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  • The Prison Community

    de Donald Clemmer, Christopher Wildeman, Sara Wakefield ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The Prison Community was a landmark study on prison culture and social processes, first published in 1940 (and reissued in 1958). This reissue includes a new introduction by Wildeman and Wakefield to situate the study in a contemporary context, alongside the foreword by Donald R. Cressey. The original book represented one of the first studies to take the cultural, social, and administrative ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Children of the Prison Boom

    Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality

    de Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom, Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman draw upon broadly representative survey data and interviews to describe the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration on a generation of vulnerable ... Leer más

    $35.09 USD

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  • Growing Up Absurd

    Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

    de Susan Sontag, Paul Goodman ...
    Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Crime in Canada

    de Diane Crocker ...
    In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Asylums

    Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

    de Erving Goffman, David Dutton ...
    A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Jack-Roller

    A Delinquent Boy's Own Story

    de Clifford R. Shaw ...
    The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging),Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

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  • Childhood Victimization

    Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People

    de David Finkelhor ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • Is Killing Wrong?

    A Study in Pure Sociology

    de Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Studies in Pure Sociology
    "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Great Debates in Criminology

    de Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Whiz Mob

    A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern

    de David W. Maurer ...
    Whiz Mob is David W. Maurer's classic study of the world of pickpockets. Similar to his best-known work, The Big Con, in Whiz Mob Maurer explains the colorful expressions and vivid words used by pickpockets and uses them to provide a window into the life and experiences of the professional criminal. Although he is quick to point out that he never had any actual experience on the racket, Maurer ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Lifers

    Seeking Redemption in Prison

    de John Irwin ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Crime and the Life Course

    de Michael L. Benson ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD