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  • The End of College Football

    On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

    by Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva ...
    In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America’s favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country’s most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization

    Edited by Mathieu Deflem, Derek M.D. Silva ...
    Series Book 25 - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
    The field of radicalization studies, which intersects within the fields of sociology, law, criminology, and criminal justice, focuses particularly on the social dynamics of terrorism from different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives. It is a fast-growing field in which many areas remain to be explored.In Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, Derek Silva and Mathieu ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies

    Edited by Derek M.D. Silva, Mathieu Deflem ...
    Series Book 27 - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
    Volume 27 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discusses a variety of issues of significance to equity, inclusion, and diversity in criminology and criminal justice studies. The research area of crime, criminal justice, and social control has typically devoted attention to diversity in its subject matter much more than in the profession and scholarship itself.By and large, the disparities in ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Power Played

    A Critical Criminology of Sport

    Edited by Derek Silva, Liam Kennedy ...
    Series series Law and Society
    This innovative collection convincingly argues that modern sport can be characterized by unequal and problematic power relations that are inextricably linked to issues of violence, harm, deviance, and punishment.On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a means to mental and social health. On the other, there is the star player who commits sexual ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Changing of the Guards

    Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

    Edited by Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, Derek Silva ...
    Although service outsourcing has spread throughout Canada’s prisons and jails, into its police, courts, and national security institutions, and along the border in recent decades, the expanding scope and pace of corporate involvement in criminal justice functions has not been closely investigated.Changing of the Guards provides a comprehensive assessment of privatization and private influence ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Media and Law

    Between Free Speech and Censorship

    Edited by Mathieu Deflem, Derek M.D. Silva ...
    Series Book 26 - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
    In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D Silva have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing literature. This volume explores free speech and the control thereof from both a political as well as cultural lens. These topics have once again moved center stage in scholarly as well as popular ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research

    Edited by Mathieu Deflem, Derek M.D. Silva ...
    Series Book 24 - Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance
    The eleven chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discuss a variety of issues of methodological significance in research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. As scholarly work on various aspects of crime, deviance, criminal justice, and social control has progressed tremendously in recent decades, both in terms of scope as well as with respect to ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • No Slam Dunk

    Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change

    by Cheryl Cooky, Michela Musto, Lauren Rauscher, Marko Begovic, Carole Oglesby, Don Sabo, Marjorie Snyder, Suzel Bozada-Deas, Shari Dworkin, Ranissa Dycus, Faye Linda Wachs, Michael A. Messner ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    In just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Changing on the Fly

    Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

    by Courtney Szto ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book AwardHockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Learning Culture through Sports

    Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

    by Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi, Keith Harrison, Jackson Katz, Kyle Kusz, Carwyn Jones, Mary McDonald, Leanne Norman, Genevieve Rail, Barbara Ravel, Ellen Staurowsky, Cheria Thomas, Sanford S. Williams, Jay Coakley, Angela J. Hattery, C. Richard King, Richard Lapchick, Earl Smith ...
    In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context for probing the sociological basis of this influence. The book's sections each address a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Taking The Field

    Women, Men, and Sports

    by Michael A. Messner ...
    In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girls’ and women’s dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-and yet, as Michael Messner shows us in this provocative book, no less ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

    Hockey’s Agents of Change

    Edited by Cheryl A. MacDonald, Jonathon R.J. Edwards ...
    Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly ... Read more

    $25.99 USD