developments and emerging research agendas Majid Yar 8. The demand for counterfeiting on the criminological research agenda Jo Large 9. State, society and violence in Russia: towards a new research agenda Svetlana Stephenson 10. Riots, protest and globalization Matt Clement 11. The socio-material cultures of global crime: artefacts and infrastructures in the context of drug smuggling Craig Martin 12 Sport and crime in a global society Nicholas Groombridge Index

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Book SynopsisThis new volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. Even in today's so-called multicultural, post-racial world racial and ethnic concerns prevail in many aspects of modern law. Contributors to this volume examine racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing and punishment; the continued problematic nature of the African American experience within the US system; the criminalization of immigrants; racial inequities in the administration of drug laws; and the racial disparities that affect juvenile justice. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in law, socio-legal studies, criminology, criminal justice, sociology and public policy.Trade ReviewOffering a broad and diverse overview and discussion of a variety of issues of race and ethnicity in multiple areas of law, sociologists cover law and black lives, disparities in sentencing and punishment, and systems and mechanisms of inequality. Among their topics are apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes, 40 acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations, hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside US prisons, Latinos and the crimmigration system, and drugs and racial constructions. -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Laws Of Race, Ethnicity And Law; Mathieu DeflemPART I: LAW AND BLACK LIVES: Wrongful convictions: the African American experience; Marvin D. Free, Jr. Apartheid justice: gang injunctions and the new black codes; Xuan Santos and Christopher Bickel Understanding the historical influences on contemporary assessment and counseling issues of African American offenders; Sherrise Truesdale-Moore When did crime pay, and for whom? The metamorphosis of an academic’s odyssey; James Burnett, Alvin Killough and Eryn Killough Forty acres and a lawsuit: legal claims for reparations; Kaimipono David Wenger PART II: DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT: Theoretical perspectives and empirical assessments of race/ethnicity disparities in federal sentencing; Celesta A. Albonetti Examining sentencing disparity in Virginia: the impact of race and sex on mitigating departures for drug offenders; Lori Elis The new Jane Crow: mass incarceration and the denied maternity of black women; Chenelle A. Jones and Renita L. Seabrook Hooked on punishment: symbolic violence and the drug war inside us prisons; Meggan J. Lee and Nick Rochin Prisons, race making, and the changing American racial milieu; Gennifer Furst PART III: SYSTEMS AND MECHANISMS OF INEQUALITY: Racialized culpability: victim blaming and state violence; Nicholas J. Chagnon Latinos and the crimmigration system; Amada Armenta and Irene I. Vega Justice, social control, and social inequality: framing the U.S. juvenile justice system's racial & ethnic disparities; Brian J. Smith Drugs and racial constructions; Jeanette Covington The intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and the treatment of probation violators in juvenile justice proceedings; Michael J. Leiber and Maude Beaudry-Cyr

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Book SynopsisCrimes associated with the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and fish stocks, and pollutants and waste have become increasingly transnational, organized and serious. They warrant attention because of their environmental consequences, their human toll, their impact on the rule of law and good governance, and their links with violence, corruption and a range of cross-over crimes. This ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary Handbook examines key transnational environmental crime sectors and explores its most significant conceptual, operational and enforcement challenges. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this book presents in-depth analysis based on extensive academic research and operational and enforcement expertise. The sectors covered include illegal wildlife, timber, pollutant and waste trades and crimes in the carbon market. The contextual chapters examine criminal networks and illicit chains of custody, local sociocultural, economic and political factors, the effectiveness of policy and operational responses, and international jurisdictional challenges.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics, international environmental law, and environmental criminology as well as for regulatory and enforcement practitioners working to meet the challenges of transnational environmental crime.Contributors include: J. Ayling, L. Bisschop, G. Broussard, A. Cardesa-Salzmann, M. Cassidy, D.W.S. Challender, E. Clark, M.Á. Clemente Muñoz, E. de Coning, R. Duffy, L. Elliott, C. Gibbs, D. Humphreys, Y. Jia, N. Liu, D.C. MacMillan, C. Middleton, R. Ogden, G. Pink, G. Rose, V. Sacré, S. Saydan, W.H. Schaedla, S. Sinha, V. Somboon, T. Terekhova, E. van Asch, T. WyattTrade Review'This Handbook makes a creative and considered contribution towards this important topic. It provides a well-balanced mix of chapters from scholars and practitioners on issues that we must better understand if we are to successfully tackle these serious transnational environmental crimes. I warmly congratulate the editors and authors for focusing on these critical and contemporary questions, including the criminal networks involved, pervasive impact of corruption, criminal justice responses and exemplary collaborative initiatives, such as ICCWC. This timely publication will help to further shape our responses and assist us to better combat these highly destructive crimes.' --John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General'This timely and very comprehensive book sheds light into the shadowy areas of environmental policy that we have neglected for too long: transnational environmental crime, ranging from illegal trade in timber and wildlife to criminal use of ozone-depleting substances, illegal fishing and novel ''carbon crimes'' around emissions trading. The Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime, superbly edited by Elliott and Schaedla, combines insightful conceptual chapters with in-depth empirical research and practitioner contributions. The book is essential reading not only for scholars of environmental governance but also for criminologists, conservationists, regulators and other practitioners.' --Frank Biermann, Utrecht University, the Netherlands'This extensive work beautifully covers all major transnational environmental crimes and efforts to combat these crimes, from a broad perspective. It stands out for incorporating chapters written by leading green criminologists but also by policy makers and members of the enforcement community. It is truly a handbook of great value to the increasing number of academics, practitioners and students who are interested in environmental crimes and green criminology.' --Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: PART I CONTEXT AND SCENE-SETTING 1. Transnational Environmental Crime: Excavating the Complexities – An Introduction Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla 2. Criminal Networks and Illicit Chains of Custody in Transnational Environmental Crime Lorraine Elliott 3. Local Sociocultural, Economic and Political Facilitators of Transnational Wildlife Crime William H. Schaedla 4. The Securitization of Transnational Environmental Crime and the Militarization Of Conservation Lorraine Elliott 5. Criminality and Costs: The Human Toll of Transnational Environmental Crime Sophie Saydan PART II KEY SECTORS AND CASE STUDIES 6. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Global Perspective Rosaleen Duffy 7. The Uncharismatic and Unorganized Side to Wildlife Smuggling Tanya Wyatt 8. Fisheries Crime Eve De Coning 9. Forest Crimes and the International Trade in Illegally Logged Timber David Humphreys 10. Illegal Trade in Hazardous Waste Lieselot Bisschop 11. Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances Ning Liu, Vira Somboon and Carl Middleton 12. Crimes in the Carbon Market Carole Gibbs and Michael Cassidy 13. Greater China and Transnational Environmental Crime: Understanding Criminal Networks and Enforcement Responses Yunbo Jiao 14. Wildlife Trade in South Asia Samir Sinha PART III GOVERNANCE, AGENCY AND STRATEGIES 15. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Illegality Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann 16. International Jurisdictional Challenges in the Suppression of Transnational Environmental Crime Gregory Rose 17. Reducing Demand for Illicit Wildlife Products: Crafting a ‘Whole-Of-Society’ Response Julie Ayling 18. Witnessing WENs: Origins and Future Directions William H. Schaedla and Samir Sinha 19. Forensics in Transnational Environmental Crime Rob Ogden PART IV PRACTITIONER CONTRIBUTIONS 20. The Montreal Protocol and OzonAction Networks Ezra Clark 21. The Basel Convention: A Tool for Combating Environmental Crime and Enhancing the Management of Hazardous and Other Wastes Tatiana Terekhova 22. The Role of Cites in Ensuring Sustainable and Legal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora Margarita África Clemente Muñoz 23. Interpol’s Nest: Building Capability and Capacity to Respond to Transnational Environmental Crime Grant Pink 24. The Evolving Role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Fighting Wildlife and Forest Crimes Giovanni Broussard 25. The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) Edward Van Asch 26. EU–TWIX: Ten Years of Information Exchange and Co-Operation Between Wildlife Law Enforcement Officials in Europe Vinciane Sacré 27. Transnational Environmental Crime: More than an Enforcement Problem Daniel W.S. Challender and Douglas C. Macmillan Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental crime is arguably the most vital and destructive crime of the 21st century, especially in the light of climate change and shifts in social, economic and ecological circumstances that will accompany global warming. The author takes an excitingly broad and refreshing approach to environmental crime and investigates a variety of topics including illegal fishing, poaching, wildlife crimes, animal abuse, climate change and ecocide as well as crimes related to waste, energy and contamination.Trade Review‘This two volume collection edited by Professor Rob White offers a challenging and insightful flavour of the criminological endeavour to address one of the most prescient challenges of the 21st century: environmental crime. Edited by one of the foremost academics in this field these two volumes do not claim to be exhaustive but as the editor says they do claim to be “interesting, provocative, informative and stimulating”. They are certainly all of these things and more besides. Taken together they lay down an unprecedented challenge to academics, politicians and policy-makers alike to take environmental crime seriously: an essential collection for anyone interested in these issues.’ -- Sandra Walklate, Liverpool University, UK and Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements ix Introduction Rob White xii PART I ENVIRONMENTAL HARM AND TRANSNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME 1. Susan F. Mandiberg (2009), ‘Locating the Environmental Harm in Environmental Crimes’, Utah Law Review, 4, 1177–222 2 2. Brian J. Preston (2007), ‘Principled Sentencing for Environmental Offences – Part 2: Sentencing Considerations and Options’, Criminal Law Journal, 31 (3), 142–64 48 3. Ali Mohamed Al-Damkhi, Ali Mohamed Khuraibet, Sabah Ahmed Adbul-Wahab and Faten Abdul-Hameed Al-Attar (2009), ‘COMMENTARY: Toward Defining the Concept of Environmental Crime on the Basis of Sustainability’, Environmental Practice, 11 (2), June, 115–24 71 4. Glen Wright (2011), ‘Conceptualising and Combating Transnational Environmental Crime’, Trends in Organised Crime, 14 (4), December, 332–46 81 5. Lorraine Elliott (2012), ‘Fighting Transnational Environmental Crime’, Journal of International Affairs, 66 (1), Fall–Winter, 87–104 96 6. Greg L. Warchol, Linda L. Zupan and Willie Clack (2003), ‘Transnational Criminality: An Analysis of the Illegal Wildlife Market in Southern Africa’, International Criminal Justice Review, 13 (1), May, 1–27 114 7. Carole Gibbs, Meredith L. Gore, Edmund F. McGarrell and Louie Rivers III (2010), ‘Introducing Conservation Criminology: Towards Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Environmental Crimes and Risks’, British Journal of Criminology, 50 (1), 124–44 141 8. Leo R. Douglas and Kelvin Alie (2014), ‘High-Value Natural Resources: Linking Wildlife Conservation to International Conflict, Insecurity, and Development Concerns’, Biological Conservation, 171, 270–77 162 9. Rob White (2017), ‘The Four Ways of Eco-Global Criminology’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6 (1), 8–22 170 10. Avi Brisman and Nigel South (2019), ‘Green Criminology and Environmental Crimes and Harms’, Sociology Compass, 13 (1), January, 1–12 185 PART II ILLEGAL FISHING 11. John L. McMullan and David C. Perrier (2002), ‘Lobster Poaching and the Ironies of Law Enforcement’, Law and Society Review, 36 (4), January, 679–717 198 12. Maria Hauck (2009), ‘Crime, Environment and Power: Revisiting the Abalone Fishery’, South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 22 (2), January, 229–45 237 13. Nerea Marteache, Julie Viollaz and Gohar A. Petrossian (2015), ‘Factors Influencing the Choice of a Safe Haven for Offloading Illegally Caught Fish: A Comparative Analysis of Developed and Developing Economies’, Crime Science, 4 (32), October, 1–13 254 14. Gohar Petrossian, Judith S. Weis and Stephen F. Pires (2015), ‘Factors Affecting Crab and Lobster Species Subject to IUU Fishing’, Ocean and Coastal Management, 