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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening examination of African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuseTrade ReviewBattle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall,co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American CommunitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Call 2 Black Feminist Criminology and the Power of Narrative: "I Just Wanted to Tell My Story" 3 Dynamic Resistance: "I'm a Strong Black Woman" 4 Surviving Childhood: "I Learned to Stand up for Myself " 5 Living Through It: "He Made Me Believe He Was Something He Wasn't" 6 Fighting Back: "You Want to Fight? We Gonna Fight!" 7 Getting Out: "We Have to Pray to God and Hope Everything Works Out" 8 Conclusion: The Response Appendix A: Research Methods and Demographics Appendix B: Pseudonyms and Demographic Information Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening examination of African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuseTrade Review"Battle Cries is the most comprehensive study of intimate partner abuse in heterosexual Black relationships. Battle Cries makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on domestic violence and our understanding, in particular, of African American women and their experience of and responses to abusive relationships. Her comparative approach to the topic and her class analysis also makes this the most compelling book to be published recently on the challenges facing Black women in the U.S." -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall,co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American CommunitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Call 2 Black Feminist Criminology and the Power of Narrative: "I Just Wanted to Tell My Story" 3 Dynamic Resistance: "I'm a Strong Black Woman" 4 Surviving Childhood: "I Learned to Stand up for Myself " 5 Living Through It: "He Made Me Believe He Was Something He Wasn't" 6 Fighting Back: "You Want to Fight? We Gonna Fight!" 7 Getting Out: "We Have to Pray to God and Hope Everything Works Out" 8 Conclusion: The Response Appendix A: Research Methods and Demographics Appendix B: Pseudonyms and Demographic Information Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. This title presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, and offers insights into which trends have declined and why. It considers the indicators such as employment, labour market opportunities, skill levels, and housing.Trade Review"Essential." * Choice *"All of this can be summarized in the following three reasons that Parkers book is important: she begins with a question that deserves an answer, she demonstrates how that question is far more complex than most have thought, and she offers an answer that is theoretically rich." * Contemporary Sociology *"Her analysis is not only a thorough review of the debate on the link between violent crime and unemployment; it is an exploration into the complex intertwining between ethnicity, gender, population composition and political economy in violent crime . . . a hugely rewarding read." * British Journal of Criminology *"Parkers theoretical integration is so straightforward and intuitive that it makes one wonder why it took so long for sociologists to consider such an amalgamation. Sociologists interested in the urban economy should seriously consider the ways in which labor market changes stratify racial groups along dimensions of crime and violence. Meanwhile, criminologists would do well to heed Parkers call for a richer and more dynamic theoretical treatment of the economy in their models of changing crime rates." * American Journal of Sociology *"Parker's book is an important addition to our understanding of the crime drop of the 1990s. In fact, her research sheds new light on this important social trend, dispels myths that continue to surround it, and demonstrates how criminology theory has not been particularly relevant to our understanding of how and why it occured." -- Bruce D. Stout * Journal of American Ethnic History *"The absence of obfuscation is exemplary and this unpretentious text is student-friendly as well as useful for all postgraduate students, academics and policy-makers who wish to furnish themselves with a clear, empirically grounded and sophisticated picture of the 'crime drop'" -- Steve Hall * Urban Studies Journal *"The crime decline that began in the early 1990s and ran for more than a decade is the largest sustained drop in crime rates ever recorded in the United Statesand yet this remarkable event has gone largely unheralded. Parker illuminates this unexplored terrain by shining a light on the unevenness of the decline across key subgroups defined especially by race, gender and class. Her book is required reading for anyone interested in the make up of this fascinating piece of criminology history." -- Gary LaFree,author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America"There has been much speculation as to the source and meaning of the crime drop of the 1990s. Yet, relatively unexamined is whether crime rates declined uniformly across all groups and, if not why not? In this important book, Parker carefully examines homicide trends for different combinations of race and gender specific groups over three decades and convinces us that crime trends are far from uniform. What then accounts for the race and gender disparities in homicide trends? Parker offers more nuanced explanations by exploring how changes in the urban landscape over several decades have differentially affected blacks and whites and males and females. Parkers book is a significant achievement, merging sophisticated quantitative techniques and analysis with sociological insights about structural changes in our cities that also affect urban crime rates. She has raised important questions about the crime drop and at the same time has provided a number of new directions for future research. This is a provocative and stimulating book which should prompt criminologists to more carefully deconstruct crime patterns and trends by race and gender." -- Sally S. Simpson,author of Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are used to construct difference for both the heroes and the villains in ways that are both conservative and progressiveTrade ReviewComic Book Crime is an important book devoted to a medium that has long been dismissed. -- Scott Elingburg * Popmatters *Another important and original contribution to cultural criminology and the study of popular culture more generally. Phillips' and Strobl's work lays out the primacy of crime, violence, hegemony, and retribution to American conceptualizations of mythic justice. -- Michelle Brown,co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular CultureCarrying ahead the project of cultural criminology, Phillips and Strobl dare to take seriously that which amuses and entertains usand to find in it the most significant of themes. Audiences, images, ideologies of justice and injusticeall populate the pages of Comic Book Crime. The result is an analysis as colorful as a good comic, and as sharp as the point on a superheros sword. -- Jeff Ferrell,author of Empire of ScroungeInnovative, exciting, and truly interdisciplinary, Phillips and Strobl pen a wonderful book on the iconic cultural figures in contemporary American comic books. Phillips and Strobl use criminal justice, criminology, law, history, sociology, and related social sciences to argue that comic books and the characters that inhabit those spaces constitute a rather comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in America. Phillips and Strobl's book is made up of 10 succinct chapters, all edgy and creative. The book's most persuasive component may be the final substantive chapter in which Phillips and Strobl present the impact of this attention to crime fighting, which has led to astronomical numbers of Americans incarcerated. If readers were to only read one chapter of the book, it should be the final chapter....Comic Book Crimeis an essential book for anyone interested in truth, justice, and the American way, but more importantly who defines those notions and how.Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- A.R.S. Lorenz * CHOICE *Philips and Strobl are criminologists, and they take a distinctly criminological approach to their examination of stories about law and order in comic books, but their book should appeal to all social science and humanities scholars with an interest in comics. The authors are also comic book insiders who volunteer to serve as patient mentors to those of us who are new to the genre, explaining key words like & retcon, and core processes like & crossover event. This is a very accessible guide for the comic book newcomer that is also mindful of & fanboy readers. * Men and Masculinities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Holy Criminology, Batman! Comics and Constructions of Crime and Justice 2 "Crime Doesn't Pay"A Brief History of Crime and Justice Themes in Comic Books 3 The World Is ShiftingTerrorism, Xenophobia, and Comic Books after 9/11 4 A Better TomorrowApocalypse, Utopia, and the Crime Problem 5 "That's the Trouble with a Bad Seed"Villains and the Embodiment of Evil 6 "Aren't We Supposed to Be the Good Guys?"Heroes, Deathworthiness, and Paths to Justice 7 "Take Down the Bad Guys, Save the Girl"Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Comic Book Justice 8 "Aren't There Any Brown People in This World?"Race, Ethinicity, and Crime Fighting 9 Apocalyptic IncapacitationThe "Maximum-Maximum" Response to Crime 10 ConclusionUltimate Justice Appendix: Sample and methodology Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Neighborhood Has Its Own Rulesis a wonderful testament to the power of ethnography and street-level observations of various alternative means of violence suppression. It provides the possibility of the state resourcing alternative institutions as a means to alleviate inequality. Importantly, these institutions include public education, the churches, and various nonprofit groups who choose to work in high-crime communities. * International Criminal Justice Review *Martinez undertakes a critical and relevant topic that contributes across many fields. His rich, extensive ethnographic work captures the nature of race relations between Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles . . . [and] accounts for how residents do in fact engage their communities in the hope of improvement and how they create their own rules and relations. This book will prove to be a seminal one in its field and across disciplines. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *This book confronts head on the issues of violence and social disorganization among the poor. Cid Martinez has provided new insights into the workings of various local institutions in establishing social order. This is an excellent example of ethnography at its best and an important contribution to the field. -- Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,author of Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor NeighborhoodsIn this compelling ethnography, Cid Martinez crosses institutional settings to understand how violence is managed by residents of the inner city. He meticulously describes how informal institutions create a rule of law when the state fails to penetrate the social order. Martinezs assessment of alternative governance in the inner city is a brilliant work of urban sociology providing a perfect balance between thick description and theory development. This ground-breaking book makes a timely and crucial contribution to the study of urban poverty, policing, violence and race relations. -- Victor Rios,author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino BoysCid Gregory Martinezs The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules helps bridge two gulfs in the urban ethnographic literature and its longstanding interest in social dis/organization: the limited attention paid to interracial neighborhoods and the implications of the rise of Latin American immigration, particularly in neighborhoods formerly segregated along white-black racial lines. * American Journal of Sociology *Scholars will find in the book an important argument regarding the contributions made by some religious institutions to making our poorest urban communities more livable and inviting. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *

