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Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00This book explores firsthand accounts of the genocide in Darfur. more...
Justice in the Balkans
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With Slobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow... more...
Who Are the Criminals?
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 29.95How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the... more...
Who Are the Criminals?
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 22.95How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the... more...
Gender in Practice
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 119.99This work analyses the current status of women in the law, drawing on two major studies in Canada in 1985 and 1990, and relating the findings to women and the legal profession in the United States. One of the largest studies of women lawyers yet undertaken, this book offers insights based on empirical data into the status of women in the law. more...
Mean Streets
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 30.00A field study, featuring intensive personal interviews, of young people living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. more...
The Many Colors of Crime
NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.00In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the perception of crime and those who are criminalized,... more...
Stable Peace Among Nations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2000; US$ 31.99This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle... more...
Handbook of Public Sociology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 38.99The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional types of sociological practice to advance both the analytical power of the discipline and its ability to benefit society. The volume features... more...
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