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Empire Publications Ltd Young Guvnors: The Rise & Fall of the Notorious
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Penguin Putnam Inc Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and
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New York University Press After Life Imprisonment
Book SynopsisOne out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentenceroughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving life' will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison?In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of lifers upon release. Through interviews with over sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were re-incarcerated. The interviews reveal prisoners' reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships upon release. Liem explores the increase in handing out of life sentences, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment, ultimately unpacking public pTrade ReviewConsidering the enormity of the sanction, it is remarkable how little we know about the lives of those who survive life imprisonment. With the powerful narratives in this ground-breaking book, Marieke Liem brings their perspectives into new light and asks & when is enough, enough? in terms of the punitive state. -- Shadd Maruna,co-author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their LivesOf interest to both criminological researchers and policymakers, After Life Imprisonment deserves careful reading.A fascinating work of original and creative research. -- from the Foreword by Robert Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Hidden Financial Risk Understanding OffBalance
Book SynopsisEnron's fall has opened the eyes of the public to corporate accounting fraud as no other event has done, and there is now a need for better understanding of what can be done to prevent it. This book examines methods for off-balance sheet accounting, with a particular emphasis on special purpose entities (SPE).Trade Review"Ketz' discussion is fascinating, although all too useful to future scamsters wanting to find out just how those clever guys at Enron did it." (UPI Business and Economics, August 11, 2003)Table of ContentsPreface. PART I. MY INVESTMENTS WENT OUCH! 1. What? Another Accounting Scandal? 2. Balance Sheet Woes. PART II. HIDING FINANCIAL RISK. 3. How to Hide Debt with the Equity Method. 4. How to Hide Debt with Lease Accounting. 5. How to Hide Debt with Pension Accounting. 6. How to Hide Debt with Special Purpose Entities. PART III. FAILURES THAT LED TO DECEPTIONS. 7. The Failure of Managers and Directors. 8. The Failure of the Auditing Profession. 9. The Failure of Regulation. 10. The Failure of Investors. PART IV. MAKING FINANCIAL REPORTS CREDIBLE. Chapter 11. Andersen Has the Solution—Really! Bibliography. Index.
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Oxford University Press The Littlehampton Libels A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England
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Columbia University Press How They Got Away With It
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe have clearly not learned the lessons of past financial debacles, a central one being that crime has played a significant role in them. Unlike traditional economic and legal analyses, this volume starts from the (correct) premise that criminal offending was a central phenomenon in the meltdown. Its contents provide diverse and penetrating analyses of how fraud occurred and how it might best be prevented. This work provides an excellent foundation for further academic research and needs to be on the desk of every legislator dealing with financial regulation. -- Henry N. Pontell, University of California, Irvine, coauthor of Profit Without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America Criminology failed the challenges of the global financial crisis. In this book, leading criminologists put this right by explaining impunity for the crimes of financial capitalism. It is rich with insight on how Wall Street games regulation. When Goldman Sachs takes fat fees to help Greece conceal its debt, is fraud involved? Are millions of unemployed Greeks victims of fraud? Are we all? What of Goldman Sachs then placing bets on the failure of the Greek economy? These are the questions considered in this important work. -- John Braithwaite, Australian National University ...this book is a valuable resource for details about the financial crisis. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Roots of the Crisis 1. Wall Street: Crime Never Sleeps David O. Freidrichs 2. The Logics of Finance: Abuse of Power and Systemic Crisis Saskia Sassen 3. America's Ponzi Culture Susan Will 4. Bernie Madoff Jock YoungPart II: Enablers of Fraud 5. Unaccountable External Auditors and Their Role in the Economic Meltdown Gilbert Geis 6. And Some with a Fountain Pen: Mortgage Fraud Subprime Bubble Harold C. Barnett 7. Generating the Alpha Return: How Ponzi Schemes Lure the Unwary in an Unregulated Market David ShapiroPart III: Perverted Justice 8. The Technological Advantages of Stock Market Traders Laureen Snider 9. Why CEOs Are Able to Loot with Impunity-and Why It Matters William K. Black 10. The Facade of Enforcement: Goldman Sachs the Politics of Blame Justin O'BrienPart IV: Perspectives from Afar 11. Reappraising Regulation: The Politics of "Regulatory Retreat" in the United Kingdom Steve Tombs and David Whyte 12. How They Still Try to Get Away with It: Crime in the Dutch Real Estate Sector Before and After the Crisis Hans Nelen and Luuk Ritzen 13. Economic and Financial Criminality in Portugal Rita Faria 14. Greece "For Sale": Casino Economy and State-Corporate Crime Sophia Vidali 15. Financial Fraud in China: A Structural Examination of Law and Law Enforcement Hongming ChengEpilogue Can They Still Get Away with It? Appendix A Short (Global) History of Financial Meltdowns Compiled by Alex Holden Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Domestic Violence The Five Big Questions
Book SynopsisDomestic Violence is not just a public health and criminal justice problem, it is also an issue of universal human rights that needs immediate and vigorous attention. How we measure the prevalence of Domestic Violence, what we identify as the risk factors, which theories seem to provide most help in understanding and responding to Domestic Violence, which preventive and treatment programs seem most effective and the respective roles of the health and criminal justice systems, are all questions of vital importance in society''s response to the problem.Trade Review'...the various studies do provide insight into the issues around trying to understand and respond to intimate violence within close relationships across different ethnic groups.' Professional Social WorkTable of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction; Has DV Increased or is it Increasingly Being Reported?: Patriarchal terrorism and common couple violence: 2 forms of violence against women, Michael P. Johnson; A multidimensional definition of partner abuse: development and preliminary validation of the composite abuse scale, Kelsey Hegarty, Mary Sheehan and Cynthia Schonfield; Domestic violence against women of Japanese descent in Los Angeles: 2 method of estimating prevalence, Mieko Yoshihama; Societal change and change in family violence from 1975-1985 as revealed by 2 national surveys, Murray A. Strauss and Richard J. Gelles; Reasons for reporting and not reporting domestic violence to the police, Richard B. Felson, Steven F. Messner, Anthony W. Hoskin and Glenn Deane; Estimating the incidence and prevalence of violence against women: national data systems and sources, Richard J. Gelles. Have the Major Factors Been Identified that Determine/Precipitate DV?: Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: results from a multisite case control study, Jacquelyne C. Campbell, Daniel Webster, Jane Koziol-McLain, Carolyn Block, Doris Campbell, Mary Ann Curry, Faye Gary, Nancy Glass, Judith McFarlane, Carolyn Sachs, Phyllis Sharps, Yvonne Ulrich, Susan A. Wilt, Jennifer Manganello, Xiao Xu, Janet Schollenberger, Victoria Frye and Kathryn Laughon; Risk factors for injury to women from domestic violence, Demetrios N. Kyriacou, Deidre Anglin, Ellen Taliaferro, Susan Stone, Toni Tubb, Judith A. Linden, Robert Muelleman, Erik Barton and Jess F. Krauss; Alcohol-related intimate partner violence among white, black and hispanic couples in the United States, Raul Caetano, John Schafer and Carol B. Cunradi; The relationship between heart rate reactivity, emotionally aggressive behavior and general violence in batterers, John M. Gottman, Neil S. Jacobson, Regina H. Rushe, Joanna Wu Shortt, Julia Babcock, Jaslean J. La Taillade and Jennifer Waltz; Current perspectives on men who batte
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Random House USA Inc Who Killed These Girls The Unsolved Murders That
Book Synopsis“A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened.” —New York PostGripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood.... Brilliant. —Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls—each one shot in the head—were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Solitary Confinement
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn an unusually vigorous interrogation of philosophy and the social sciences, Lisa Guenther addresses one of humanity’s greatest inhumanities and its perversely long, extensive history in America. Guenther offers a compelling critique of solitary confinement, in the course of which she pushes phenomenology beyond its classical limits, revealing our inherent inter-subjectivity, our need for both interaction and anonymity, and the moral imperative that America end this cruel and barbaric form of punishment. An urgently needed, powerfully argued study of one of the nation’s gravest moral and socio-political failings.—Orlando Patterson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary ConfinementI. The Early U.S. Penitentiary System1. An Experiment in Living Death2. Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement3. The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison FarmII. The Modern Penitentiary4. From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification5. Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty’s Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior6. Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive ConfinementIII. Supermax Prisons7. Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space8. Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement9. From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax RhetoricConclusion: AfterlivesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Duke University Press Bruno
Book SynopsisBruno is the story of a Brazilian navy corporal turned drug dealer, who after being imprisoned became the leader of one of Brazil's biggest criminal factions, the Comando Vermelho. Bruno's story provides insights into the Brazilian drug trade, prison life, and explains the epidemic of violence in Rio's favelas.Trade Review“This particular account is interesting and engaging…” -- Ed Hart * Sounds and Colours *"The real contribution of Bruno [is]... the private reflections that we gain from a single informant who is intelligent, critical, and painfully idealistic. It is this personal voice, rather than the empirical data, that makes Bruno truly special, and a necessary supplement for scholars interested not only in drug trafficking and prisons, but in the relationship between crime and self-reflection as well." -- Samuel E. Novacich * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“In telling the story of Bruno, sociologist Robert Gay succeeds in demystifying not only gangs and the drug trade but also an entire country. This is a carefully crafted study of a criminal career embedded in a society that for generations has denied citizenship to large numbers of its population…. This is an important book that skilfully utilises ethnographic interviews to tell the story of one man in the trenches of the global war against drugs.” -- Dick Hobbs * Times Higher Education *"This gripping book is a superb entry point into the maze of Brazilian prisons and, hopefully, a spur to more systematic historical research into the country’s current dilemmas with prisons, drugs, and gangs." -- Paul Gootenberg * Hispanic American Historical Review *"From the haunting cover to the emotional ending Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer shapes up to be a gripping read for anyone interested in the shady underworld of drug gang culture. . . . Bruno is a fascinating account that will serve as a useful testament of life in the Brazilian underworld which will be of immense value to students of cultural studies and Latin American history for years to come. In that sense, Bruno is strictly not the sensationalised bestseller that the story has the potential to be, but something infinitely more valuable." -- Jay Kerr * Latin American Review of Books *"Robert Gay has written an intimate, eye-opening book that opens a window into the politics of prisons and drug prohibition in Brazil." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Stirring. . . . Gay offers a finely grained ethnographic account of an individual whose life is embedded in a complex world of drug trafficking complicities." -- Robert Gay * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Trafficking 7 2. Things Come Undone 29 3. The Family 47 4. The Devil's Cauldron 63 5. On the Run 85 6. Paradise Lost 109 7. The Leader 135 8. Judgment Day 175 Postscript 195 Timeline of Events 201 Notes 203 Bibliography 215 Index 219
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Texas A & M University Press The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse
Book SynopsisIn 1916, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, Texas. Drawing on extensive research in the national files of the NAACP, local newspapers and archives, and interviews with the descendants of participants in the events of that day, Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also how it influenced the NAACP's antilynching campaign.
