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Macho Paradoxby
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2006; US$ 19.99Violence against women is every man's issue. more...
The Sixteenth Roundby Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Lawrence Hill Books 2011; US$ 13.95The survivor of a difficult childhood and youth, Rubin Carter rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people in a New Jersey bar. While in prison, Carter chronicled the events that led him from the ring to three consecutive life sentences and 10 years in solitary confinement. His story was a cry for help to the public, an attempt to set the record straight and force a new trial. Bob Dylan wrote a classic anthem for Carter's struggle; and Joan Baez, Muhammad Ali, Roberta Flack, and thousands more took up the cause as well. Originally published in 1974, this account is an eye-opening examination of... more...
Will They Do it Again?by Herschel Prins
Routledge 1999; US$ 42.50Considers the issue of risks to ordinary people particularly those posed by the mentally ill. Prins considers public protection within a broad context and, of risk in society in general. more...
Handbook of Residential Careby John Burton
Routledge 1993; US$ 59.95Residential care is under a national spotlight. This handbook addresses the particular problems experienced by residential staff and offers real examples, case studies, analysis and guidance to those working both with the elderly and children. more...
Psychology in Prisonsby David Cooke; Pamela Baldwin; Jacqueline Howison
Routledge 1993; US$ 29.95Psychology in Prisons illustrates how a knowledge of psychological principles can lead to a better understanding of the prison environment and the problems that occur within it. more...
Methods of Criminological Researchby Victor Jupp
Routledge 1989; US$ 57.95The book examines the different ways in which data are collected and analysed in research on crime and criminal justice. In doing so it deals with social surveys, experimental methods, official statistics, observation and detailed interviews. more...
Governments, Citizens, and Genocideby Alex Alvarez
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 23.95Governments, Citizens, and Genocide A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach Alex Alvarez A comprehensive analysis demonstrating how whole societies come to support the practice of genocide. "Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and useful analysis of modern genocide... [It] is perhaps the most important interdisciplinary account to appear since Zygmunt Bauman's classic work, Modernity and the Holocaust." -- Stephen Feinstein, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies "Alex Alvarez has written a first-rate propaedeutic on the running sore of genocide. The singular... more...
Northridge Earthquakeby Robert Bolin; Lois Stanford
Routledge 1998; US$ 238.00This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US history, the Northridge earthquake of 1994, to examine the facets of vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies. more...
Psychology and Crimeby Clive R. Hollin
Routledge 1989; US$ 32.50Psychology and Crime supplies a timely and much-needed general text covering the range of contributions psychology has made both to understanding crime and responding to it. more...
Gender and Crime in Modern Europeby Meg Arnot; Cornelie Usborne
Routledge 1999; US$ 38.95This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe. more...