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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “justin mcdevitt”
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  • 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

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  • The Behavioral Code

    The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse

    by Benjamin van Rooij, Adam Fine ...
    An American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award WinnerA 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and CriminologyA 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award FinalistA Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Book of 2021Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior</... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Engaged Criminology

    An Introduction

    by Rena Zito ...
    Engaged Criminology: An Introduction invites students to learn and think like a criminologist through its applied learning approach. Author Rena C. Zito adopts a conversational tone, prompting students to interrogate inequalities, consider unintended consequences, and envision solutions, all while highlighting the role of systemic inequalities as predictors and outcomes of criminal conduct and ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • America the Beautiful and Violent

    Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago

    by Dexter Voisin ...
    Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas—often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this book, Dexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • From Education to Incarceration

    Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition

    Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, David Stovall ...
    Series series Counterpoints
    The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system’s direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe

    Understanding Breach Processes

    Edited by Miranda Boone, Niamh Maguire ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action’s work on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

  • Restorative Justice Today

    Practical Applications

    Edited by Lorenn Walker, Katherine S. van Wormer ...
    Restorative Justice Today: Applications of Restorative Interventions takes a hard look at the issues and concepts surrounding restorative justice and current restorative practices used in a broad range of areas today. In a time when the cost of prisons and jails is on the rise resulting in more offenders being kept out of the community, this timely and contemporary book exposes readers to a range ... Read more

    $70.19 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

  • Political Rumors

    Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

    by Adam J. Berinsky ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an “inside job”) and the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems: Volume 2

    Edited by A. Javier Treviño ...
    The introduction of the Affordable Care Act in the United States, the increasing use of prescription drugs, and the alleged abuse of racial profiling by police are just some of the factors contributing to twenty-first-century social problems. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration. Unlike other ... Read more

    $224.69 USD