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  • Analysing the Israel Effect in Canada

    A Critical AutoEthnography

    by Peter Eglin ...
    What is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media? Analyzing the Israel Effect documents and analyzes the discursive and organizational methods by which public criticism of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is silenced in Canada, as experienced through ten episodes in the life of the author over a thirty-year period from 1990-2020 in interaction ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Global Citizenship Nexus

    Critical Studies

    Edited by Tania Ruiz-Chapman, Peter Eglin, Debra Chapman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In the spirit of Ivan Illich’s 1968 speech ‘To hell with good intentions’, the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of four complexes of ‘ruling’ institutions, namely universities with their international service learning, the United Nations and allied international ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Intellectual Citizenship and the Problem of Incarnation

    by Peter Eglin ...
    “Who has the right to know?” asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. “Who has the right to eat?” asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: “what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a ‘northern’ university given the incarnate connections between the university’s operations and death and suffering elsewhere?” Through studies of the “neoliberal university” in Ontario, the “imperial university” in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Crime

    Second edition

    by Stephen Hester, Peter Eglin ...
    A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and organizational use of language.In this welcome second edition, the book reviews and evaluates the current state of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Crime

    by Peter Eglin, Stephen Hester ...
    The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students. ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

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    Edited by Simon Holdaway, Paul Rock ...
    First published in 1998. Thinking about criminology draws together the expertise of respected criminologists from the principle contemporary schools of thought. The book aims to provide a clear analysis of the relationship between sociological theory and contemporary empirical criminological research, discussing the ways in which theoretical perspectives have contributed to the understanding of ... Read more

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  • International Criminology

    A Critical Introduction

    by Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil ...
    International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline while opening up a set of critical underlying issues and problems.From theoretical traditions to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Inventing Fear of Crime

    by Murray Lee ...
    Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the general public. For many practitioners reducing fear of crime has become almost as important an issue as reducing crime itself. The identification of fear of crime as a serious policy problem has given rise to a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • What is Criminology?

    Edited by Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle ...
    Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious. In this rich and diverse collection of 34 essays, some of the worlds leading criminologists respond to a series of questions designed to investigate the state, impact and future challenges of the discipline: What is criminology for? What is the impact of criminology? How should criminology be done? What are the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • New Directions in Criminological Theory

    Edited by Steve Hall, Simon Winlow ...
    This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century. Criminologists from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia evaluate the current condition of criminological theory and present students and researchers with new and revised ideas from the realms of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Comparative Criminal Justice

    Making Sense of Difference

    by David Nelken ...
    Series series Compact Criminology
    David Nelken is the 2013 laureate of the Association for Law and Society International PrizeThe increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by David Nelken, one of the top scholars in the field. The author looks at why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties ... Read more

    $56.69 USD