Product Description: How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster of mass incarceration, while white-collar criminals, who arguably harm more people, get slaps on the wrist--if they are prosecuted at all? In Who Are the Criminals?, one of America's leading criminologists provides new answers to these vitally important questions by telling how the politicization of crime in the twentieth century transformed and distorted crime policymaking and led Americans to fear street crime too much and corporate crime too little...read more

Product Description: A Long Farewell, by John Hagan, explores themes that include friends and heroes, epiphany, coming of age, futile pursuit, lost love, arcane experience, and ironies of life. Although his stories are fictional, John endeavors to provide feasible characters, dynamics, places, and events...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of The Bluejacket's Manual, this new guide serves as "mentor" to the U.S. Navy's Chief Petty Officers and "gouge" to those who aspire to be CPOs. It is the result of an extensive review process by a select board of CPOs, including those assigned to the Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport, Rhode Island...read more

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Offers a sociological perspective of the tens of thousands of draft-age men who fled the U.S. for Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, looking at their effects on Canada, and their decision to return or not return to the U.S. after amnesty was offered. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A volume in the American Sociological Association's Issue Series on Research and Social Policy. No topic is of greater importance to the health and well being of our society than the presence of violence in our culture. Drawing upon social science research, this volume presents trends in youth violence, the causes of youth violence, and the lessons learned from intervention programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Champion Sprinter Donovan Bailey Said it, and this Book Confirms it. While racism may not be as blatant in Canada as in the United States, it does exist. Members of visible minority groups are discriminated against in employment, housing, and access to public services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A lucid text addressed to students and scholars, this book explores some of the key controversies that have stimulated the scientific study of crime: disputes about the connections between gender, class, and crime; policing; the criminality of our cities; the role of peer groups in the causes of crime; and links between drugs and crime...read more

Product Description: This series provides a variety of different discussions on topics within the field of current perspectives on ageing and the life cycle.