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“steven e barkan”

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  • Law and Society

    by Steven Vago, Steven E. Barkan ...
    This new edition of the landmark text Law and Society exposes readers to the dominant theoretical perspectives and sociological methods that are used to explain the interplay between law and society. This thirteenth edition continues to preserve Professor Vago’s voice, while Steven E. Barkan’s use of chapter outlines and summaries, learning objectives, key terms, and additional readings maintains ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Health, Illness, and Society

    An Introduction to Medical Sociology

    by Steven E. Barkan ...
    Health, Illness, and Society, Updated Second Edition provides a comprehensive yet concise introduction to medical sociology. In his accessible style, Steven Barkan covers health and illness behaviors, the social determinants of health problems, the health professions and health care system in the U.S., and how the U.S. system compares to that of other countries.The updated second edition adds a ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Crime Prevention

    Programs, Policies, and Practices

    by Steven E. Barkan, Michael A. Rocque ...
    In Crime Prevention: Programs, Policies, and Practices, criminologists Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque present a well-rounded exploration of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices. Grounded in criminological theory and emphasizing the social, psychological, and biological roots of crime, this text presents current research, perspectives, and examples that capture the key crime ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Law and Society

    Canadian Edition

    by Steven Vago, Adie Nelson, Veronica Nelson, Steven E. Barkan ...
    Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

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    Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

    by James S. Fishkin ...
    Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? If ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The War on Sex

    Edited by David M. Halperin, Trevor Hoppe ...
    The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • For the Children?

    Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State

    by Erica R. Meiners ...
    “Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the differentiation between child and adult often equates to access to stark disparities. And what is ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Speaking Out on Human Rights

    Debating Canada's Human Rights System

    by Pearl Eliadis ...
    Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely on widespread myths about how it works.In Speaking Out on Human Rights, Pearl Eliadis explodes ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Gender Equality

    How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

    by Kristin A. Goss ...
    Series series The Cawp Series In Gender And American Politics
    Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their democratic participation, provided a dual platform for the expansion of women's policy agendas. As ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Mass Imprisonment

    Social Causes and Consequences

    Edited by David W Garland ...
    `The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified.David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean for all modern societies′ - Professor Stan Cohen, Department of Sociology, LSEThis major new volume of ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unusually Cruel

    Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism

    by Marc Morjé Howard ...
    The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process - plea ... Read more

    $27.89 USD