106, March, 29–34 267 15. Gohar A. Petrossian (2015), ‘Preventing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing: A Situational Approach’, Biological Conservation, 189, September, 39–48 273 16. Eve de Coning and Emma Witbooi (2015), ‘Towards a New “Fisheries Crime” Paradigm: South Africa as an Illustrative Example’, Marine Policy, 60, October, 208–15 283 PART III POACHING AND BIRDLIFE 17. Stephen Pires and Ronald V. Clarke (2012), ‘Are Parrots CRAVED? An Analysis of Parrot Poaching in Mexico’, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 49 (1), March, 122–46 292 18. Stephen F. Pires, Jacqueline L. Schneider, Mauricio Herrera and José L. Tella (2016), ‘Spatial, Temporal and Age Sources of Variation in Parrot Poaching in Bolivia’, Bird Conservation International, 26 (3), September, 293–306 317 19. Ronald V. Clarke and Rolf A. de By (2013), ‘Poaching, Habitat Loss and the Decline of Neotropical Parrots: A Comparative Spatial Analysis’, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 9 (3), April, 333–53 331 20. Stephen F. Pires, Jacqueline L. Schneider and Mauricio Herrera (2016), ‘Organized Crime or Crime that is Organized? The Parrot Trade in the Neotropics’, Trends in Organized Crime, 19 (1), March, 4–20 352 21. Jessica S. Kahler and Meredith L. Gore (2012), ‘Beyond the Cooking Pot and Pocket Book: Factors Influencing Noncompliance with Wildlife Poaching Rules’, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 36 (2), May, 103–20 369 22. Erica von Essen, Hans Peter Hansen, Helena Nordström Källström, M. Nils Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson (2014), ‘Deconstructing the Poaching Phenomenon: A Review of Typologies for Understanding Illegal Hunting’, British Journal of Criminology, 54 (4), July, 632–51 387 PART IV WILDLIFE CRIMES 23. Anita Lavorgna (2014), ‘Wildlife Trafficking in the Internet Age’, Crime Science, 3 (5), April, 1–12 408 24. Daan van Uhm (2016), ‘Monkey Business: The Illegal Trade in Barbary Macaques’, Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime and Security, 2 (1), 36–49 420 25. William D. Moreto and A.M. Lemieux (2015), ‘From CRAVED to CAPTURED: Introducing a Product-based Framework to Examine Illegal Wildlife Markets’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 21 (3), December, 303–20 434 26. Anh Cao Ngoc and Tanya Wyatt (2013), ‘A Green Criminological Exploration of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Vietnam’, Asian Journal of Criminology, 8 (2), June, 129–42 452 27. Rebecca W.Y. Wong (2016), ‘The Organization of the Illegal Tiger Parts Trade in China’, British Journal of Criminology, 56 (5), September, 995–1013 466 28. Duarte Gonçalves (2017), ‘Society and the Rhino: A Whole-of- Society Approach to Wildlife Crime in South Africa’, South African Crime Quarterly, 60, June, 9–18 485 PART V ANIMAL ABUSE AND KILLING OF ANIMALS 29. Geertrui Cazaux (1999), ‘Beauty and the Beast: Animal Abuse from a Non-Speciesist Criminological Perspective’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 31 (2), March, 105–26 496 30. Michelle Larkins Jacques, Carole Gibbs and Louie Rivers III (2013), ‘Confined Animal Feeding Operations’, CRIMSOC: Journal of Social Criminology, 4, Autumn, 10–63 518 31. Ragnhild Sollund (2011), ‘Expressions of Speciesism: The Effects of Keeping Companion Animals on Animal Abuse, Animal Trafficking and Species Decline’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 55 (5), June, 437–51 572 32. Piers Beirne (2014), ‘Theriocide: Naming Animal Killing’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 3 (2), 49–66 587 33. Gareth Enticott (2011), ‘Techniques of Neutralising Wildlife Crime in Rural England and Wales’, Journal of Rural Studies, 27 (2), April, 200–208 605 34. Angus Nurse (2016), ‘Beyond the Property Debate: Animal Welfare as a Public Good’, Contemporary Justice Review, 19 (2), 174–87 614 Index Volume II Acknowledgements viii Introduction An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECOCIDE 1. Clifford Shearing (2015), ‘Criminology and the Anthropocene’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 15 (3), June, 255–69 2 2. Robert Agnew (2012), ‘Dire Forecast: A Theoretical Model of the Impact of Climate Change on Crime’, Theoretical Criminology, 16 (1), February, 21–42 17 3. Matthew Ranson (2014), ‘Crime, Weather, and Climate Change’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 67 (3), 274–302 39 4. Polly Higgins, Damien Short and Nigel South (2013), ‘Protecting the Planet: A Proposal for a Law of Ecocide’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 59 (3), 251–66 68 5. Ronald C. Kramer (2013), ‘Carbon in the Atmosphere and Power in America: Climate Change as State–Corporate Crime’, Journal of Crime and Justice, 36 (2), 153–70 84 6. William C. Tucker (2012), ‘Deceitful Tongues: Is Climate Change Denial a Crime?’, Ecology Law Quarterly, 39 (3), 831–92 102 7. Deniz Tekayak (2016), ‘Protecting Earth Rights and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards an International Crime of Ecocide’, Fourth World Journal, 14 (2), Winter, 5–13 164 8. Rob White and Ronald C. Kramer (2015), ‘Critical Criminology and the Struggle Against Climate Change Ecocide’, Critical Criminology, 23 (4), November, 383–99 173 PART II AIR, LAND AND WATER CRIMES 9. Reece Walters (2010), ‘Toxic Atmospheres Air Pollution, Trade and the Politics of Regulation’, Critical Criminology, 18 (4), 307–23 191 10. Rebecca S. Katz (2010), ‘The Corporate Crimes of Dow Chemical and the Failure to Regulate Environmental Pollution’, Critical Criminology, 18 (4), 295–306 208 11. Lieselot C.J. Bisschop, Staci Strobl and Julie S. Viollaz (2018), ‘Getting into Deep Water: Coastal Land Loss and State–Corporate Crime in the Louisiana Bayou’, British Journal of Criminology, 58 (4), July, 886–905 220 12. Elaine Barclay and Robyn Bartel (2015), ‘Defining Environmental Crime: The Perspective of Farmers’, Journal of Rural Studies, 39, June, 188–98 240 13. Hope Johnson, Nigel South and Reece Walters (2016), ‘The Commodification and Exploitation of Fresh Water: Property, Human Rights and Green Criminology’, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 44, March, 146–62 251 14. Robyn Luise Bartel (2005), ‘When the Heavenly Gaze Criminalises: Satellite Surveillance, Land Clearance Regulation and the Human-Nature Relationship’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16 (3), March, 322–39 268 PART III WASTE, ENERGY AND CONTAMINATION 15. Don Liddick (2010), ‘The Traffic in Garbage and Hazardous Wastes: An Overview’, Trends in Organized Crime, 13 (2–3), September, 134–46 287 16. Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nigel South (2013), ‘Toxic State–Corporate Crimes, Neo-Liberalism and Green Criminology: The Hazards and Legacies of the Oil, Chemical and Mineral Industries’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2 (2), 12–26 300 17. Karen Hulme and Damien Short (2014), ‘Ecocide and the “Polluter Pays” Principle: The Case of Fracking’, Environmental Scientist, April, 7–10 315 18. David M. Uhlmann (2011), ‘After the Spill is Gone: The Gulf of Mexico, Environmental Crime, and the Criminal Law’, Michigan Law Review, 109, June, 1413–61 319 19. Elizabeth A. Bradshaw (2015), ‘“Obviously, We’re all Oil Industry”: The Criminogenic Structure of the Offshore Oil Industry’, Theoretical Criminology, 19 (3), 376–95 368 20. Dale C. Spencer and Amy Fitzgerald (2013), ‘Three Ecologies, Transversality and Victimization: The Case of the British Petroleum Oil Spill’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 59 (2), March, 209–23 388 PART IV ILLEGAL LOGGING, DEFORESTATION AND BIOPIRACY 21. Tim Boekhout van Solinge (2010), ‘Deforestation Crimes and Conflicts in the Amazon’, Critical Criminology, 18 (4), December, 263–77 404 22. Penny Green, Tony Ward and Kirsten McConnachie (2007), ‘Logging and Legality: Environmental Crime, Civil Society, and the State’, Social Justice, 34 (2), September, 94–110 419 23. Lieselot Bisschop (2012), ‘Out of the Woods: The Illegal Trade in Tropical Timber and a European Trade Hub’, Global Crime, 13 (3), August, 191–212 436 24. Reece Walters (2004), ‘Criminology and Genetically Modified Food’, British Journal of Criminology, 44 (2), March, 151–67 458 25. David Rodríguez Goyes and Nigel South (2016), ‘Land-Grabs, Biopiracy and the Inversion of Justice in Colombia’, British Journal of Criminology, 56 (3), 558–77 475 26. Reece Walters (2006), ‘Crime, Bio-Agriculture and the Exploitation of Hunger’, British Journal of Criminology, 46 (1), 26–45 495 PART V CROSS-OVER CRIMES AND ORGANISED CRIMINAL NETWORKS 27. Johan Bergenas and Ariella Knight (2015), ‘Green Terror: Environmental Crime and Illicit Financing’, SAIS Review of International Affairs, 35 (1), Winter–Spring, 119–31 516 28. Henrik Österblom, Andrew Constable and Sayaka Fukumi (2011), ‘Illegal Fishing and the Organized Crime Analogy’, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 26 (6), June, 261–62 529 29. Daan P. van Uhm and William D. Moreto (2018), ‘Corruption Within the Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Symbiotic and Antithetical Enterprise’, British Journal of Criminology, 58 (4), July, 864–85 531 30. Peter Martin and Reece Walters (2013), ‘Fraud Risk and the Visibility of Carbon’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2 (2), September, 27–42 553 31. Stefano Caneppele, Michele Riccardi and Priscilla Standridge (2013), ‘Green Energy and Black Economy: Mafia Investments in the Wind Power Sector in Italy’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 59 (3), April, 319–39 569 32. Julie Ayling (2013), ‘What Sustains Wildlife Crime? Rhino Horn Trading and the Resilience of Criminal Networks’, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, 16 (1), March, 57–80 590 Index

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Book SynopsisA Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so-called “credibility revolution” as well as to the cross-fertilization of economics and other social sciences such as criminology, sociology and political science. With contributions from some of the leading scholars in the economics of crime, the volume highlights a variety of topics, conceptual frameworks and empirical approaches, thus providing a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments of the field.Emphasising the importance of designing crime-reducing policies that are guided by rigorous empirical analyses, the contributions leverage the availability of novel and administrative micro-data, the use of research designs that unveil causal relationships, and the interdisciplinarity of approaches and theoretical frameworks. The Modern Guide moves through four parts: first investigating the role of the police and their effectiveness, then moving on to look at the distinct socio-economic factors that may induce individuals to commit crimes, followed by issues related to crime in specific groups including migrants, women and racial minorities, and finally turning from individual to organized crime.This Modern Guide will be an invigorating read for economics and criminology students and scholars looking at the relationship between the two fields. Policy makers will also benefit from the application of interdisciplinary theory to empirical research in the chapters.Table of ContentsContents: 1 The changing nature of economics of crime 1 Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin and Juan Vargas 2 The economics of policing and crime 12 Federico Masera 3 The geography of crime and policing 30 Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens and Derek Christopher 4 Broken windows policing and crime: Evidence from 80 Colombian cities 55 Daniel Mejía, Ervyn Norza, Santiago Tobón and Martín Vanegas-Arias 5 Decarceration and crime: California’s experience 88 Patricio Dominguez, Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael 6 A note on electronic monitoring and some challenges to its implementation 135 Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky 7 Education and crime: What we know and where do we go? 150 Joel Carr, Olivier Marie and Sunčica Vujić 8 Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime 184 Eduardo Ferraz, Rodrigo Soares and Juan Vargas 9 Social prevention of crime: Alternatives to policing measures in an urban context 205 Magdalena Domínguez and Daniel Montolio 10 Peer effects in crime 227 Evelina Gavrilova and Marcello Puca 11 New evidence on immigration and crime 243 Paolo Pinotti and Sandra V. Rozo 12 Females in crime 265 Evelina Gavrilova 13 Racial bias in the criminal justice system 286 Jennifer L. Doleac 14 Gangs and organized crime 305 Ben Lessing and Maria Micaela Sviatschi 15 Organised crime, elections and public policies 320 Pasquale Accardo, Giuseppe De Feo and Giacomo De Luca 16 What predicts corruption? 345 Emanuele Colonnelli, Jorge Gallego and Mounu Prem 17 Organised crime, state and the legitimate monopoly of violence 374 Tommy E. Murphy and Paolo Vanin Index 395

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Book SynopsisResearch Methods: Studying Urban Crime examines aspects of crime from a variety of perspectives and describes how researchers can conduct effective and valuable research in the discipline. Utilising an urban context, the contributed chapters provide strategies for exploring various elements of crime and a solid knowledge base on crime-related topics. It also showcases methodological approaches to investigate the main topic of each chapter.Select chapters cover topics and methods using qualitative data while others employ quantitative data. Topics addressed include social attitudes toward sex offenders, the impact of incarceration on an individual's labour market prospects, studying tax cuts and links to crime in large cities, studying violence crime victims' satisfaction with the police, the feminisation of urban crime, and more. Every chapter contains key terms, an introduction, a chapter summary, discussion questions, and references to enhance student comprehension and engagement.Featuring the scholarship of knowledgeable experts within the discipline, Research Methods is an ideal supplemental reader for courses that address research methods in criminal justice and criminology.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. It is becoming more important in the modern, globalized period to understand the power of illicit and illegal acts and actors in shaping our world. Opening with chapters that look across the diverse terrain of global crime, this Research Agenda moves on to consider key specific areas, including: organised crime, cyber crime, war crimes, terrorism, state and private violence, riots and political protest, prisons, sport and crime and counterfeit goods. Offering both critical reviews of key theories and in-depth case studies, this Research Agenda challenges the notion that criminal acts in a global age are solely the preserve of organised criminal groups, highlighting the role of other actors including governments, armies and corporations. A vital source of reference for criminology and sociology undergraduate, and post-graduate students, as well as those from a host of other social science disciplines, this Research Agenda will provoke thought and discussion across these topics. It will also be of great benefit for policy makers and practitioners working to better understand and combat transnational crime.Trade Review'This is a book that shows how legality and illegality are indeed limited concepts when it comes to global and transnational crimes. It successfully explores legal and conceptual diversities, but also procedural and thematic convergence in our globalized world where, to quote Hannah Arendt and to echo the authors of this text, certain harmful conducts simply ''explode the limits of legal thought'', leading to a constant need for deeper tools for analysis.' --Anna Sergi, University of Essex, UK, and University of Turin, Italy'Adopting the perspective that our world is increasingly tied together by flows that combine both licit and illicit, this timely volume pushes criminology into dialogue with wider debates about transnationalism and globalism, showing that crime can usefully be examined through a relational and geographical lens. But more than this, the book represents the state of the art in contemporary criminology, showing how the discipline is expanding to encompass multiple forms of economic and environmental exploitation, from human trafficking and drug smuggling through to corporate crime and environmental abuses. An exciting collection that underscores the value of inter-disciplinary thinking on questions of crime and criminology.' --Philip Hubbard, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Thinking through global crime and its research agendas Tim Hall and Vincenzo Scalia 2. Economic geographies of the (il)legal and the (il)licit Ray Hudson 3. Faces in the clouds: criminology, epochalism, apophenia, and transnational organized crime Dick Hobbs 4. War, terrorism and criminal justice John Lea 5. War crimes, genocide and the value of a social harm approach in a post-accountability world Daniel Mitchell 6. Environmental crimes: controversies and perspectives Rosalba Altopiedi 7. Transnational governance and cybercrime control: dilemmas, developments and emerging research agendas Majid Yar 8. The demand for counterfeiting on the criminological research agenda Jo Large 9. State, society and violence in Russia: towards a new research agenda Svetlana Stephenson 10. Riots, protest and globalization Matt Clement 11. The socio-material cultures of global crime: artefacts and infrastructures in the context of drug smuggling Craig Martin 12 Sport and crime in a global society Nicholas Groombridge Index

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Book SynopsisWith insightful contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this multidisciplinary Handbook provides an authoritative overview of scholarship on cities and crime. It discusses contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to urban crime research, as well as its practical implications and psychological impacts.

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Book SynopsisUnsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity. Based on extensive fieldwork within First Nations communities, accounts from Indigenous scholars and activists in Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Canada and the United States, and cinematic/literary representations, this contribution challenges unrestricted mobility in modernity and highlights the vehicle's impact on Indigenous communities. Chapters examine how Indigenous people are criminalized for non-compliance with vehicle regulations, explores the vehicle as a tool of racial violence, and discusses how Indigenous communities utilize vehicles for protection, cultural expression, and reconnection with their land. By demonstrating the vehicle's involvement in colonial violence and its potential for empowering Indigenous cultures, Unsettling Colonial Automobilities acknowledges the significance of human movement, migration, and boundary-transcendence in modern life while acknowledging the dark history associated with these phenomena.Trade ReviewWith the turn of every page, you will be intrigued, because who would have ever thought that a motor vehicle and its relationship with First Nations Australians would be so intense and ever so present in our criminalization since colonization that it continues even today. -- Leanne Liddle, Arrernte Woman, Northern Territory Australian of the Year 2022 and Director of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice UnitTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Colonial Processes of Enforced Mobility and Immobility Chapter 2. Neo-colonial Interventions – Regulating First Nations Peoples’ Motor Vehicles and Criminalising Drivers Chapter 3. Cars, Courts and Carceralism Chapter 4. Necroautomobility and the Colonial Chase in the Cultural Imagination Chapter 5. No Justice, No Peace: Police Necroautomobility and Lack of Accountability Chapter 6. “I’ve Been Chased by People in Cars – White People in Cars” – Settler Necroautomobility in the Murders and Disappearances of First Nations Peoples Chapter 7. Automobility in First Nations Sovereignty-Making Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many contemporaries, nineteenth-century Ireland was notorious for sectarian unrest, agrarian disorder, alcohol-fuelled casual fighting, the seditious activities of various illegal underground organisations, as well as a host of other ‘outrages’. The image of an Ireland in an almost perpetual state of tumult during the nineteenth century, however, is a false one, invariably pedalled by partisan observers with a particular political or religious agenda to satisfy. Modern historical scholarship has corrected many lingering assumptions about the extent and character of Irish violence, but much work remains to be done. This important collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s most successful annual conferences, draws together some of Ireland’s leading historians as well emerging talents to examine a broad range of topics under the banner of crime and violence. Irish secret societies, agrarian disorder, security and the law, sectarian violence, and a host of similar topics benefit from innovative methodological perspectives and advanced historical scholarship. List of contributors: Kyle Hughes, Donald M. MacRaild, Michael Huggins, Terence M. Dunne, Jess Lumsden Fisher, John McGrath, Richard J. Butler, Colin W. Reid, Richard A. Keogh, Ciara Breathnach, Laurence M. Geary, Ian d’Alton, Daragh Curran, Gemma Clark, Patrick Maume, Teresa O’Donnell and Virginia Crossman.Trade Review'An important and valuable collection.'Dr. Richard Mc Mahon, Assistant Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin'A thought-provoking collection by scholars who you sense really care about the topics they study.' Books IrelandReviews 'An insightful, thought-provoking and valuable addition to the existing historiography of crime and violence in nineteenth-century Ireland.’ Regina Donlon, Irish Literary Supplement'Delivers a detailed texture of crime, crime control, and everyday life... their attention to local, everyday contexts promotes an understanding of crime, criminals, and justice rooted in historical empathy for their subjects. That approach makes for good history.'William Meier, Victorian Studies'While it is impossible in a short review to do full justice to the many essays in this volume... This is an important addition to the study of crime and violence in Ireland in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended to scholars and students who are interested in the subject.' Brian Griffin, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Themes and Perspectives Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaildSection 1 ‘Secret Societies’ and Collective Violence1 Whiteboys and Ribbonmen: What’s in a Name? Michael Huggins2 The Law of Captain Rock Terence M. Dunne3 ‘Night Marauders’ and ‘Deluded Wretches’: Public Discourses on Ribbonism in Pre-Famine Ireland Jess Lumsden Fisher4 Organised Labour in Limerick City, 1819–1821: Violence and the Struggle for Legitimacy John McGrathSection 2 The Law and its Responses5 Cork’s Courthouses, the Landed Elite, and the Rockite Rebellion: Architectural Responses to Agrarian Violence, 1820–1827 Richard J. Butler6 Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848 Colin W. Reid7 ‘Why, it’s like a ’98 trial’: The Irish Judiciary and the Fenian Trials, 1865–1866 Richard A. Keogh8 Crime and Punishment: Whiteboyism and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Ciara Breathnach and Laurence M. GearySection 3 Sectarianism and Violence9 From Bandon to … Bandon: Sectarian Violence in Cork during the Nineteenth Century Ian d’Alton10 ‘Loyal to the Crown but not the Crown’s Government’: The Challenge to Policing Posed by the Orange Order in 1830s Ulster Daragh CurranSection 4 Manifestations of Crime and Violence11 Arson in Modern Ireland: Fire and Protest before the Famine Gemma Clark12 The Head Pacificator and Captain Rock: Sedition, Suicide, and Honest Tom Steele Patrick Maume13 ‘Skin the Goat’s Curse’ on James Carey: Narrating the Story of the Phoenix Park Murders through Contemporary Broadside Ballads Teresa O’Donnell14 Attitudes and Responses to Vagrancy in Ireland in the Long Nineteenth Century Virginia CrossmanIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining the consequences of technology-driven lifestyles for both crime commission and victimization, this comprehensive Handbook provides an overview of a broad array of techno-crimes as well as exploring critical issues concerning the criminal justice system’s response to technology-facilitated criminal activity.The Handbook adopts a unique three-fold typology of technology-enabled crime: techno-crime committed by professional criminals (crime as work), techno-crime committed in traditional workplace settings (crime at work), and techno-crime committed by individuals outside of traditional workplace settings (crime after work.) Chapters explore an extensive range of criminal activities facilitated by the digital age, from embezzlement, financial fraud, corporate espionage, phishing, and ransomware to identity theft, hacking, cyber terrorism, and internet sex and hate crimes. Looking to the future, the Handbook considers timely questions posed by our continued reliance on information technology, including whether we are in danger of becoming a global surveillance state and how we might prevent the facilitation of cyber terrorism by social media giants.This dynamic Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in criminology, digital sociology, terrorism and security, and surveillance studies. Offering practical insights on the need for a coordinated global techno-crime control strategy, it will serve as a resource for policymakers seeking cutting edge solutions to the growing problem of techno-crime.Trade Review‘This pioneering volume must be in the library of any scholar or practitioner concerned with the radical upending of crime and responses to it brought by new information technologies. Never in the history of criminology have changes come so quickly, nor been so poorly understood. The book offers a cornucopia of concepts, data and constructive suggestions to help understand and respond thoughtfully to the challenges.’ -- Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘The Handbook's 23 chapters, and engaging introduction, address important underlying issues, such as the impact of technology on changes in our lifestyles, the problem of global surveillance of online activity as a control strategy, and the striking lack of success of current prevention and control efforts thus far. In sum, the Handbook provides an interesting and comprehensive assessment of where technology has brought us, and the need for more thoughtful approaches to techno-crime prevention.’ -- Jay Albanese, Virginia Commonwealth University, USTable of ContentsContents: Techno-crime cause, prevention, and control: issues to consider 1 Don Hummer and James M. Byrne PART I TECHNO-CRIME AS WORK 1 Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud 17 Max M. Houck 2 Identity theft and financial loss 38 Don Hummer and Donald J. Rebovich 3 Phishing for profit 54 Eric Chan-Tin and Loretta J. Stalans 4 Advance fee scams 72 Claire Seungeun Lee, Juan Merizalde and Katelyn L. Greer 5 Ransomware 86 Thomas S. Hyslip and George W. Burruss 6 Online health/drug and COVID-19 fraud 105 Claire Seungeun Lee, Katelyn L. Greer and Juan Merizalde 7 Internet sex crimes 116 Loretta J. Stalans and Amber Horning-Ruf 8 Sale of private, confidential, and personal data 135 Yi Ting Chua 9 Online auction fraud 153 Claire Seungeun Lee, Katelyn L. Greer and Juan Merizalde 10 Internet piracy 162 Jaeyong Choi and Jennifer LaPrade PART II TECHNO-CRIME AT WORK 11 Money laundering 176 Arthur J. Lurigio 12 Embezzlement 190 Emily M. Homer and James Byrne 13 The illicit stolen data market 211 Rachel L. McNealey and Jin R. Lee PART III TECHNO-CRIME AFTER WORK 14 Spreading viruses and malicious codes 229 Kyung-Shick Choi, Claire Seungeun Lee and Juan Merizalde 15 Child pornography, child predators, and sex tourism 248 Joshua S. Long 16 Online hate crimes 275 Ina Kamenova and Arie Perliger 17 Cyberstalking 