Crime and criminology Books
Princeton University Press The Hoods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2012 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and the Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies""The Hoods is a very readable book that will be of great interest to all who have worked in the criminal justice system in any capacity but particularly those who have worked with young offenders. The author's skill both in eliciting the views of young people and in presenting those views in a fair and accessible way allow the book to reach out to a wider readership beyond Northern Ireland."---Brian Stout, Policing
£22.50
Princeton University Press Changing Places
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology""A great, bracing read for us cultural theorists: the authors really interrogate what evidence means in a complex ecosystem such as a city, as well as what you do with it. The case studies in the rest of the book show off examples of evidence-led interventions, all with apparently proven social benefits: they include large-scale tree planting for health in Philadelphia, light rail ridership fighting obesity in Charlotte and the use of signs in LA parks to make people exercise. The message is a simple one: with the right evidence base, you can make meaningful changes. Like London’s cholera in 1854, you can cure a city of its social ills."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education
£29.75
Princeton University Press The Idea of Prison Abolition
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""Winner of the Easton Award, Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association""The Idea of Prison Abolition is the work of a well-read, clear-headed, and sober-minded thinker, and it seldom gives good cause to disagree with its careful arguments. It will be indispensable for anyone working on its subject."---Benjamin Ewing, Mind"Necessary reading."---Mike Nellis, Punishment & Society"The time is right for a book like Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Prison Abolition—one that closely and carefully examines, in detail and with rigor, some of the best arguments on behalf of abolishing prisons, and does so with philosophical sophistication, crystal-clear prose, and admirable breadth."---Jennifer Lackey, Journal of Philosophy"A good intellectual case against abolitionism."---Andy West, The Philosopher
£25.00
Princeton University Press Changing Places
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology""A great, bracing read for us cultural theorists: the authors really interrogate what evidence means in a complex ecosystem such as a city, as well as what you do with it. The case studies in the rest of the book show off examples of evidence-led interventions, all with apparently proven social benefits: they include large-scale tree planting for health in Philadelphia, light rail ridership fighting obesity in Charlotte and the use of signs in LA parks to make people exercise. The message is a simple one: with the right evidence base, you can make meaningful changes. Like London’s cholera in 1854, you can cure a city of its social ills."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education
£19.00
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Hoovers War on Gays Exposing the FBIs Sex
Book SynopsisFully exposes the extraordinary invasion of US citizens’ privacy perpetrated on a historic scale by an institution tasked with protecting American life. What Hoover’s War on Gays reveals is the FBI’s distinctly unethical, off-the-books long-term targeting of gay men and women and their organisations under cover of “official” rationale.Trade Review“A significant contribution to the literature on the gay and lesbian movements, on the history of the FBI, and on the political and cultural changes shaping twentieth century US.” Athan Theoharis, author of The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History “A brilliant and fascinating look at the FBI’s decadeslong interest in gays, one of the best things I have read about the FBI in years. It is an impressive achievement and very readable. Charles managed to obtain related files and follow the threads in those accounts which, in turn, led him to others. A groundbreaking book, covering a topic in FBI history that has not been previously explored in any significant way.” Matthew Cecil, author of Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image.
£40.80
Pluto Press State Crime
Book SynopsisQuestions the perametres of state crime in all its forms, from corruption and corporate crime to natural' disasters, torture, war crimes and genocide.Trade Review'An excellent primer and an important analysis of an area that criminology is belatedly taking seriously' -- Social & Legal StudiesTable of ContentsPreface 1. Defining States as Criminal 2. Corruption as State Crime 3. State-Corporate Crime 4. Natural Disaster as State Crime 5. Police Crime 6. Organised Crime and the ‘Deep State’ 7. State Terror and Terrorism 8. Torture 9. War Crimes 10. Genocide 11. The Political Economy of State Crime 12. Every Crime in the Book: Iraq and its Liberators Notes References Index
£26.99
Pluto Press Privatising Justice
Book SynopsisA powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.Trade Review'Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''In this timely text, Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea provide a salutary warning of a potentially dystopian future in which the rule of law is ultimately subservient to, and shaped by, the neoliberal project of expanding the economic domination of the powerful' -- Lawrence Burke, co-author of 'Reimagining Rehabilitation Beyond the Individual''Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''This ground-breaking analysis offers a highly readable and thought provoking understanding of the complex interplay between the state, the security industries and the military estate through the lens of privatisation' -- Sandra Walklate, author of 'Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice''The privatisation of justice is one of the riskiest developments of the recent era, yet it is also among the most misunderstood. As such, Fitzgibbon and Lea's rigorous analysis could not be more welcome. It is essential, if at times chilling, reading' -- Shadd Maruna, author of 'Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Old Privatisation 2. The Consolidation of State Power and Legitimacy 3. The Re-emergence of Private War 4. Private Security and Policing 5. The Private Sector in the Penal System 6. Towards a Private State? References Index
£24.29
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Visions of Social Control
Book SynopsisVisions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960''s saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the established system. Such slogans as ''decarceration'' and ''division'' radically changed the dominance of the prison, the power of professionals and the crime-control system itself. Stanley Cohen traces the historical roots of these apparent changes and reforms, demonstrates in detail their often paradoxical results and speculates on the whole future of social control in Western societies. He has produced an entirely original synthesis of the original literature as well as an introductory guide to the major theoreticians of social control, such as David Rothman and Michael Foucault. This is not just a book for the specialist in criminology, social problems and the sociology of deviTrade Review"A major achievement ... in range and in analysis it is quite the best thing to have appeared in the area for many years." Sociological Review "A model worthy of emulation and a challenge to all, regardless of theoretical, methodological or ideological persuasion." American Journal of Sociology "A rich, provocative, and at times brilliant analysis of social control, punishment and classification. Cohen's use of historical, theoretical and empirical description, his unique vision and objective argumentation, and his compassion and involvement with the issues make this an essential text for anyone interested in social control... Cohen has permanently broadened and illuminated the discourse in this field." Law and Society ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Something like a Definition 2 The Sociological Connection 4 What Follows 9 1 The Master Patterns 13 The Original Transformation 14 The Alleged Current Move: Destructing 30 First Doubts, Second Thought 36 2 Inside the System 40 Size and Density 43 Visibility, Ownership and Identity 56 Penetration and Absorption 76 Conclusion: The Emerging Patterns 83 3 Deposits of Power 87 Progress 90 Organizational Convenience 92 Ideological Contradiction 100 Professional Interest 101 Political Economy 102 Conclusion 112 4 Stories of Change 115 The Quest for Community 116 The Ideal of the Minimum State 127 The Return to Behaviorism 139 Conclusion: Telling Stories 155 5 The Professionals 161 Part of a ‘New Class’? 162 The Logic and Language of Control 167 Cognitive Passion 175 Towards the Classified Society 191 6 Visions of Order 197 The Dystopian Assumption 197 The City as Metaphor 205 Planning for Order 211 Maps and Territories 218 Conclusion: Domains of Control 230 7 What Is To Be Done? 236 The Intellectual as Adversary 239 Doing Good and Doing Justice 245 Inside the System – Again 254 Means and Ends 261 Exclusion and Inclusion – Again 266 Appendix: In Constructing a Glossary of Controltalk 273 Euphemism 276 Medicalism and Psychologism 278 Acronyms 279 Technobabble 280 Notes and References 282 Index 318
£22.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Vigilant Citizens Vigilantism and the State
Book SynopsisVigilantes operate in the shadows rather than the bright lights of mainstream political consensus. They have arisen at many times in different regions of the world as defenders, often by force, of their view of the good life against those they see to be its enemies.Trade Review'Well researched and clearly written, with little academic jargon. [It] could be of interest to academics and a wider reading public.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Ray Abraham's book, Vigilant Citizens, begins to break through conventional approaches that simply focus on broad historical or social causes of vigilantism, and has much to offer as a result. By providing a rich historical overview of the social and political contexts in which vigilante groups have emerged, and a balanced degree of detail on their activities and goals, Vigilant Citizens is an excellent text for students, both at undergraduate and graduate levels.' Ron Levi, Faculty of Law and Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, in the British Journal of Criminology '[An] impressive piece of work that goes a long way to filling a gap in the literature on social protest movements.' Social AnthropologyTable of Contents1. Vigilantes. 2. On the Frontiers of the State. 3. Early San Francisco and Montana. 4. Vigilante Politics. 5. The British Scene. 6. Death Squads. 7. Vigilantism and Gender. 8. Limits of the Law. Notes. References. Index.
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Innocence Betrayed Paedophilia the Media and
Book Synopsis* A very readable and accessible book which is also rigorous and well researched. * Written by Jon Silverman (BBC Home Affairs Correspondent) and David Wilson (former prison governor) -- public figures with many contacts in the press and media.Trade Review"We fear it and loathe it but if we want to protect our children we must understand it too. The authors use formidable research to put paedophilia in context. This book is uncomfortable reading – but essential." John Humphrys, 'Today', BBC Radio 4 "No one has previously put the case so well for having an adult, rational debate about how we should respond to paedophilia. Nor have the counterproductive dangers of outing, naming and shaming with responses like Megan’s Law been so clearly discussed. A thoroughly researched and well argued study." Rod Morgan, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Probation Service for England and Wales "Silverman and Wilson manage to achieve what many of us aspire to - a book that will appeal both to a specialised and lay audience. In the emotionally charged atmosphere of considering the threat posed by predatory paedophiles ... it is important that we have a text that is thoughtful and measured, while also recognising the deep emotions that the topic raises among the populace. ...[T]his is a well-written book that can be recommended to the interested layperson ... while, for the specialist, it draws the threads together of the recent painful scenario where the News of the World has largely orchestrated the terms of the debate." The Howard Journal of Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Short History Of Sex Offending. 2. Paedophiles. 3. Beyond Victimhood. 4. Dealing With Paedophiles Within The Penal System. 5. Protecting The Community. 6. Release. 7. Communities In Need Of ‘Community Notification'. 8. Named And Shamed. 9. 'Charlie's Angels' And How To Protect Our Children. Bibliography. Index.
£49.50
University of British Columbia Press Securing Borders
Book SynopsisDetention and deportation are the two most extreme sanctions of an immigration penality that polices noncitizens, identifies those deemed dangerous, diseased, deceitful, or destitute, and refuses them entry or casts them out. They play a key role in regulating national borders, citizens, and populations. But what determines whether a noncitizen is deserving or undeserving? And how have anxieties about risky outsiders and the quest for security shaped Canada's response to immigrants and refugees?Anna Pratt takes a close look at the discursive formations, transformations, and technologies of power that have surrounded the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against risky outsiders has long been prominent in Canadian immigration penality, the degree to which concerns about security, crime, and fraud have come to govern the process is unprecedented.<Trade ReviewUltimately, Pratt writes convincingly of how (specific groups of) humans have become the object of management. This book also urges for research on a number of immigration management-related issues (e.g. discretion on the part of immigration officials). What I also consider a strength of the book is that it brings abundant light onto these minority ethnic groups in Canada that are relatively neglected by research … it will be invaluable for the researcher of immigration and ethnicity as well as to public official working with migrants and NGO workers. -- Georgios A. Antonopoulos, University of Durham * British Journal of Criminology Advance Access *Pratt’s book provides a complete and lucid analysis of the darker side of immigration policies in Canada. It maintains balance between a theoretical framework, historical backgrounders and practical illustrations, as well as between law and social science insights which will make reading accessible to a larger audience…It is, arguably the most complete and up-to-date Canadian book on detention and deportation. -- Sophie Dorais, McGill University * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 21, no. 1, 2006 *This book goes a long way to render visible the material conditions and tangible practices of the detention and deportation of undeserving and undesirable non-citizens, who are essentially being criminalized for the mere act of migration. -- Harsha Walia * The Rain Review of Books, Issue 4:1, Winter 2006 *Anna Pratt, a sociologist who teaches criminology, examines an important aspect of Canada’s refugee policy – detention and deportation – from the perspective of human rights and social justice. She sees larger a pattern in connections between the federal government’s immigration and refugee policies, public concerns about crime and welfare fraud, media reporting on immigrant communities such as Toronto’s Somalis, and the trend towards neo-liberalism. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Review, Vol. 16, No.3 *Table of Contents1 Overview and Orientations2 Detention at the Celebrity Inn3 Reframing Discretion4 From Purity to Security5 Floods and Frauds6 Risky Refugees7 Discretion, Dangerousness, and National Security8 Criminals First9 Risk-Smart Borders10 ConclusionAppendix:NotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Surveillance Power Problems and Politics
Book SynopsisThis book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.Trade ReviewThis particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases. -- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College * Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3) *Table of ContentsForeword / Kevin D. HaggertyIntroduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg1 The Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh GreenbergPart 1: Stigma, Morality, and Social Control2 Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care / Charlene D. Elliott3 Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby4 A Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott ThompsonPart 2: Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy5 Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed6 Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy / Joseph Scanlon7 Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects / Sheryl N. HamiltonPart 3: Genetics, Security, and Biometrics8 From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice / Neil Gerlach9 Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations “Blowback” in the Global War on Terrorism / Dwayne Winseck10 Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System / Shoshana MagnetPart 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché12 Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements / Simon J. Kiss13 Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance / Laura HueyReferencesIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Surveillance
Book SynopsisThis book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.Trade ReviewThis particular collection is unique in both its strong Canadian content, and the broad range of empirical cases. -- Benjamin J. Muller, Kings University College * Canadian Journal of Sociology, 35 (3) *Table of ContentsForeword / Kevin D. HaggertyIntroduction / Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg1 The Politics of Surveillance: Power, Paradigms, and the Field of Visibility / Sean P. Hier and Josh GreenbergPart 1: Stigma, Morality, and Social Control2 Kid-Visible: Childhood Obesity, Body Surveillance, and the Techniques of Care / Charlene D. Elliott3 Police Surveillance of Male-with-Male Public Sex in Ontario, 1983-94 / Kevin Walby4 A Kind of Prohibition: Targets of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s Interdiction List, 1953-75 / Scott ThompsonPart 2: Environmental Design, Consumerism, and Privacy5 Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen / Patrick F. Parnaby and C. Victoria Reed6 Administering the Dead: Mass Death and the Problem of Privacy / Joseph Scanlon7 Identity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects / Sheryl N. HamiltonPart 3: Genetics, Security, and Biometrics8 From Bodily Integrity to Genetic Surveillance: The Impacts of DNA Identification in Criminal Justice / Neil Gerlach9 Communication and the Sorrows of Empire: Surveillance and Information Operations “Blowback” in the Global War on Terrorism / Dwayne Winseck10 Bio-Benefits: Technologies of Criminalization, Biometrics, and the Welfare System / Shoshana MagnetPart 4: Participatory Surveillance and Resistance11 Public Vigilance Campaigns and Participatory Surveillance after 11 September 2001 / Mike Larsen and Justin Piché12 Cell Phones and Surveillance: Mobile Technology, States, and Social Movements / Simon J. Kiss13 Subverting Surveillance Systems: Access to Information Mechanisms as Tools of Counter-Surveillance / Laura HueyReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Judging Homosexuals
Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Judging Homosexuals
Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Constructing Crime
Book SynopsisConstructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individuals as criminals?To answer this question, contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five radically different sites the enforcement of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians, the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices, the perceptions of incivilities or disorder in public housing projects, and the selective criminalization of gambling.By demonstrating that how crime is defined and enforced is connected to social location and status, these interdisciplinary case studies and an afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why. This timely volume will appeal to policy makers and students and practitioners of law, criminology, and sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janet Mosher and Joan Brockman1 Welfare Fraud: The Construction of Social Assistance as Crime / Janet Mosher and Joe Hermer2 Fraud against the Public Purse by Health Care Professionals: The Privilege of Location / Joan Brockman3 Pimatsowin Weyasowewina: Our Lives, Others’ Laws / Lisa Chartrand and Cora Weber-Pillwax4 Incivilities: The Representations and Reactions of French Public Housing Residents in Montreal City / Frédéric Lemieux and Nadège Sauvêtre5 The Legalization of Gambling in Canada / Colin S. Campbell, Timothy F. Hartnagel, and Garry J. SmithAfterword / Marie-Andrée BertrandIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Critical Criminology in Canada
Book SynopsisCanada's criminal justice landscape has been shaped by contrary trends in recent years. As the crime rate declines, policy-makers continue to push for tough-on-crime legislation, and university criminology programs continue to expand. Given these trends, what does the future hold for criminology and criminal justice?This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political context of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from mainstream criminology and popular law-and-order discourses, the authors present a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism to anarchism and they propose novel approaches to topics such as genocide, white-collar crime, and the effect of prison sentences on families. By posing crucial questions and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will shape debates about crime, policingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Questions for a New Generation of Criminologists / Aaron Doyle and Dawn MoorePart 1: Canadian Criminology in the Twenty-First Century1 The Dilemmas of "Doing" Criminology in Québec: Curse or Opportunity? / Benoît Dupont2 Reconciling Spectres: Promises of Criminology / Bryan R. Hogeveen3 Commodifying Canadian Criminology: Applied Criminology Programs and the Future of the Discipline / Laura HueyPart 2: Expanding the Criminological Focus4 Corporate and White-Collar Crime: Reflections on the Study of Financial Wrongdoing in the Era of Neo-Liberalism / James W. Williams5 Criminological Nightmares: A Canadian Criminology of Genocide / Andrew Woolford6 Power and Resistance in Community-Based Sentencing / Diana Young7 Stigma and Marginality: Gender Experiences of Families of Male Prisoners in Canada / Stacey HannemPart 3: Theory and Praxis8 Reimagining a Feminist Criminology / Gillian Balfour9 The Promise of Critical Realism: Toward a Post-Empiricist Criminology / George S. Rigakos and Jon Frauley10 The Right to the City on Trial / Lisa Freeman11 Anarcho-Abolition: A Challenge to Conservative and Liberal Criminology / Kevin WalbyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Critical Criminology in Canada
Book SynopsisCanada's criminal justice landscape has been shaped by contrary trends in recent years. As the crime rate declines, policy-makers continue to push for tough-on-crime legislation, and university criminology programs continue to expand. Given these trends, what does the future hold for criminology and criminal justice?This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political context of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from mainstream criminology and popular law-and-order discourses, the authors present a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism to anarchism and they propose novel approaches to topics such as genocide, white-collar crime, and the effect of prison sentences on families. By posing crucial questions and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will shape debates about crime, policingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Questions for a New Generation of Criminologists / Aaron Doyle and Dawn MoorePart 1: Canadian Criminology in the Twenty-First Century1 The Dilemmas of "Doing" Criminology in Québec: Curse or Opportunity? / Benoît Dupont2 Reconciling Spectres: Promises of Criminology / Bryan R. Hogeveen3 Commodifying Canadian Criminology: Applied Criminology Programs and the Future of the Discipline / Laura HueyPart 2: Expanding the Criminological Focus4 Corporate and White-Collar Crime: Reflections on the Study of Financial Wrongdoing in the Era of Neo-Liberalism / James W. Williams5 Criminological Nightmares: A Canadian Criminology of Genocide / Andrew Woolford6 Power and Resistance in Community-Based Sentencing / Diana Young7 Stigma and Marginality: Gender Experiences of Families of Male Prisoners in Canada / Stacey HannemPart 3: Theory and Praxis8 Reimagining a Feminist Criminology / Gillian Balfour9 The Promise of Critical Realism: Toward a Post-Empiricist Criminology / George S. Rigakos and Jon Frauley10 The Right to the City on Trial / Lisa Freeman11 Anarcho-Abolition: A Challenge to Conservative and Liberal Criminology / Kevin WalbyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press City of Order
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of the causes and consequences of Halifax’s tough-on-crime measures in the interwar era.Trade ReviewFor determined popular readers as well as serious scholars, Boudreau’s book is worth plowing through to acquire an in-depth understanding of crime and working-class culture in interwar Halifax. It is even more valuable as a reminder that tough-on-crime policies can actually compound rather than ease social inequalities, racial divisions and economic hardship for the most vulnerable in urban societies. -- Paul W. Bennett * The Chronicle Herald, Halifax *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Crime, the Rule of Law, and Society1 A City of Order in a Time of Turmoil: The Socio-Economic Contours of Interwar Halifax2 The Machinery of Law and Order3 The Social Perceptions of Crime and Criminals4 “Miscreants” and “Desperadoes”: Halifax’s “Criminal Class”5 Women, Crime, and the Law6 The Ethnic Dimensions of Crime and CriminalsConclusion: The Supremacy of Law and Order in HalifaxAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Justice and the Charter
Book SynopsisAboriginal Justice and the Charter explores the tension between Aboriginal justice methods and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, seeking practical ways to implement Aboriginal justice. David Milward examines nine legal rights guaranteed by the Charter and undertakes a thorough search for interpretations sensitive to Aboriginal culture.Much of the previous literature in this area has dealt with idealized notions of what Aboriginal justice might be. Here, David Milward strikes out into new territory to examine why Indigenous communities seek to explore different paths in this area, and to identify some of the applicable constitutional constraints. This book considers a number of specific areas of the criminal justice process in which Indigenous communities may wish to adopt different approaches, tests these approaches against constitutional imperatives, and offers practical proposals for reconciling the various matters at stake. Milward grapples with the difTable of ContentsForeword / Bruce Granville MillerAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Aboriginal Aspirations for Justice3 The Current Situation in Canada4 Addressing the Tension5 Realizing the Culturally Sensitive Interpretation of Legal Rights6 The Sentencing Process7 The Trial Phase8 The Investigative Stage9 The Final Resolution10 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Demarginalizing Voices
Book SynopsisBy openly discussing the challenges of adopting innovative research methods, scholars of marginalized populations bring discussions of methodology from the fringes to the centre of debate in the social sciences.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Jennifer M. Kilty, Maritza Felices-Luna, and Sheryl C. FabianPart 1: Alternative Pathways: Opting for the Road Seldom Taken1 Observing a Self-Chosen Death / Russel D. Ogden2 Ensuring Aboriginal Women’s Voices Are Heard: Toward a Balanced Approach in Community-Based Research / Catherine Fillmore, Colleen Anne Dell, and Jennifer M. Kilty3 Commitment and Participation: A Collective Action to Defend the Rights of Homeless People against Anti-Disorder Policing Practices in Montreal / Céline Bellot, Marie-Ève Sylvestre, and Bernard St-Jacques4 Dance in Prison: Narratives of the Body, Performativity, Methodology, and Criminology / Sylvie Frigon and Laura Shantz5 Producing Feminist Knowledge: Lessons from the Past / Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies6 The Evolution of Feminist Research in the Criminological Enterprise: The Canadian Experience / Jennifer M. KiltyPart 2 Ethical Quagmires: Regulating Qualitative Research7 The Politics of Threats in Correctional and Forensic Settings: The Specificities of Nursing Research / Amélie Perron, Dave Holmes, and Jean Daniel Jacob8 How Positivism Is Colonizing Qualitative Research through Ethics Review / Will C. van den Hoonaard9 Fighting the Big Bad Wolf: Why All the Fuss about Ethics Review Boards? / Maritza Felices-Luna10 Doublespeak and Double Standards: Holding a Rogue University Administration to Account / John Lowman and Ted PalysPart 3 Emotion Work and Identity: Self-Examination and Self-Awareness11 Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Resolving Emotionality and Research Responsibility When Working for the Traumatizer / Sheryl C. Fabian12 Grappling with Reflexivity and the Role of Emotion in Criminological Analysis / Stacey Hannem13 Epistemological Violence, Psychological Whips, and Other Moments of Angst: Reflections on PhD Research / Melissa Munn14 Activist Academic Whore: Negotiating the Fractured Otherness Abyss / Chris BruckertConcluding Thoughts / Maritza Felices-Luna, Jennifer M. Kilty, and Sheryl C. FabianIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Who Is Bob34
