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  • Rural Criminology in Global Perspective

    State of the Art on the World's Continents

    Series series Research in Rural Crime
    This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspectives, the contributors offer lessons from research on rural crime, justice and security from the seven continents with a macroscopic perspective on issues of international concern.The book identifies the global context in which rural crime takes place, ... Read more

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  • The Security Field

    Crime Control, Power and Symbolic Capital

    by Matt Bowden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
    How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Today, we see a broader landscape of regulatory players who are involved in the control and management of crime, whether in crime prevention, safety in the community or in providing private security services. The Security Field: Crime Control, Power and Symbolic ... Read more

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  • Rural Transformations and Rural Crime

    International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology

    Series series Research in Rural Crime
    What are the theoretical and conceptual framings of rural criminology across the world? Thinking creatively about the challenges of rural crime and policing, in this stimulating collection of essays experts in this emerging field draw from theories of modernity, feminism, climate change, left realism and globalisation.This first book in the Research in Rural Crime series offers state-of-the-art ... Read more

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  • The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime

    The key reference guide to rural crime and rural justice, this encyclopedia includes 85 concise and informative entries covering rural crime theories, offences and control. It is divided into five complementary sections:• theories of rural crime;• rural crime studies;• rural criminal justice studies;• rural people and groups;• rural criminological research.With contributions from established and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Series Book 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

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  • Social Policy

    A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

    Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and ... Read more

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  • Restorative Justice in Transition

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    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human rights abuses. Restorative justice is increasingly becoming a popular mechanism to respond to crime in democratic settings and while there is a burgeoning literature on these contexts, there is less information that focuses ... Read more

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  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

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  • Social Inequality

    This book provides up to date discussion and evidence about inequalities, social divisions and stratification. Its innovative style engages readers and encourages them to reflect upon the many dimensions of social inequality.This updated third edition contains:Three new chapters on employment, sexualities and migrationUpdated coverage of intersectionality throughoutThirteen new in-depth case ... Read more

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  • Understanding Public Policy

    Theories and Issues

    by Paul Cairney ...
    Series series Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised second edition of this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to theories of public policy and policymaking. The policy process is complex: it contains hundreds of people and organisations from various levels and types of government, from agencies, quasi- and non-governmental organisations, interest groups and the private and voluntary sectors. This book sets out the major ... Read more

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  • Rape Justice

    Beyond the Criminal Law

    This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal system. It explores the limits of criminal law for achieving 'rape justice' and highlights possibilities for expanding how we think about justice in the aftermath of sexual violence. ... Read more

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  • Decolonising Indigenous Child Welfare

    Comparative Perspectives

    During the past decade, a remarkable transference of responsibility to Indigenous children’s organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. It has been influenced by Indigenous peoples’ human rights advocacy at national and international levels, by claims to self-determination and by the globalisation of Indigenous children’s organisations.Thus far, this ... Read more

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