Product Description: This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'...read more

This comprehensive text introduces the basic aspects of modern criminology, emphasizing the importance of historical, feminist, and comparative perspectives on crime and offering a critical sociological perspective on the relationship between crime and structured social inequality. The authors explore what crime is and why it occurs by examining the four major forms of social inequality in the U.S.--class, gender, race, and age--and their influence on patterns of crime and victimization.

As all societies face up to the need to confront harms against environments, other animals and humanity, criminology will have a major role to play. This book acts as a resource on green criminology, focusing on the whys, the hows and the whens of the generation and control of the many aspects of harm to environments and animals, including humans.

This facsimile collection makes available classic texts from the Chicago School from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Product Description: During his lifetime and for decades after, the writings of the French magistrate and scholar Gabriel Tarde exercised considerable influence in Europe, and the United States, extending to such diverse fields as social theory, political philosophy, and psychology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This teacher's resource book is designed to help young people to understand the key political, social and economic forces which will shape their lives. It aims to develop knowledge and skills to help young people understand the world in which they live, and to participate in it as knowledgeable global citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first in a series concerned with criminology and criminal justice. Topics include penological reform and the myth of Beccaria, varieties of enlightenment, the rise of positivist criminology, and the growth of criminology in the United States between 1880 and 1945.

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Product Description: This is the first comprehensive bibliography that deals with comparative criminology and other signficant works in the field dating from the 1960s. The guide covers 500 studies on crime, law, and social control in two or more cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume reassess pre-revolutionary Russian legal culture, the debates of the 1920s over the role of law under socialism, and the abrupt and bloody termination of the debate which took place in the 1930s.