Book SynopsisResearchers Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau investigate the clandestine world of child cyberpornography to understand who produces, exchanges, and consumes pedo-pornographic images.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Investigators and the Law2 The Evolution of ICTs and Their Effect on Trafficking3 How Much Is Out There, and Who Are the Victims?4 Are Search Engines Enabling?5 Are Discussion Forums a Classroom for Cyberpedophiles?6 Who Are Cyberpedophiles, and Is There a Link between Viewing and Abuse?ConclusionNotes, References, Index
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press Parole in Canada
Book SynopsisJust as Canada's population has changed in the past four decades, so too has its prison population. The increasing diversity among prisoners raises important questions about how we punish those who break the law. Parole in Canada is the first book to explore how concerns about Aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of diversity have been interpreted and used to alter federal parole policy and practice.Using the Parole of Board of Canada as a case study, this book shows how certain facets of offender differences are selectively included for accommodation, while fundamental institutional structures, practices, and power arrangements remain unchanged. Sarah Turnbull argues that, as the current approach fails to challenge outdated notions about gender, race, and aboriginality within the penal system, instead of addressing concerns around diversity, these measures end up contributing to further exclusion and discrimination within the system.Trade ReviewSarah Turnbull’s book is an important and timely qualitative addition to the field of law and justice ... Turnbull masterfully explains the intersections between the Canadian federal parole system and race, gender, Aboriginal status and identity without oversimplifying this complex issue. Parole in Canada is a highly accessible text that should find its way into every law, social justice and multiculturalism course. -- Katelan Dunn, Conestoga College * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Putting Gender, Race, and Culture on the Penal Agenda2 Responding to Diversity: Organizational Approaches to Managing Difference3 In Pursuit of “Appropriate” Decisions: Racialized and Gendered Knowledges within Training and Risk Assessment4 Cultural Ghettos? Organizational Responses to Aboriginal Peoples5 Discourses of Difference: Constituting the “Ethnocultural” Offender6 Conceptual Silos and the Problem of GenderConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Behind the Walls
Book SynopsisIn this system, you can't trust anybody. Like, even on the streets, I've never trusted my own brother. But now, in Ni-Miikana, I'm starting to get that trust back. You just gotta be careful what you say in here, and you'll be all right.Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada's prison population is on the rise, and outbreaks of violence continue to grab headlines. Applying Erving Goffman's frame theory and drawing on interviews with inmates and correctional officers in federal and provincial institutions, Michael Weinrath assesses whether improvements over the past twenty-five years have truly led to better corrections.Behind the Walls offers an unprecedented look at life in contemporary prisons. Inmates and staff describe their transition to prison life and corrections work, and they explain how they frame or understand their roles and how they relate to others. They provide commentarTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Canadian Prisons and Their Problems2 The Prisons and the Interviews3 How Inmates Understand Their Role4 How Inmates Relate to Others5 How Corrections Officers Understand Their Role6 Relations between Inmates and Officers7 The Effect of Policy, Architecture, and Technology8 Boundary Violations by Correctional Officers9 The Effect of Programs10 The Rise of Prison GangsConclusionAppendix: Interview GuideNotesGlossary: Correctional Terms and Inmate ArgotReferences; Index
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University of British Columbia Press A Better Justice
Book SynopsisWomen are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. While feminist criminologists advocate for community alternatives to imprisonment, they often do so without offering a corresponding analysis of existing community programs. And critical criminologists rarely consider gender in their assessment of the options.This book brings these criminological strands together in a concise and carefully reasoned analysis of alternative justice programs for criminalized women. Drawing on interviews with staff and documents from alternative justice agencies, Amanda Nelund finds that alternative programs neither reproduce dominant justice system norms nor provide complete alternatives. Instead, formal and informal practices reflect the tension between neoliberal and social justice approaches. A Better Justice? calls attention to the potential that alternative programs have for both alignment with and opposition to criminal justice norms. It is in the potentiTrade Review"While much feminist criminological research in Canada focuses on women’s experiences in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal, A Better Justice? adds an important Prairie-centric analysis. By documenting and examining community-based efforts to assist criminalized women in the city of Winnipeg, Nelund considers how front-line organizations attempt to imagine and do justice differently in Canada."—Jennifer Kilty, University of OttawaWhile much feminist criminological research in Canada focuses on women’s experiences in Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal, A Better Justice? adds an important Prairie-centric analysis. By documenting and examining community-based efforts to assist criminalized women in the city of Winnipeg, Nelund considers how front-line organizations attempt to imagine and do justice differently in Canada. -- Jennifer Kilty, University of Ottawa
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University of British Columbia Press Changing of the Guards
Book SynopsisChanging of the Guards is the first comprehensive assessment of how for- and not-for-profit private organizations are reshaping Canadian criminal justice processes and outcomes.Table of ContentsForeword: Privatization of Criminal Justice: Emotional, Intellectual, and Political Responses / Adam WhiteIntroduction: Canadian Perspectives on Private Influences and Privatization in Criminal Justice / Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, and Derek SilvaPart 1: Private Provision and Purchase of Security1 Police, Private Security, and Institutional Isomorphism / Massimiliano Mulone2 Private Policing of Images in Canada / Steven Kohm3 Postsecondary Security in the Canadian Context / Erin Gibbs Van BrunschotPart 2: Private Actors in City Spaces and Surveillance4 Policing Canadian Smart Cities: Technology, Race, and Private Influence in Canadian Law Enforcement / Jamie Duncan and Daniella Barreto5 Platforms and Privatizing Lines: Business Improvement Areas, Municipal Apps, and the Marketization of Public Service / Debra MackinnonPart 3: Private Influences and Privatization in Courts, Prisons, and Jails6 Private Risk Assessment Instruments and Artificial Intelligence in Canada’s Criminal Justice System / Nicholas Pope and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich7 The Implications of Food Privatization in Jails: A Case Study of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre / Kaitlin MacKenzie8 Shape Shifting: The Penal Voluntary Sector and the Governance of Domestic Violence / Rashmee SinghPart 4: Private Actors in National Security and Border Control9 Where Public Meets Private: Evidence of an Emerging “Industrial-Espionage Complex” in Canada / Alex Luscombe10 The Role of Privatization in Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres / Jona Zyfi and Audrey MacklinPostscript: Privatization Cultures and the Racial Order: A Dispatch from the United States / Torin MonahanIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Disability Injustice
Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Disability Injustice
Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex
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Cornell University Press Stalins Outcasts
