Studies in Transgression – serie
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22 produkter
Con Men
Hustling in New York City
Av Terry Williams, Trevor Milton
Inbunden, 2015
951 kr
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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover …
Con Men
Hustling in New York City
Av Terry Williams, Trevor Milton
Häftad, 2017
255 kr
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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover …
Enforcing Freedom
Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State
Av Kerwin Kaye
Inbunden, 2019
1209 kr
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In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and …
Enforcing Freedom
Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State
Av Kerwin Kaye
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and …
Exiled in America
Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
Inbunden, 2016
565 kr
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Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans-released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, …
Down and Out in New Orleans
Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
Inbunden, 2017
301 kr
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In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this …
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Detention, Deportation, and Border Control
Av Philip Kretsedemas, David C. Brotherton
Inbunden, 2018
1295 kr
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The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. …
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Detention, Deportation, and Border Control
Av Philip Kretsedemas, David C. Brotherton
Häftad, 2018
325 kr
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The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. …
Gang Paradox
Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Inbunden, 2018
1209 kr
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The areas along the U.S.-Mexico border are commonly portrayed as a hot spot for gang activity, drug trafficking, and violence. Yet when Robert J. Durán conducted almost a decade’s worth of ethnographic research in border towns between El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico—a region notorious for …
Gang Paradox
Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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The areas along the U.S.-Mexico border are commonly portrayed as a hot spot for gang activity, drug trafficking, and violence. Yet when Robert J. Durán conducted almost a decade’s worth of ethnographic research in border towns between El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico—a region notorious for …
Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism
Inbunden, 2017
596 kr
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The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the …
Views from the Streets
The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago's South Side
Inbunden, 2020
1245 kr
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Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city’s staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often stereotyped. Views from the Streets explains the …
Views from the Streets
The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago's South Side
Häftad, 2020
635 kr
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Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city’s staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often stereotyped. Views from the Streets explains the …
Divide & Conquer
Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict
Inbunden, 2022
1243 kr
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Hyper-criminalization and the normalization of violence was an integral aspect of Robert Weide’s formative years growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, where SureÑo, Crip, and Blood gangs maintained a precarious coexistence, often punctuated by racialized gang violence. His insider …
Divide & Conquer
Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict
Häftad, 2022
387 kr
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Hyper-criminalization and the normalization of violence was an integral aspect of Robert Weide’s formative years growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, where SureÑo, Crip, and Blood gangs maintained a precarious coexistence, often punctuated by racialized gang violence. His insider …
Before Crips
Fussin', Cussin', and Discussin' Among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs
Av John C. Quicker, Akil S. Batani-Khalfani
Inbunden, 2022
1337 kr
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This groundbreaking book opens the door on the missing record of South Los Angeles juvenile gangs. It is the result of the unique friendship that developed between John Quicker and Akil Batani-Khalfani, aka Bird, who collaborated to show how structural marginality transformed hang-out street groups …
Before Crips
Fussin', Cussin', and Discussin' Among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs
Av John C. Quicker, Akil S. Batani-Khalfani
Häftad, 2022
340 kr
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This groundbreaking book opens the door on the missing record of South Los Angeles juvenile gangs. It is the result of the unique friendship that developed between John Quicker and Akil Batani-Khalfani, aka Bird, who collaborated to show how structural marginality transformed hang-out street groups …
Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations
Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities Through the Critique of Antiblackness
Av Philip Kretsedemas, Jamella Nefetari Gow
Inbunden, 2024
1222 kr
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Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the “unasked question of blackness” in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration-compelled by force or suggestion, from the …
Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations
Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities Through the Critique of Antiblackness
Av Philip Kretsedemas, Jamella Nefetari Gow
Häftad, 2024
369 kr
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Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the “unasked question of blackness” in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration-compelled by force or suggestion, from the …
Real Recognizes Real
The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement
Av David Brotherton, Danny Kessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
409 kr
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From South Central to Southside
Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City
Av Adam Baird
Inbunden, 2024
1074 kr
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When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established “back home,” membership in the …
From South Central to Southside
Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City
Av Adam Baird
Häftad, 2024
330 kr
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When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established “back home,” membership in the …
