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Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-01
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In response to misconceptions and sub-optimal assessment of situational interaction in the criminological literature, this volume is a comprehensive resource for researchers of person-environment interaction in human behavioural outcomes, with a focus on acts of crime....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-01
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Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
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This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
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A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy.Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history.Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-06-30
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From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Is political polarization on the rise? Do various “populist” movements have anything in common?Is the opposition between left and right becoming obsolete and, if so, what might replace it? Many of the most pressing questions about contemporary politics involve public...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Political Sociology
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The volume is a collection of essays – the result of studies, research, projects – on the theme of migration, of the condition of refugees and asylum seekers, of respect for or violation of human rights, of the narration of these events in the media. It offers a lucid...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-30
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This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration. Framed by an introduction and conclusion, nine case studies located in diverse social and geo-political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem – a binary division between ‘haves and have-nots’ – to analyse complex inequalities in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-29
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This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Das Buch diskutiert die soziale und individuelle Bedingtheit von Medienkompetenz. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie sich das Medienhandeln von Individuen im Hinblick auf deren Medienkompetenz, im Sinne eines sicheren und selbstbestimmten Handelns im Umgang mit Medien,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-06-29
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This festschrift in honor of the work and legacy of Dr. Marc Groenhuijsen provides an international and holistic overview of recent developments in victimology, taking a global scope but grounded in everyday experiences of victims. Its multidisciplinary...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-29
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Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor? This book offers ideas to create inclusive acting environments where the strengths of the introverted actor are as valued as those of their extroverted counterparts. As this book shows, many introverts are innately...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-27
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This book provides a selection of international perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of media and communications research with emphasis placed on methodological approaches and new research domains. It includes critical reflections on how to conduct research on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-27
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This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts. Beginning with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-26
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This book analyzes decades of immigration–population growth and rapid urbanization as political-demography and urban-governance issues in French Guyana. Factors such as immigration, population composition and re-composition have sparked patterns of urban relocation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Based on ethnographic research in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, this book presents a novel approach to studying Muslim militant activism. While much existing research focuses on the process of radicalization, these authors introduce a different set of questions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-25
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