Book Synopsis"I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five small children." "From 1923 to 1925 I worked as a musician but later my earnings weren't steady and I quickly stopped. Without an income to...Trade ReviewAlexopoulos explores the phenomenon of listhensy—those whom the Bolshevik regime categorized as 'exploiters' and the first Soviet constitution of 1918 formally disenfranchised.... This book suggests several important findings. Apart from details about the group's social profile (for example, gender, occupation, and ethnicity), it demonstrates the profound change in the meaning of this category from the mid-1920s—namely, from merely denoting exclusion from the electoral system to designation a group subject to pervasive discrimination and acute economic deprivation (which, for some, included deportation and hard labor).... It explores a new complex of sources and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Soviet social history. -- Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University * Slavonica *Alexopoulos made a systematic study of thousands of the 100,000 records available and came up with new information on the fate of Kulaks, who were perceived class enemies between 1926 and 1936. This is the first book to analyze the specifics of this aspect of Soviet history. * Library Journal *At the core of this book is a painstakingly assembled database consisting of hundreds of individual petitions and case files that Alexopoulos uses to discuss the lishentsy as a loosely defined social category.... In many senses a methodological tour de force, Alexopoulos's database allows her to detail in sweeping empirical terms the trials and tribulations of thousands of forgotten casualties of socialist construction.... Stalin's Outcasts deserves to be widely read. -- David Brandenberger, University of Richmond * Slavic Review *Offers new perspectives on the old problem of Russia's 'missing' middle class, by taking us far from the thematic and chronological limits conventionally imposed on our views of this social group. We get a new sense of the vigor and scale of the emerging 'commercial culture' and its celebration of a marketplace of values in Russia before 1917. -- Dan Healey, University of Wales * Cultural and Social History *The past decade has been an exciting time for scholars of Soviet history. Following the collapse of the communist system, the Russian government declassified millions of official documents and thus provided researchers with a wealth of new information about the Soviet regime and its subjects. Many historians, myself included, have boasted about their access to newly opened archival materials, but few can match the claim of Golfo Alexopoulos, who not only gained access to declassified documents, but actually discovered an archive that few scholars even knew existed. On the remote edge of a small town in Siberia, behind a concrete wall topped with barbed wire, Alexopoulos located the Archive for the Preservation of Reserve Records, a state repository for over 100,000 case files on people deprived of rights under the Stalin regime. Based on these files, and on a range of materials from other archives, Alexopoulos has written a fascinating monograph on Stalinist definitions of citizenship and the suffering endured by those excluded from Soviet polity.... With this book, Alexopoulos makes a valuable contribution to the field of Soviet history. Its significance derives both from the importance of her topic and the originality of her research. The book deserves a wide audience among historians of Russia and will be read with interest by other scholars as well. -- David L. Hoffman, Ohio State University * American Historical Review *We knew little about Soviet people who were constitutionally deprived of electoral rights. Golfo Alexopoulos is the first to tell their story, and she does it thanks to ingenious research in nine archives. Her book contributes not only to our understanding of early Soviet society. It should be required reading also for scholars interested in practices of social ostracism. -- Gabor T. Rittersporn, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris-Berlin * The Russian Review *
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Cornell University Press Renovating Russia
Book SynopsisRenovating Russia is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years liberal psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists grappled with an intractable dilemma. They sought to renovate Russia, to forge a modern...Trade ReviewBeer offers a wealth of new material on the pre-revolutionary roots of the intellectual apparatus used by the Bolsheviks to make sense of their society. The book offers a convincing case in favor of seeing the Soviet modernization project, not as a deviation from European modernity, but as 'a legitimate offspring of the modern spirit,' as Zygmunt Bauman has put it. The book also effectively challenges a common perception that the biological paradigm for understanding social issues was completely marginal to the Russian intellectual tradition.... Daniel Beer succeeds in offering an unexpected perspective on Russian and pan-European influences on Soviet socialism. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "Morel's Children"Chapter 2. The Etiology of DegenerationChapter 3. “The Flesh and Blood of Society”Chapter 4. “Microbes of the Mind”Chapter 5. Social Isolation and Coercive: Treatment after the RevolutionConclusionBibliography of Primary SourcesIndex
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Cornell University Press Surrealism and the Art of Crime
Book SynopsisCorpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war...Trade Review"For most people, crime is an abstraction, but an abstraction that generates surreal fear; hence the popularity of mysteries and horror stories. Aldous Huxley said the subject matter of literature came from the crime pages of newspapers, in effect, real life. Auden said a poet is a 'gossip.' Eburne knows this and respects the psyche's integral measure of terror in this examination of 'the role of violent crime in the writing, art, and political thought of the surrealist movement' after the horrors of WWI. Copiously (in places grotesquely) illustrated, this study is an original take on the necessary blend of politics and sociology and their nefarious offshoots of gutter journalism, lurid dime novels, rumor, propaganda, and finally, serious art—a shaky, volatile mix that is in one's face, mind, and sometimes nightmares. The visuals contribute viscerally to the substantive research, presented in journalistic, readable prose that depicts the noirish nature of subjects and people. Would one expect otherwise with chapters titled 'On Murder, Considered as One of the Surrealist Arts,' 'Germaine Berton and the Ethics of Assassination,' and 'Persecution Mania'? This book is well done and delicious fun. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, general readers."—Choice, March 2009"Jonathan P. Eburne picks up cultural developments in France around 1920, when Dada came to Paris, and analyses how Surrealist art and writing represented criminal violence and integrated it into a developing political consciousness. . . . All Eburne's case studies are assiduously detailed"—Peter Read, Times Literary Supplement, July 3, 2009"Eburne substantially raises the stakes as far as the scholarly understanding of surrealism is concerned. . . . Alert to the fact that one has to engage with the underlying collective essence of the surrealist spirit, he locates an essential thematic (in this case, crime) that can be seen to bind together certain fundamental surrealist attitudes . . . . Eburne's book is one of those rare things: a work of criticism that is not simply reflective of its subject but enlarges it."—Michael Richardson, Phosphor: A Surrealist Luminescence, Autumn 2009"Surrealism and the Art of Crime is a terrific book. The quality is unbeatable, the writing brilliant and concise. Jonathan P. Eburne's point about the dynamism of thinking about criminality and the many links to political action is highly original. His discussion of the various images related to crime is professional and entertaining. The way in which Eburne brings the topic up to the current moment cannot fail to bring the most jaded readers of surrealism back to an attentive appreciation of the high points of its history and presence."—Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French, The Graduate School of the City University of New York"In Surrealism and the Art of Crime, Jonathan P. Eburne offers a revisionist analysis of surrealism and its impact from its origins to the 1950s. His focus on the artists' interest in criminal figures, faits divers, and political violence defines the often underappreciated subtlety of the relationship the surrealists forged between aesthetics and politics."—Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University
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Cornell University Press Trafficking Justice