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University of California Press Inside Story
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Presser has been a true pioneer in this relatively new subfield of criminology. ... Inside Story not only constitutes an outstanding research effort but also offers resounding testimony to the value of interdisciplinarity in the study of narrative." * Diegesis *"Presser aptly demonstrates the importance of thinking about violence as slow and structural as opposed to swift and interpersonal. Moreover, she successfully persuades readers to think of harm in unconventional ways and implores us to challenge complicity, complacency, and the benevolence of theory." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"Lois Presser’s timely book highlights an overlooked aspect of criminological theory in investigating the role of narratives in the perpetration of 'mass harm.' . . . As the book breaks ground in narrative theory to criminology, it might provide theoretical inspiration to empirical work on the topic." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Narratives and Narrative Impacts 2. The Cultural Grounds of Mass Harm 3. Emotion, Narrative, and Transcendence 4. The Invitational Edge of Underdog Stories 5. Becoming Criminal: A Hegemonic Story of Antisociality 6. Better Living in Story Worlds Notes References Index
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Stanford University Press Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice
Book SynopsisIn its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate change. While agro-industrial production is promoted as the solution to these problems, growing global "food sovereignty" movements are challenging this model by demanding local and democratic control over food systems. Translating Food Sovereignty accompanies activists based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States as they mobilize the claim of food sovereignty across local, regional, and global arenas of governance. In contrast to social movements that frame their claims through the language of human rights, food sovereignty activists are one of the first to have articulated themselves in relation to the neoliberal transnational order of networked governance. While this global regulatory framework emerged to deepen market logics, Matthew C. Canfield reveals how activists are leveraging this order to make more expansive social justice claims. This nuanced, deeply engaged ethnography illustrates how food sovereignty activists are cultivating new forms of transnational governance from the ground up. Trade Review"This book brings to life interactions among globally connected activist communities seeking to challenge dominant and rather simplistic ways of thinking about inequality, the environment, poverty, and food production. A must-read for scholars, students, and activists as well as those seeking to implement more inclusive and realistic policies."—Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine"Matthew Canfield is one of the leading socio-legal scholars focused on food sovereignty and agroecology. In this gripping account of the burgeoning food sovereignty movement in the US, he highlights how activists use food sovereignty to challenge transnational governance and neoliberal economic models. Canfield grounds his work in detailed ethnographical study and tells a bigger story of how struggles over the control of food systems can transform law, society, and economy. The food sovereignty movement is over 25 years old and has used law in complex and creative ways. While at the same time, food politics today are more intense than ever. This book is incredibly timely and provides an account of legality in the food sovereignty movement that we've all been waiting for."—Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur to the Right to Food"Translating Food Sovereignty is as ambitious as it is engaging. Expertly weaving together ethnography with legal studies, Canfield not only helps us to re-imagine more just food systems, he shows us how this is already being done."—Jessica Duncan, Wageningen University"Canfield examines the 'social practices of translation' involved in food sovereignty, whereby power and meaning are constantly contested and shifting. Using ethnographic research methods, the author traces the historical evolution of food sovereignty and then provides examples of how groups attend to issues such as control and communication in food governance at local, national, and international levels.... Recommended."—C. L. Lalonde, CHOICE"Canfield's book represents a grounded and inspiring assessment of how strategically cultivating justice in an age of global governance, through different local and global forms of legal mobilization of food sovereignty – from street protests to strategic litigation – can hold tremendous promise."—Jeff Handmaker, The Journal of Peasant Studies"Canfield's book points to openings in an ongoing and probably irresolvable debate. His careful, comprehensive, and rigorous examination of several cases invites us to step into them and explore what the right to food and other rights could look like in some places. He allows us to explore what is possible and what could be realized through collective, concerted action on multiple scales. Ultimately, the struggle and debate continues well beyond the conclusion of the book, and we can thank Canfield for offering us some new tools and insight toward carrying on the struggle."—Amy Trauger, The AAG Review of Books"This work is extremely useful for community organizers and activists in this area and policymakers at all levels, local, national, and international."—Richard Zimmer, Food Anthropology"[W]ell written, informative, and engaging. For anyone interested in learning about the FS [food sovereignty] movement, this book provides a general history of the global FS movement and a detailed record of FS activism in western Washington.... Due to Canfield's selected methodology and active participation in the FS struggle, presented perspectives feel personal, giving you insights on why the FS movement is important to many."—Tiffany K. Woods, Agriculture and Human Values"In an era marked by widespread food insecurity and escalating concerns about climate change, Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance by Matthew C. Canfield offers a timely and thought-provoking analysis of the global food system.... With a wealth of experiences spanning from 'formal' to 'informal' and encompassing both legal and practical dimensions, each perspective presented feels remarkably comprehensive and worthy of serious consideration."—Mallory Cerkleski, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development"In this engaging empirical account, we not only learn about recent and ongoing food sovereignty struggles in their local specificity but also glimpse how these struggles extend beyond lawmaking institutions and across legal jurisdictions. Translating Food Sovereignty thus offers a welcome contribution to legal anthropology, studies of social movements, and scholarship on governance from below."—Leila Kawar, Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Law and Politics of Food Sovereignty 1. Translocal Translation and the Practice of Networks 2. Constructing and Contesting "Local" Food Governance 3. Revaluing Agricultural Labor 4. Protecting People's Knowledge 5. Democratizing Global Food Governance Conclusions: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance
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Bristol University Press Reimagining Black Art and Criminology: A New
Book SynopsisIt is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible.Table of ContentsReimagining a Black Art Infused Criminology The People Speak: The Importance of Black Arts Movements Shadow People: Black Crime Fiction as Counter-Narrative Staging the Truth: Black Theatre and the Politics of Black Criminality Beyond The Wire: The Racialization of Crime in Film and TV Strange Fruit: Black Music (Re)presenting the Race and Crime Of Mules and Men: Oral Storytelling and the Racialization of Crime Seeing the Story: Visual Art and the Racialization of Crime Speaking Data and Telling Stories Locating the Researcher: (Auto)-Ethnography, Race, and the Researcher Towards a Black Arts Infused Criminology
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University of Alberta Press Indigenous Women and Street Gangs: Survivance
Book SynopsisAmber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, and Jorgina are six Indigenous women previously involved in street gangs or street lifestyles. In Indigenous Women and Street Gangs they collaborate with Robert Henry (Métis) to share an emancipatory expression of their lives through photovoice. Each author shares a narrative that begins with her earliest memory and continues to the present. This is followed by a selection of photographs the woman took to show how she has changed with her experiences. Readers can expect difficult life stories imbued with hope and humour. Throughout, these women show us the meaning of survivance; a process of survival, resistance, resurgence, and growth. “Don’t ever fucking feel sorry for me. Why do you feel sorry for me? First of all, you shouldn’t feel sorry for me; you should be happy for me because I am here. We’re fucking human beings. We have been through shit, made some bad choices and mistakes. But like I said, in the end, if I want the help, I will ask.” -Chantel “I don’t think there is any such thing as bad; it’s called healing, you know? It is starting to fix yourself inside your heart, you know? You just got to keep doing it, that’s all I got to say.” -JazmyneTrade Review"Indigenous Women and Street Gangs explores, in their own words, the women’s interactions with various systems—such as the education system, the child welfare system, and policing and the justice system—as well as the impacts of settler-colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma on their lives. The women describe what ultimately led them to leave the street gangs and street lifestyles." Shannon Boklaschuk, University of Saskatchewan [Full article at https://artsandscience.usask.ca/news/articles/6986/New_book_co_authored_by_USask_researcher_shares_stories_of_w]"The stories of these six women provide a telling tale of how Canada’s colonial systems have failed Indigenous women.... Their ‘survivance’ is a testament to the resilience and strength of Indigenous women. I would highly recommend this book to women’s groups, organizations that deal with high-risk groups, ... law enforcement, educators, and social workers." Chevi Rabbit, The Toronto Star, November 24, 2021 [Article at https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/11/24/book-by-indigenous-women-offers-insight-into-canadian-street-gangs.html]"The narratives carry themes of trauma, violence, exclusion, removal through child welfare systems, and how Indigenous women feel they are perceived in street spaces and the community at large. Their stories point to the difficulties they faced with regard to policies, but also the ways they tried to better themselves and resist the ideas of being erased and taken—which gives rise to the word 'survivance.'" Thia James, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, December 2, 2021 [Full article at https://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/researcher-helps-women-share-first-person-reality-of-gang-lifestyle]“They wanted individuals to begin to understand and see them as people, not as files or gang members but as individuals who have had to go through some more difficult things than others.” Robert Henry interviewed by Derek Craddock for Prince Albert's 101.5 Beach Radio [https://www.beachradiopa.ca/2021/10/28/listen-p-a-author-portrays-experiences-of-indigenous-women-and-gangs-in-new-book/]"Many non-Indigenous Canadians will not understand what it's like to be an Indigenous woman born into poverty within a country that systematically discriminates against them based on the color of their skin tone, socioeconomic background, cultural identity, or ethnic background... They might never understand the root causes that led some Indigenous populations to live on the streets. That's what this book offers readers, a glimpse into the lived experiences of Indigenous women who were involved in street gangs and how they liberated themselves from the harsh lifestyle." Chevi Rabbit, Alberta Native News, November 2021Indigenous Women and Street Gangs "is a must-read for anyone working with street-involved women and offers an important contribution to the literature on Indigenous street gangs and street lifestyles. More importantly, the book is a testament to the will and resilience of the six Indigenous women whose stories grace its pages." Jordan Koch, Aboriginal Policy Studies, 2023Table of Contentsix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 3 Amber 23 Bev 39 Chantel 59 Jazmyne 77 Faith 95 Jorgina 115 Photograph Captions 123 Bibliography
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University of California Press Homegrown Hate
