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  • Crime, Criminality and Injustice

    An Interdisciplinary Collection of Revelations

    Edited by Simon Prideaux, Mustapha Sheikh, Adam Formby ...
    Series series (IN)JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
    This volume contributes to the growing literature on global (in)justice and (in)equality, seeking in its own unique way to highlight that we are on a dangerous path when we ignore the plight of those who are the weakest, most oppressed and disenfranchised; and that we risk even more when we are complicit in the intransigent and profound injustices they experience. As Blunt (2020) powerfully argued ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Crimes of States and Powerful Elites

    A Collection of Case Studies

    Edited by Claudia Radiven, Simon Prideaux ...
    This book explores fourteen case studies of state crime, crimes/immoralities of the powerful, including disasters caused by neglect, pharmaceutical fraud, state sponsored or instigated crime, corporate crime, organisational crime and state terrorism. The book offers a valuable contribution to critical social science perspectives on criminality, providing analysis which explores issues of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • State Crime and Immorality

    The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful

    by Mark Monaghan, Simon Prideaux ...
    This is the first book to examine the activities of UK and international ‘role models’ through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it defines the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name of legitimacy. It then details the ways that states do not constitute the ideal in terms of the dangers ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Understanding Disability Policy

    by Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled' ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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    Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown

    by Florence Faucher-King, Patrick Le Galés ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • 'Sleepwalking to segregation'?

    Challenging myths about race and migration

    by Nissa Finney, Ludi Simpson ...
    In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting evidence in support of and in opposition to them in an accessible yet academically rigorous manner.The book combines an easy-to-read overview of the subject with innovative new research. It tackles head-on ... Read more

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  • The Equal Opportunities Revolution

    by James Heartfield ...
    At the start of the 1980s no employer had heard of an "equal opportunities policy" - by the end three-quarters of all those in work were covered by one. This is the story of the "equal opportunities revolution" at work. It explains why bosses took equal opportunities on board just as they were tearing up union rights at work. It asks why greater rights led to greater inequality, and why advances ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Defund the Police

    An International Insurrection

    by Chris Cunneen ...
    The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence which is often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to community-generated models of support. These include defunding the police and instead funding alternatives to criminalisation and incarceration ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Black resistance to British policing

    by Adam Elliott-Cooper, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter ...
    Series series Racism, Resistance and Social Change
    As police racism unsettles Britain’s tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal – arguing that black resistance confronts a global system of racial classification, exploitation and violence. Imperial cultures and policies, as well as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Human Rights of Children

    From Visions to Implementation

    by Antonella Invernizzi ...
    This volume provides a series of critical analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. The studies embrace examination of some of today's widespread interpretations of the CRC, analysis of what is implied by a human rights-based ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland

    Edited by Timothy J. White ...
    This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations. It investigates the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating the work of leading scholars, it explores a wide range of topics, including the function of ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday

    Lost futures and new horizons in the ‘long peace’

    by Colin Coulter, Niall Gilmartin, Katy Hayward, Peter Shirlow ...
    The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that. In many respects, the era of the peace process has seen Northern Irish society change almost beyond recognition. Those incidents of politically motivated ... Read more

    $21.59 USD