Product Description: A campus shooting. A gang assault. A school bus ambush. With each successive event, fingers are pointed at the usual suspects: violent films, bloody video games, explicit web sites. But to what extent can―or should―the media be implicated in youth crime? And are today's sophisticated young people really that susceptible to their influence?Adolescents, Crime, and the Media critically examines perceptions of these phenomena through the lens of the ongoing relationship between generations of adults and youth...read more

Product Description: Giustina's young married life is torn apart when Mussolini takes Italy into the Second World War in 1940. Her husband is conscripted, falls ill, is invalided out of the North African campaign, and dies in a military hospital in Naples...read more

Product Description: Dark secrets lead to murder. Can Diana avenge her mother's death before she becomes the next victim? As a young woman in Florence, Diana Savrano's life is a privileged one of elegant balls, handsome suitors and frivolity. But the sudden death of her mother leaves her adrift and abandoned...read more

Product Description: Offering a unique and interdisciplinary focus on the roots of violence, Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications explores cutting-edge research on the etiology, nature, assessment, and treatment of individuals who commit violent crimes...read more