Tous les ebooks de la collection "Critical Criminological Perspectives" - Palgrave Macmillan


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Télécharger le livre :  From Mafia to Organised Crime
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From Mafia to Organised Crime


Anna Sergi


This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups. Through interviews and interpretation of original documents, this study firstly...

Parution : 2017-07-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Deaths After Police Contact
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Deaths After Police Contact


David Baker


This book investigates death after police contact in England and Wales in the twenty-first century. It examines how regulatory bodies construct accountability in such cases. Cases of death after police contact have the potential to cause deep unease in society. They...

Parution : 2016-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Killing on Command
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Killing on Command


Carmel O'sullivan


This book explores the unique social and environmental factors which influence soldiers to commit war crimes. With a focus on decision-making processes, this monograph provides a significant interdisciplinary analysis of how soldiers decide to follow the commands of...

Parution : 2016-09-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Criminology and Queer Theory
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Criminology and Queer Theory


Matthew Ball


This book offers critical reflections on the intersections between criminology and queer scholarship, and charts future directions for this field. Since their development over twenty-five years ago, queer scholarship and politics have been hotly contested fields,...

Parution : 2016-07-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  States of Violence and the Civilising Process
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States of Violence and the Civilising Process


Rob Watts


This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able...

Parution : 2016-05-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Green Harms and Crimes
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Green Harms and Crimes


R. Sollund


The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically address harms and crimes against the environment, as well as against human...

Parution : 2016-01-12
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour
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Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour


Roger Hopkins Burke , Matt Long


Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour forwards a new typology of vandalism. The authors argue that in order to fully understand vandalism and anti-social behaviour, a culturally criminological perspective should be fostered, which accounts for the emotional and...

Parution : 2015-04-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Crimes and Social Harms
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Invisible Crimes and Social Harms


P. Davies , P. Francis , T. Wyatt


This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major...

Parution : 2014-11-05
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Death and Resurrection of Deviance
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The Death and Resurrection of Deviance


M. Dellwing , J. Kotarba , N. Pino


Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' concept to argue its vitality and show its possible utility in a variety of fields including religion, education and media...

Parution : 2014-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Representations of Police and Crime
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Media Representations of Police and Crime


M. Colbran


This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leading British and European police dramas from the last twenty-five years, Colbran, a former scriptwriter, presents a revealing...

Parution : 2014-10-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sense of Evil
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Making Sense of Evil


Melissa Dearey


When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary...

Parution : 2014-05-02
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Male Rape is a Feminist Issue
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Male Rape is a Feminist Issue


C. Cohen


This book seeks to problematize knowledge and practices regarding 'male rape' and its relationship to feminism, examining this issue from a Foucauldian perspective. Feminist constructions of 'male rape' can plausibly be claimed to operate as a 'regime of truth', but one...

Parution : 2014-02-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Wildlife Trafficking
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Wildlife Trafficking


T. Wyatt


This book provides a unique, comprehensive exploration of the scale, scope, threats and drivers of wildlife trafficking. It also undertakes a distinctive exploration of who the victims and offenders of wildlife trafficking are as well as analysing the stakeholders who...

Parution : 2013-10-31
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Sex Trafficking
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The Politics of Sex Trafficking


B. Carpenter , S. Hayes , E. O'brien


This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings.

Parution : 2013-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Emerging Issues in Green Criminology
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Emerging Issues in Green Criminology


R. Walters , D. Westerhuis , T. Wyatt


This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance...

Parution : 2013-06-06
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Crime, Critique and Utopia
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Crime, Critique and Utopia


Margaret Malloch , Bill Munro


This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian...

Parution : 2013-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security
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Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security


D. Drake


Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through...

Parution : 2012-07-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Transgressive Imaginations
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Transgressive Imaginations


M. O'neill , L. Seal


This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial...

Parution : 2012-05-11
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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