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Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

By Claire Valier

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28175-1 (Routledge)

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Illicit Drugs

Use and Control

By Adrian Barton

Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28172-0 (Routledge)

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Transgression

By Chris Jenks

Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25758-9 (Routledge)

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When Women Kill

Questions of Agency and Subjectivity

By Belinda Morrissey

Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26006-0 (Routledge)

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Crime

Critical Concepts in Sociology

Edited by Philip Bean

This four-volume collection deals with the causes and prevention of crime as well as the treatment and punishment of its perpetrators. While taking a sociological...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25264-5 (Routledge)

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Governing Security

Explorations of Policing and Justice

By Clifford Shearing, Les Johnston

Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in the governance of...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14962-4 (Routledge)

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Surveillance as Social Sorting

Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination

Edited by David Lyon

Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27873-7 (Routledge)

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East Asian Law

Universal Norms and Local Cultures

Edited by Lucie Cheng, Arthur Rosett, Margaret Woo

This work explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29735-6 (Routledge)

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Chinese Legal Reform

By Yan Wang

This collection assesses the legal developments which have taken place since the 1980s in China. It discusses China's achievements in building a new legal system...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24971-3 (Routledge)

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Sociology and the Stereotype of the Criminal

Edited by Dennis Chapman

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26407-5 (Routledge)

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