Book SynopsisCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 To better understand current events and threats, this book outlines the organizations and beliefs of domestic terrorists in the United States and how to counter their attacks on American democracy. Who are the American citizensWhite nationalists and militant Islamistsperpetrating acts of terrorism against their own country? What are their grievances and why do they hate? How can this transnational peril be effectively addressed? Homegrown Hate is a groundbreaking and deeply researched work that directly compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States. In this timely book, scholar and holistic justice activist Sara Kamali examines these Americans' self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence, and details their organizational structures within a transnational context. She presents compelling insight into the most pressing threat to homeland security not only in the United States, but in nations across Trade Review"Eerily prescient. . . . Kamali rebuts the idea that 'lone wolves' drive terrorism and focuses on a comparative analysis of the White nationalist and militant Islamist groups that can drive it. She examines their aims, beliefs, tactics, rhetoric, organizational structures, and influencers, such as the Oath Keepers, Osama bin Laden, Dylann Roof, neo-Nazis, and Timothy McVeigh." * Kirkus Reviews *"The literature on White nationalists and militant Islamists gains an important new entry examining the reasons for acts of terrorism perpetrated by American citizens against the United States. . . . Homegrown Hate's comparative approach allows for a nuanced and complex discussion which not only puts religion at the center of the analysis, but is clear in its assertion that to reduce the activity of terrorists solely to religious motivations ignores the interplay of various social and political factors, reminding the reader that even those who share these corrupted beliefs do not engage in acts of terrorism." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Overall, Homegrown Hate is a valuable up-to-date resource not only for scholars and policymakers but for anyone who is looking to gain an in-depth understanding of current security threats and political violence facing the United States and many other countries around the world. . . . The book is a significant contribution to the field- deeply informative and written in an engaging manner." * European Center for Populism Studies *"A must-read for students, academics, journalists and, in particular, policy-makers and actors in security bureaucracy, who are interested in White nationalism, domestic terrorism and counterterrorism in the USA." * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations *"Homegrown Hate is a model of innovative scholarship. . . . Readers interested in a new perspective on the topic of religion and white nationalism will appreciate her work, as well those interested in media, comparative social movements, and religion and criminology. Finally, those seeking new models of scholarship will find Kamali’s approach to surfacing similarities between two groups who see themselves in a cosmic battle to be an invigorating challenge to how studies of religion are often done." * Reading Religion *"Homegrown Hate is disturbing, yet it is one of the most important new books detailing domestic extremists available today." * CHOICE *"An incisive study. . . . For anyone interested in the full complexities of homegrown hate and case studies that highlight the problems and principles within each movement, the book is highly recommended." * Populism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Empathizing with the Enemy: The Threat Within Part One. Who They Are 1. The Fourteen Words: The Racist Beliefs of White Nationalists 2. Loyalty and Disavowal: The Exclusionary Ideology of Militant Islamists Part Two. Why They Fight 3. #WhiteGenocide: Grievances of White Nationalists 4. The Crusades Redux: Grievances of Militant Islamists Part Three. What They Want 5. (RA)HOWA: (Re)Claiming the United States through (Racial) Holy War 6. America the Beautiful: Establishing a White Ethnostate or Constructing a Caliphate 7. Encouraging the End of Days: The Apocalyptic Rhetoric of Political Violence 8. The Myth of the Lone Wolf: Joining Virtual Packs Online Part Four. What Can Be Done Conclusion. Securing the Homeland: Counterterrorism and the Need for Holistic Justice Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Effective Police Supervision
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New York University Press The Crime of All Crimes Toward a Criminology of
Book SynopsisCambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their bordersfrom the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa, to the Katyn Forest Massacre, in which the Soviets shot over 20,000 Poles, to anti-communist mass murders in 1960s Indonesia. Are mass crimes against humanity like these still genocide? And how can an understanding of crime and criminals shed new light on how genocidethe "crime of all crimes"transpires? In The Crime of All Crimes, criminologist Nicole Rafter takes an innovative approach to the study of genocide by comparing eight diverse genocides--large-scale and small; well-known and obscurethrough the lens of criminal behavior. Rafter explores different models of genocidal activity, reflecting on the popular use of the Holocaust as a model for genocide and ways in which other genocides conform to different patterns. For instance, Rafter questions the assumption that only ethnic groups are targeted for genocidal "cleansing," and she also urges that actions such as genocidal rape be considered alongside traditional instances of genocidal violence. Further, by examining the causes of genocide on different levels, Rafter is able to construct profiles of typical victims and perpetrators and discuss means of preventing genocide, in addition to delving into the social psychology of genocidal behavior and the ways in which genocides are brought to an end. A sweeping and innovative investigation into the most tragic of events in the modern world, The Crime of All Crimes will fundamentally change how we think about genocide in the present day.Trade Review"Provides afundamental point of departure for an immensely consequential project for the field of criminologygoing forward in the twenty-first century contributing to the understanding of genocide, and ideally to our collective ability to prevent the occurrence of this dreadful form of crime." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Nicole Rafters newest and sadly her last book is an important contribution to the literature. It is also an urgent call to criminologists to no longer avert their gaze from the crime of crimes." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Crime of all Crimes, Nicole Rafter brings a criminologists eye to bear on the topic of genocide. She seeks to unsettle old ways of thinking about genocide even as, through a comparison of eight cases, she offers a new framework for analysis, one that links to the issue of prevention. Her criminological insights are sure to be of interest to those working in the field of genocide studies." -- Alex Laban Hinton,author of Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide"This book sets the long overdue foundation for a criminology of genocide by masterfully peeling back the many layers of a century long unfolding of eight historic genocides. Nicole Rafter makes it impossible to ignore the importance of the topic of genocide to a field that has too long averted its gaze." -- John Hagan,co-author of Darfur and the Crime of Genocide"In this thoughtful book, Nicole Rafter challenges existing claims about the nature of genocide, weaving together a complex new understanding of crime, war, and violence. A landmark reframing in the criminology of genocide." -- John Braithwaite,author of Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation"The Crime of All Crimesis arguably the most comprehensive criminological treatment of genocide to date." * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Restorative Theory in Practice: Insights Into
Book SynopsisRestorative practice is an innovative approach to thinking about, and addressing, conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. The approach is increasingly used to transform the culture of organisations, institutions and services and the way people communicate with one another.In this book, ten practitioners describe a restorative encounter as seen through the lens of their own theoretical model. The book's unique structure is modelled on a restorative practice known as Circle Time- comprising of a Check-in, a Main Activity, and a Check-out. In the Check-in the practitioner explains how their own theoretical model informs their practice; in the Main Activity they comment on the same case studies to highlight how each theory can deepen our understanding of what might be happening and why; and in the Check-out they reflect on what they have learned from reading each other's contributions. This is a unique exemplar of how restorative theory and practice can influence how practitioners think, learn and write about restorative practice.This will be an invaluable resource for restorative practitioners working across sectors including education, social services, youth offending or policy.Trade ReviewAs restorative justice continues to grow, expanding into new contexts and guided by practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, it is critical that we maintain a solid foundation in the core guiding principles of the field and a strong connection to theories that support the work. Such a focus on restorative justice praxis brings together practice and theory, each informing the other and resulting in action that is guided by critical reflection. Belinda Hopkins contributes to this much-needed praxis by collaborating with ten leaders in the field of restorative justice who share the theories that support their work. This is not just a theory book, however; each of the theories is situated in ongoing work and applied in practical ways. This will definitely be a text I use in my classes. -- Katherine Evans, Assistant Professor, Restorative Justice in Education, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USAIt has been said that restorative justice is a practice in search of a theory. Thanks to Belinda Hopkins we now have ten theories succinctly outlined and applied to restorative practices. Practitioners, academics and students who want to analyse and deconstruct ideas that support restorative justice will find that this book will be an invaluable resource for many years. -- Tim Chapman, Course Director, Ulster University Masters in Restorative PracticesIn this book, Belinda Hopkins has brought together an important set of contributions in this maturing field of enquiry. It is no mean feat to structure a book in a way that reflects the restorative principles and process itself, but in doing so, she has successfully opened up space for debates on key issues from a range of significant perspectives. This thought provoking book will be helpful to practitioners, trainers and students alike. -- Dr Gillean McCluskey, Head of Institute for Education, Community & Society, University of EdinburghThis new book is a valuable addition to the literature around restorative practice. Bringing together a range of contributors with experience of delivering restorative practice, and innovatively structured based around a restorative process, it examines restorative encounters from different perspectives and explores the ways in which successful outcomes may be achieved. Clear, accessible and interesting, this book is well worth reading for anybody interested in restorative practice. -- Jon Collins, Chief Executive Officer, Restorative Justice Council, UKTable of ContentsPreface. Introductory Check-in. 1 Affect and Script Psychology - Restorative Practice, Biology and a Theory of Human Motivation, Marg Thorsborne, Managing Director of Margaret Thorsborne and Associates (Queensland and London), Australia. 2 Attribution Theory, Juliet Starbuck, Chartered Educational Psychologist, Connect to Change Ltd and University College London, UK. 3 Critical Relational Theory, Dorothy Vaandering, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 4 Depth Psychology and the Psychology of Conflict, Ann Shearer, Jungian Analyst, UK. 5 Nonviolent Commmunication, Shona Cameron, Educational Psychologist, Falkirk Council, UK. 6 Personal Construct Approaches, Pam Denicolo, University of Reading, Emeritus Professor, University of Surrey, Consultant Professor on Doctoral Education, UK. 7 Towards a Relational Theory of Restorative Justice, Mark Vander Vennen, Shalem Mental Health Network, Canada. 8 Resonant Empathy, Pete Wallis, Senior Practitioner (Restorative Justice), Oxfordshire Youth Justice Service, UK. 9 A Social Constructionist Approach to Restorative Conferencing, Wendy Drewery, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. 10 Transactional Analysis, Mo Felton, UKCP Registered Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor and UKATA Registered Psychotherapist Trainer and Supervisor, UK. 11 Ten Different Ways to Approach a Restorative Encounter, Belinda Hopkins, Founder and Director of Transforming Conflict, UK. Closing Check-out.
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Linden Publishing Co Inc Showdown!: Lionhearted Lawmen of Old California
Book SynopsisPunctuated by gunshots and hoof beats, this engaging collection presents six biographies of hardened lawmen in Old California. Illustrating the dangerous lives of these brave enforcers, this historical study documents how Sheriff Hiram Rapelje rose to the heights and fell to the depths of his profession, while Detective Emil Harris earned a statewide reputation. From William J. Howard''s role in tracking down the infamous bandit, Joaquin Murrieta, to those who were killed gun fighting in the line of duty, this vivid depiction sheds a fascinating light on a number of colourful personalities within a forgotten era.
