Product Description: Camber Berkley, a young stock car driver, wrecks his car on a winding mountain road, landing in the midst of the funeral of a deceased NASCAR fan. As punishment for his spectacular car wreck, the local authorities of the small Tennessee town of Judas Grove give him a choice: serve months in jail for reckless driving, or spend two weeks teaching the local ministers to drive stock cars, so that they can compete in a race whose prize is the $2 million legacy left by that NASCAR fan...read more

The Wellington boot has been at the epicentre of global affairs ever since its invention in 1817, when the Duke of Wellington found his old boots most uncomfortable when worn with new-fangled trousers. This book presents the history of the Wellington Boot, covering the rise and fall of empires, corporate piracy, fetish wear, and more.

The perceived threat of 'transnational organised crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy-makers and social scientists over the years. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured, and the appropriateness of governments' policy responses.

Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based crime control in England as a means of examining the prospects for this approach, its evolving relationship with criminal justice and social policies, and to assess the lessons internationally that can be drawn from this in the theory, research methods, politics and practice of crime control.At the same time the book advances an important new conceptual framework for understanding community-based crime control, focusing on an understanding of the diversity of control and preventative strategies, the locally particular conditions in which they are conducted, and the degree of choices open to local political actors involved in their conduct. Understanding diversity in this way is central to drawing lessons about the transferability of crime control theory and practice from one social context to another, avoiding the naïve emulation of practices in different contexts.