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  • Homicide

    Foundations of Human Behavior

    by Martin Daly, Margo Wilson ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
    The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Violence against Women

    by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly, Erika Davis-Frenzel, Kirsten Dellinger, R Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash, Robert M. Emerson, Kathleen J. Ferraro, Kerry O. Ferris, Patricia Gagné, Carol Brooks Gardner, Demie Kurz, Donileen R. Loseke, Joseph Marolla, Diana Scully, Cassia Spohn, Kathleen J. Tierney, Christine L. Williams, Margo Wilson, Patricia Yancey Martin ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal levels. Many of the most influential articles in the field were published in Social Problems. ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Killing the Competition

    Economic Inequality and Homicide

    by Martin Daly ...
    Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides are the denouements of competitive interactions between men. Relatively speaking, where desired goods are distributed inequitably and competition for those goods is severe, dangerous tactics of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
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  • Hiding from Humanity

    Disgust, Shame, and the Law

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, ... Read more

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  • Moral Minds

    The Nature of Right and Wrong

    by Marc D. Hauser ...
    A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book.With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures around the globe, it is easy to assume that moral perspectives are socially developed—a matter of nurture rather than nature. But in Moral Minds, Marc Hauser presents compelling evidence to the contrary, and offers a revolutionary new ... Read more

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  • The Moral Sense

    by James Q. Wilson ...
    Are human beings naturally endowed with a conscience? Or is morality artificially acquired through social pressure and instruction? Most people assume that modern science proves the latter. Further, most of our current social policies are based upon this “scientific” view of the sources of morality. In this book, however, James Q. Wilson seeks to reconcile traditional ideas with a range of ... Read more

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  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Inequality

    How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    by Richard Wilkinson ...
    A "powerful and provocative" inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' health, happiness and well-being (Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health).Comparing the United States with other market democracies, and one American state with another, this book presents irrefutable evidence that inequality is a driver of poor health, social conflict, and violence. ... Read more

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  • Rejecting Retributivism

    Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

    by Gregg D. Caruso ...
    Series series Law and the Cognitive Sciences
    Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are morally responsible for their actions and deserve to be punished in proportion to their wrongdoing. This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Crime, Shame and Reintegration

    by John Braithwaite ...
    Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Explaining Crime

    A Primer in Criminological Theory

    by Hugh D. Barlow, David Kauzlarich ...
    This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including ... Read more

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