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Book SynopsisWinner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political ScientistsExamines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisonersFelony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons' efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to live with them. In many states, those with felony convictions cannot receive financial aid for further education, vote in elections, receive welfare benefits, or live in public housing. In short, they are not treated as full citizens, and every year, hundreds of thousands of people released from prison are forced to live on thTrade Review"Convicted and Condemned is one of the best ethnographic and first person accounts I have read, which sheds life on the real and tangible effects of public policies. It is an outstanding multi-layered analysis of prisoner reentry that includes public policies and lived experiences and provides a unique perspective to understanding prisoner reentry. A must read book for those responsible for policy making and working with this population." -- Byron Price,Author of Merchandizing Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison Privatization"This fascinating book offers a sharp policy analysis and introduces a powerful framework for making sense of the experiences of those with a felony conviction. Keesha Middlemass provides an expert account of the various ways that a felony status is socially constructed and the implications of this construction for those with felony convictions in the years following their release from incarceration." -- Nikki Jones,Author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence"The narrative in this important, impassioned book is strengthened by the voices of those stigmatizedmale and female, black and whiteseeking to find their footing in a hostile environment." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisProbes the social, economic, and political organization of prostitution and sex traffickingTrade Review"In recent times some scholars have begun to question some commonly held beliefs on the relation between sex trafficking and prostitution. Along this path of inquiry, Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking is a meaningful and interesting contribution, which challenges the conventional wisdom about sex trafficking that guides national and international regulatory frameworks. [] The book will certainly be of interest to readers of this Journal. It is well written and suitable to both an experienced and non-specialist audience. It should be valuable not only to scholars in the fields of criminology, sociology, and gender studies, but also to all those interested in the complex relation between sex trafficking and prostitution such as policy-makers and social activists." * Trends in Organized Crime *"Selling Sex Overseasis an important and timely book. It should prompt scholars, policymakers and advocates to reexamine previously held assumptions about sex trafficking and prostitution. Chin and Finckenauer demonstrate that researchers can reach key actors in the sex industry and build the rapport necessary to learn about their experiences....Selling Sex Overseasis an excellent read. It should provoke important conversations about both the nature of the transnational commercial sex industry and the problem of trafficking persons for sex." -- Amy Farrell * Rutgers: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"[The authors'] work thus has implications for national and international public policies. I highly recommend this book for scholars in fields of sociology, gender studies, and area studies." -- Shu-Ju Ada Cheng,Associate Professor in Sociology, DePaul University"A groundbreaking and riveting book, providing a fascinating picture of Asian sex markets. The authors mine a mountain of field data on the experiences of Chinese women who migrate to cities in Asia and beyond in search of work in the sex industry. Sociologically rich and highly policy relevant, the book offers a unique window into the complex and variegated nature of both transnational migration and sexual commerce." -- Ronald Weitzer,author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business"Impressive in its scope, Selling Sex Overseas is sure to challenge conventional wisdom about sex trafficking. The authors call forand execution ofcomprehensive empirical research makes it a significant contribution to the growing body of work seeking to improve our understanding of the transnational organization of commercial sex and to confront the often harmful assumptions about the nature and extent of sexual slavery that guide national and international policy." -- Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence"This fascinating book takes you inside the trafficking of Asian women. . . .explaining how the system works who are the traffickers, where does their money go and how corruption allows this business to persist. A unique work that will be valuable to scholars, policy-makers and all those trying to understand the complexity of trafficking in a part of the world where the problem is so pervasive." -- Louise Shelley,author of Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective"This kind of book can appeal to both abolitionists who write about human trafficking and to sex-positive feminists who provide empirical weight to women's agency and their choice to engage in sexual commerce." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is Sex Trafficking? 2. Going Down to the Sea 3. The Women 4. The Destinations 5. The Sex Markets 6. The Traffickers 7. Supply and Demand: Follow the Money 8. Response and Rescue: How the System Works 9. The Reality and the Myths: A Critical Analysis of Sex Trafficking 10. The Politics of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and ethnic profiling and police bias.Trade ReviewThis timely and comprehensive volume sheds badly-needed light on the complex interaction between police and communities of color. Few issues rank higher on the nation's justice reform agenda. Get it right, and we enhance police legitimacy and reduce crime; get it wrong, and we create inner city tinderboxes. This formidable compendium of scholarship will help us get it right. -- Jeremy Travis,President, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeThis timely volume brings together the leading scholars on the topic of race, ethnicity and policing in one collection. The selections provide a solid, evidence based treatment of the key criminal justice issue of our time. -- Scott H. Decker,co-author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and CommunityTable of ContentsIntroduction Overview 1 A Sketch of the Policeman's Working Personality 2 Driving While Black 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts 6 Racially Biased Policing 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing 9 Beyond Stop Rates 10 State of the Science in Racial Profi ling Research 11 Driving While Black 12 Citizens' Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates 15 Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER 17 Space, Place, and Immigration 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research 19 New Avenues for Profi ling and Bias Research 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls 21 Democratic Policing 22 Moving Beyond Profiling: The Virtues of RandomizationAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violenceBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or institutions, Beth E. Richie shows that the threat of violence to Black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impactedactivism in the U.S.-based movement to end violence against women. Richie argues that Black women face particular peril because of the ways that race and culture have not figured centrally enough in the analysis of the causes and consequences of gender violence. As a result, the extent of physical, sexual and other forms of violence in the lives of Black women, the various forms iTrade ReviewThis book provokes outrage and affords insight. * American Studies *Required reading for anyone interested in violence against women, black feminist theory, mass incarceration, or the welfare state. Essential for all levels/libraries. * Choice *As a testament to the crumbling status of Black women in America, Richies book is a natural read for academic scholars in a variety of disciplines including Black studies, womens studies, sociology, and criminology. Furthermore, this book is useful for informing future policy and enlightening policy makers as to the weight and consequences of their actions. * Journal of African American Studies *Beth E. Richie...uses her expertise to reveal the hidden experience of black women living in marginalized communities. With over 25 years of work as a black feminist scholar and anti-violence activist, Richie tackles the extremely complicated interplay of race, gender and class that is causing violence against black women. * Salon.com *Her new book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation, is a critical examination and re-examination of several of the issues Richie has been writing about and working on for many years: prisons, the criminal legal/justice system, and the particular vulnerabilities of women and African-American women in particular as they operate at the intersection of what Richie and many other scholars point to as a profoundly racist and misogynistic system. -- Yasmin Nair * Windy City Times *A powerful and insightful call to action. Richie offers us a richly complex yet deeply usable analysis, rooted in a passionate commitment to producing knowledge that can change us and transform the world. Richie challenges us to ask ourselves what it would mean if we were to put the lives of the most stigmatized and the most violated at the center of our social justice work. The stories of injustice, survival and courage in these pages will stay with the reader long after turning the last page. -- Julia C. Oparah,editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial ComplexNo one writes with passion like Beth Richie to convey the degree of danger the most marginalized women in our country are in. If there is one book you read to understand better why poor Black women are in continual dangerand several suggested ways of thinking about changing these conditions, then this is the book to read. -- Natalie J. Sokoloff,editor of The Criminal Justice System and WomenRichie expertly and chillingly documents the convergence of individual and structural racism, economic exploitation, and political disenfranchisement in the devastating gendered violence against the most disadvantaged Black women and girls.Arrested Justice represents the intersections of oppression at their most extreme. The book is frightening, enraging, and should be read by everyone. -- Joanne Belknap,author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and JusticeBy narrowing the scope of gender, violence, and crime more specifically to the U.S. case, she assesses both national and localized stories that reveal the fragility of black female lives in a nation driven by securing and maintaining prison profits...Even more profound, however, is the engagement Richie enforces with uncomfortable and long-avoided topics, including stalking, neighborhood assaults, incest, intimate partner abuse, rape, and even pervasive sexual harassment committed by the police in poor communities. * WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly *I hope all activists and scholarswomen of color and white women, young and oldread this book and from it, learn how stacked the system is against women of color, especially poor women. * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction 2 The Problem of Male Violence against Black Women 3 How We Won the Mainstream but Lost the Movement 4 Black Women, Male Violence, and the Buildup of a Prison Nation 5 The Matrix: A Black Feminist Response to Male Violence and the State 6 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFocusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, this book explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work.Trade Review"Leaving Prostitutionchallenges us to notice the vulnerability women experience as street prostitutes but also to honor the choices women make and the strength and commitment they demonstrate as they create new lives away from the street." * PsycCRITQUES *"Leaving Prostitution is a major contribution to our understanding of sex work. Through an in-depth examination of organizations that help women transition out of street prostitution, Sharon Oselin sheds light on a dimension of sex work that has rarely been researched. The book illuminates both the organizational dynamics of different agencies and the conditions involved in the process of exiting prostitution. No other book examines this topic in such depth." -- Ronald Weitzer,author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business"Oselins book is an all too rare, wide angled look at organizations helping individuals exit stigmatized and illegal subcultures and the conditions that determine success. What she finds is shocking despite the vast attention devoted to & saving prostitutes, the long term, often expensive residential programs most successful in countering the stigmatizing, criminalized world of the streets, are rare. Troubling all easy narratives about prostitution, this book will be an eye opener for policy makers and service providers hoping to help those who want to leave the streets/exit stigmatizing and illegal subcultures." -- Barbara Brents,co-author of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American HeartlandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Leaving the Tricks and the Trade 2. All in a Day's Work: The Good, Bad, and Ugly 3. Getting In: From the Streets to the Program 4. Getting On: Role Distancing 5. Still Getting On: Embracing a New Role and Identity 6. Getting Out: Remaining Out of Sex Work Methodological Appendix Notes References IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisFaced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated with a growing disenfranchised population, then mayor Rudolph Giuliani led New York's zero tolerance campaign against what was perceived to be an increase in disorder that directly threatened social and economic stability. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"City of Disorder offers something bracing for liberal policy-makers in New York: a blueprint for the realization of their humanistic values through an array of more muscular, activist policies. They should study it and learn from it." -- Robert Neuwirth * City Limits WEEKLY *"City of Disorder has added enormously to our understanding of the context in which the crime declines of the 1980s and 90s took place. Future discussions of what happened in New York City must take this book into account. A great read and a real contribution to our understanding of the era." -- George Kelling,co-author of Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order And Reducing Crime In Our Communities"In City of Disorder, Vitale provides a wise and balanced analysis of the preoccupation with social order in New York City that flowered under Giuliani's watch. On the one side, neoliberal housing and employment markets were increasing the numbers of people who were displaced and homeless. The failure of government on all levels to regulate the market forces driving this development, or to intervene to provide alternatives for the people affected, meant that people coped as they always have, by camping on the streets and panhandling, and by turning to drugs and drink. These behaviors in turn created popular political support for the coercive social controls that came to characterize city policy in the nineties. But neither the homeless nor the public were responsible for the limited alternatives which drove this mean result." -- Frances Fox Piven,author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism"Vitale makes a powerful, and likely irrefutable, case that New York City mayors could have made major inroads in reducing homelessness had they adopted more progressive land use policies. This part of the book alone is a major contribution to the ongoing debate about homelessness. Readers across the nation will benefit from what is now clearly one of the best books ever written about urban homelessness." -- Randy Shaw * BeyondChron.org *"Vitale presents an important critical analysis of "quality of life" and "zero tolerance" policing that have serious civil rights and civil liberties implications and are too often accepted, without careful scrutiny, as the solution to urban problems." -- Donna Lieberman,Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties UnionTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Conceptualizing the Paradigm Shift 2 De?ning the Quality-of-Life Paradigm 3 De?ning Urban Liberalism 4 The Rise of Disorder 5 Globalization and the Urban Crisis 6 The Transformation of Policing 7 The Community BacklashConclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this first comparative analysis of men's and women's prisons, Dana Britton identifies the factors that influence the genderization of the American workplace, a process that often leaves women in lower-paying jobs with less prestige and responsibility.Trade Review"At Work in the Iron Cage brings a wholly new and more realistic vision of America's prisons, and the male and female correctional officers who staff them. This is an impressive book, one that provokes fascinating insights into the American prison system, for researchers and policymakers alike." -- Patricia A. Roos,Rutgers University"In this cleverly conceived study, Britton shows that women encounter sexism on both sides of the prison bars. This book is the first truly comparative case study of a gendered organization that will surely change popular and scholarly views of life inside the iron cage." -- Christine Williams,Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin"This is a splendid piece of research about troubling and important issues. Dana Britton has written a clear, often vivid, account of the realities of prison work - far from the media images. She shows how gender stereotypes and gender divisions of labour shape this work and the lives of the people who do it. This is a most valuable book for all who are interested in gender questions, in organizational life, or in the consequences of the recent growth of the prison system." -- R.W.Connell,author of Masculinities and Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics"An important and significant contribution. . . . A study of the social construction of gender and how culture and agency influence the meaning of work . . . vivid and compelling." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Engendering the Prison 2 Penology in America: Men's and Women's Prisons as Gendered Projects 3 From Turkey to Of?cer: Prison Work in Historical Perspective 4 Paths to Prison 5 Work with Inmates 6 The Rest of the Job: Coworkers, Supervisors, and Satisfaction 7 Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system.Trade ReviewA well written memoir and expose of life inside a privately owned correctional facility. The author does an excellent job at depicting what it is really like inside and the dangerous and harrowing experience for individuals incarcerated in these types of environments. -- Jeffrey Ian Ross, co-author of Convict CriminologySomething changed in me. The flame was going out. After about twenty years of doing time, I felt like I did when I first came to prison: afraid, mean, not caring about others. I don't know if I hated them more, or myself for letting them change me. * Prison, Inc. *This is the story of what happens when politicians 'out source' their state prisoners to corporations. Convicts become commodities incarcerated in overcrowded private facilities with few programs and staff. Like & boot camps, & three strikes, and so called & truth in sentencing, private prisons are another expensive failure. Meanwhile, the prisoners live day-to-day wondering what new nightmare they will have to endure. -- Stephen C. Richards,co-author of Behind Bars: Surviving PrisonIt helps fill in the eclipse of prison ethnography in the current age of mass incarceration . . . It should be in every library in the United States. * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsForewordThomas J. BernardAcknowledgments Part I Welcome to Enterprise1 The Politics of Enterprise Prison 2 Orientation 3 New Prison Problems Part II Guerrilla Warfare4 Wild Wild West 5 Beat Down Crew 6 The Zoo Part III My Tour7 Caught Up 8 The Other Enemy 9 Gang Related 10 Seg Time Part IV An Exercise in Futility11 Riot 12 Lockdown 13 Aftermath Part V Taking Control14 The Masters15 The Servants 16 The Power Part VI Analysis17 Factors Contributing to Violence and Its Control Notes GlossaryAbout the Author and the Editor