300 Sabrina S. Rapisarda and Kimberly R. Kras 18 Hacking 331 Marlon Mike Toro-Alvarez PART IV THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TO TECHNO-CRIME: PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL STRATEGIES 19 Techno-crime prevention: the role of the private sector and its partnerships with the public sector 356 Jaeyong Choi and Brandon Dulisse 20 The jigsaw initiative: theoretical and practical considerations for preventing harm from extreme and extremist content online 372 Neil Shortland and Presley McGarry 21 The prevention and control of online consumer fraud 392 Catarina Cardoso Fonseca, Samuel Moreira and Inês Guedes 22 Managing cyber-risk in offender populations 408 Art Bowker 23 The prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of techno-criminals: the limits of international cooperation 422 Sean M. Perry and Pauline K. Brennan Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This engaging and accessible book focuses on high-profile criminal trials and examines the strategy of the lawyers, the reasons for conviction or acquittal, as well as the social importance of these famous cases. Key features include: An in-depth examination of cases that are described only superficially in the media Comparative analysis of headline crimes and the evolving issues of crime, punishment and justice Detailed exploration of 11 landmark criminal cases including the trials of Amanda Knox, Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson. The Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases will be a key resource for students and scholars of criminal law and justice. It will also make an interesting read for lawyers and those interested in the famous trials of the last century.Trade Review‘George Fletcher, America's leading criminal law scholar, also happens to be a gifted storyteller, known for his gripping first-person account of the Bernhard Goetz trial. In his new book, he offers compelling narratives of eleven famous trials – from the trial of Jesus to that of O.J. Simpson – and uses each to bring to life a fundamental problem of criminal justice. Eye-opening and thought-provoking, it is both a great teaching resource and an entertaining read!’ -- Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo, School of Law, US‘Landmark trials have deeply influenced societal understandings of law throughout the ages. George Fletcher invites us to reflect on these great transformations – beginning with the convictions of Jesus Christ by Pontius Pilate and moving onward to the recent decision by American courts to acquit Salim Hamdan of terrorism in the Afghan War. The publication of his book couldn’t be more timely as all of us reflect on the larger implications of Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction.’ -- Bruce Ackerman, Yale University, US‘Penned by perhaps the world’s leading comparative criminal law scholar, Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases is a rich and fascinating account of the leading criminal trials from around the world and from ancient history to the present day. The book would be perfect as a supplement to a first-year Criminal Law class, challenging enough to serve as the principal text for an upper-level advanced law school class, engaging enough for an undergrad class about the law, yet sufficiently suffused with clear explanation for the general reader. It is yet another wonderful book from the criminal law master.’ -- Russell Christopher, University of Tulsa, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction and overview 1. The trial of Bernhard Goetz 2. The trial of O.J. Simpson 3. The trial of Adoph Eichmann 4. The trial of Detlef Tiede 5. The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan 6. The trial of John Thomas Scopes 7. The trial of Jesus of Nazareth 8. The trial of Aaron Burr 9. The trial of Amanda Knox 10. The trial of Mike Tyson 11. The trial of Jack Ruby Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This engaging and accessible book focuses on high-profile criminal trials and examines the strategy of the lawyers, the reasons for conviction or acquittal, as well as the social importance of these famous cases. Key features include: An in-depth examination of cases that are described only superficially in the media Comparative analysis of headline crimes and the evolving issues of crime, punishment and justice Detailed exploration of 11 landmark criminal cases including the trials of Amanda Knox, Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson. The Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases will be a key resource for students and scholars of criminal law and justice. It will also make an interesting read for lawyers and those interested in the famous trials of the last century.Trade Review‘George Fletcher, America's leading criminal law scholar, also happens to be a gifted storyteller, known for his gripping first-person account of the Bernhard Goetz trial. In his new book, he offers compelling narratives of eleven famous trials – from the trial of Jesus to that of O.J. Simpson – and uses each to bring to life a fundamental problem of criminal justice. Eye-opening and thought-provoking, it is both a great teaching resource and an entertaining read!’ -- Guyora Binder, University at Buffalo, School of Law, US‘Landmark trials have deeply influenced societal understandings of law throughout the ages. George Fletcher invites us to reflect on these great transformations – beginning with the convictions of Jesus Christ by Pontius Pilate and moving onward to the recent decision by American courts to acquit Salim Hamdan of terrorism in the Afghan War. The publication of his book couldn’t be more timely as all of us reflect on the larger implications of Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction.’ -- Bruce Ackerman, Yale University, US‘Penned by perhaps the world’s leading comparative criminal law scholar, Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases is a rich and fascinating account of the leading criminal trials from around the world and from ancient history to the present day. The book would be perfect as a supplement to a first-year Criminal Law class, challenging enough to serve as the principal text for an upper-level advanced law school class, engaging enough for an undergrad class about the law, yet sufficiently suffused with clear explanation for the general reader. It is yet another wonderful book from the criminal law master.’ -- Russell Christopher, University of Tulsa, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction and overview 1. The trial of Bernhard Goetz 2. The trial of O.J. Simpson 3. The trial of Adoph Eichmann 4. The trial of Detlef Tiede 5. The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan 6. The trial of John Thomas Scopes 7. The trial of Jesus of Nazareth 8. The trial of Aaron Burr 9. The trial of Amanda Knox 10. The trial of Mike Tyson 11. The trial of Jack Ruby Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains two Open Access Chapters. This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia.

