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  • Flexible Syntax

    A Theory of Case and Arguments

    by A. Neeleman, F. Weerman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. Neeleman and Weerman take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic languages. In-depth analyses of word order phenomena as well as diachronic and typological ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups

    by Francesca Angelini, Paul Bradshaw, Yngve Carlsson, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Mark S. Fleisher, Uberto Gatti, Hans-Juergen Kerner, Malcolm W. Klein, Inger-Lise Lien, Gilberto Marengo, Natalia Melchiorre, Kerstin Reich, Alexander Salagaev, Marcello Sasso, Alexander Shashkin, Irina Sherbakova, Elias Touryanskiy, Frank van Gemert, Elmar G. M. Weitekamp ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    Although a well-known phenomenon in the U.S., street gangs and other violent and criminal groups_including racist groups_exist also in European cities and countries, and are of increasing concern in global law enforcement. The eminent contributors to this volume present valuable new data on European youth gangs, describing important characteristics of these groups, and their similarities and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace

    Untangling the Complex Relations Between Employment, Education and Crime

    Edited by Frank Weerman, Catrien Bijleveld ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
    This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large scale and sophisticated studies conducted in the Netherlands that gathered rich data on employment, education and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gangs in the Era of Internet and Social Media

    Edited by Chris Melde, Frank Weerman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of online gang behavior, as well as the consequences of this new phenomenon for gang prevention and intervention.In this edited volume ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

    Edited by S.G. Nooteboom, F. Weerman, F.N.K Wijnen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Every now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the "triangle people" - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid , liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost ; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) . At the risk of sounding like a triangle person, let me ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Second Edition

    Edited by Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ...
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    $82.99 USD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Tony N. Brown ...
    The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of historical, social and institutional frameworks. Part I examines social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis and the measurement of mental health and illness, theories that explain the definition ... Read more

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  • Crime in Canada

    by 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, ... Read more

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  • Childhood Victimization

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

    by 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. ... Read more

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  • Early Childhood Matters

    Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project

    Edited by Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart ...
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  • Criminology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tim Newburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy agenda across the world. But how can we measure crime, or evaluate the effectiveness of preventative measures? Does the threat of prison reduce someone's likelihood of reoffending, or would ... Read more

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