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Intelligence Studies
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues, defining critical terms and reviewing the history of intelligence as practiced in the United States. Designed in a practical sequence, the book begins with the basics of intelligence, progresses through its history, describes best practices, and explores the way the intelligence community looks and operates today. The authors examine the pillars of the American intelligence systemâcollection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operationsâand demonstrate how these work together to provide decision advantage. The book offers equal treatment to the functions of the intelligence worldâbalancing coverage on intelligenTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions:'The authors, all proven educators on national security issues, have effectively delivered on their objective...provides the student a clear understanding of the complexity of intelligence gathering and analysis.'-- Security ManagementTable of Contents1. An Overview of Intelligence 2. History of Intelligence in the United States 3. The IC Today 4. Collection 5. Barriers to Analysis 6. Analytical Methods 7. Putting It All Together: The Intelligence Cycle 8. Counterintelligence 9. Covert Operations 10. Constitutional Mandates—Overview of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Roles 11. Writing and Briefing for the Intelligence Community 12. Military Intelligence 13. Criminal Intelligence and Crime Analysis 14. Threats and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century 15. Future of Intelligence
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Canelo The Night Swim: An absolutely gripping crime
Book SynopsisShe is the last hope for people seeking justice.True crime podcaster Rachel Krall has come to Neapolis, a small seaside town being torn apart by a devastating trial. A local golden boy – a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness – has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief.Used to being recognised for her voice, not her face, Rachel is unsettled when she finds a note on her car windshield, begging for her help. Twenty-five years ago, Jenny Stills drowned. Her sister insists it was murder.Rachel throws herself into covering the trial, but the letters keep coming. As the past and present start to collide, Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases. The truth will change the course of the trial, and the lives of everyone involved.An absolutely gripping thriller, featuring a true crime podcaster. Perfect for fans of Ashley Flowers and Riley Sager.Praise for The Night Swim:‘A blistering plot and crisp writing make The Night Swim an unputdownable read’ Sarah Pekkanen author of The Wife Between Us‘You get the courtroom drama, a front-row seat to an influential true crime podcast, and the uncovering of decades-long secrets buried within a small coastal town. Read this book, you won't regret it!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Expertly written’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A slow burn, character driven thriller... horrifying, heartbreaking and brilliantly written. I can’t wait to read more books by this author’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I really enjoyed the dual timeline and thought using the different formats of podcast episodes, letters and first person narrative was very clever. This book tackles a lot of big issues within a gripping plot. Powerful reading.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review‘Gripping and heartbreaking with an undercurrent of unease running through it… I couldn’t bear to put it down. So tightly plotted you don’t see the twists coming!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review‘I absolutely loved it! If you love legal thrillers, secrets and podcasts, you need to read this.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review
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Duke University Press Police and the Empire City
Book SynopsisDuring the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia explores the New York City Police Department through its periods of experimentation and violence as police experts imported tactics from the US occupation of the Philippines and Cuba, devised modern bureaucratic techniques to better suppress Black communities, and infiltrated supposedly unknowable immigrant neighborhoods. Innovations ranging from recruiting Chinese, Italian, and German police to form “ethnic squads” to the use of deportation and federal immigration restrictions to control local crime—even the introduction of fingerprinting—were motivated by attempts to govern a mulTrade Review“A remarkable historical narrative that details the racial and ethnic projects at the center of the development of the institution of modern policing.” -- Alex S. Vitale, author of * The End of Policing *“Exhaustive, meticulous, and brilliant, Police and the Empire City is an indispensable addition to our understanding of race, empire, law enforcement, and the places where these elements intersect. Matthew Guariglia’s work has provided us a genealogy of the problems that continue to beset modern policing and the thinking that produced them in the first place. A striking scholarly achievement.” -- Jelani Cobb, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Columbia University"Guariglia excels at teasing out the numerous ways the NYPD helped enforce racial boundaries, including by shutting down interracial 'Black-and-Tan' nightclubs (which served Black and white patrons) and offering Irish and Italian officers opportunities to 'consolidate their "whiteness"' by meting out violence against Black New Yorkers. He also draws parallels with more recent eras of NYC policing. . . . The result is a damning investigation of the NYPD’s past." * Publishers Weekly *"By drawing out the material and ideological connections between the police and the policed, Guariglia crafts a persuasive and innovative accounting of modern policing as an instrument of racial and ethnic formation. . . . This book would be an excellent resource for scholars and students in several fields and disciplines, including the burgeoning interdisciplinary work on state violence and racial capitalism; historical analyses of whiteness and immigration; as well as scholarship on imperial and global regimes of policing and militarization. The book is thoughtfully organized and accessibly written, and, both explicitly and implicitly, stakes out clear connections to the strategies of contemporary urban police violence and racism." -- Emily Holloway * The Gotham Center for New York City History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Race, Legibility and Policing in the Unequal City 1. Becoming Blue: New York Police’s Earliest Encounters with Race and Ethnicity, 1845–1871 24 2. Racial Heirarchies of Crime and Policing: Bodies, Morals, and Gender in the NYPD, 1890–1897 44 3. Colonial Methods: Francis Vinton Greene’s Journey from Empire to Policing the Empire City 71 4. The Rise of Ethnic Policing: Warren Charles, Cornelius Willemse, and the German Squad 93 5. Policing the “Italian Problem”: Criminality, Racial Difference, and the NYPD Italian Squad, 1903–1909 107 6. “They Needed Me as Much as I Needed Them”: Black Patrolmen and Resistance to Police Brutality, 1900–1913 135 7. “Police are Raw Materials”: Training Bodies in the World War I Era 153 8. Global Knowledge/American Police: Information, International Collaboration, and the Rise of Technocratice “Color-Blind” Policing 176 Conclusion. Policing’s Small Toolbox and the Afterlives of Ethnic Policing 199 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 235 Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere
Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement, parts of which have culminated into the contemporary 'manosphere.' Consisting of online communities that ascribe to misogynistic ideologies, which objectify, disparage, and dehumanise women, the manosphere also houses those who identify as involuntary celibate (incel). Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews, this book provides an original and timely insight into the development of the manosphere, how and why people join and self-identify as incel, the extent to which the influence and philosophy of incel and the incelsphere draws on and is penetrating mainstream culture and political discourse, and its harmful impact. The Incel Rebellion is essential reading for a broad range of practitioners and scholars across criminology, sociology, terrorism studies, gender, media and cultural studies, and politics, as well as expanding the field of cybercrime research and beyond.Trade ReviewDrawing on extensive empirical research and a masterful use of socio-criminological understanding, Dr Sugiura's new book offers an incisive and timely analysis of the realities and the threats of the incel community. I hope this book will soon become a key reference point for anyone with an interest in the relationship between misogynistic ideologies and the wider socio-political climate, online harms, and qualitative digital research approaches. -- Dr Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of SouthamptonIn Incel Rebellion Lisa Sugiura provides a rare empirical insight into the subcultures and practices of incel communities in the manosphere. The result is a compelling and innovative account of how some men find their way into incel communities, as well as the links between such spaces and wider misogyny in our increasingly digital society. This book is an outstanding contribution to the field of digital criminology and will be an essential resource for those studying cybercrime and other online harms. -- Anastasia Powell, Associate Professor Criminology & Justice Studies, RMIT University (Melbourne)The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women is an extremely timely and brilliant exploration of a pressing and immediate area of concern; one that has direct implications for safety, security, policy, and the general moral health of society. Cutting across various disciplines, including gender studies, criminology, and terrorism studies, Dr Sugiura masterfully navigates a number of important and complex considerations, including why people self-identify as incels, and what motivates them to join these types of communities. The jewel in the crown is the author's collection and use of qualitative interviews with current and former incels. As far as I'm aware, this is the first empirical academic study of its kind, and the rich data brings this fascinating area of research alive. This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in this topic and should form part of the foundation for any future work. -- Dr Suraj Lakhani Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology, Sussex UniversitySugiura's Incel Rebellion is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the history and ideology around the Incel community. In a time where male supremacy is becoming an increasing security concern, Sugiura expertly details the links existing between the so-called 'manosphere', white supremacy, and the mainstream political arena. In addition to providing a stellar account of the history of male supremacism, Sugiura reflects on the methodological and ethical issues that come from being a woman studying misogyny, an account that will no doubt be extremely valuable for future researchers wishing to conduct similar studies. Most importantly, this book provides clear evidence that extreme misogyny is not just a problem for the fringe, but rather has crept into the mainstream infecting the normative culture of our western societies. -- Ashton Kingdon - Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical RightTable of ContentsChapter 1. An Introduction to Incel Chapter 2. The Emergence and Development of the Manosphere Chapter 3. Join the Incel Rebellion Chapter 4. Weirdos or Extremists? Chapter 5. Legitimising Misogyny Chapter 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Online Gambling and Crime
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Sternberg Press The Murder Factory: Life and work of H. H.
Book SynopsisThe simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of crimes. To carry out his activities quietly, he built in Chicago a building so vast that his neighbors called it the “Château.” Located just a stone's throw from the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world, lethal, practical, and comfortable, Holmes's building was equipped with the latest innovations. A rational, cozy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes's project fit perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world.In The Murder Factory, Alexandra Midal examines the almost simultaneous emergence of the industrial revolution and the figure of the serial killer. Far from being a coincidence, it marks the rationality of new production methods—of which the assembly line and serial murder are two expressions. In the Holmes case, an antihero of modern history can shed light on the treatment of living things brought about by this economic, mechanical, and cultural revolution.H. H. Holmes's confessions, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer just before his execution in April 1896, follow Midal's text.
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Vintage Publishing Howard Marks Book Of Dope Stories
Book SynopsisSince the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it and smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all kinds of reasons from saving the world to becoming stinking rich. Blamed for deaths, wars, suicides, collapses of governments, multiple crashes, individual crises, anarchy and chaos, they have also been praised for opening minds and expanding consciousness.Worshipped and demonised, venerated and chastised, force-fed and forbidden. Every society has had its intoxicant, be it sacrament or scourge.They have also become irreversibly interwoven with politics, sex, business, religion, and rock and roll, providing writers, whether emerging from the ancient classical world or the street laboratory of today, with both inspiration and challenge.An unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime trip, The Howard Marks Book
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Oxford University Press Inc Predict and Surveil
Book SynopsisPredict and Surveil offers an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies. Sarah Brayne conducted years of fieldwork with the LAPD--one of the largest and most technically advanced law enforcement agencies in the world-to reveal the unmet promises and very real perils of police use of data--driven surveillance and analytics.Trade ReviewThe book reads like an encyclopedia of big data policing, supported by extremely rich empirical data in each of the coherently organized eight chapters...Grounded in solid fieldwork, this inspiring book provides far more than a case study of the police use of big data surveillance in LAPD. It provokes us to reflect the relationship among technology, policing, and our society. At a time when big data is increasingly penetrating our daily life, this book serves as a wake up call for those who are obsessed with technological solutions for social problems. Anyone interested in policing, big data, surveillance, criminal justice, and social control will benefit from reading this book. * Chen Shi, Asian Journal of Criminology *Predict and Surveil draws compellingly on the tools of ethnography to investigate the tools of big data. It reminds readers that data are inherently social and that ignoring the social processes through which data are collected, analyzed, and deployed risks extreme harms. * American Journal of Sociology *The author got access to observe the Los Angeles Police Department in operation and to see how "predictive policing" that relies on large-scale data collection and analysis actually works in practice. She reports that it opens the door to profiling individuals and neighborhoods, building detailed files on people who are not suspected of a crime, avoiding accountability through the use of outside contractors, increasing bias in sentencing, searching without a warrant, and other backward steps. * World Wide Work *excellent and timely book * Rachel Ferguson, The Library of Economics and Liberty *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Policing Our Digital Traces Chapter 2. Policing by the Numbers: The Public History and Private Future of Police Data Chapter 3. Dragnet Surveillance: Our Incriminating Lives Chapter 4. Directed Surveillance: Predictive Policing and Quantified Risk Chapter 5. Police Pushback: When the Watcher Becomes the Watched Chapter 6. Coding Inequality: How the Use of Big Data Reduces, Obscures, and Amplifies Inequalities Chapter 7. Algorithmic Suspicion and Big Data: The Inadequacy of Law in the Digital Age Chapter 8. Conclusion: Big Data as Social Appendixes Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis International Cases in Forensic Psychology
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University of Minnesota Press The Horror of Police
Book SynopsisUnmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police Year after year the crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure world. Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged and order restored but as horror, Linnemann reveals the monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. “law and order.” Only when viewed through the refracted motif of horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits of police and imagine a world without them. Trade Review"We know this more clearly today than ever before: policing is monstrous, unleashing terror while cannibalistically devouring resources otherwise destined for more human things. Travis Linnemann turns our reality upside-down as he turns the horror genre inside-out, insisting that only by confronting the dreadful monsters in our midst can we build a truly different world."—Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete"Police stories are among the most popular in American culture. In this book—equally steeped in pop culture, the latest critical theory, and the history and contemporary reality of policing—Travis Linnemann reads those stories against the grain to argue that the police represent the monstrous core of our society and to challenge us to imagine a world without them."—Adam Kotsko, author of Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital"In this highly original take, Travis Linnemann looks beyond the flashy headlines of the grossest excesses of police violence to the monstrosity that lies beneath it: police power itself. Using the tropes and conventions of the horror literary genre, Linnemann parses not just the fear that the police inspire amongst ‘us’ but also what haunts the police: mutuality, collectivity, and solidarity."—Emma Russell, author of Queer Histories and the Politics of PolicingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Police Story, Horror Story1. Bad Cops and True Detectives2. The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line3. RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus4. Monsters Are Real5. The Unthinkable WorldAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexNotesIndex
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Bristol University Press Sex Work and the New Zealand Model:
Book SynopsisMore than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel Part I ~ Legislative Change in New Zealand ‘On the Clients’ Terms’: Sex Work in New Zealand Before Decriminalisation ~ Jan Jordan Stepping Forward Into the Light of Decriminalisation ~ Dame Catherine Healy, Annah Pickering and Chanel Hati The Future of Feminism and Sex Work Activism in New Zealand ~ Carisa R. Showden Part II ~ The Diversity of Sex Workers in New Zealand The Impacts of Decriminalisation for Trans Sex Workers ~ Fairleigh Gilmour Fear of Trafficking or Implicit Prejudice?: Migrant Sex Workers and the Impacts of Section 19 ~ Lynzi Armstrong, Gillian Abel, and Michael Roguski “My Dollar Doesn’t Mean I’ve Got Any Power or Control Over Them”: Clients Speak Out About Purchasing Sex ~ Shannon Mower Part III ~ Perceptions of Sex Workers in New Zealand "Genuinely Keen to Work": Sex Work, Emotional Labour, and the News Media ~ Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith The Disclosure Dilemma: Stigma and Talking About Sex Work in the Decriminalised Context ~ Lynzi Armstrong and Cherida Fraser Contested Space: Street-based Sex Workers and Community Engagement ~ Gillian Abel
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Forgotten Books An Account of the State Prison or Penitentiary
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Open University Press Understanding Drugs Alcohol and Crime
Book Synopsis"Bennett and Holloway's Understanding Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime isthe best, most up-to-date and comprehensive examination for theUnited Kingdom of interactions among drugs, alcohol, and crime. Theauthors exhaustively and authoritatively survey current knowledge inthe UK, and from many other countries, on drug and alcohol use ascause, and consequence, of crime, and the effects of law enforcementand treatment responses. Clearly written, unfailingly lucid, andadmirably accurate, this book will be the indispensable work onBritish drug policy for many years to come."Professor Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Law School, USA"What makes this book particularly interesting is the refreshingly non judgmental presentation which conveys the essence of very important issues in contemporary society. Therefore, this is an ideal text not only for students but also for policy makers, drugs and alcohol counsellors, treatment agencies and everyone interested in Table of ContentsPreface Series editor's forewordAcknowledgementsChapter 1: The nature of the problemChapter 2: Policy context: from defining to reducing harm Chapter 3: Extent of drug misuse Chapter 4: Types of drug misuse Chapter 5: Explaining the drugs-crime connection Chapter 6: The statistical association: just coincidence? Chapter 7: The causal connection: more than coincidence? Chapter 8: The effectiveness of interventions Chapter 9: The nature of the solutionReferences Index
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Open University Press Effective Practice in Health Social Care and
Book Synopsis"Well written and with an accessible and engaging style, practice-based issues are skilfully interwoven throughout each chapter of the book."Matt Fowler, Co-ordination & Development Officer, Safer Middlesbrough Partnership, UK (Journal of Interprofessional Care)"There is a growing body of literature surrounding the incorporation and complexity of partnership working within service delivery and whilst this edited book adds to that knowledge, it places a specific focus on highlighting examples of best practice within the field of health,social care and criminal justice."Michelle Jolley, PhD Student, School of Law, University of Plymouth, UK in The Howard Journal May 2010"It is worth obtaining this book for Chapter 16 alone. Entitled 'On the receiving end: Reflections from a service user', it should be compulsory reading for every practitioner, manager and politician for its mTable of ContentsNotes on the ContributorsForeword by Walid El AnsariPreface by the editorsPart One: The Context of Partnerships1. The concepts of partnership and collaborationRos Carnwell and Alex Carson2. The impact of the digital age on partnership and collaborationRos Carnwell and Julian Buchanan3. Promoting inclusive partnership workingJoy Merrell4. Ethical issues of working in partnershipAlthea AllisonPart Two: Partnerships in Practice5. Interprofessional communication in child protectionBrian Corby with Frances Young and Stella Coleman6. Working in partnership to support people with mental health difficultiesAdrian Jones7. Working across the interface of formal and informal care of older peoplePat Chambers and Judith Phillips8. Understanding and misunderstanding problem drug use: working together Julian Buchanan9. Addressing homelessness through effective partnership workingEmma Wincup10. Problem drug use and safeguarding children: partnership and practice issues Julian Buchanan with Brian Corby 11. Tackling behavioural problems in the classroom using a student assistance programmeRos Carnwell, Sally Ann Baker, and Carl Wassell 12. Not behind closed doors: Working in partnership against domestic violenceLiz Blyth and Sobia Shaw13. Working with Gypsy Travellers: A partnership approachAngela Roberts14. Effective partnerships to assist mentally-disordered offendersVirginia Minogue15. Partnership approaches to working with people with HIVRuth WilsonPart Three: Learning from Partnerships16. On the receiving end: Reflections from a service userAmir Minhas17. Evaluating partnershipsRos Carnwell18. Learning from partnerships: Themes and issuesRos Carnwell and Julian Buchanan19. Developing best practice in partnership Julian Buchanan and Ros Carnwell
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Taylor & Francis Policing Organized Crime
Book SynopsisWhen criminal activity is as straightforward as a child's game of cops and robbers, the role of the police is obvious, but today's bad guys don't always wear black. In fact, the most difficult criminals to cope with are those who straddle the gray divide between licit and illicit activity. Many of these nefarious sorts operate on the fringe of society, often acting the part of businesspersons, meeting the demands of otherwise law-abiding clientele with illegally procured or delivered goods. Others, specially trained to occupy positions of responsibility, make the most of position and special knowledge to partake of ill-gotten gains. Then there are the organized crime families and syndicates who make use of common business models to turn dubious undertakings into profitable ventures.Policing Organized Crime: Intelligence Strategy Implementation addresses these very real types of modern criminals. It examines the methods and motives of those operatingTable of ContentsTheories of Organized Crime. Entrepreneurship in Organized Crime. Developing Intelligence Strategy. Implementing Intelligence Strategy. Organizational Structure. Organizational Culture. Intelligence Sources. Enforcing Law on Criminal Business. Policing Motorcycle Club Organized Crime. Applying Police Knowledge. Policing Criminal Enterprises. Performance Management in Policing. Performance Measurement in Policing.
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Taylor & Francis Research Methods for Forensic Psychologists
Book SynopsisResearch Methods for Forensic Psychologists is an accessible and comprehensive textbook that introduces students to the research process in forensic psychology. Adopting a problem-based learning approach, this book offers a how-to' guide to the whole research process and empowers readers to develop their own programme of research, from initial vague ideas, to developing a research question, to carrying out a methodologically rigorous research project, to disseminating the findings.The text is centred on five case studies, sufficiently different in nature to address the most common research methodologies. Each case study is linked with a specific research question that will be used to illustrate the research process throughout the rest of the book. Topics covered in the book include: Design and Planning, including a literature search, a discussion of different sorts of data, practical and feasibility issues, research etTrade Review‘This book is a landmark text that is set to become a fundamental read for forensic students and researchers. Sarah Brown and Emma Sleath have done a fantastic job of putting together a text that explains the process of conducting forensic psychology research from start to finish. This is the first UK textbook to specifically grapple with the "real-world" problems experienced by forensic researchers which mainstream texts are unable to address. I only wish such a text had been available when I was conducting my own PhD!’ - Theresa A. Gannon, Professor of Forensic Psychology, CORE-FP, University of Kent, UK ‘Comprehensive, accessible, detailed and practical - a gem of a book for anyone researching in a forensic setting. From formulating your research question to disseminating your findings, everything you need to know to plan, conduct and present your research is right here. A "must-have" for all students and budding researchers in criminal justice.’ - Jo Clarke, PhD, Programme Director, MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology, University of York, UK ‘I am delighted to endorse this book. I have been involved in delivering postgraduate forensic psychology training for almost 20 years and this is THE book that we have been waiting for. It is clear and concise and focuses on all the main issues that plague any early researcher in the forensic field. I will be putting this on my required reading for our postgraduates and would recommend that postgraduate students, early researchers and all other course directors buy a copy too.’ - Liz Gilchrist, Professor of Forensic Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Table of Contents1. Introduction Section 1: Designing and planning 2. Searching the literature 3. Methods 4. Types of data 5. From research question to research design 6. Practical and feasibility issues in research 7. Ethics in forensic psychology research 8. Research proposal Section 2: Conducting research 9. Gaining ethical approval 10. Setting up and implementing your study 11. Collecting data 12. Data analysis Section 3: Dissemination of your research findings 13. Purpose of dissemination 14. Literature review papers 15. Empirical papers 16. Conference presentations.