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Book SynopsisGaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anaraki chronicles the lives of current and former substance users in Iran in prisons, treatment centres, and NGOs. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to ‘normalize’ them.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Reading John Hagedorn, Mike Davis Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Are Gangs Everywhere? I. Globalizing Gangs 1. Ghetto, Favela, and Township: The Worlds Gangs Live In 2. Street Institutions: Why Some Gangs Won't Go Away 3. The Problem with Definitions: The Questionable Uniqueness of Gangs 4. From Chicago to Mumbai: Touring the World of Gangs II. Race, Space, and the Power of Identity 5. No Way Out: Demoralization, Racism, and Resistance Identity 6. A Tale of Two Gangs: The Hamburgs and the Conservative Vice Lords 7. Reconsidering Culture: Race, Rap, and Resistance 8. Street Wars: Hip Hop and the Rise of Gangsta Culture 9. Contested Cities: Gentrification and the Ghetto Conclusion: A Rose in the Cracks of Concrete Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school studentsTrade Review"Police in the Hallways presents a detailed ethnographic analysis of the ways in which discipline policies in New York schools have influenced the education and social experience of young people in so-called impact schools. Kathleen Nolan uncovers the complexity of the issues and exposes the unfairness of the policies in a subtle yet compelling manner." —Pedro Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education"Anyone interested in education in American should definitely take this sobering journey into life in an urban high school." —Library JournalTable of ContentsContentsForewordPaul WillisIntroduction. Studying Urban School Discipline: A Bronx Tale1. How the Police Took Over School Discipline: From Policies of Inclusion to Punishment and Exclusion2. Signs of the Times: Place, Culture, and Control at Urban Public High School3. Instituting the Culture of Control: Disciplinary Practices and Order Maintenance4. Against the Law: Student Noncompliance and Contestation5. Tensions between Educational Approaches and Discourses of Control 6. The Underlife: Oppositional Behavior at Urban Public High School7. Living Proof: Experiences of Economic and Educational ExclusionConclusion: Recommendations for Effective Urban Schooling and Sound DisciplineAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Despite the weight of the subject matter—urban crime in a violent city—Security in the Bubble goes against the grain of critical scholarship, evoking a new language to capture the fine-grained and culturally attuned spatial practices of identity. As a consequence, novel insights and experiences reveal contemporary urbanity in all its contradictory fullness. This is vital and beautifully crafted urbanism."—Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town"Christine Hentschel’s theoretically sharp book shows how the pursuit of security dynamically organizes—and simultaneously fragments—urban life. In a major contribution to criminology as well as to urban studies, Hentschel acknowledges the reality of violence and fear but, refreshingly, avoids dystopian clichés in a work that is as relevant for Chicago and Detroit as it is for Rio and Bogotá."—Mariana Valverde, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spatial Governance from Death to Life1. The Politics of Crime and Space in South Africa2. Seeing Like a City: Conceptual Devices3. Handsome Space: Governing through Flirting4. Instant Space: Governing through FleeingConclusion: Making Love to the CityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHomicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But for generation after generation, psychiatrists have reported cases of insane homicide that were clinically similar. Although psychiatric theory changed and psychiatric nosology was inconsistent, the mental phenomena psychiatrists identified in such cases remained the same. The central thesis of Homicidal Insanity is that as psychiatric theory changed, psychiatrists regarded these phenomena variously as symptoms of mental disease or the disease in itself. It is possible to trace these phenomena throughout the history of Anglo-American psychiatric theory and practice. A secondary thesis of the book is that psychiatrists have used these phenomena as predictors and markers in the practicalTrade Review"Colaizzi, a research historian, has done an excellent, scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness, including all the players in this sad, cruel game... the psychiatrist, the afflicted, the official authorities, and finally, society at large." - Academic Library Book Review

