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  • 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

  • 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

    $65.99 USD

  • Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin?

    Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory

    by Griet Vandermassen ...
    Why should feminism and the biological sciences be at odds? And what might be gained from a reconciliation? In Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Vandermassen shows that, rather than continuing this enmity, feminism and the biological sciences-and in particular evolutionary psychology-have the need and the potential to become powerful allies. Properly understood, the Darwinian perspective proposed in ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $34.59 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Punisher's Brain

    The Evolution of Judge and Jury

    by Morris B. Hoffman ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    Why do we punish, and why do we forgive? Are these learned behaviors, or is there something deeper going on? This book argues that there is indeed something deeper going on, and that our essential response to the killers, rapists, and other wrongdoers among us has been programmed into our brains by evolution. Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • In Doubt

    by Dan Simon ...
    Criminal justice is unavoidably human. Detectives, witnesses, suspects, and victims shape investigations; prosecutors, defense attorneys, jurors, and judges affect the outcome of adjudication. Simon shows how flawed investigations produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience

    by Peter A. Alces ...
    Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one of increased acuity concerning the human condition, especially the workings of the brain. The law already considers select cognitive realities in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy Of Crime

    by Mutea Rukwaru ...
    There is no society which is free from crime and criminals. As society advances and new changes sets in crime is bound to increase. Any society which is dynamic should prepare itself to meet the challenge of crime. It is also important to note that even in the dim past crime existed.There were the rules and don'ts of the society though they were not documented.Causes of crime are multifaceted and ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emotional Construction of Morals

    by Jesse Prinz ...
    Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD