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  • Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gangs

    Findings from the Eurogang Program of Research

    Edited by Dena C. Carson, Marta-Marika Urbanik, Shannon E. Reid ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of gangs as a global phenomenon, moving beyond the traditional American-centric perspective. It delves into the study of gangs worldwide as well as factors that aid in prevention and intervention. Compiled by members of the Eurogang Program of Research, this volume presents cutting-edge findings from recent academic studies.The book is structured into ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • On Gangs

    by Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley ...
    Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of responses to it. The authors look at the many influences on gangs’ operation, growth, prevention, and enforcement.The authors provide ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Thug Criminology

    A Call to Action

    Edited by Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, Anthony Gunter ...
    Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the "streets" more broadly.The book questions how the "streets" – and the racialized and marginalized urban communities who inhabit them – are ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Surviving the ICE Age

    Children of Immigrants in New York

    by Joanna Dreby ...
    For the past three decades, U.S. immigration policy has become increasingly restrictive, focused on enforcement both at the southern border and across the country. A shift in emphasis from status regularization to criminalization has had rippling effects for families and communities. While we know much about how immigration enforcement impacts the undocumented, we know less about longstanding ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

    Edited by Andrea Nichols, Tonya Edmond, , Ph.D., Erin Heil, , Ph.D. ...
    As awareness and identification of sex trafficking and exploitation have grown, so has the need for improved social work responses. In this volume, expert practitioners, survivors, and researchers model the best practices for working with this population, using case examples and illustrative guides. Chapters cover the common challenges of working with trafficked and exploited people and how to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Gangs

    by Bill Sanders ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A worldwide fascination with gangs is evident: they are a major focus of the criminal justice system and the object of much media attention. This new Oxford Reference title of over 250 entries gives a concise overview of key terms used in the study and understanding of gangs - the first dictionary of its kind to focus on gang vernacular. Broad in scope, it covers: colloquialisms used in gang ... Read more

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  • Setting the Agenda

    Mass Media and Public Opinion

    by Maxwell McCombs, Sebastian Valenzuela ...
    News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this crucial topic.In this timely third edition, Maxwell McCombs – a pioneer of agenda-setting research – and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Unlocking Learning

    International Perspectives on Education in Prison

    Edited by Justin McDevitt, Mneesha Gellman ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in Law and Society
    Contributors from many countries share their insights about effective educational programs for people in prison and show what the United States can learn from the models and struggles beyond its borders.Countries around the world have disparate experiences with education in prison. For decades, the United States has been locked in a pattern of exceptionally high mass incarceration. Though ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime

    Focused Deterrence, Legitimacy, and Prevention

    by Anthony A. Braga, David M. Kennedy ...
    Series series Elements in Criminology
    This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding underlying crime-producing dynamics and conditions that sustain recurring crime problems, and implementing a blended set of law enforcement, community mobilization, and social service actions. The approach builds on recent ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children

    by Zorana Medaric, Mateja Sedmak ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children aims to bring child-centered approaches as applied to researching child migration to the forefront of academic and policy debates on this topic. The chapters included in this volume cover the key debates in the field and provide important insights about recent developments in areas that inform use of the child-centered approach. ... Read more

    $158.39 USD

  • Children and Peace

    From Research to Action

    Edited by Nikola Balvin, Daniel J. Christie ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, ... Read more

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  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women

    Shifting the Needle

    Edited by Julia Buxton, Giavana Margo, Lona Burger ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The international strategy of criminalising the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a ‘drug free world’. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women ... Read more

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