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas.Trade Review“An extremely important contribution to South African scholarship but also offers a wealth of findings for comparative scholarship in the fields of colonialism, state formation, police science, criminology, resistance, migration, and gender studies.”“Gary Kynoch’s engaging book examines how gangs of Basotho migrants used violence and crime to survive under the harsh conditions of everyday life in apartheid South Africa … Kynoch’s well-researched study expands our knowledge of the history of Basotho migrancy to South Africa’s gold mines … Kynoch must be applauded.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is a groundbreaking study that will force researchers in many different fields to investigate anew such issues as the complexity of Black township life under apartheid, the origins of South African violence and crime, gender relationships in the Black community, the underground economy, migration, urbanization, and resistance up to the present day. It is a book that should be in all research libraries, and that all South African scholars will find interesting and stimulating.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“A rich and provocative look at gang activity and crime in South Africa.... An intriguing and thoughtful book.” * University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas.Trade Review“An extremely important contribution to South African scholarship but also offers a wealth of findings for comparative scholarship in the fields of colonialism, state formation, police science, criminology, resistance, migration, and gender studies.”“Gary Kynoch’s engaging book examines how gangs of Basotho migrants used violence and crime to survive under the harsh conditions of everyday life in apartheid South Africa … Kynoch’s well-researched study expands our knowledge of the history of Basotho migrancy to South Africa’s gold mines … Kynoch must be applauded.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This is a groundbreaking study that will force researchers in many different fields to investigate anew such issues as the complexity of Black township life under apartheid, the origins of South African violence and crime, gender relationships in the Black community, the underground economy, migration, urbanization, and resistance up to the present day. It is a book that should be in all research libraries, and that all South African scholars will find interesting and stimulating.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“A rich and provocative look at gang activity and crime in South Africa.... An intriguing and thoughtful book.” * University of Toronto Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisRepresenting a wave of legal history that has emerged in recent years, this title presents essays about the relationship between ordinary people and the law. It is suitable for scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social and cultural history of law.Trade Review“This collection makes clear, through well-researched case studies and specific examples, that the law and legal institutions have had a more important role in maintaining the social order and the regulation of contention in Latin American history than previously revealed. As such, it will have a crucial impact on this and other fields.”——Thomas H. Holloway, University of California, Davis“This volume marks a breakthrough in the historical study of criminality, social deviance, punishment, and legal systems in Latin America. The contributions are empirically deep, interestingly theorized, and brought together by a very sophisticated introductory essay. The essays immerse us in such vital themes as modernization and the law, the medicalization of crime and deviance, and the modes by which ordinary people faced the state and its institutions—in the broad issue of legal culture, in other words.”—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego"A very useful introduction. . . . This volume offers many insights into comparative histories with other formative legal orders. . .. A real milestone for historians wanting to take legal institutions seriously without portraying them in some of the rigid ways they once were." -- Jeremy Adelman * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Fascinating. . . . Valuable for Latin Americanists precisely because the editors and authors succeed in making connections across time and space, and it is an important resource for nonspecialists looking for comparative examples and new perspectives to bring to their studies." -- Joan Bristol * Journal of Social History *"This volume's primary contribution is . . . a broadly comparative perspective on the ascendance of 'modernizing' liberal ideologies. Perhaps most importantly, these essays expose the disunity and incompleteness of Latin America's liberal project, as well as the marked divergence between the political liberalism of consolidating Latin American and the market liberalism of the United States and Britain." -- Jocelyn Olcott * EIAL *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface / Gilbert M. Joseph Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing the History of Law, Crime, and Punishment in Latin America / Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820 / Charles F. Walker Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888 / Arlene J. Díaz Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 / Juan Manuel R. Palacio Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930–1950 / Luis A. González Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime The Criminalizaton of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867–1930 / Christina Rivera-Garza Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922 / Dain Borges Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century / Kristin Ruggiero Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City / Pablo Piccato Part III / Contested Meanings of Punishment The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas / Ricardo D. Salvatore Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890–1930: The Prisoners’ Agena for Prison Reform / Carlos Aguirre Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890–1940 / Donna J. Guy Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell (Buenos Aires Province, 1930–1950) / Lila M. Caimari Afterword: Law and Society in Comparative Perspective / Douglas Hay Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the complex moral interpretations crime was given by Mexico's urban poor and of the evolving institutional responses to crime and punishment in modern Mexico.Trade Review“City of Suspects offers a perceptive and original analysis of crime and punishment in early twentieth-century Mexico City. Spanning the authoritarian twilight of the Porfiriato, the violent catharsis of the Revolution,and the flawed social reformism of the 1920s, it roams the streets and households, barrios and penitentiaries of the city,exploring changing state policy and social mores, while illuminating concerns—crime, policing, moral panics—which are as relevant today as they were a century ago.”—Alan Knight, Oxford University“An important, accessible book on a difficult and significant subject. City of Suspects will be warmly appreciated by historians of modern Mexico and historically-minded sociologists and political scientists who sympathize with Piccato’s ambition to keep crime and the state within the same field of inquiry.”— William B. Taylor, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. The Context 13 1. The Modern City 17 2. The Policed City 34 3. The Construction of Mexican Criminology 50 II. The Practices 73 4. Honor and Violent Crime 77 5. Violence Against Women 103 6. Money, Crime, and Social Reactions to Larceny 132 III. The Consequences 161 7. The Invention of Rateros 163 8. Penal Experience in Mexico City 189 Conclusions: Crime Contested 211 Appendix: Statistics of Crime 221 Notes 237 Bibliography 319 Index 349

