Hate crime

impact, causes and responses

"Hate Crime" is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners seeking to understand this complex and contested subject. It is thoroughly researched and theoretically informed, but will be accessible to newcomers to the field and to people delivering practical responses to offending and victimisation. Clearly ...

Criminology and political theory

'A lucid, sophisticated and timely vindication of the importance of Marxist, feminist and other radical perspectives on the state and political economy to the analysis of crime, control and justice. It offers a valuable guide to issues of political philosophy for students and teachers of ...

Constructing history 11-19

Edited by Hilary Cooper and Arthur Chapman. ' Constructing History 11-19 provides a diverse yet remarkably coherent array of case studies of constructivist history teaching. Its contributors-researchers, teachers, department heads-have a shared understanding of recent theory and research, and provide extended, close-to-the-ground narratives of active learning ...

Organizational ethnography

studying complexities of everyday life

Edited by Sierk Ybema...[et al.] Includes contributions that reveal an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. This title explores the particular problems faced by organizational ethnographers, including: questions of gaining access to research sites within organizations; the many styles of writing organizational ethnography ...

Racisms

an introduction

We hear much about 'race' and 'racism' in public discourse but the terms are frequently used without clear definitions or practical examples of how these phenomena work. Racisms introduces practical methods which enable students to think coherently and sociologically about this complex feature of the ...

State, power, crime

Eds. Roy Coleman...[et al]; Preface by Stuart Hall. 'Following the outstanding introduction by the authors there are fifteen excellent original articles devoted to an integrated theory of the relationship between the state and crime. This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology ...

International politics and the environment

'I strongly recommend "International Politics and the Environment" as a reliable and sophisticated guide to the emergence of environmental problems as political issues, negotiations about them, and the conditions for the effectiveness of environmental regimes' - Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University. This book provides a sophisticated ...

Punishment and prisons

power and the carceral state

'"Punishment and Prisons" is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the abolitionist alternative ...

Constitutional Law for a changing America

rights, liberties, and justice

Political factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to influence the development of constitutional doctrine. "Constitutional Law for a Changing America ...

The art of educational leadership

balancing performance and accountability

This book stresses the human side of leadership as the central feature regarding credibility in the public forums where leadership is really tested. As such, leadership is an art because it involves performance as a form of public theater. No other text on this topic ...

What is geography?

What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that define the ...

Key texts in human geography

A unique resource for students, Key Texts in Human Geography provides concise but rigorous overviews of the key texts that have formed post-war human geography. The text has been designed as a student-friendly guide that will: " explain the text in relation to the geographical debates ...

Corporate and white-collar crime

'This timely collection contains contemporary case studies and critical analyses by leading writers in the study of white collar corporate crime. It makes an invaluable contribution to the 'criminology of the corporation' - Professor Hazel Croall, Glasgow Caledonian University. "Corporate and White Collar Crime" is an ...

International development studies

theories and methods in research and practice

International Development Studies is an exploration of what it is to #do# development studies as a distinct discipline. It introduces and addresses the fundamental questions that everyone engaged with development - whether student, researcher or practitioner - must ask: What is #development# and why do we wish ...

Geographies of Postcolonialism

spaces of power and representation

Geographies of Postcolonialism introduces the principal themes and theories relating to postcolonialism. Written from a geographical perspective, the text includes extended explanations of the cultural and material aspects of the subject. Exploring postcolonialism through the geographies of imagination, knowledge, and power, the text is split ...

Understanding public management

Understanding Public Management is an introduction and guide to the dramatic changes that have occurred in the provision of public services over the last two decades. The authors combine theoretical perspectives with a global range of case studies from Europe, North America, and other areas ...

The penal system

an introduction

'.. the most authoritative and sophisticated textbook on the penal system of England and Wales. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the causes, character and consequences of the current penal 'crisis'. David Downes, Mannheim Centre of Criminology, London School of Economics. 'What ...

Problems in marketing

applying key concepts and techniques

Fully revised and updated, Problems in Marketing includes over 50 new problems. This varied and challenging collection of problems has been written as a learning aid to any marketing textbook. The problems cover a wide range of marketing practice, each problem concentrating on a single ...

The vertigo of late modernity

"The Vertigo of Late Modernity" is a seminal new work by Jock Young, author of the bestselling and highly influential book, "The Exclusive Society". In his new work, Young describes the sources of late modern vertigo as two-fold: insecurities of status and of economic position ...

Doing ethnographies

"Doing Ethnographies" is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world 'out there'. In five chapters it presents a systematic overview of ...