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New York University Press Underground Codes Race Crime and Related Fires
Book SynopsisAn active sociologist questions deeply seeded racism and codes that influence the US law enforcement.Trade ReviewRussell-Brown challenges the convetional wisdom of criminology. * Black Issues in Higher Education *Underground Codes is well written and thoroughly researched. * Black Issue Book Review *This book should be taken as a challenge to do our jobs: to assess critically the 'many issues involving crime and race that are overlooked, misunderstood and falsely linked.' It succinctly and critically summarizes the extant literature that purports to shed light on the race/crime nexus. * Contemporary Sociology *In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown confirms her position as one of the nation's leading authorities on race and crime. Underground Codes is a must-read for anyone interested in how race and racism affect the criminal justice system. -- Professor Angela J. Davis,American University Washington College of LawKatheryn Russell-Brown's newest work highlights the unique ways that race, culture, and criminal justice issues operate across communities of color and within them. Her study of these issues raises important questions and draws the critical distinctions between fact and fiction for our understanding and ultimate liberation. -- Paula C. Johnson,Syracuse University College of Law, author of Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in PrisonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1 "Petit Apartheid" in the Justice System2 American Indians and Crime: Invisible Minorities and the Weight of Justice 3 Gangsta Rap and Crime: Any Relationship? 4 Policing Communities, Policing Race 5 Black Protectionism 6 In the Crosshairs: Racial Pro?ling and Living while Black 7 Black Women and the Justice System: Raced and Gendered into Submission 8 Race Facts Afterword Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Duke University Press When Biometrics Fail
Book SynopsisThis book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies—such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting—that have come to pervade our everyday lives. Often developed as methods to ensure "national security," these technologies are also routinely employed to regulate our personal information, our work lives, what we buy, and how we live.Trade Review“Taking her cue from science and technology studies' methods and theories, where definitions of ‘success’ in connection with technological developments are long-standing topics of interest . . ., Magnet focuses on its counterpart, the issue of technological failure. In view of the fact that their often substandard performance seldom seems to play a role in government decisions on whether to opt for the large-scale implementation of biometrics (eg, the US-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or Europe's use of biometric passports), exposing whole populations to the consequences of their failure, these are timely questions. . . . [F]or those interested in the technology, its social implications and use in a number of US contexts, the details of Magnet's investigations are very much worth reading.” - Irma van der Ploeg, Times Higher Education Supplement“When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech – and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences.” - Hannah Drayson, Leonardo Reviews“The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure…. These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book… [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis…. [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation.” - Bianca Baggiarini, Canadian Review of Sociology“Overall, Magnet’s critique of biometric discourse and technologies is penetrating, relentless and often devastating. This is an enlightening, exquisitely critical book that should be required reading as much for neo-liberal policy-makers considering quick-fix technological solutions to systemic social and crime control problems as for students and scholars of criminology.” - Randy K. Lippert, Theoretical Criminology“Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work.” - Rick Docksai, World Future Review“When Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humor and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration.”—Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet“Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers.”—Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification“When Biometrics Fail offers a damning analysis of the technical problems that dog biometric identification, many of which stem from the premises on which individual difference is defined. . . . [A] useful synthesis of the activities contemporary biometric industry, providing a compelling dissection of how the idea of a science of biometrics fails, and a timely critique of an industry and its claims which exploit a misconception about the human body and use technological fetishism to posit the solution as a high tech – and therefore ethically unproblematic -solution to a range of problems that have serious political and humanitarian consequences.” -- Hannah Drayson * Leonardo Reviews *“Taking her cue from science and technology studies' methods and theories, where definitions of ‘success’ in connection with technological developments are long-standing topics of interest . . ., Magnet focuses on its counterpart, the issue of technological failure. In view of the fact that their often substandard performance seldom seems to play a role in government decisions on whether to opt for the large-scale implementation of biometrics (eg, the US-Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology system, or Europe's use of biometric passports), exposing whole populations to the consequences of their failure, these are timely questions. . . . [F]or those interested in the technology, its social implications and use in a number of US contexts, the details of Magnet's investigations are very much worth reading.” -- Irma van der Ploeg, * Times Higher Education *“The book allows the reader to ponder what sorts of assumptions about people, science, and society are at play when biometrics continues to have ongoing success, in light of its failure…. These and other interdisciplinary questions pertaining to late capitalism, identity, resistance, and the violence of identification, make up the crux of this rather accessible book… [I]nsightful in terms of its crisscrossing empirical analysis…. [I]t will be of great interest to scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in identity, gender, and race relations, as well as the impact of technology on strategies of political resistance and moral regulation.” -- Bianca Baggiarini * Canadian Review of Sociology *“Overall, Magnet’s critique of biometric discourse and technologies is penetrating, relentless and often devastating. This is an enlightening, exquisitely critical book that should be required reading as much for neo-liberal policy-makers considering quick-fix technological solutions to systemic social and crime control problems as for students and scholars of criminology.” -- Randy K. Lippert * Theoretical Criminology *“Magnet's When Biometrics Fail sounds some compelling notes of caution about placing too much reliance on unthinking machines to do human beings' work.” -- Rick Docksai * World Future Review *“Magnet’s theoretical reliance on corporeal fetishism while attending to failures, leads her to significant conclusions: first, the technology falsely imagines bodies as stable entities, and second, it intensifies inequalities. Of particular interest to sociologists is her focus, especially in the welfare chapter, on the human costs of the technologies. . . . The book is well organized and the archival material clearly presented. The introduction sets up the interesting question of how biometric technology codifies inequality, and subsequent chapters provide a convincing argument.” -- Emily Fairchild * Contemporary Sociology *“Shoshana Amielle Magnet provides great insight into the rise of biometrics and offers a nuanced study of the complex social shaping of surveillance technologies at the intersection of the security industrial complex, cultural discourse, and code. This is a welcome addition to cultural studies and media studies scholarship as it examines representation and identity in a novel site.” -- Peter A. Chow White * International Journal of Communication *“When Biometrics Fail succeeds in informing the audience about what underlies this evolving technology and its role in assigning identities to human beings. The author, Shoshana Amielle Magnet, has delicately dealt with the issue of science encroaching upon the territory of human rights and classifying people on the basis of race, gender and ethnicity.” -- Subrata S Satapathy * International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology *“Throughout the book, Magnet ably shifts the reader's perception and understanding of biometric failures— wide-ranging and 'endemic to their technological functioning'. Stressing the limitations of non-scientific language to describe biometric failures, Magnet uses many examples to effectively question the objectivity of the technology. Most intriguing is how the three case studies point out the irony of privatisation of security and the over-reliance of these very same biometric companies on state governments for their profitability.” -- Angela Marianne Kuga Thas * Media International Australia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Imagining Biometric Security 1 1. Biometric Failure 19 2. I-Tech and the Beginnings of Biometrics 51 3. Criminalizing Poverty: Adding Biometrics to Welfare 69 4. Biometrics at the Border 91 5. Representing Biometrics 127 Conclusion. Biometric Failure and Beyond 149 Appendix 159 Notes 165 Bibliography 171 Index 199
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Goose Lane Editions Down Inside
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If every politician in Canada would read this book, I'm betting that we'd soon see a sweeping range of reform in our prisons, one that would benefit not only those doing time, but society as a whole."" -- Ruth Elwood Martin, Director, MD, FCFP, MPH * Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education, UBC, School of Population and Public Health *
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Liberty Fund Inc Conversation with Ernest van den Haag DVD
Book SynopsisConsidered a leading voice in criminology and political philosophy, the author discusses his ongoing work in criminal law and criminology, and he explains how his great insights relate to his central belief in a free society.
