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  • Bridging the Gaps in Our Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

    Edited by John Winterdyk, Sheldon Zhang ...
    This book brings together a rich international and cross-sectional collection of articles that examine the current knowledge on gaps in the research realm or intervention development as they relate to our effort to combat human trafficking/modern-day slavery. The anthology includes chapters from established scholars, practitioners, and persons with lived experience.Modern-day slavery or human ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Sheldon Zhang ...
    Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Seductions of Quantification

    Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

    by Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Read more

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  • Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

    The Commodification of Illicit Flows

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Antonela Arhin ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • International Crime and Justice

    Edited by Mangai Natarajan ...
    International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Representing the Advantaged

    How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

    by Daniel M. Butler ...
    Political inequality is a major issue in American politics, with racial minorities and low-income voters receiving less favorable representation. Scholars argue that this political inequality stems largely from differences in political participation and that if all citizens participated equally we would achieve political equality. Daniel M. Butler shows that this common view is incorrect. He uses ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Human Rights in New Zealand

    Emerging Faultlines

    by Judy McGregor, Sylvia Bell, Margaret Wilson ...
    New Zealand is proud of its human rights record with good reason. It was the first country in the world to give women the vote and it played a prominent part in the establishment of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Zealand recently took a leading role in the creation of the world’s newest human rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The World of Crime

    Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World

    by Jan J. M. van Dijk ...
    *"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development."—*Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Social Problems and Social Movements

    by James DeFronzo, Jungyun Gill ...
    Intended as the primary text for a social problems course, DeFronzo and Gill’s Social Problems and Social Movements stresses the need for collective action and social movements to solve social problems. Both instructors and students will find this a useful framework in which to view today’s most pressing social issues.Chapter 1 introduces the topic of social problems. Chapter 2 explains how social ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding

    Edited by Philip Alston, Sarah Knuckey ...
    Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains strikingly ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rights for Victims of Crime

    Rebalancing Justice

    by Irvin Waller ...
    When the victims of injustice lose faith in their justice system, the crime they've endured cuts only deeper, adding insult to injury. The time has come to face the truth that most victims of crime will not have their needs met and often won't experience our systems of justice as just. This short book makes its readers experts in advocating rights for victims of crime. It empowers taxpayers, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD