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  • Warriors and Peacemakers

    How Third Parties Shape Violence

    Edición de Mark Cooney ...
    Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why?While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of "crime" and "deviance," violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions. Cooney has analyzed the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Geometrical Justice

    The Death Penalty in America

    de Scott Phillips, Mark Cooney ...
    Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a theory that predicted and explained legal decisions ... Leer más

    $58.99 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

  • Execution by Family

    A Theory of Honor Violence

    de Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Across many parts of the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting an increasing amount of attention. Family honor violence, otherwise known as honor-based violence, is physical force inflicted primarily on women for conduct defined as dishonorable. This book explores these conflicts of honor, how they are triggered, how they are handled, and why some lead to death ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Principles of Criminology

    de Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Media, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime

    Studies in Newsmaking Criminology

    Edición de Gregg Barak ...
    Series series Current Issues in Criminal Justice
    First published in 1995. One of the most pervasive forms of social control in our society is the mass media. The public learns from television, newspapers, magazines, movies, and books what is happening in the world and how to interpret it. The problem, however, is that full or complete interpretations of reality are not presented. In short, reality itself, clear and unadorned, is not to be found ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice

    de Susan Caringella ...
    The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan Estrich's Real Rape, this volume probes every aspect of rape law and the discrepancies between ideal law (on the books) and real law (in action). Susan Caringella canvasses the success and failure of reform in the United States, as well as Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, and assesses alternative ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Punishment and Social Control

    Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger

    Edición de Stanley Cohen ...
    Series series Social Problems & Social Issues
    While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Social Reality of Crime

    de Wilhelm Roepke ...
    Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice. At the time of its appearance in 1970, Quinney's theory not only liberated the field from a recitation of the practices of the police, courts, and corrections, it also represented a marked departure from traditional analysis which viewed criminal behavior as pathological. Quinney ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cultural Prison

    Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

    de John M. Sloop ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    The incarcerated in America's cultural imagination.The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments. The study is based on an analysis of 642 articles collected by the author from American popular journals and magazines, as well as ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Deadly Injustice

    Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System

    Edición de Devon Johnson, Amy Farrell, Patricia Y. Warren ...
    Series Libro 14 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    The murder of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his assailant, George Zimmerman, sparked a passionate national debate about race and criminal justice in America that involved everyone from bloggers to mayoral candidates to President Obama himself. With increased attention to these causes, from St. Louis to Los Angeles, intense outrage at New York City’s Stop ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Homicide

    A Sociological Explanation

    de Leonard Beeghley ...
    The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we explain such high levels of lethal violence in the world's leading democracy?Echoing Durkheim's Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD