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“wilhelm roepke”

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  • The Social Reality of Crime

    by Richard Quinney, Wilhelm Roepke ...
    Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice. At the time of its appearance in 1970, Quinney's theory not only liberated the field from a recitation of the practices of the police, courts, and corrections, it also represented a marked departure from traditional analysis which viewed criminal behavior as pathological. Quinney ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Is Killing Wrong?

    A Study in Pure Sociology

    by Mark Cooney ...
    Series series Studies in Pure Sociology
    "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    by Asongwe N. Thomas ...
    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Principles of Criminology

    by Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Judges and Their Audiences

    A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them.The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    by Herbert M. Kliebard ...
    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • After the Doors Were Locked

    A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform

    by Daniel E. Macallair ...
    The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities, California boasted the nation’s third highest youth incarceration rate. Now, with only 800 ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior

    by Lawrence Baum ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It ... Read more

    $23.09 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

  • Culture Of Honor

    The Psychology Of Violence In The South

    by Richard E Nisbett, Dov Cohen ...
    This book focuses on a singular cause of male violence—the perpetrator's sense of threat to one of his most valued possessions, namely, his reputation for strength and toughness. The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • 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

  • What Is Crime?

    Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It

    by Stuart Henry, Stuart Henry, Marc Gertz, Scott Greer, John Hagan, Gary Kleck, Jerome Michael, Dragan Milovanovic, Charles Otto, Paul Schnorr, Herman Schwendinger0, Julia Schwendinger1, Mark M. Lanier2, Mortimer J. Adler3, Kathyrn Ann Farr4, Don C. Gibbons5, Leroy C. Gould6, Katheryn K. Russell7, Dennis C. Sullivan8, Paul W. Tappan9, Larry L. Tifft0, Ray Surette1 ...
    For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is ... Read more

    $55.09 USD