Book SynopsisIn response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon in their legal arsenal, despite the fact that the law was intended to make it easier to pursue trafficking cases.Using a combination of interview data, participant observation, and an original dataset of more than 5,500 Russian news media articles on human trafficking cases, McCarthy explores how trafficking cases make their way through the criminal justice system, covering multiple forms of the crimesexual, labor, and child traffickingover the period 20032013. She argues that to understand how law enforcement agencies have dealt with trafficking, it is critical to understand how their institutional machinerythe incentives, culture, and structure of their organizationsTrade ReviewIn a fine addition to the literature on how Russian governance really works, McCarthy traces this laxity to what she calls 'institutional machinery': incentives, structures, and a culture operating within Russian legal and judicial institutions that militate against the strenuous enforcement of new rules that introduce complex choices and burdensome procedures on law enforcement agencies. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *It is rare to encounter serious research on the implementation of new laws anywhere, let alone in Russia, and even rarer such a sensitive, nuanced, well-written, and authoritative account. InTrafficking JusticeLauren McCarthy explains how in 2003 Russia added to its criminal code articles on human trafficking and the use of slave labor, in part to satisfy international obligations and modelled on language from other countries. The author brings to bear the best insights and perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of socio-legal studies... this book has a lot to say to anyone interested in the pursuit of a reform agenda through legal change. -- Peter H. Solomon Jr. * The Russian Review *The volume takes into account more than 5,500 relevant articles made available in Russian mass media, interview data, and participant observation to summarize the results of how the Russian authorities treat this painful problem. Among the achievements of this research study is its useful analysis of prostitution-related human trafficking. McCarthy selected an impressive list of sources that includes most recent studies of this subject alongside the works of previous generations of scholars. The language of this book is accessible to various levels of readership and is one of many merits of this worthy book. -- Y. Polsky * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. History, Trends, and Contours of Human Trafficking in Russia2. The Human Trafficking Laws3. Law Enforcement's Institutional Machinery and the Criminal Process4. The Identification of Trafficking Cases5. The Investigation of Human Trafficking Cases6. Indictment, Trial, and SentencingConclusionAppendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Official Russian Law Enforcement Statistics on Human Trafficking CrimesLegal Sources References Index
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Cornell University Press Violent Entrepreneurs
Book SynopsisEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market...Trade ReviewViolent Entrepreneurs offers an engaging glimpse into the darker recesses of Russia's shadow economy.... Volkov's work is exceptionally well researched, relying on statistical data as well as surprisingly candid firsthand interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of private protection companies, active and former police employees, experts, and businesspeople to present its case. * Perspectives on Political Science *A richly documented, complex book.... Volkov establishes a critical distance from the state and its agencies, important in principle and particularly so in a period of rapid social change, with new legal codes shifting the boundaries of crime and the enforcement of public order moving, in practice, into private hands. * International Affairs *This impressive study by Russian sociologist Vadim Volkov investigates the economic and social evolution of the nascent entrepreneurial class in Russia and accounts for its disturbingly intimate liaison with violence and crime.... Volkov considers the implications of the weakened and discredited state against the background of new economic agents who, desperate to secure their property and monopoly rights in various markets, have become accustomed to the use of force. * Russian Review *This is a splendid book, a well-written and well-researched contribution to the field that deserves a wide and appreciative readership.... This excellent, literate, and insightful work is both scholarly enough to advance study of Russian criminality and 'violent capitalism' into fruitful new avenues and readable enough that it need not scare off undergraduates—and as such to be welcomed wholeheartedly. * Slavic Review *Volkov supplies the missing link between almost everything else you may read about business in post-Communist Russia and almost everything else you can read about organized crime there. He treats the two activities, business and crime, with equal respect as fields of sociological inquiry, and so arrives at the first satisfying account of how they affect each other. * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface1. Veblen's Warning2. Violent Entrepreneurship3. The Violence-Managing Agency4. Bandits and Capitalists5. The Privatization of the Power Ministries6. The Politics of State FormationKey to InterviewsGlossaryIndex
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Cornell University Press Getting Paid
Book SynopsisThe working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture...Trade Review"This is one of the most important works I have read on working-class life. It will be widely read, praised, and debated." -- Elliott J. Gorn, Miami University
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University of Toronto Press Miscarriages of Justice in Canada Causes
Book SynopsisIn Miscarriages of Justice in Canada, Kathryn M. Campbell offers an extensive overview of wrongful convictions, bringing together current sociological, criminological, and legal research, as well as current case-law examples.Trade Review"Miscarriages of Justice is a darkly compelling book not because it is sensational, but because it is so matter of fact." -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter, May 16, 2020 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2: Eyewitness Identification and Misidentification Chapter 3: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Police Chapter 4: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Prosecutors, Defense Counsel, and the Judiciary Chapter 5 - False Confessions Chapter 6 - In-custody Informants Chapter 7 - DNA Evidence: Raising the Bar Chapter 8 -Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony Chapter 9 - Conventional Remedies through the Courts and Conviction Review Chapter 10 - Commissions of Inquiry: Lessons Learned Chapter 11 - Compensation: The "Obstacle Course" Chapter 12 - The Impact of Public Lobbying on Wrongful Convictions: The Role of the Media, Lobby Groups and Innocence Projects Chapter 13: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions Chapter 14 - Final Conclusions
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Ohio University Press Jail Speak
Book SynopsisWhen Ben Langston took a guard job at a local prison, it was because there were few other options. Jail Speak is his memoir about working in the incarceration industry.Trade Review“Ben Langston’s memoir offers a clear-eyed and revelatory look into the lives of incarcerated men and those who are charged to guard them. His experiences inside this secluded world debunk the uninformed narratives outsiders hold as truths and bring to light stories brimming with empathy. Jail Speak is a poignant, remarkable book.”“Jail Speak is a wrenching, authentic, and haunting account of life inside the state prison where Langston worked as a corrections officer for three years. In terse, eloquent prose, Langston spares no detail as he transports readers inside, where he translates ‘jail speak,’ the vernacular of men in prison—both the inmates and the guards—and exposes the profoundly troubling day-to-day reality of the prison industrial complex. Jail Speak is a heartbreaking, viscerally honest, timely, and critically important book. If you read only one book about prison, make it Jail Speak; you will not find a more acutely truthful, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative about life behind bars for prisoners and their keepers.”“Prepare to be uncomfortable, to be challenged out of your certainties, to confront realities you’ve successfully ignored or diminished, to peek into obscurities of human attitudes and behaviors. But also prepare to be overwhelmed with literary power, and even beauty amidst ugliness, a subtle earnestness amidst all the layers of irony and self-protecting distancing. For underneath the narrator’s bravado is the writer’s bravura. All of this, and more, awaits between the covers of Ben Langston’s masterful evocation of Jail Speak.” * author of Disparates *
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Stanford University Press Breaking the Codes Female Criminality in
Book SynopsisBreaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siècle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.Trade Review"Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice." -- Social HistoryTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5
