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The Price of Progressive Politics
NYU Press 2010; US$ 49.00Social justice activists in the United States face an increasingly difficult task: how do they fight policies based on damaging images of race, class and gender identities in an era of “colorblind” racism? Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive Politics exposes... more...
Judging Juveniles
NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.002007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology. 2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology. By comparing how adolescents are prosecuted and punished in juvenile and criminal (adult) courts, Aaron Kupchik finds that prosecuting... more...
Soziale Arbeit als Wissenschaft
Springer 2012; US$ 31.99W hrend der Begriff 'Soziale Arbeit' in der Regel f r die inhaltliche und strukturelle Einheit sozialp dagogischer und sozialarbeiterischer Praxis steht, f hren Fragen nach der disziplin ren Zust ndigkeit einer 'Sozialen Arbeit als Wissenschaft' zu vielerlei Kontroversen. Vor allem die in den 1990er Jahren gef hrten Diskussionen um... more...
Schools and Delinquency
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00Schools and Delinquency examines the role of the school in preventing delinquency. more...
Never Enough
Encounter Books 2012; US$ 17.95Since the beginning of the New Deal, American liberals have insisted that the government must do more?much more?to help the poor, to increase economic security, to promote social justice and solidarity, to reduce inequality, and to mitigate the harshness of capitalism. Nonetheless, liberals have never answered, or even acknowledged, the corresponding... more...
Rural Social Work Practice
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 31.99Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural communities. Contributors consider the history and development of rural social work from its beginnings to the present day, addressing the value... more...
Judging Mohammed
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 9.95This groundbreaking study goes inside France's juvenile court system and follows young people, largely of foreign ancestry, from arrest to court trials, revealing an alarming shift in the nation's approach to its youth offenders. more...
Offending Girls
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls? offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ?new breed? of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ?ladette?, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth justice system, including youth custody, increased dramatically.... more...
Maladjusted Boys (RLE Edu M)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 105.00Written by the founder of a pioneering establishment for disruptive boys who had been excluded from mainstream schools and in some cases turned to crime, this book discusses the methods and reasons for success of Red Hill School. It also discusses the causes of disruptive or obsessive behaviour and emphasizes how the therapeutic work of Red Hill... more...
Outrage
PM Press 2012; US$ 14.99This memoir of Clément Duval, a famed 19th-century French anarchist and criminal, details his sentence and eventual escape from the dry guillotine” of the French penal colonies on Devil’s Island. In this remarkable story of survival by self-determination, courage, conviction, and hope, Duval discusses the hellish conditions endured... more...









