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Ontology of Organized Crime
A Meta-Analytical Framework and Enforcement Implications
Häftad, 2024
555 kr
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One of the most elusive pursuits in the study of organized crime is developing a definition, description, or conceptual model that captures its complexity, diversity, and ever-changing nature. This book takes a comprehensive approach to unraveling the intricacies and variations of organized crime, …
Pleasure of Punishment
Häftad, 2023
420 kr
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Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to …
Analytical Criminology
Integrating Explanations of Crime and Deviant Behavior
Inbunden, 2020
2501 kr
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There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfactory situation a new research program of comparative theory testing is proposed. Comparing the theories with each other has not yet been successful. …
Pleasure of Punishment
Inbunden, 2021
2301 kr
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Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to …
Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology
The Case for Criminal Thinking
Inbunden, 2019
2437 kr
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Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology. In the model, once relevant risk …
Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology
Reflections on the Intellectual Legacy of James F. Short, Jr.
Inbunden, 2020
2508 kr
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Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology brings together leading scholars to commemorate the illustrious career and enduring contributions of Professor James F. Short, Jr., to the social sciences. Although Professor Short is best known as a gang scholar, he was a bridging figure who …
Criminology and Democratic Politics
Av Tom Daems, Stefaan Pleysier
Inbunden, 2020
2501 kr
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Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make …
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory
A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology
Häftad, 2020
669 kr
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Some of the brightest minds in criminology who were nurtured on the strictly environmentalist paradigm of the 20th century have declared that biosocial criminology is the paradigm for the 21st century. This book attempts to unite this ever-growing field with the premier neurobiological theory of …
Mafia Violence
Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans
Av Monica Massari, Vittorio Martone
Häftad, 2020
633 kr
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Using in-depth field research and analysis of case studies, Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans focuses attention on the phenomenon of violence performed by Italian organised crime groups, devoting specific attention to the Camorra, which has been …
Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology
The Case for Criminal Thinking
Häftad, 2021
669 kr
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Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology. In the model, once relevant risk …
Young Men and Domestic Abuse
Av David Gadd, Claire L. Fox m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
660 kr
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Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men’s involvement in domestic abuse, …
Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology
Reflections on the Intellectual Legacy of James F. Short, Jr.
Häftad, 2022
688 kr
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Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology brings together leading scholars to commemorate the illustrious career and enduring contributions of Professor James F. Short, Jr., to the social sciences. Although Professor Short is best known as a gang scholar, he was a bridging figure who …
Criminology and Democratic Politics
Av Tom Daems, Stefaan Pleysier
Häftad, 2022
688 kr
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Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make …
Family Life and Youth Offending
Home is Where the Hurt is
Inbunden, 2006
3052 kr
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The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal …
Violence of Incarceration
Av Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch
Häftad, 2009
1007 kr
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Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events …
Family Life and Youth Offending
Home is Where the Hurt is
Häftad, 2012
687 kr
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The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal …
European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability
Av James Gobert, Ana-Maria Pascal
Inbunden, 2011
2301 kr
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When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic. The harm may be financial, as occurred when such well-regarded companies as Enron, Lehman Brothers, Worldcom and Barings collapsed, or it …
Criminal Justice in International Society
Av Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2733 kr
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This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the …
Global Gambling
Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations
Häftad, 2012
819 kr
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While most research has examined the legal, economic and psychological sides of gambling, this innovative collection offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both historical and present-day case studies from throughout the world, the authors seriously consider …
Biology and Criminology
The Biosocial Synthesis
Häftad, 2012
906 kr
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Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of …
Young Men and Domestic Abuse
Av David Gadd, Claire L. Fox m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2301 kr
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Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men’s involvement in domestic abuse, …
Biology and Criminology
The Biosocial Synthesis
Inbunden, 2009
2501 kr
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Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of …
China's Death Penalty
History, Law and Contemporary Practices
Häftad, 2009
727 kr
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By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book …
Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media
Av Paul Manning
Inbunden, 2013
2501 kr
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This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. Tracing the emergence of formal drug …
Social Class and Crime
A Biosocial Approach
Häftad, 2012
616 kr
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Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a …
Myth of Moral Panics
Sex, Snuff, and Satan
Av Bill Thompson, Andy Williams
Inbunden, 2013
2501 kr
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This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.
Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society
Av Huan Gao
Häftad, 2013
717 kr
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Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly …
Security and Everyday Life
Häftad, 2013
790 kr
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When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values – particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some …
Politics of Antisocial Behaviour
Amoral Panics
Häftad, 2009
790 kr
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Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the …
Social Class and Crime
A Biosocial Approach
Inbunden, 2010
2501 kr
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Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a …
