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Hardcover:

9780520257467 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520279988 | Upd exp edition (Univ of California Pr, September 14, 2013), cover price $27.95

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Product Description: A collection of forty-five very short stories that deal with the strangeness of seemingly ordinary events. Stories range in length from 100 to 1500 words.

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9781452879963 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 27, 2013, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: A collection of forty-five very short stories that deal with the strangeness of seemingly ordinary events.

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Paperback:

9780393918632 | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 27, 2012), cover price $60.45
9780393928778 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2007, cover price $46.90

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Product Description: Fakten, Fakten, Fakten ... Aber inwieweit kann man den Zahlen in den Medien trauen? Werden tatsächlich jedes Jahr vier Millionen Frauen von ihren Männern oder Freunden zu Tode geprügelt? Nimmt sich in den Vereinigten Staaten wirklich alle dreizehn Minuten ein junger Mensch das Leben? Stellt Methamphetamin heute das größte Drogenproblem dar? Täglich werden wir von alarmierenden Statistiken bombardiert, die in den Nachrichten, im Internet und scheinbar überall auf uns lauern...read more
By Joel Best and Thomas Filk (trans)

Paperback:

9783827425232 | Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Gmbh, November 9, 2010, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Fakten, Fakten, Fakten .

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By Joel Best (introduced by) and Erving Goffman

Paperback:

9780202307770 | Aldine De Gruyter, August 15, 2005, cover price $35.95

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Offers an entertaining and enlightening account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused, illustrating his points with examples of good and bad statistics and underlining the importance of critical thinking about numbers.

Hardcover:

9780520238305 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the ways in which statistics can be used to promote particular points of view, advance causes, or raise tensions.

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Product Description: While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage...read more
By Joel Best (editor) and Donileen R. Loseke (editor)

Hardcover:

9780202307022 | Aldine De Gruyter, November 1, 2002, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage.

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By Joel Best (contributor) and John Lofland

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9780971242791 | Percheron Pr, July 30, 2002, cover price $45.00

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Describes the ways in which statistics can be used to promote particular points of view, advance causes, or raise tensions.

Hardcover:

9780520219786 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Describes the ways in which statistics can be used to promote particular points of view, advance causes, or raise tensions.

Paperback:

9780520228658 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Describes the ways in which statistics can be used to promote particular points of view, advance causes, or raise tensions.

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Product Description: Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Joel Best (editor)

Hardcover:

9780202306537 | Aldine De Gruyter, February 1, 2001, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses.

Paperback:

9780202306544 | Aldine De Gruyter, February 1, 2001, cover price $31.95

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Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about―and why we worry about―new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern. Best's original and incisive argument illuminates the fact that while these crimes are in actuality neither new, nor epidemic, nor random, the language used to describe them nonetheless shapes both private fears and public policies.Best scrutinizes the melodramatic quality of the American public's attitudes toward crime, exposing the cultural context for the popularity of "random violence" as a catch-all phrase to describe contemporary crime, and the fallacious belief that violence is steadily rising. He points out that the age, race, and sex of homicide victims reveal that violence is highly patterned.Best also details the contemporary ideology of victimization, as well as the social arrangements that create and support a victim industry that can label large numbers of victims. He demonstrates why it has become commonplace to "declare war" on social problems, including drugs, crime, poverty, and cancer, and outlines the complementary influence of media, activists, officials, and experts in institutionalizing crime problems. Intrinsic to all these concerns is the way in which policy choices and outcomes are affected by the language used to describe social problems.

Hardcover:

9780520215719 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520215726 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about―and why we worry about―new crimes and new forms of victimization.

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Product Description: For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St. Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Each month, the madams who ran the brothels were charged with keeping houses of ill fame and fined in the city's municipal court...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780814208076 | Ohio State Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St.

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9780814250075 | Ohio State Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St.

Product Description: Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem...read more
By Joel Best (editor)

Hardcover:

9783110149531 | 2nd edition (Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 1, 1995), cover price $49.95
9780202305387 | 2 sub edition (Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 1995), cover price $57.95
9780202303529 | Aldine De Gruyter, September 1, 1989, cover price $46.95 | also contains Miss Annie

Paperback:

9783110149524 | 2nd edition (Aldine De Gruyter, July 1, 1995), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention.
9780202305394 | 2 edition (Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 1995), cover price $33.95
9780202303536 | Aldine De Gruyter, November 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | also contains Astro City 6 La edad oscura / The Dark Age: Hermanos Y Otros Extranos / Brothers and Other Strangers

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Product Description: Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children...read more
By Joel Best (editor)

Hardcover:

9780202304915 | Aldine De Gruyter, June 1, 1994, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children.

Paperback:

9780202304922 | Aldine De Gruyter, June 1, 1994, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children.

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Product Description: An exploration of the social organization of deviants and deviance.

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9780133363555 | 2 fac sub edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1994), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the social organization of deviants and deviance.
9780136416050 | Prentice Hall, December 1, 1981, cover price $31.25 | About this edition: MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently.

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Hardcover:

9780226044255 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780226044262 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $32.00

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Hardcover:

9780202303789 | Aldine De Gruyter, July 1, 1991, cover price $57.95

Paperback:

9780202303796 | Aldine De Gruyter, November 1, 1991, cover price $41.95

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