Now in its third edition, this innovative core text provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to key theories and topics in criminology. Highlighting issues of class, race, and gender, the authors navigate the study of crime and criminals in an accessible and compelling manner. Notably, the text investigates a breadth of topics - ranging ...
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was "both the worst and best thing that happened" to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen-year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended college and made wheelchair basketball his ...
This third edition has been updated and expanded to reflect new directions in the field of social work. Much of the case material contained has been revised to highlight the problems facing social workers and professional helpers in the 1990s. The main aim of the book is to show students that by understanding human behaviour in a social context ...
Michael Berger, the author's father, was interned at an SS military camp at Moderowka, a concentration camp at Szebnie, and the Auschwitz camps at Birkenau and Buna-Monowitz. Shlomo Berger, the author's uncle, escaped the camps passing as a Christian with a Polish construction crew and as a member of the Polish Partisans and the Soviet Army. This ...
This ethnic and racially diverse text traces the growth and development of the juvenile delinquent field, with historical essays and contemporary research that show how a sociological perspective can be insightful, interesting, and relevant. The material has been selected from a wide range of sources using a variety of approaches: from social ...
This exciting new book is about the narrative turn in sociology, an approach that views lived experience as constructed, at least in part, by the stories that people tell about it. The book is organized around four themes family and place, the body, education and work, and the passage of time that tell a story about the life course and touch on a ...
This is a criminology text that is explicitly sociological in orientation and is designed to help students cultivate a sociological imagination to guide their thinking about crime and criminal justice. The book takes a critical approach and places questions of social inequality and power at the center of criminological inquiry. It views class, ...
On the question of pornography, people do not present a united front on either the legal and political remedies they propose, or definitions of sexuality and appropriate standards representing it. This study treats pornography within the context of the debate among feminists and also examines non-feminist views as they are embodied in popular ...
This volume on the Holocaust explains the Final Solution to the "Jewish problem" from the perspective of social problems construction. It covers the origins and implementation of the genocidal strategy of National Socialism, the wartime reaction to it and the postwar collective memory of the genocide. "Fathoming the Holocaust" opens by reviewing ...
"Hoop Dreams on Wheels" is written in an accessible story-telling style, as it will be read by a general audience as well as by students in college courses on disability, sport, the body, and social problems. The main component of the book, the life histories of the players, will be especially appealing to students, who will find these accounts ...
This new edition revised: - Provides an excellent conceptual and practical foundation for pretrial litigation - Reflects the practice of law while maintaining the book's emphasis on case theory - Includes checklists at the end of each chapter for easy reference and teachability - Offers an excellent articulation of just how litigators think and ...
This new anthology offers a comprehensive overview of the essential topics in juvenile delinquency and justice. The selections encompass both landmark scholarship and cutting-edge research to expose students to a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Thematic section introductions provide context, while editors' notes draw ...
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