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this book sheds light on the various social, legal and political contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed.In Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and explores their impact on the administration of justice. The application of the death penalty also had a strong political dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for ‘ordinary’ cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the relevant legislation. Trade ReviewReviews ‘Unusually accessible and – dare I say it – entertaining… all of the required academic rigour is here to support their [Doyle and O’Callaghan] theses, but it is presented with such lucid argument and storytelling that it weighs lightly on the casual reader.’ Joe Culley, History Ireland'An excellent and closely researched book, which contributes greatly to historical knowledge of the death penalty in Europe. It is instructive for criminologists in particular to comprehend the political ramifications of punishment beyond issues of public opinion and popular punitiveness, as these enable us to appreciate the role of punishment as an instrument of state power and state maintenance.'Lizzie Seal, Criminology & Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsIntroductionI. Capital Punishment in the Post-Civil War YearsII. The Death Penalty under Fianna Fáil and the Inter-Party GovernmentsIII. Women and the Death PenaltyIV. Community, Respectability and SanityV. Psychiatry, Criminal Responsibility and the Tempering of PunishmentVI. Abolition and its AftermathEpilogue

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Book SynopsisIn this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.The book begins by considering what is meant by the term financial crime, addressing how and to whom it causes harm, the ways in which we might evaluate its incidence and impact, and the increasing relevance of measures designed to disrupt economically motivated criminals. Chapters explore the various factors that have led to the rise of financial crime in recent decades, from advances in technology to the practical issues in effective prevention and interdiction. Bringing together an array of perspectives from experts in law, criminology, and regulation and compliance, the book ultimately advances multiple agendas for future research to enhance our understanding of financial crime and better promote its prevention, containment, and management.This incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable resource for scholars of law, criminology, management studies, and compliance and risk. Its practical insights will also benefit criminal and regulatory lawyers, as well as legislators and researchers involved in the protection of their economies and financial institutions against financial crime.Trade Review‘Professor Barry Rider, himself a first rate authority on economic crime, has corralled a team of 10 noted academics to produce a timely agenda for research into fraud. His theme of prevention, containment and management provides a convincing response to a neglected but vital sector of criminality which enjoys worryingly exponential growth.’ -- Sir David Green CB QC, Former Director of the Serious Fraud Office‘This is an impressive array of experts with practical experience of the fight against all kinds of financial crime. Their agenda for in-depth research into the surge facing legislators, prosecutors, courts and regulators is thought-provoking. Conclusion: unless Governments resource more research and take more effective measures to prevent and punish financial crime things will only get worse, everywhere and for everyone except the criminals.’ -- Sir John Mummery, former Lord Justice of Appeal and former President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal‘The nature of financial crime has changed due to automation and globalisation. The Research Agenda needs to change too. This book provides the up-to-date guidance researchers need to use if they’re going to provide the advice society needs to battle economic crime.’ -- Michael Mainelli, Chairman, Z/Yen Group, late Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021Table of ContentsContents: Foreword xiii Introduction xvii 1 Financial crime as an area of study and research 1 Barry Rider 2 Corporate misconduct’s relevance to society 31 Eugene Soltes 3 Financial crimes – a criminological research perspective 49 Michael Levi 4 Controlling financial crime by utilizing the criminal justice system 69 John Reading SC 5 Challenges in policing financial crime 89 Mary Alice Young and Amber Phillips 6 Financial crime: the regulator’s perspective 105 G Philip Rutledge 7 Financial regulation and fraudulent activity 125 Andrew Haynes 8 Cybercrime and cyber resilience 147 Richard Parlour 9 Research priorities for the international control of economic and financial crime 169 Richard Alexander Index 189

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Book SynopsisProviding a refreshing take on transitional justice, this thoroughly revised second edition brings together an expanse of scholarly expertise to reconsider how societies deal with gross human rights violations, structural injustices and mass violence. Contextualised by historical developments, it covers a diverse range of concepts, actors and mechanisms of transitional justice, while shedding light on the new and emerging areas in the field.Wholly engaging with the field's upward trajectory, this Handbook explores important new ground on existing issues of transitional justice, including masculinities, witnesses and the role of archives. This updated edition also engages with newly evolving areas of study, such as counter-terrorism, climate change, colonialism and non-paradigmatic transitions.With theoretical and empirical contributions from a rich array of world leading practitioners and scholars, this cutting-edge second edition Research Handbook is an invaluable academic resource for students and researchers of sociology, transitional justice, criminal law and human rights law. With expertly written chapters it also provides practitioners with a consolidated overview of the latest scholarship and analysis of legal and policy developments.Trade Review‘Lawther and Moffett’s volume comprehensively captures the field of transitional justice at a critical moment, when many are questioning its applicability to current post-conflict challenges around the world. By focusing on the major concepts, actors and mechanisms of transitional justice, this collection traces the field's evolution over the last 30 years and where it is likely to go from here. This is an indispensable resource for anyone trying to get to grips with this vast and constantly changing arena of scholarship and practice.’ -- Phil Clark, SOAS University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xviii 1 Researching transitional justice: editors’ introduction 1 Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett PART I THE CONCEPTS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 2 The time and space of transitional justice 10 Thomas Obel Hansen 3 Transitional justice: an interdisciplinary landscape? 27 Catherine Turner and Maja Davidović 4 Casual and causal links to the rule of law 45 Padraig McAuliffe 5 Transitional justice and ‘local’ justice 61 Dustin N Sharp 6 Transitional justice and gender 77 Catherine O’Rourke 7 Transitional justice and masculinities 95 Brandon Hamber, Philipp Schulz and Giulia Messmer 8 Transitional justice, denial and social control 111 Ron Dudai 9 Transitional justice and religion 126 Lavinia Stan PART II THE ACTORS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 10 The United Nations and transitional justice: an enduring human rights priority, remedy to securitization and path to sustainable peace 142 Megan Manion and Alison Davidian 11 Civil society and transitional justice: building an expanded vision from below 159 Maya Schkolne and Hugo van der Merwe 12 Transitional justice and constructing victims and victimhood 175 Cheryl Lawther 13 Witnessing and remembering mass rights violations: the possibilities and conditions of becoming a witness 192 Benjamin Thorne PART III THE MECHANISMS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 14 Transitional justice and international criminal justice 213 Brianne McGonigle Leyh 15 The contributions of international commissions of enquiry to transitional justice 229 Catherine Harwood 16 Truth commissions 247 Adam Kochanski 17 Amnesties and transitional justice 263 Louise Mallinder 18 Reparations in transitional societies 284 Luke Moffett 19 Apologies in transitional justice 307 Kieran McEvoy and Anna Bryson 20 Transitional justice: vetting and lustration 325 Cynthia M Horne 21 Transitional justice and archives 342 Julia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe 22 Transitional justice and development 360 Peter Dixon PART IV EXPANDING THE GAZE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 23 Transitional justice and non-paradigmatic transitions 383 James Gallen 24 Transitional justice and colonialism 406 Hakeem Yusuf 25 Transitional justice for historical injustice 422 Colleen Murphy and Kelebogile Zvobgo 26 The psychosocial dimensions of transitional justice 436 Joanna R Quinn 27 Structural violence and transitional justice 452 Nevin T Aiken 28 Transitional justice (increasingly) meets counter-terrorism 473 Anne Charbord and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin 29 Transitional justice for climate change: transformation through solidarity 491 Sonja Klinsky Index

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