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes how the U.S. victims rights movement has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to the direct victims of violent crime.Trade Review“Second Wounds is a nuanced study of how victims’ rights have become important factors not only in criminal justice cases but also in how crime is covered by journalists and understood as a social phenomenon. In this complex analysis of the rise of the victims’ rights movement, Carrie A. Rentschler explicates the politics of victimization while remaining sympathetic to activists. Based on original interpretations of legal discourse, cultural studies, feminist theory, and media studies, Second Wounds is interdisciplinary scholarship at its best.”—Marita Sturken, author of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero“Second Wounds is a terrific book, an important, timely work of cultural history grounded in thorough research and inventive analysis. Carrie A. Rentschler offers a deft account of the origin of victims’ rights advocacy and its influence on thinking about violence across the political, psychological, and media professions, and through them, across American public life.”—Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism“Second Wounds is an elegant, moving cross-disciplinary investigation into representational debates about victims’ rights…. [A] difficult yet compelling read.” -- Nina Seja * Media International Australia *“[Rentschler’s] intervention into and revaluation of the politics of victimization is a welcome addition to discussions of victimization that find in the rhetoric of victimization (and the speaking position of victim) only disempowerment, resentment, or the flowering of a repressively punitive political project. . . . It will be of interest to a variety of scholars, including those interested in the cross-disciplinary study of trauma and its representation and those in the fields of American studies, media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and criminology.” -- Jennifer Peterson * International Journal of Communication *“For journalism, media, and communication faculty, Second Wounds provides a solid resource for better explaining and examining what victims experience when interacting with media following a crime or tragedy. . . . Second Wounds offers students and scholars alike much to consider with regard to victims of crime in America today.” -- Wendy Townley * Journalism & Mass Communication Educator *“Cultural Studies at its best, Second Wounds makes a significant intervention into contemporary US political culture— not by adopting an ideological filter for cultural analysis, but by offering a nuanced history and critical analysis of the victims’ rights movement in all of its complexity.” -- Rachel Hall * Cultural Studies *“Carrie A. Rentschler’s Second Wounds is a well-written and well-documented work of scholarship that draws on a range of novel data sources to analyze the discursive ways in which victims’ rights groups of various stripes engage in political work.” -- David A. Green * Law & Society Review *“[A] thoughtful, provocative, and critical analysis of the victims’ rights movement and victim advocacy. . . . The author draws on multiple disciplines in framing her argument and her analysis is appropriate for the goal of the project. I highly recommend the book.” -- Steven Chermak * Theoretical Criminology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Victims' Rights Movement and the Second Wound 1 Part One. The Life and Times of Victims' Rights 1. Law and Order: The Dominant Ideology of Victims' Rights 33 2. An Activist History of Victims' Rights 55 Part Two. Opening and Closing the Second Wound: Representing Victims 3. Meet the Press: Representing Victims' Rights 83 4. Undisclosed Sources: Victims' Rights and Journalism Training 113 5. Profiles of Life: News Memorials to the Dead 137 6. Faces of Murder 177 Conclusion. Giving Face to the Family as Victim 211 Notes 223 Bibliography 233 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThis ethnohistory examines how the Guatemalan gangs that emerged from the country's strong populist movement in the 1980s had become perpetrators of nihilist violence by the early 2000s.Trade Review"Adios Niño is a first-class piece of social interpretation that plunges us deep into the darkness of the underworld. The result of incredible ethnographic fieldwork developed in dangerous conditions, it offers many methodological lessons for researchers."—Manolo E. Vela Castañeda, author of Los pelotones de la muerte: La construcción de los perpetradores del genocidio guatemalteco"A must-read account of how the gangs of Guatemala were shaped by war and politics. Chilling and important."—John M. Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture"I was blown away by this book, by its originality, textured detail, and penetrating, multilayered analysis of the history of Guatemalan gangs. The most holistic work that I have read on so-called 'apolitical' gang violence in Latin America, it is at once deeply empathetic, even to people who have committed vicious acts, and sharply argumentative. Adiós Niño will have a big impact on Latin American studies, urban studies, and violence and memory studies across the fields of history, anthropology, and sociology."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City and The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation"[An] extraordinary history of the gangs of Guatemala City.... Above all the ethnographic work of an oral historian, Adiós Niño subtly weaves into its analytical fabric an eclectic array of theoretical voices, from Enrique Dussell to Michel Foucault." -- Jeffery Webber * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[T]his is the book on gangs we need to read.” -- Naomi Glassman * NACLA Report on the Americas *“Deborah Levenson’s Adiós Niño is to date the most historically nuanced work on Guatemalan gangs…. Levenson’s work earns a place on the essential reading list not only of scholars interested in gangs and Central America, but of all those interested in human rights and the effects of their systematic suppression in impoverished societies.” -- J. T. Way * Human Rights Review *“This book is a must read, not only for those who are interested in Guatemala…. I don’t know that I have seen a better explanation of what happens when revolutions fail, or a better explanation for why Guatemala’s contemporary youth gangs ought to be seen, as Levenson puts it, as 'orphans of the world' (98).” -- Karen Dubinsky * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *“The book is beautifully written… superb.” -- Susanne Jonas * American Historical Review *"Adiós Niño is simultaneously painful and important.... This riveting account is a particularly good book to teach, especially at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level: it grapples with many issues, and although it doesn’t necessarily resolve them, it unmasks and demonstrates the rigors and some of the key components of the intellectual quest." -- Jennifer L. Burrell * American Anthropologist *[A] tremendous achievement. Any scholar of Latin America, urban studies, youth, crime, postwar politics, or memory will find rich theoretical and methodological interventions here. Levenson packs much insight into this slim, elegant volume, offering a surgical exegesis of the relationships between history, violence, and trauma.” -- Kristen Weld * The Historian *“[T]his is a well-written and accessible work that incorporates a much-needed historical perspective to the study of street gangs in Central America. The volume will appeal to researchers of different disciplines – notably history, anthropology and the political sciences – who specialise in gangs, security, the quality of democracy and Central America.” -- Sonja Wolf * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Deborah Levenson presents a refreshing depiction of these supposedly transnational gangs, essentially turning this characterization on its head. A trained historian with broad and deep knowledge of Guatemala, Levenson assembles a wide array of data and information she has accumulated over decades of work in Guatemala into a convincing argument. The result is a complex, rich portrayal of gangs in Guatemala...." -- Cecilia Menjivar * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Rise and Fall of Tomorrow 1 1. Death and Politics, 1950s–2000s 21 2. 1980s: The Gangs to Live For 53 3. 1990s and Beyond: The Gangs to Die For 77 4. Democracy and Lock-Up 105 5. Open Ending 129 Notes 145 Bibliography 161 Index 177

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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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Book SynopsisMelanie S. Morrison tells the tragic story of the murder and attempted murder of three young women in 1930s Birmingham, Alabama, and the aftermath, which saw a reign of terror unleashed on the town's black community, the wrongful conviction and death sentencing of Willie Peterson, and a black-led effort to free Peterson.Trade Review(Starred Review) "In this passionate account of Jim Crow–era injustice, educator and activist Morrison exposes how courtrooms 'could function like lynch mobs when the defendant was black.'... Morrison, who is white, shares this painful story with clarity and compassion, emphasizing how much has changed since the 1930s, how much white people need to 'critically interrogate' the past, and how much 'remains to be done' in the fight for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"The author deserves praise for identifying Peterson’s trial as an important precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement. Audiences will be enthralled and angered by this all-too-familiar account of a criminal justice system that was and remains biased against black Americans." -- Karl Helicher * Foreword Reviews *"Morrison digs deeply into period newspapers and archives to uncover this story of injustice long overshadowed by the more famous Scottsboro Boys trial. A thoughtful look into a tale of prejudice and stolen justice that will find many readers who are interested in African American history, the early civil rights movement, and Southern history." -- Chad E. Statler * Library Journal *"Morrison’s book is an ultimate tribute to a man who is seldom mentioned in the Civil Rights Movement, but was a true civil rights hero and who despite torture and mental cruelty always proclaimed his innocence." -- Bill Castanier * Lansing City Pulse *"A straightforward, thoroughly researched nonfiction account of yet another disgraceful episode in Alabama racial history." -- Don Noble * Tuscaloosa News *"An important and timely book.” -- James L. Baggett * Birmingham Watch *"The book ends, as it begins, with a call to each of us to do our own work. In the afterword, poignantly written in the form of a letter to her late father, Morrison states the brutal truth: 'The demonization and criminalization of black men remains a national disgrace.' Eighty-seven years after Willie Peterson was targeted on a Birmingham street corner, there is still much work to be done. This book offers inspiration to keep at it." -- Joyce Hollyday * Sojourners *"iI shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square to Birmingham's industrialized and highly stratified terrain, Morrison offers fresh perspective on the structural violence that undergirded white supremacy." -- Jason Morgan Ward * Southern Spaces *"Recounted in painstaking detail by Morrison, this near century-old case emerges as a precedent for contemporary discussions of racism in the criminal justice system, reaffirming how firmly rooted racial profiling and the criminalization of blackness are in American culture." -- Ladee Hubbard * TLS *"Morrison succeeds admirably in moving the literature beyond Scottsboro, which has garnered the lion’s share of historians’ attention. Morrison is at her best when she unearths legal records to explain how the criminal justice system was stacked against Peterson. . . . In Morrison’s hands, the Jim Crow justice system avoids caricature and emerges as a living, breathing system in which injustice is that much more evident and pernicious. . . . Compelling and beautifully written." -- David A. Varel * Journal of Southern History *"[Murder on Shades Mountain's] detailed narrative of one little-known crime and its aftermath is powerful and evocative and offers a revealing window into the workings of white supremacy—one that is even more dramatic in some ways than the story of the Scottsboro Boys. . . . Morrison’s work offers a critical reminder that whites must interrogate all the stories about race that they have inherited, even those of white advocates for racial justice." -- Renee Romano * American Historical Review *"Morrison forces the reader to grapple with the precarity of Black life in relation to white supremacist power structures like the criminal justice system.… Murder on Shades Mountain is a crucial text for tracing the genealogy of state-sanctioned anti-Black violence in America." -- Denzel Shabazz * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. Danger in the Magic City 1. August 4, 1931 15 2. A City Beset by Fear 25 3. Reign of Terror in the Black Community 34 4. Fear, Loathing,and Oblivion in the White Community 45 Part II. Trials and Tribulations 5. The Arrest: September 23, 1931 55 6. Attempted Murder 67 7. Grand Jury Testimonies 76 8. The NAACP Comes to Life 85 9. Mounting the Defense 94 10. House of Pain 113 11. "A Temporarily Dethroned Mind" 116 12. "An Outrageous Spectacle of Injustice" 119 13. A Tumultuous Year 122 Part IV. Never Turning Back 14. Staying on the Firing Line 131 15. Charles Hamilton Houston 134 16. A Lynching in Tuscaloosa 142 17. Moving the Case Forward 150 18. No Negroes Allowed 162 19. A Flood of Letters 168 20. A Multitude of Regrets 172 21. Grave Doubts as to His Guilt 178 22. Jim Crow Justice 185 Epilogue. The Community That Kept Faith 193 Afterword. Letter to My Father 197 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 233 Index 241

