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After Life Imprisonment
NYU Press 2016; US$ 22.40One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison? In After... more...
The Explanation of Crime
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 46.00An analysis of the roles of behavioural contexts and individual differences in crime causation. more...
Great American City
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 21.25For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary... more...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 79.50This volume focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. Multiple disciplinary perspectives provide the strengths and problems in our communities. Research in this presidential volume provides historical, moral, and scientifically based arguments to inform understandings... more...
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