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University of Alberta Press Driven to Kill
Book SynopsisThe charge: first-degree murder. The murder weapon: a 1987 Ford Escort. A car as a murder weapon? In Driven to Kill, J. Peter Rothe unflinchingly examines the use of vehicles in cases of assault, abduction, rape, gang warfare, terrorism, suicide, and murder. What separates an everyday driver from a motorized menace? Read and find out. Yes, Rothe offers a trove of unprecedented research for sociologists, criminologists, policy makers, police, as well as public health, injury prevention, and traffic safety professionals, but his accessible style speaks to our fascination with car culture and true crime stories. Foreword by Leon James.Trade Review"'I always considered driving on the roadway to be like the window to society,' [Rothe] said. 'What happens on the roadway magnifies what happens in the community. All the features of living in the community get played out in driving.' Rothe said there is no doubt that vehicular violence continues to increase, but hopes to see more awareness campaigns, education, and research on the topic to try to curb the level of violence. He also recommends that drivers protect themselves by obeying the rules of the road, avoiding confrontation, and staying away from aggressors." Clara Ho, Sun Media, January 30, 2009"Most people think of guns and knives when talking about weapons, but cars are being used in a number of violent acts says University of Alberta researcher Peter Rothe. Rothe combines six years of research in his analysis of vehicles as weapons in his new book Driven to Kill, which looks at acts of intentional violence. He spent hours going through databases in Canada and the United States and read provincial Supreme Court files, medical examiner files, historical policy reports and media reports during the course of his research. "I was trying to illustrate, in a numerical and statistical form wherever possible, the existence of violence [while] at the same time, try to keep it human by going through the various reports," said Rothe. His book has a number of first-hand tales from victims and victimizers.... The numbers are staggering in a variety of categories, Rothe says. Police have had enough interactions to understand how vehicles are being used as weapons, but it was a real eye opener for him." Quinn Phillips, Folio, February 2, 2009"But most importantly, with his book Rothe hopes to demonstrate how commonplace automobile violence has become. Everyday occurrences such as road rage and intentional property destruction illustrate, for him, the profound connection between our automotive society and violent acts. 'This isn't just a concept out there. We don't know what goes through the heads of other drivers. This can happen to anyone at any time' Rothe warned. But despite the slew of negative light shed on the automobile and its history by Driven to Kill, Rothe hasn't set out to demonize motor vehicles. In fact, it's the fraught and complex relationship we have with our transportation that has forced him to look deeper to our own relationship with violence as an explanation. 'Social stress underlies so much of how we interact on the roadway, which leads to road rage and other violent acts in the same way that underlying economic stress can lead to car thefts,' Rothe concluded." - Sean Steels, The Gateway, p.5, vol. XCIX no. 38"From the opening pages of his provocative and meticulous examination of roadway violence, [Rothe] questions the popular assumption of 'vehicle violence as naturally occurring traffic safety accidents or normal events.' He reframes vehicular violence as a major public health issue, with ramifications that go far beyond isolated motor vehicle crashes.... His passion for public safety manifests itself in systematic research and iconoclastic thinking, particularly with regard to the symbolic meanings that motor vehicles have for North Americans. Driven to Kill took five years to write.... Stylistically, the book is a hybrid -- part journalism, part scholarly analysis. By heightening the documentary quality of the book, Rothe hopes to reach as wide an audience as possible. To emphasize the pervasive socio-cultural elements of vehicular violence, his research materials included accounts from print media and the Internet, court case transcripts and medical examiners' files. The stories may be sensationalized by the press, but Rothe's analysis is incisive and his arguments dispassionate. He is determined to raise public awareness and challenge contemporary vehicle ideology.... The road ahead is long. Rothe is a good companion for the journey." Vincent Hanlon, MD, Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 31, 2009"Rothe doesn't just discuss how people use cars to hit people or property, whether intentionally or not; he also goes to great lengths to talk about how cars feature in other criminal acts like sexual assaults, abductions, gang warfare, acts of terrorism, suicides and murders.... [Driven to Kill] is an interesting read and a timely one too.... [T]here's no time like the present to become more aware of the weapons on the roads and the killers behind the wheels." Scott Hayes, St. Albert Gazette, July 11, 2009"Full of useful information, the author obviously spent quite a bit of time researching the issue of vehicles as weapons. Anyone involved in traffic safety will tell you the average vehicle is equal to a 2,400 pound torpedo, capable of doing a great amount of damage. Used the wrong way to intentionally harm someone, that torpedo can quickly become a rocket streaking down the highway. Rothe looks at the damage that can be done when a vehicle is out of control, but he also examines other ways a car can be used to commit crimes. I found the book very educational and it did, indeed, expand my knowledge of this topic. The chapters are very well arranged to make it easy to follow. Plus, he adds some interesting stories -although some may be a bit graphic for sensitive readers. I would recommend this book to anyone who deals with traffic on a regular basis, such as police officers. The insights gained could save a life." Luann Morgan [Full review at http://lumorgan.blogspot.com/2009/11/green-books-campaign-driven-to-kill.html"Rothe said there is no doubt that vehicular violence continues to increase, but hopes to see more awareness campaigns, education, and research on the topic to try to curb the level of violence. He also recommends that drivers protect themselves by obeying the rules of the road, avoiding confrontation, and staying away from aggressors." The Canadian Press, January 30, 2009"When humanity develops a new technology, it seems one of the first things they do is figure out how to use it as a weapon. Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons chronicles the use of the automobile as a weapon in crime, outlining how automobiles have enabled such crime to occur in the past century. While the car has enabled much societal progress, it was and is not without cost. An utterly fascinating and excellent read, Driven to Kill is a top pick for an addition to community library true crime collections." Midwest Book Review, June 16, 2009"Combing through databases here and in the U.S. - as well as studying provincial Supreme Court files, medical examiner files, historical policy reports and media reports-Rothe found some disturbing motor vehicle findings, including the fact that a vehicle is the number one place in which sexual assaults occur (25 percent of all reported sexual assaults)." new trail, Spring 2009
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Cambridge University Press Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy
Book SynopsisBy extending the chronological parameters of existing scholarship, and by focusing on legal experts'' overriding and enduring concern with ''dangerous'' forms of common crime, this study offers a major reinterpretation of criminal-law reform and legal culture in Italy from the Liberal (18611922) to the Fascist era (192243). Garfinkel argues that scholars have long overstated the influence of positivist criminology on Italian legal culture and that the kingdom''s penal-reform movement was driven not by the radical criminological theories of Cesare Lombroso, but instead by a growing body of statistics and legal researches that related rising rates of crime to the instability of the Italian state. Drawing on a vast array of archival, legal and official sources, the author explains the sustained and wide-ranging interest in penal-law reform that defined this era in Italian legal history while analyzing the philosophical underpinnings of that reform and its relationship to contemporary penaTrade Review'Professor Garfinkel's book is one of those rare works of original scholarship that succeeds in covering both the Liberal and Fascist eras in Italian history at the national level. By concentrating on common crime rather than political crimes, he has developed an extremely original thesis that challenges the established interpretations of jurisprudence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Anthony Cardoza, Loyola University, Chicago'Paul Garfinkel's vivid account of the development of Italian criminal justice from the perspective of prominent criminal law practitioners relies on a stunning array of sources to craft a convincing argument. An insightful contribution to the study of European law and society, the book offers an important counterpoint to prevailing historiography.' Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University, Virginia'Eloquently written, and with a welcome focus on the treatment of ordinary rather than political crime, Garfinkel's ground-breaking book persuasively challenges scholarly understandings of the ideas and debates inspiring penal reform in Liberal Italy and the first decade of Mussolini's fascist regime.' Jonathan Dunnage, Swansea University'This elegantly written and widely researched study of criminal law in liberal and fascist Italy challenges the widely accepted view that Italy's 1930 criminal law code was fascist, positivist and anti-liberal in inspiration. Engaging with the wider debates on the relationship between liberalism and fascism, Paul Garfinkel's conclusions will attract the attention of scholars in many different fields.' John Davis, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents1. Body count; 2. Civilized violence; 3. Force of habit; 4. Tomorrow's criminals; 5. Grapes and wrath; 6. Coup, casualty and catalyst: the Ferri Code, 1919–25; 7. Fascism's legal Risorgimento, 1925–31; Conclusion.
£84.55
Cambridge University Press OutOfControl Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisOut-of-Control Criminal Justice shows that our system of criminal justice is broken; it is out of control. The author writes that a research-based strategy is needed that builds on the insights of those who work within criminal justice or are affected by it. Such a strategy must entail continuous evaluation and improvement, so that what works can be expanded and what does not can be eliminated. Out-of-Control Criminal Justice identifies how systems problems plague our criminal justice systems. It then presents a comprehensive strategy for bringing these systems under control to reduce crime, to increase justice and accountability, and to do so at less cost. The strategy can be used, too, to create greater responsiveness to victims and communities, effectiveness in reducing racial and ethnic disparities, and understanding of the causes and consequences of crime. After describing this new approach, the book identifies the tools needed to implement a systems solution to create a safer andTrade Review''Criminal justice system' - no phrase is more often voiced and less often understood. In a remarkable scholarly achievement, Daniel P. Mears rectifies this knowledge gap, illuminating what makes our current system 'out-of-control' and offering theoretically informed and evidence-based ideas on how to fix it. Comprehensive in scope and clearly written, this volume should sit on every criminologist's shelf and be assigned in any course that seeks to understand and improve criminal justice.' Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati'No one writes more clearly or persuasively about the current state of the criminal justice system than Daniel P. Mears. Out-of-Control Criminal Justice is carefully grounded in a systems approach to the diagnosis of the problem and its solution. Every serious student of the criminal justice system, including practitioners and politicians, should pay careful attention to this work. This book has the potential to be truly transformative.' Scott Decker, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University'Award-winning writer and criminologist Daniel P. Mears has done it again! In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, he has given us a piercing, deliberative road-map for taking back our criminal justice system and delivering the crime reduction and justice - and, yes, cost savings - that American citizens expect and politicians and policymakers need to make good on.' Brandon C. Welsh, Professor of Criminology, Northeastern University, Massachusetts and editor of Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy'Critics are often quick to point out the failures of American criminal justice policy, including mass incarceration, mandatory sentencing, and tough-on-crime judges and prosecutors. Rarely do they direct us to viable solutions. This is where Dan Mears parts company with most. In Out-of-Control Criminal Justice, Mears provides a framework for comprehensive, systemic, evidence-based policy change premised on a systems-focused view of criminal justice. Mears has provided the key missing piece for implementing true, comprehensive change in an extraordinarily complex criminal justice system. The promise of this approach is enhanced public safety, accountability, and cost efficiency. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in fundamental change in the American criminal justice system, including policy analysts, policy makers, practitioners, researchers, criminal justice experts, academics, and students of criminal justice.' William R. Kelly, University of Texas, Austin'The book promises a clear outline for criminal justice reform, and it delivers. This book will be widely appreciated by audiences in sociology, criminology, public policy, and social work. Students of criminal justice and social policy will want to read the entire book. It is impressive in its scope and brings much to bear on social inequality beyond criminal justice.' Jessica T. Simes, Contemporary Sociology'It is Mears's emphatic call for more openness and cooperation among practitioners, researchers, and everyone else impacted by the criminal justice system that makes this book an invaluable resource for criminal justice reform and the SIS a viable approach to consider when addressing current system failures.' Doris Schartmueller, RutgersTable of Contents1. Introduction: out-of-control criminal justice; 2. Systems problems are not specific to crime and justice; 3. What is a system?; 4. The criminal justice system; 5. The systems improvement solution for safety, justice, accountability, and efficiency; 6. Benefits of the systems improvement solution and pitfalls to avoid in implementing it; 7. Conclusion: criminal justice under control.