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Book SynopsisDrawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept “against nature” to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.Trade Review"Sins Against Nature is a true tour de force. Zeb Tortorici has painstakingly searched numerous archives in Mexico. He has provided detailed notes and has integrated significant theoretical findings into his analysis. Tortorici has written an outstanding book that will, no doubt, shape the scholarly debates within Latin American history and sexuality studies for many years to come." -- Anderson Hagler * Transmodernity *"The cases in Sins against Nature . . . are equally rich in their layering of cultural complexity: religious versus secular, indigenous versus colonial, action versus desire. Tortorici helps us appreciate the challenges of understanding sexuality, not only in colonial New Spain but also in the present." -- Vernon Rosario * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Tortorici has written an expansive, thoughtful, provocative, and innovative encyclopedic work. . . . While Tortorici generously invites his readers to peruse the documents themselves in a digital archive that he has made accessible, his book should stand for many years as an indispensable contribution to the history of so-called unnatural sexuality in New Spain. . . . With this book, Tortorici has singlehandedly raised the historiographical standard for the topic of viceregal sexuality and also made an important contribution to archival theory." -- Nicole Von Germeten * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Sins against Nature fills a critical need for queer methodological approaches to colonial Spanish American history. Tortorici conducts rigorous and historically specific analyses of colonial Spanish America while insisting on a self-reflexive and fluid approach to the research process itself. The book provides scholars both a way for thinking about archives, sexuality, and desire under Spanish colonialism and, as important, guidance on the ethics and implications of historical research in the field and beyond." -- Matthew Goldmark * TSQ *"You will never forget your first time reading Zeb Tortorici’s excellent book. . . . There is so much to praise in Sins Against Nature that it is difficult to know where to begin. . . . Sins Against Nature belongs in your hands and on your bookshelf." -- Jarett Henderson * Itinerario *"This book stayed with me long after I had read it. Tortorici has a gift for bringing to life the people involved in these archival cases and humanizing many of them and the communities from which they came." -- Stephanie Kirk * Early American Literature *"Tortorici has produced a well-written and deeply-researched book that will spark conversations, appeal to specialists, and work well in graduate seminars on historical methods and gender and sexuality in colonial Latin America." -- Evan C. Rothera * Journal of Global South Studies *"Tortorici presents a carefully researched, soundly supported, erudite work of scholarship." -- Aimee E. Hisey * Journal of Social History *"Tortorici’s innovative work is essential reading for historians of colonial sexuality, detailing as it does the ways in which the 'unnatural' was defined and catalogued in New Spain." -- Linda A. Curcio-Nagy * American Historical Review *"Tortorici's intimate narration of both the case and his own archive experience opens consideration and conversation of fundamental ethical questions in the discipline.… The seduction, the titillation of archival discovery is not limited to research on sex. For many historians, it is the experience of research itself. And for that reason, Sins against Nature holds broad appeal, not only for colonial Latin Americanists or historians of sexuality but also for anyone teaching or practicing the craft of history." -- Chad Black * H-LatAm; H-Net Reviews *"Tortorici has provided us with one of the best single books on the history of Latin American homosexuality.… It will become a classic of queer history in Mexican historiography." -- Martin Nesvig * EIAL *Table of ContentsA Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Archiving the Unnatural 1 1. Viscerality in the Archives: Consuming Desires 25 2. Impulses of the Archive: Misinscription and Voyeurism 46 3. Archiving the Signs of Sodomy: Bodies and Gestures 84 4. To Deaden the Memory: Bestiality and Animal Erasure 124 5. Archives of Negligence: Solicitation in the Confessional 161 6. Desiring the Divine: Pollution and Pleasure 197 Conclusion. Accessing Absence, Surveying Seduction 233 Appendix 255 List of Archives 261 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 309

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Book SynopsisMayan rebels killed an American plantation manager in 1875, but no one has ever unravelled why this murder took place. Paul Sullivan's fascinating and skillful telling of this story reads like a mystery novel.

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Book SynopsisDabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present.Trade Review“A fascinating book that breaks new ground, even as it offers a revolutionary reading of the role of literature in twentieth-century Latin America. Dabove goes well beyond a study of the figure of the bandit as a mere artificial construct of Otherness by the discourses of the nation-state, and engages in a discussion of the nature of language, literature, and the role of the intellectual in Latin America.” —Benigno Trigo, Vanderbilt University

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Book SynopsisUpon her death in 1884, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop entrusted her property - known as Bishop Estate - to five trustees. Then in August 1997 the unthinkable happened: four revered kupuna and a professor of trust-law charged Bishop Estate trustees with massive trust abuse. This book, together with historical background, focuses on these events.

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Book SynopsisExamines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban setting of El Paso-Juarez, demonstrating the region's unique context for criminogenic processes.Trade ReviewVery rarely do criminologists get to read an authoritative book by an authoritative scholar on a topic with great interest but little scholarly attention. Tapia's book is a landmark achievement on the gangs of the El Paso-Juárez region in a one-hundred-year time period. You will not be able to put this book down." - Alex R. Piquero, coeditor of Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges"Tapia provides a sorely needed supplement to our knowledge of gangs in the Southwest, giving us a detailed history of gang development, cartel and street-gang relations, and the evolution of street-prison gang hybrids in the El Paso, Las Cruces, and Juárez regions." - Christian Bolden, contributor to The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology

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Book SynopsisAddresses a variety of issues related to economic crisis in the broadest sense of the term, involving diverse national and international contexts, historical epochs, and a range of problems related to economic life. This title tackles criminologically relevant questions in connection with crime/deviance and/or the control thereof.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: criminological perspectives of the crisis. Fraud and Inequality in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. Diffusion of Fraud Through Subprime Lending: The Perfect Storm. Public Attitudes Toward Blameworthiness and Control of the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis. The Securitization of Mortgage Fraud. Social Reactions to White-Collar Crimes and their Relationship to Economic Crises. Corporate Crime and Crisis: Causation Scenarios. Illegally Backdated Stock Options. The Criminal Consequences of Changes in Neighborhood Structure Due to Home Foreclosure: A Theoretical Discussion. Employment, Unemployment, and Rates of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from the National Crime Victim Surveys. The Showdown with Shrinking Budgets: Police Departments in Economic Downturns. Economic Crisis and Crime. Sociology of crime, law and deviance. Sociology of crime, law and deviance. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the financial crime policies adopted by the international community and how these have been implemented in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.Trade Review -- Andrew Campbell, University of Leeds, UK’This new book makes for good overall reading on the topic.’ -- Sally Ramage, The Criminal LawyerTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Money Laundering 3. Terrorist Financing 4. Fraud 5. Insider Dealing by Andrew H. Baker 6. The Confiscation and Forfeiture of the Illicit Proceeds of Crime 7. Regulators and Agencies 8. Sentencing in Financial Crime by Karen Harrison 9. Conclusion and Recommendations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBorn in Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when, as a teenager, she gave birth to an illegitimate son. Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" she was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. This work offers Anna Marie's story.

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Book SynopsisA complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and...Trade ReviewThis book problematizes the concept of criminality and its long-standing intimacy with the formation and consolidation of the state and capitalism.... It is a major contribution. * Asian Journal of Social Science *The authors provide a wealth of material that reflects a wide range of analyses from various disciplinary perspectives, very ably supplemented by an editorial introduction that seeks to instill a sense of focus to the whole work. * Bijdragen *

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Book SynopsisThe cases overseen by justices such as Henry Norris reveal fascinating details of the then rural idyll of Hackney.What these entries show us more clearly than anything else, is that for Norris, and probably also for most of his colleagues on the bench, there really was one law for the rich and another for the poor. The wording of some of the entries reveal a great deal about the prejudices and social values shared by the justices of the time.

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Book SynopsisThis contributed volume takes a comprehensive look at factors that impact correctional health care and the related implications for public health and public health policy.Trade Review“Greifinger and collaborators yet again aid in empowering correctional professionals, linking correctional health care with public health and community health providers, and increasing the health literacy and ethical knowledge of correctional and health administrators and policymakers. All readers will benefit from better understanding jail, prison, and community health systems … . This 2022 edition is of particular interest to researchers; practitioners; and others interested in correctional health and medicine; criminology … .” (David Satcher, Journal of Correctional Health Care, Vol. 29 (6), 2023)Table of ContentsThe second edition plans to include revisions/updates to 18 chapters, likely revisions/updates to five chapters, and six chapters are as yet confirmed. Chapter 8 from the first edition will be dropped from the second edition.In addition, the editor has confirmed seven new chapters: correctional nursing (Section 4), sanitation to prevent intramural transmission (Section 3), transitions from prisons to communities (Section 5), segregation (Section 5), the European experience (Section 1), and root cause analysis for quality improvement (Section 3). A chapter on ethics is contemplated (Section 1).​Authors listed are from the first edition; second edition TBD1. Thirty Years Since Estelle v. Gamble: Looking Forward, Not Wayward Robert B. GreifingerSection 1: Impact of Law and Public Policy on Correctional Populations2. Impact of Incarceration on Community Public Safety and Public HealthTodd R. Clear3. Litigating for Better Medical Care Jon Wool4. Accommodating Disabilities in Jails and Prisons R. Samuel Paz5. Growing Older: Challenges of Prison and Reentry for the Aging PopulationBrie Williams and Rita Abraldes6. International Public Health and Corrections: Models of Care and Harm MinimizationMichael Levy7. The Medicalization of Execution: Lethal Injection in the United StatesMark HeathNEW: The European experience (Section 1)TBD: A chapter on ethics is contemplated (Section 1)Section 2: Communicable Disease8. Prevention of Viral Hepatitis Cindy Weinbaum and Karen A. Hennessey9. HIV Prevention: Behavioral Interventions in Correctional Settings Barry Zack10. Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional FacilitiesFarah M. Parvez11. Controlling Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis Through Targeted Screening and Treatment in Correctional Settings Charlotte K. Kent and Gail A. BolanSection 3: Primary and Secondary Prevention12. Health Promotion in Jails and Prisons: An Alternative Paradigm for Correctional Health Services Megha Ramaswamy and Nicholas Freudenberg13. Screening for Public Purpose: Promoting an Evidence-based Approach to Screening of Inmates to Improve the Public Health Joshua D. Lee, Marshall W. Fordyce, and Josiah D. Rich14. Written Health Informational Needs for ReentryJeff Mellow15. Reducing Inmate Suicides Through the Mortality Review ProcessLindsay M. Hayes16. Blinders to Comprehensive Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Correctional SystemRichard L. Grant17. Juvenile Corrections and Public Health Collaborations: Opportunities for Improved Health Outcomes Michelle Staples-Horne, Kaiyti Duffy, and Michele T. Rorie18. Female Prisoners and the Case for Gender-Specific Treatment and Reentry ProgramsAndrea F. Balis19. Building the Case for Oral Health Care for Prisoners: Presenting the Evidence and Calling for Justice Henrie M. Treadwell, Mary E. Northridge, and Traci N. BetheaNEW: Sanitation to prevent intramural transmission (Section 3)NEW: Root cause analysis for quality improvement (Section 3)Section 4: Tertiary Prevention20. Treatment of Mental Illness in Correctional SettingsRaymond F. Patterson and Robert B. Greifinger21. Treatment and Reentry Approaches for Offenders with Co-occurring Disorders Roger H. Peters and Nicole M. Bekman22. Pharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse in Correctional Facilities: Prospects and Barriers to Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Therapy R. Douglas Bruce, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg, and Frederick L. AlticeNEW: Correctional nursing (Section 4)Section 5: Thinking Forward to Reentry—Reducing Barriers and Building Community Linkages23. Health Research Behind Bars: A Brief Guide to Research in Jails and PrisonsNicholas Freudenberg24. Reentry Experiences of Men with Health Problems Christy A. Visher and Kamala Mallik-Kane25. Providing Transition and Outpatient Services to the Mentally Ill Released from Correctional InstitutionsSteven K. Hoge26. Sexual Predators: Diversion, Civil Commitment, Community Reintegration, Challenges, and Opportunities Karen Terry27. Electronic Health Records Systems and Continuity of Care Ralph P. Woodward28. Community Health and Public Health Collaborations Thomas Lincoln, John R. Miles, and Steve Scheibel29. Improving the Care for HIV-Infected Prisoners: An Integrated Prison-Release Health ModelSandra A. Springer and Frederick L. AlticeNEW: Transitions from prisons to communities (Section 5)Index

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Book SynopsisDetect fraud fasterno matter how well hiddenwith IDEA automation Fraud and Fraud Detection takes an advanced approach to fraud management, providing step-by-step guidance on automating detection and forensics using CaseWare''s IDEA software. The book begins by reviewing the major types of fraud, then details the specific computerized tests that can detect them. Readers will learn to use complex data analysis techniques, including automation scripts, allowing easier and more sensitive detection of anomalies that require further review. The companion website provides access to a demo version of IDEA, along with sample scripts that allow readers to immediately test the procedures from the book. Business systems'' electronic databases have grown tremendously with the rise of big data, and will continue to increase at significant rates. Fraudulent transactions are easily hidden in these enormous datasets, but Fraud and Fraud Detection helps readers gain the dTable of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Defining Fraud 1 Anomalies versus Fraud 2 Types of Fraud 2 Assess the Risk of Fraud 4 Conclusion 6 Notes 6 Chapter 2: Fraud Detection 7 Recognizing Fraud 7 Data Mining versus Data Analysis and Analytics 10 Data Analytical Software 11 Anomalies versus Fraud within Data 12 Fraudulent Data Inclusions and Deletions 14 Conclusion 14 Notes 15 Chapter 3: The Data Analysis Cycle 17 Evaluation and Analysis 17 Obtaining Data Files 19 Performing the Audit 22 File Format Types 24 Preparation for Data Analysis 24 Arranging and Organizing Data 33 Conclusion 35 Notes 35 Chapter 4: Statistics and Sampling 37 Descriptive Statistics 37 Inferential Statistics 38 Measures of Center 38 Measure of Dispersion 39 Measure of Variability 40 Sampling 41 Conclusion 65 Notes 65 Chapter 5: Data Analytical Tests 67 Benford’s Law 68 Number Duplication Test 77 Z-Score 81 Relative Size Factor Test 84 Same-Same-Same Test 93 Same-Same-Different Test 94 Even Amounts 98 Conclusion 99 Notes 100 Chapter 6: Advanced Data Analytical Tests 101 Correlation 101 Trend Analysis 104 GEL-1 and GEL-2 109 Conclusion 121 Note 122 Chapter 7: Skimming and Cash Larceny 123 Skimming 123 Cash Larceny 124 Case Study 124 Conclusion 131 Chapter 8: Billing Schemes 133 Data and Data Familiarization 134 Benford’s Law Tests 138 Relative Size Factor Test 139 Z-Score 140 Even Dollar Amounts 141 Same-Same-Same Test 144 Same-Same-Different Test 145 Payments without Purchase Orders Test 146 Length of Time between Invoice and Payment Dates Test 151 Search for Post Office Box 152 Match Employee Address to Supplier 155 Duplicate Addresses in Vendor Master 157 Payments to Vendors Not in Master 158 Gap Detection of Check Number Sequences 161 Conclusion 162 Note 162 Chapter 9: Check-Tampering Schemes 163 Electronic Payments Fraud Prevention 164 Check Tampering 165 Data Analytical Tests 166 Conclusion 171 Chapter 10: Payroll Fraud 173 Data and Data Familiarization 175 Data Analysis 181 The Payroll Register 193 Payroll Master and Commission Tests 194 Conclusion 195 Notes 196 Chapter 11: Expense Reimbursement Schemes 197 Data and Data Analysis 201 Conclusion and Audit Trail 219 Notes 220 Chapter 12: Register Disbursement Schemes 221 False Refunds and Adjustments 221 False Voids 222 Concealment 222 Data Analytical Tests 222 Conclusion 233 Chapter 13: Noncash Misappropriations 235 Types of Noncash Misappropriations 235 Concealment of Noncash Misappropriations 237 Data Analytics 238 Conclusion 240 Chapter 14: Corruption 243 Bribery 243 Tender Schemes 244 Kickbacks, Illegal Gratuities, and Extortion 245 Conflict of Interest 246 Data Analytical Tests 247 Concealment 250 Conclusion 250 Chapter 15: Money Laundering 253 The Money-Laundering Process 254 Other Money Transfer Systems and New Opportunities 256 Audit Areas and Data Files 257 Conclusion 259 Chapter 16: Zapper Fraud 261 Point-of-Sales System Case Study 265 Quantifying the Zapped Records 294 Additional POS Data Files to Analyze 296 Missing and Modified Bills 297 The Markup Ratios 299 Conclusions and Solutions 300 Notes 302 Chapter 17: Automation and IDEAScript 303 Considerations for Automation 304 Creating IDEAScripts 306 Conclusion 316 Chapter 18: Conclusion 319 Financial Statement Fraud 319 IDEA Features Demonstrated 321 Projects Overview 323 Data Analytics: Final Words 325 Notes 326 About the Author 327 About the Website 329 Index 333