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Stanford University Press Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.Trade Review"Intricacy and depth of scholarship... characterize the chapters. Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment has been a bracing intellectual excursion, and... I found each of the articles to range from interesting to fascinating."—Law and Politics Book Review"This collection of highly original works explores the construction of criminal law discourse and its problematic relationship to the enterprise of state punishment. There are many scholars whose work intersects with this volume, but no other published collection on the history of substantive criminal law offers anything like the range and coherence put forth here."—Jonathan Simon, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley"Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment involves an original and interdisciplinary approach to the area of criminal law. This is an exceptional book." —Alan Norrie, King's College, LondonTable of ContentsContents Contributors iii Introduction: Regarding Criminal Law Historically Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer 1 1. Character, Capacity, Outcome: Toward a Framework for Assessing the Shifting Pattern of Criminal Responsibility in Modern English Law Nicola Lacey 000 2. Criminal Responsibility and the Proof of Guilt Lindsay Farmer 000 3. "An Inducement to Morbid Minds": Politics and Madness in the Victorian Courtroom Joel Peter Eigen 000 4. The Meaning of Killing Guyora Binder 000 5. "An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document": Jefferson's Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment Markus D. Dubber 000 6. The Myth of Private Prosecution in England, 1790-1850 Bruce P. Smith 000 7. Hans Litten and the Politics of Criminal Law in the Weimar Republic Benjamin Hett 000 8. Civilizing Darwin: Holmes on Criminal Law Gerry Leonard 000 9. Bodies, Words, Identities: The Moving Targets of the Criminal Law Mariana Valverde 000 10. Criminal Law at a Fault Line of Imperial Authority: Inter- Racial Homicide Trials in British India Martin Wiener 000 11. Crime and Punishment on the Tea Plantations of Colonial India Elizabeth Kolsky 000 12. "Enfeebling the Arm of Justice": Perjury and Prevarication in British India Wendie Ellen Schneider 000 Index
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Stanford University Press Knowledge as Power
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of U.S. efforts to register and monitor individuals in response to real or perceived criminal threats.Trade Review"Knowledge as Power provides critical analysis of problems with popular criminal registration and community notification laws. Its comprehensive inquiry confirms that legislation based on fear and anger wastes valuable energy and resources when contrasted with a more rational approach. This book credibly debunks the myth that harsh reactionary laws enhance public safety and crime prevention." -- Rafael E. Silva * The Champion *" Knowledge as Power provides a highly original look at the forgotten history of registration laws and startling trends in their use today." -- Joseph E. Kennedy * University of North Carolina *"We now use registration law as a response to crime on an unprecedented scale, and its ad hoc expansion has affected the liberty of an enormous number of people. Logan perceptively discusses how this shift both reflects and influences major changes in public expectations about our government. This book not only contributes to the field, but will define it for quite some time." -- Ronald F. Wright * Wake Forest University *"Sex offenders, much like witches in earlier times, have become the dehumanized objects of public fears in an anxious age. Logan subtly tells the uniquely American tale of sex offender registration and notification. It will long stand as the authoritative account of a challenging chapter in American life." -- Michael Tonry * University of Minnesota *"In this outstanding study Wayne Logan locates our recent spate of tough registration and notification laws aimed at sex offenders, in a long history of using the collection and dissemination of knowledge about criminal identities to prevent crime. These practices did not begin with sex, and have reflected not just panic, but also optimism about the capacity of identification systems to prevent crime. Historically the results have been modest, but combined since the 1990s with an unprecedented embrace by the American public of harsh punishment, registration and notification laws threaten to transform the practices of criminal justice today." -- Jonathan Simon, University of California * Berkeley *
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John Wiley & Sons Choctaw Crime and Punishment 18841907
Book SynopsisIn the years between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults - often at the hands of Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years.
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni A Knight of Another Sort Prohibition Days and
Book SynopsisIn 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.
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University of Pennsylvania Press El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace Crime
Book SynopsisAfter El Salvador's brutal civil war ended in 1992, crime rates shot up. People began to speak of the peace as "worse than the war." This study examines how narratives of post-conflict violence, told by ordinary people, offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.Trade Review"Moodie's study provides a fascinating account of how daily micro relations between individuals permeate macro features of a society. The book also demonstrates the possibilities opened up by the kind of qualitative methodological approach adopted by Moodie, going beyond the statistical data on El Salvador's rates of crime and homicide, to tell the story of how ordinary people's experiences of violent crime are constructed and the hidden and changing political consequences of such constructions." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"In this compelling and original book, anthropologist Ellen Moodie analyzes crime stories that circulated in El Salvador in the postwar period. Her goal is not to understand crime per se, or even public perceptions of crime, but rather to make sense of the postwar period itself. . . . Beautifully written, El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace moves in time and space, returning repeatedly to sites and moments that symbolize hopes and disappointments." * Susan Bibler Coutin, University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Big Stories and the Stories Behind the Stories 2 Critical Code-Switching and the State of Unexception 3 "Today They Rob You and They Kill You" 4 Adventure Time in San Salvador 5 Democratic Disenchantment 6 Unknowing the Other Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press In the Shadow of the Gallows
Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.Trade Review"This is a powerful book filled with important, paradigm-shifting ideas about the presentation of African Americans in print and the media. Though not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways that scholarship on the history of print and readership rarely does." * Journal of American History *"In this impressively researched and provocative study, Jeannine Marie DeLombard argues for an alternative literary and legal history of early black writing and, more broadly, nineteenth-century cultural formations of racial subjectivity." * New England Quarterly *"DeLombard's expertly researched book stands as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity." * Law and History Review *"DeLombard ingeniously shows from deep research how much the creation of an African American 'voice' stemmed from ancient assumptions about race, criminality, and guilt. Her reading of Frederick Douglass's arrest and jailing as a young slave rebel is alone worth the price of this book, but she demands that we see race, literature, and citizenship in the age of the Civil War as a national crucible played out in courts, on gallows, in jails, and ultimately on the printed page." * David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era *"In her exquisitely written In the Shadow of the Gallows, Jeannine DeLombard reads early American criminal law in conjunction with the idea of social contract to illustrate the intricacies of political belonging from the early Republic through the antebellum period. Through the double helix of print and legal history, she chronicles the metamorphic role of authorship in African Americans' bids for enfranchisement against the backdrop of a nation entangled in contradictory definitions of personhood and property and of criminality and civility. Exemplary of humanities scholarship at its best, the book establishes the connections between American literature and the African American struggle for civic inclusion." * Priscilla Wald, Duke University *"I have long thought that DeLombard is at the absolute top of the scholars working on law and literature in North America, and In the Shadow of the Gallows confirms her status." * Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"The significance of DeLombard's project can be measured by the centrality of its claims to a wide variety of fields. The issues that DeLombard takes up here strike at the heart of the current disciplinary configurations defining not only American and African American literary studies but also American and African American history and critical race studies." * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man PART I Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self PART II Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£28.80
University of Pennsylvania Press Responding to Human Trafficking
