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Violence Against Women and Human Rights
Swastik Publishers & Distributors 2009; US$ 40.00The 2001 census shows that the sex ratio is continuing to drop at an alarming rate across the country through the degree might differ from one state to another. Violence against women in India is increasing at alarming rate and for this a number of causes are responsible. Manifestations of violence include physical aggression such as burns, humidiation,... more...
Civil Rights Movements
Swastik Publishers & Distributors 2010; US$ 40.00Deal civil rights movement movement was part of a longer black freedom struggle ?iat went back into the nineteenth century. This course will focus on that portion of the struggle characterized by an organized mass movement's) from World War II through the 1970s, highlighting the shift from protest to electoral politics. They extended representative... more...
Agencies and policies
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 36.37Christoph Seidler's book discusses how bilateral donors perform in fighting corruption. In order to do so, a rationalist perspective is taken. The author argues that donors perform well in fighting corruption when they cooperate - in forming an international regime. Based on three documents of OECD/DAC, possible principles, rules and norms of such... more...
Clubland
St. Martin's Press 2003; US$ 6.99In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-pounding music, gender-bending dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted... more...
Explaining Crime
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 28.99This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories... more...
Among the Truthers
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 21.99From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating "birthers"?a sobering, eyewitness look at how America's marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny, radicalized boutiques?each peddling its own brand of paranoia Throughout most of our nation's history, the United States has been bound together by a shared... more...
Criminology
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 31.00- Professor Kevin Stenson, Middlesex University This book offers a timely introduction both to the discipline of criminology and to the practice of studying it as an undergraduate subject. It takes the reader from first principles in Criminology through to some quite complex ideas and debates. It also offers useful advice on how to... more...
The Psychology of Crime
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 58.00An introductory textbook on criminal behaviour: its identification, cause and control. more...
Les Flambeurs
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2004; US$ 14.99Cet ouvrage est consacré au parcours de vie des usagers réguliers et fréquents de cocaïne. Plus spécifiquement, les auteurs se sont fixés deux objectifs. Un premier consiste à mieux comprendre la trajectoire des consommateurs coutumiers de cocaïne en analysant les dynamiques qui sous-tendent ce processus. Ceci fait, il est alors possible d?approfondir... more...
La Violence, la peur et le crime
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2001; US$ 9.99La violence et la peur font tellement partie de nos vies que, parfois, elles se confondent avec elles. Elles s?insinuent aussi bien dans le social que dans l?individuel et déterminent l?histoire de l?un et de l?autre. Le crime, quant à lui, semble d?être devenu un acte privilégié non seulement pour dire la violence, mais aussi pour vivre la peur.... more...









