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  • Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action

    The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs

    by R. Allen Hays, Eileen Ahlin, Daniel Brisson, Claire Cahen, Sara M. Eccleston, Jyoti Gupta, Stephanie Lechuga-Peña, José Meléndez, Jamila Michener, Douglas Perkins0, Susan Saegert1, Jakob Schneider2, Kelechi Uzochukwu3, Diane Wong4, Maria João Lobo Antunes5 ...
    This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods to meet the human needs of their residents. They address the constraints put on neighborhood ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Violence in the Heights

    The Torn Social Fabric of Inner-City Neighborhoods

    by Eileen M. Ahlin ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    Given the media attention and research focus on big cities with large minority populations, people have grown accustomed to associating violence with these attributes. Violence in the Heights counters that narrative to provide a fresh perspective on inner-city violence with a close look at violence and associated social disorder in a cluster of neighborhoods in a mid-sized, predominantly White ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies

    Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices

    by Anne S. Douds, Eileen M. Ahlin ...
    Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices:Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. This work combines a voyeuristic desire to observe “evil” and the consequences of the system of punishment, with detached consideration of what those stories can tell us about who we are as a nation ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Youth Violence in Context

    An Ecological Routine Activity Framework

    by Eileen M. Ahlin, Maria João Lobo Antunes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
    This book places youth violence within a Routine Activity Ecological Framework. Youth violence, specifically youth exposure to community violence and youth perpetration of violent behaviors, occur within various contexts. Ahlin and Antunes situate their discussion of youth violence within an ecological framework, identifying how it is nested within four mesosystem layers: community, family, peers ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Taking Problem-Solving Courts to Scale

    Diverse Applications of the Specialty Court Model

    by Eileen M. Ahlin, Anne S. Douds, Cassandra Atkin-Plunk, Elyshia Aseltine, Kealy A. Cassidy, Amanda B. Cissner, Amanda Emmert, Irina Fanarraga, Lama Hassoun Ayoub0, Monica Himes1, Mitra Z. Honardoost2, Ashley Kilmer3, Deborah Koetzle4, Joan Lobo Antunes5, Jared A. Michaels6, Shondrah Nash7, Jennifer Newell8, Carrie Petrucci9, Michael Rempel0, Lisa Shannon1, Kyle C. Troeger2, Rebecca Thomforde Hauser3, Ella R. Warburton4, Tyrell Connor5 ...
    In the more than 30 years since the drug court model transformed the criminal justice landscape, problem-solving courts have expanded their reach beyond criminogenic needs. They now address demographic similarities (e.g., veterans courts, tribal wellness courts, community courts) and offense characteristics (e.g., prostitution courts, sex offender courts). The rapid expansion of problem-solving ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Veterans Treatment Court Movement

    Striving to Serve Those Who Served

    by Anne S. Douds, Eileen M. Ahlin ...
    Series series Directions and Developments in Criminal Justice and Law
    The Veterans Treatment Court Movement provides a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the burgeoning veteran’s court movement from genesis through to operation, and concluding with comments on its societal relevance. Beginning with the unlikely convergence of therapeutic jurisprudence with the oft-misunderstood warrior ethos that undergirds the entire movement, the text examines every component of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Trends in Corrections

    Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World, Volume One

    Edited by Jennie K. Singer, Dilip K. Das, Eileen Ahlin ...
    Series series Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons
    Offering rare insiders perspectives, Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World is a comprehensive survey of correctional programming and management styles used across nations. Twelve chapters present transcribed interviews of corrections leaders along with a brief portrait of the corrections system in those jurisd ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations

    Edited by Eileen M. Ahlin, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Cassandra A. Atkin-Plunk ...
    Series series The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series
    The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. The volume is a comprehensive and fresh approach to examining sentencing and community and institutional corrections. The book includes empirical and theoretical essays and recent developments on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Edited by James Q. Wilson, Joan Petersilia ...
    Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects to crime control. Yet the latest research is rarely heard in public discussions and is often missing ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    by Michael Shellenberger ...
    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve the homelessness crisis, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, from San Francisco to Seattle, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • How Rob Ford Happened

    A History of the Toronto Mayor from the Pages of the National Post

    by The National Post ...
    Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Duffy

    Stardom to Senate to Scandal

    by Dan Leger ...
    He cast himself as the ultimate insider, Parliament Hill’s man in the know. It made him a household name and one of the Canada’s bestpaid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the ... Read more

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