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Beth M. Huebner and Timothy S. Bynum Part I Measurement of Criminal Typologies 7 1 Violent Crime 9 Nicholas Corsaro 2 Cybercrime 29 Thomas J. Holt 3 Juvenile Crime and Bullying 49 Sean P. Varano and Joseph M. McKenna 4 Rape and Other Sexual Offending Behaviors 69 Wesley G. Jennings and Bryanna Hahn Fox 5 White]Collar and Corporate Crime 92 Michael L. Benson, Jay Kennedy, and Matthew Logan 6 Human Trafficking 111 Amy Farrell and Katherine Bright 7 Challenges in Measuring and Understanding Hate Crime 131 Jack McDevitt and Janice A. Iwama Part II Offenders, Offending, and Victimization 157 8 Gangs and Gang Crime 159 Chris Melde 9 Gendered Pathways to Crime 181 Julie Yingling 10 Mental Health and Physical Studies 202 Daryl G. Kroner and Maranda Quillen 11 Rehabilitation and Treatment Programming 223 Faye S. Taxman and Brandy L. Blasko 12 Measuring Victimization: Issues and New Directions 249 Leah E. Daigle, Jamie A. Snyder, and Bonnie S. Fisher Part III Criminal Justice Organizations and Outcomes 277 13 Community Policing and Police Interventions 279 Michael J. Kyle and Joseph A. Schafer 14 Measurement Issues in Criminal Case Processing and Court Decision Making Research 303 Brian D. Johnson and Christina D. Stewart 15 Sentencing Outcomes and Disparity 328 Jared M. Ellison and Pauline K. Brennan 16 Correctional Interventions and Outcomes 351 Eric Grommon and Jason Rydberg 17 How Theory Guides Measurement: Public Attitudes toward Crime and Policing 377 Jonathan Jackson and Jouni Kuha 18 Measuring the Cost of Crime 416 Matt DeLisi 19 School Crime and Safety 434 Thomas Mowen, John Brent, and Aaron Kupchik 20 Traffic Stops, Race, and Measurement 452 Kyle Mclean and Jeff Rojek Part IV Specialized Measurement Techniques 473 21 Self]Reported Crime and Delinquency 475 Scott Menard, Lisa C. Bowman]Bowen, and Yi Fen Lu 22 Crime and the Life Course 496 Lee Ann Slocum 23 Conducting Qualitative Interviews in Prison: Challenges and Lessons Learned 517 Kristin Carbone]Lopez 24 Spatial Analysis of Crime 535 Steven M. Radil 25 Network Analysis 555 Owen Gallupe Index 576

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Book SynopsisAccountants have historically had an important role in the detection and deterrence of fraud. As Joe Wells' Principles of Fraud Examination 4th edition illustrates, fraud is much more than numbers; books and records don't commit fraud people do. Widely embraced by fraud examination instructors across the country, Principles of Fraud Examination, 4th Edition, by Joseph Wells, is written to provide a broad understanding of fraud to today's accounting students what it is and how it is committed, prevented, detected, and resolved. This 4th edition of the text includes a chapter on frauds perpetrated against organizations by individuals outside their staffa growing threat for many entities as commerce increasingly crosses technological and geographical borders.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Skimming 3. Cash Larceny 4. Billing Schemes 5. Check Tampering 6. Payroll Schemes 7. Expense Reimbursement Schemes 8. Register Disbursement Schemes 9. Noncash Assets 10. Corruption 11. Accounting Principles and Fraud 12. Financial Statement Fraud Schemes 13. External Fraud Schemes 14. Fraud Risk Assessment 15. Interviewing Witnesses 16. Occupational Fraud and Abuse: The Big Picture APPENDIX A Online Sources of Information APPENDIX B Sample Code of Business Ethics and Conduct APPENDIX C Fraud Risk Assessment Tool

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive examination of emergency management and offers concepts and strategies for creating effective programs This book looks at the larger context within which emergency management response occurs, and stresses the development of a program to address a wide range of issues. Not limited to traditional emergency response to natural disasters, it addresses a conceptual model capable of integrating multiple disciplines and dealing with unexpected emergencies. Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs, Second Edition starts by focusing on the three pillars on which successful emergency management is based: an understanding of history, knowledge of social science research, and technical expertise in emergency management operations. It provides insight as to how emergency management has evolved and suggests reasons why the current method of response planning doesn't work as well as it should. The book then goes on toTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition xiii Preface to the First Edition xv Introduction xvii 1 Historical Perspectives: The Evolution of Emergency Management 1 Why Study History? 2 Lessons from History 5 The Advent of Disaster Legislation 14 The Growth of Disaster Bureaucracy 22 From Military to Civilian Leadership 23 Civil Defense and Disaster Relief Merge 27 Conclusion 32 2 Historical Perspectives: Toward a National Response Strategy 33 The Origins of National Planning 34 September 11 and the Impact of Homeland Security 36 The Marginalization of Emergency Management 36 Capabilities‐based Planning Replaces All‐Hazards Planning 39 The Pendulum Swings Back: Hurricane Katrina 43 A Failed Response? 43 Degraded Capabilities and Confused Planning 45 Reform and New Planning Concepts 47 Conclusion 49 3 Social Science and the Beginnings of Emergency Management Theory 51 Social Science as an Emergency Management Tool 51 Social Science Evolves Emergency Management Theory 52 Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophes 54 Disaster Mythology 65 Organizational Response 69 Conclusion 71 4 The Emergency Manager: Evolving Roles and Shifting Paradigms 73 Conflicting Roles 74 The Emergency Manager as Program Manager 78 Toward Professionalization 84 Emergency Management as a Field 84 Emergency Management as a Discipline 88 Emergency Management as a Profession 89 Conclusion 90 5 Establishing the Emergency Management Program 93 Program Administration 94 Developing a Governance Structure 94 The Administrative Plan 99 Strategic Planning 99 Formulating Vision 101 Establishing Goals and Objectives 106 Developing the Strategic Plan 108 Enabling Authorities and Legislation 109 Grant Requirements 111 Best Practices 112 Program Elements 113 Resource Management 113 Training 115 Finance 116 Program Evaluation 118 Quantitative Assessment Tools 118 Qualitative Assessment Tools 119 Exercise Programs 120 Actual Incidents 123 Corrective Action Program 124 Conclusion 125 6 Assessing Risk 127 The Nature of Risk 128 Risk Assessment Methodologies 129 Hazard Identification 133 Hazard Analysis 140 Simple Matrix Analysis 140 Indicators and Numerical Ranking 143 THIRA and Context Analysis 148 Intuition 149 Impact Analysis 150 Business Impact Analysis (BIA) 150 Adaptive Business Continuity 154 Continuity of Government/Continuity of Operations 155 Federal Guidance 155 Critical Functions and Process Analysis 158 Conclusion 160 7 Developing Strategy 163 A New Look at an Old Model 164 Risk Management Strategy 166 Mitigation Strategy 168 Recovery Strategy 173 Response Strategy 180 Preparedness Strategy 185 Using Strategy to Guide Planning 187 Conclusion 189 8 Planning Concepts 191 Plans Versus Planning 191 The Planning Continuum 197 Planning Methodologies 201 Planning Assumptions 201 Scenario‐Based Planning 202 Functional Planning 205 Capabilities‐Based Planning 207 Effective Planning 208 Simplicity in Planning 209 Operational Phases 210 All‐Hazards Planning 212 Decentralized Execution 212 Putting the Pieces Together 214 General Planning Principles 215 Conclusion 217 9 Planning Techniques and Methods 219 Establish a Planning Structure 219 Use a Meeting Facilitation Process 222 Meeting Agenda 225 Conducting the Meeting 226 The Meeting Memorandum 227 Develop an Action Plan and Set Deadlines 229 Managing Multiple Projects 230 Annual Work Plans 230 Graphic Planning Tools 231 Facilitate Decision‐Making 232 Use Common Plan Formats 234 Determining Plan Content 236 Use Graphic Tools 238 Use Exercises to Test Concepts 242 Keep it Simple 244 Conclusion 245 10 Coordinating Response 247 Operational Response 247 Incident Management Systems 251 Unified and Area Commands 256 Multiagency Coordination Systems 258 Emergency Operations Centers 264 Communications and Interoperability 269 Information Processing 272 Mutual Aid 273 Resource Management and Logistics 274 The Joint Information Center 276 Conclusion 278 11 Leading in Crisis 279 Principles of Emergency Management 280 Program Leadership 282 Building a Leadership Team 282 Establishing Relationships 284 Making Decisions 285 Operational Leadership 286 The Effects of Crisis 286 Barriers to Decision‐Making 287 Crisis Decision‐Making 289 Conclusion 291 12 Crisis Management 293 Barriers to Crisis Management 294 Disengagement and Inexperience 294 Common Leadership Problems 295 Appropriate Roles for Senior Officials 297 Crisis Management 299 Identifying the Crisis 299 Isolating the Crisis 300 Preparing for Crisis Management 301 Hurricane Katrina: Crisis Management Failure 302 Increasing Organizational Effectiveness 304 Crisis Communications 305 Strategic Recovery Issues 307 Catastrophic Events 312 Conclusion 315 Conclusion 317 Bibliography 321 Index 327

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