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Lehrbuch der systemischen Therapie und Beratung I
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 43.08Hauptbeschreibung Dieser rundumerneuerte Klassiker – 10 von 22 Kapitel wurden neu geschrieben, die anderen 12 aktualisiert – ist im besten Sinne ein Lehrbuch: theoretisch fundiert und umfassend, in seinem Praxisbezug nahe am Alltag der Leser/-innen in den verschiedenen Kontexten von Psychotherapie, Beratung, Sozialer Arbeit, Pädagogik,... more...
Public Criminology?
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 52.95What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas and public discourse? What collective good do we want... more...
Critical Terrorism Studies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies. While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by... more...
Halt's Maul, jetzt kommt der Segen.
Calwer Verlag 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Beziehungsinvalide", "vollverkabelt", "spracharm", "gewalttätig" - solche leichtfertig verwendeteten Adjektive sind schnell zur Hand, wenn es um die Charakterisierung von sozialen "Problemkindern" geht. Kann man mit solchen Kindern überhaupt ins Gespräch kommen? Ganz und gar, wenn es um Themen der Religion und des Glaubens geht?... more...
Sekundäre Viktimisierung als Legitimationsformel.
Duncker & Humblot 2012; US$ 79.80Hauptbeschreibung Spätestens seit Garlands »Culture of Control« wird die Frage gestellt, ob und wie die Kriminalpolitik »das Opfer« benutzt, um dem Strafrecht punitive Züge zu geben. Der Verdacht, dass das Opfer als Vehikel des »Penal Populism« diene, besteht auch mit Blick auf den expandierenden strafprozessualen Opferschutz in Deutschland. Ralf... more...
Thinking About Crime
Basic Books 2013; US$ 17.99As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument?that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers?and forever... more...
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History
PM Press 2013; US$ 9.99The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF)?West Germany?s most notorious urban guerillas?covers the period immediately following the organization?s near total decimation in 1977. During this period, the RAF was in a state of regrouping and attempting to renew its ties to the radical left in... more...
Drug Muled
Jacana Media 2013; US$ 19.99?I realise what they did to me in there. How they turned me into a savage, only half human, bathing in a trough and eating food fit for animals and locking me in a cage every night.? ? Vanessa Goosen, Drug Muled It?s 1994. South Africa is on the brink of freedom. On the verge of a big break in modelling, Miss SA finalist, 21-year-old Vanessa Goosen... more...