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Cambridge University Press Policing Citizens
Book SynopsisWhat does police violence against minorities, or violent clashes between minorities and the police tell us about citizenship and its internal hierarchies? Indicative of deep-seated tensions and negative perceptions; incidents such as these suggest how minorities are vulnerable, suffer from or are subject to police abuse and neglect in Israel. Marked by skin colour, negatively stigmatized or rendered security threats, their encounters with police provide a daily reminder of their defunct citizenship. Taking as case studies the experiences and perceptions of four minority groups within Israel including Palestinian/Arab citizens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Ethiopian and Russian immigrants, Ben-Porat and Yuval are able to explore different paths of citizenship and the stratification of the citizenship regime through relations with and perceptions of the police in Israel. Touching on issues such as racial profiling, police brutality and neighbourhood neglect, their study questions the notions of citizenship and belonging, shedding light on minority relationships with the state and its institutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Policing citizens; 1. Theoretical Framework; 2. Police and policing in Israel; 3. Arab citizens: national minority and police; 4. The skin color effect: police and the Jews of Ethiopian descent; 5. The religious factor: ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim); 6. Integration and citizenship: Russian immigrants; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. It unveils a range of experiences - from the police chief of a major metropolitan force to ordinary people targeted for policing on the street - and asks important questions about whether and why we need the police, before analyzing the law of policing, police use of force, and police violence, paying particular attention to the issue of discrimination against marginalized and vulnerable communities at the blunt end of police interference. The book also discusses technological innovations and proposals for reform. Written in accessible language, this interdisciplinary work will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the United States.Trade Review'This is not your average book about policing. It draws from a wide range of disciplines - not just law and criminology, but political science, sociology and economics - to provide a rich tapestry of insights into what policing is, its benefits and dangers, and how it should change. If you want to understand modern debates about policing, including whether it should continue to exist at all, this book is a must read.' Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Professor Law, Vanderbilt University Law School'This important and compelling book brings together the nation's leading experts on the law, political theory, sociology, and criminology of policing. The authors tackle some of the most urgent contemporary debates in policing, including uses of force, technological innovations, street level police practices, and reform proposals. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the law and practice of policing in the United States.' L. Song Richardson, Dean of University of California Irvine School of Law'This volume provides an excellent array of perspectives on policing in 28 essays by an impressive collection of respected authors. They deal with the good and bad aspects of operation of police on the street and provide strong understanding of the problems and approaches to improving their performance in the diverse communities of America.' Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University'This sophisticated collection brings together a rich group of thinkers and viewpoints. Offering an elegant mix of policy expertise, community perspectives, social science, legal theory, and philosophy, it is at once critical and appreciative of the complex role played by policing throughout our democracy. The book is strongly interdisciplinary - it melds scholarship on social vulnerability and race with inquiries into such wide-ranging topics as police unions, technology, big data, and violence. Scholars, students, and experts alike will learn much from this provocative volume.' Alexandra Natapoff, University of California and author of Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More UnequalTable of ContentsPart I. The View from the Streets: 1. Policing as though the public really matters: a call for outcome-based policing Cameron McLay; 2. Policing in St Louis: 'I feel like a runaway slave sometimes' Thomas Harvey and Janae Staicer; Part II. Do We Need Public Police?: 3. Why we need police Justin McCrary and Deepak Premkumar; 4. Police abolitionist discourse? Why it's been missing (and why it matters) Jonathan Simon and Eduardo Bautista Duron; 5. The police as civic neighbors Eric J. Miller; 6. Pretext and justification: republicanism, policing, and race Ekow Yankah; 7. The private policing paradox Elizabeth Joh; Part III. The Law of Policing: 8. Justifying police practices: the example of arrests Rachel Harmon; 9. Police interrogation and suspect confessions Richard A. Leo; 10. How fear shapes policing in the US David A. Harris; 11. The futile Fourth Amendment: understanding police excessive force doctrine through an empirical assessment of Graham v. Connor Osagie K. Obasogie and Zachary Newman; 12. The problematic prosecution of an Asian American police officer: notes from a participant in People v Peter Liang Gabriel J. Chin; Part IV. Police Force and Police Violence: 13. Confrontational proactive policing: benefits, costs, and disparate racial impacts Charles Manski and Daniel S. Nagin; 14. Race, police, and the production of capital homicides Jeff Fagan and Amanda Geller; 15. What drives variation in killings by urban police in the United States – two empirical puzzles Franklin Zimring; Part V. Discrimination: 16. Race, pedestrian checks, and the Fourth Amendment Devon W. Carbado; 17. In the shadows: policing immigration in the criminal justice system and its impact on racial disparities and identity Yolanda Vázquez; 18. Policing 'radicalization' Amna Akbar; 19. Police and the criminalization of LGBT people Ilan H. Meyer, Naomi G. Goldberg, Amira Hasenbush, Christy Mallory and Lara Stemple; 20. Police sexual violence Tamara Rice Lave; 21. Policing the mentally ill in Los Angeles on the frontlines of transinstitutionalization Natalie Pifer; Part VI. Technology: 22. The pitfalls of police technology: a minority report Kami Chavis; 23. Citizenship talk Bennett Capers; 24. Predictive policing theory Andrew Guthrie Ferguson; 25. Big data surveillance: the case of policing Sarah Brayne; Part VII. Reform: 26. Unions and police reform Stephen Rushin; 27. Procedural justice and policing: four new directions Rebecca Hollander Blumoff; 28. Moving toward an American police-community reconciliation framework David Kennedy and Jonathan Ben-Menachem.
£127.30
Cambridge University Press Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration
Book SynopsisMass incarceration is an overwhelming problem and reforms are often difficult, leading to confusion about what to do and where to start. Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration: Hope from Civil Society introduces the key issues that need immediate attention and provides concrete direction about effective solutions systemically and relationally. In this work Anthony B. Bradley recognizes that offenders are persons with inherent dignity. Mass incarceration results from the systemic breakdown of criminal law procedure and broken communities. Using the principle of personalism, attention is drawn to those areas that directly contact the lives of offenders and determine their fate. Bradley explains how reform must be built from the person up, and once these areas are reformed our law enforcement culture will change for the better. Taking an innovative approach, Anthony B. Bradley explores what civic institutions need to do to prevent people from falling into the criminal justice sTrade Review'Anthony B. Bradley's emphasis on personalism offers an intriguing contribution to the question of criminal justice reform - he presents a path forward we ought to seriously consider.' Vincent Bacote, Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College, Illinois'Most everyone complains about overcriminalization and mass incarceration, but concrete solutions to these problems are hard to find. Anthony B. Bradley proposes several reforms in criminal justice and civil society that would help to bring about some much-needed improvements.' Douglas Husak, author of Overcriminalization '… Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration is a good introduction to the issue of mass incarceration … the book challenges readers to focus on the person affected by not just the policies but the civil society that surrounds them.' M. Beth Valentine, RutgersTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. An overcriminalized America; 2. A closer loser look at prosecutors; 3. Giving judges more discretion; 4. Defending the disadvantaged; 5. Ending the school-to-prison pipeline; 6. The social, moral, and economic costs of overcriminalization; 7. Progress begins at the state level; 8. Help and hope from civil society; Conclusion.
£69.35
Cambridge University Press Neurolaw and Responsibility for Action
Book SynopsisThis volume debates the conceptual, epistemic and practical questions that arise when law and neuroscience meet. Containing original insights about the potential reach of neuroscience and sophisticated accounts of the limitations it faces, the volume will appeal to lawyers, criminologists, philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists and psychiatrists.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Conceptual Disputes: Brains as the Locus of Responsibility?: 1. Neuroscience and the explanation of human action Dennis Patterson; 2. 'Nothing but a pack of neurons:' the moral responsibility of the human machine Michael S. Moore; 3. Non-eliminative reductionism: not the theory of mind some responsibility theorists want, but the one they need Katrina Sifferd; 4. Intention as non-observational knowledge: rescuing responsibility from the brain Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov; 5. Efficient causation and neuroscientific explanations of criminal action Nick J. Davis; Part II. Epistemic Disputes: What does Neuroscience Tell Law about Responsibility?: 6. Lying, deception, and fMRI: a critical update Michael S. Pardo; 7. Brain-based lie detection and the mereological fallacy: reasons for optimism John Danaher; 8. Is brain reading mind reading? Pim Haselager and Giulio Mecacci; Part III. Implications for Courts and Defendants: 9. Unlucky, bad, and the space in between: why criminologists should think more about responsibility Peter Raynor; 10. Neuroscience and the criminal jurisdiction: a new approach to reliability and admissibility in the courts of England and Wales Joanna Glynn; 11. Should individuals with psychopathy be compensated for their fearlessness? (Or how neuroscience matters for equality) Marion Godman; 12. The treatment of psychopathy: conceptual and ethical issues Elizabeth Shaw.
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Cambridge University Press Everyday Justice
Book SynopsisEveryday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and injustice are woven into everyday life in manifold and widely differing ways. The contributors account for this complexity across multiple particular social relations, places, and times, such that concepts and experiences of justice are made analytically visible without essentializing the construal of justice both as an idea and in practice. In the best scholarly tradition, Everyday Justice provides theoretical readings of justice and injustice, justice and law, and relational justice, each designed to cut through the specificity of myriad social, political, and legal conjunctures in a clarifying way. One outcome is to suggest future research possibilities to readers by highlighting theoretically distinctive yet ethnographically specific questions about justice. Everyday Justice will be essential reading for anyone interested in justice in theory and practice.Trade Review'Justice is more often felt than grasped intellectually, its everyday contexts accounting for its special bite. In this superb collection of essays the authors demonstrate how those contexts give meaning to local justice and how a sophisticated sense of its presence or absence depends on its socio-cultural surround. These timely studies complement and extend philosophical discussions of justice by showing its centrality to our different ways of experiencing the quotidian world as orderly and fair.' Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University, New Jersey'In this important volume, Sandra Brunnegger and her colleagues challenge scholars from across the disciplines to rethink how we approach justice. They offer an accessible but sophisticated exemplar of how anthropology can shine a light on the 'muddle' in which writings on justice too often land, caught between the abstractions of theorists and the immediacy of justice practices in everyday life. Especially recommended for legal and political theorists who are interested in expanding their reach, and for sociolegal scholars concerned with integrating the study of justice into empirical research.' Elizabeth Mertz, John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison Law SchoolTable of Contents1. Theorizing everyday justice Sandra Brunnegger; Part I. Possibilities of Everyday Justice: 2. Street justice: graffiti and claims-making in urban public space Ronald Niezen; 3. Seeking respect, fairness, and community: low wage migrants, authoritarian regimes and the everyday urban Laavanya Kathiravelu; Part II. The Force of Everyday Justice: 4. 'We don't work for the Serbs, we work for human rights': justice and impartiality in transitional Kosovo Agathe C. Mora; 5. The enduring transition: temporality, human security and competing notions of justice inside and outside of the law in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sari Wastell; Part III. Everyday Justice Unbound: 6. Troubled currents and the contentious moral orderings of Drakes Estero Kathleen M. Sullivan; 7. Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials Santiago Abel Amietta; 8. Ever in the making: actors and injustice in a Papua New Guinea village court Eve Houghton; 9. Afterword Carol J. Greenhouse.
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