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alicia Peter's ethnography provides the most lucid analysis of the immensely contested operations of human trafficking response that I have ever read. It illuminates how cultural beliefs and values about gender, sexuality, and victimization have fractured the interpretation and implementation of the law in different sites." * Sealing Cheng, author of On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea *"Responding to Human Trafficking is an important contribution to the literature on human trafficking. Alicia W. Peters successfully takes us inside the maze of the anti-trafficking regime, illustrating conflicts in priorities, challenges in advocacy work, and the continued need to design a victim-centered system." * Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California *"Alicia W. Peters illustrates the ways in which ideology is incorporated into U.S. anti-trafficking law. With unprecedented access to service providers working with victims of trafficking in New York City, federal officials, and a number of victims, Peters suggests how to utilize survivors' stories to frame future research and how to use their voices in the policy debates." * Elzbieta Gozdziak, Georgetown University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction PART I. TRAFFICKING ON THE BOOKS Chapter 1. A Dichotomy Emerges PART II. THINKING, ENVISIONING, AND INTERPRETING TRAFFICKING Chapter 2. The Experts Make Sense of the Law Chapter 3. "Things That Involve Sex Are Just Different" Chapter 4. Defining Trafficking Through Survivor Experience PART III. THE LAW IN ACTION Chapter 5. Intersections on the Ground Chapter 6. Moving the Antitrafficking Response Forward APPENDICES A. Data Archiving Requirements and Threats to Confidentiality B. Interviewees Quoted in the Text Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Takedown
Book SynopsisFormer CIA Deputy Director of Counterterrorism and FBI Senior Intelligence Adviser Philip Mudd recounts his involvement in the fight against Al Qaeda, revealing how intelligence analysts understand and evaluate potential terror threats and communicate with political leaders.Trade Review"A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the world of counterterrorism. Mudd has been at the heart of the chase for the world's most dangerous people and makes us feel we are there with him." * Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast/Newsweek *"Takedown is a must read for anyone who needs to understand terrorism, intelligence or the inner workings of the government's national security apparatus" * John Miller, Senior Correspondent at CBS News *"Philip Mudd is an intelligence officer whose analysis is rarely wrong, and a public servant whose moral compass is always right. Mudd has the unique ability to not only find meaning out of chaos, but also the ability to clearly pass on that information to the policy makers who need it." * George J. Tenet, Former Director of Central Intelligence *"This gripping narrative effectively conveys the breadth of the challenges confronted by counterterrorism analysis. Philip Mudd's perspective-that of someone who sought to understand the unintelligible-is a valuable addition to extant histories of 9/11 and what followed." * Richard H. Immerman, Temple University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The 9/11 Aftermath Chapter 2: A Return to Langley Chapter 3: The Spreading Threat: Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda Chapter 4: The Second War: The Intelligence Problem of Iraq Chapter 5: A New View at CIA: Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center Chapter 6: The Years of Threat Chapter 7: Watching Threats at Home: The FBI Calls Chapter 8: One More Transfer: Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security Index
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Rutgers University Press Girls in Trouble with the Law Rutgers Series in
Book SynopsisFocuses on the girls' experiences of violence and the inequities of the criminal justice system. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile justice system, the author takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated.Trade ReviewA much needed, well-grounded exploration of the trials and tribulations of aggressive girls who fall prey to the accumulation of social risk factors in their lives. Schaffner blends first-hand accounts with empirical data from multiple sources to tell a compelling nonfiction narrative. -- James Garbarino * author of See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do A *This is a superb work, intermingling poetry, narrative, interviews, and examples to create a fascinating overview of what girls experience in the juvenile corrections system, as well as how they are perceived by the people entrusted with their care. Schaffner's book is well-conceived, beautifully written and extremely clear. -- Lynn Chancer * author of High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes *Girls in Trouble with the Law offers readers a brilliant window for re-viewing the gender, race, and class politics of juvenile justice. Readers will be filled with outrage, and yet fueled by Schaffner's passionate sense of possibility and vision for 'what must be.' -- Michelle Fine * Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY *Girls in Trouble with the Law is an important addition to the growing scholarship on girls and women and the legal system. The strength of the book is Schaffner's use of the girls' own words as they describe their family lives and the pattern of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of parents and other adults who should offer them nurturance and protection. Schaffner performs an important service for these victims. Her advocacy of early intervention...[and] new approaches to meeting their needs should be acted upon by schools and social service agencies. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Introduction: Girls Trouble the Law 1. New Troubles for Girls 2. Injury, Gender, and Trouble 3. Empty Families, Sexualuty, and Trouble 4. Gender, Violence, and Trouble 5. Children, Gender, and Corrections 6. Conclusion: Pathways, Policies, Programs, and Politics Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Statecorporate Crime Wrongdoing at the
Book SynopsisEnron, Haliburton, ExxonValdez, 'shock and awe'-their mere mention brings forth images of scandal, collusion, fraud, and human and environmental destruction. While great power and great crimes have always been linked, media exposure in recent decades has brought increased attention to the devious exploits of economic and political elites.Despite growing attention to crimes by those in positions of trust, however, violations in business and similar wrongdoing in government are still often treated as fundamentally separate problems. In State-Corporate Crime, Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer bring together fifteen essays to show that those in positions of political and economic power frequently operate in collaboration, and are often all too willing to sacrifice the well-being of the many for the private profit and political advantage of the few.Drawing on case studies including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Ford Explorer rollovers, thTrade ReviewThis volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who study the relationship between government and corporate crime. -- Gray Cavender * coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Viol *State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature of criminology. -- David Friedrichs * Professor, University of Scranton *This volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who study the relationship between government and corporate crime. -- Gray Cavender * coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Viol *State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature of criminology. -- David Friedrichs * Professor, University of Scranton *Table of ContentsPreface The Critique of Power / Raymond J. Michalowski / Ronald C. Kramer The Original Formulation / Ronald C. Kramer / Raymond J. Michalowski The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion / Ronald C. Kramer The Fire in Hamlet / Judy Aulette / Raymond J. Michalowski Nuclear Weapons Production / David Kauzlarich / Ronald C. Kramer The Crash of Valujet Flight / Rick A. Matthews / David Kauzlarich Globalization, State-Corporate Crime, and Women / Nancy A. Wonders / Mona J. Danner Ordinary Business in Nazi Germany / Rick A. Matthews Bridgestone-Firestone, Ford, and the NHTSA / Christopher W. Mullins The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill / Tricia Cruciotti / Rick A. Matthews Enron-Era Economics versus Economic Democracy / Raymond J. Michalowski / Ronald C. Kramer Violations of Treaty Rights / Linda Robyn The Invasion of Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer / Raymond J. Michalowski Iraq and Halliburton / Dawn Rothe Taking Stock of Theory and Research / David Kauzlarich / Rick A. Matthews References Contributors Index
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John Wiley & Sons Neither Villain Nor Victim Empowerment and Agency
Book SynopsisFemale drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. This title presents a critical feminist analysis of the drug world. By shifting the discussion to one centered on women's agency and empowerment, it reveals the experiences and social relationships of women addicts.Table of ContentsDimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / R. Baskin and Ira Sommers Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in street-life social networks / Christopher W. Mullins Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim M. Blankenship Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret S. Malloch More of a danger to myself : community reentry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie W. Hartwell "Hustling" to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger Drug use, prostitution, and globalization : a modest proposal for rethinking policy / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel
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