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Product Description: Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics. Therefore, our focus in this book on criminological conceptual frameworks and empirical studies that engage terrorism and responses to it is unique...read more
By Gary Lafree (editor)

Hardcover:

9781138858268 | Routledge, June 30, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics.

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9780471635475, titled "Essentials of Ocean Science" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 1, 1987, cover price $46.90 | also contains Essentials of Ocean Science | About this edition: Thoroughly examines the geological, physical, chemical, and biological aspects of oceanography while illustrating the function and interaction of each process in the ocean environment.

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How do democratic values and institutions impact upon crime and justice? Civic values are promoted in rehabilitation programmes, civil society is emphasised by the government as a crime prevention strategy, and the democratic accountability of policing is often the forefront of the political agenda. How can an understanding of democracy illuminate our understanding of the key issues in the study of criminology and criminal justice? In this exciting and thought-provoking new book, Susanne Karstedt looks at the common link between these issues - democracy - and provides a systematic and accessible analysis of the relationship between our democratic values and how crime and justice is played out in both national and international arenas. Forging new interdisciplinary links between political science and criminology, the book looks at topics from terrorism, violent crime, and corruption, to citizenship, the death penalty and punitiveness. Written for advanced students in criminology, politics, international relations and sociology, this is a compelling text on a growing area of the criminology discipline.

Hardcover:

9781848602052, titled "Democracy, Crime & Justice" | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 13, 2015, cover price $90.00
9781412944656 | Sage Pubns, June 15, 2006, cover price $47.00

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9781848602069, titled "Democracy, Crime & Justice" | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 13, 2015, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: How do democratic values and institutions impact upon crime and justice?
9781412944663 | Sage Pubns, June 15, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: As a growing number of nations embark on a path to democracy, criminologists have become increasingly interested and engaged in the challenges, concerns, and questions connecting democracy with both crime and criminal justice.

In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. These increases were historically patterned, were often very rapid, and had a disproportionate impact on African Americans. Much of the crime explosion took place in a space of just ten years beginning in the early 1960s. Common explanations based on biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these changes or their disproportionate impact on racial minorities. Using unique data that span half a century, Gary LaFree argues that social institutions are the key to understanding the U.S. crime wave. Crime increased along with growing political distrust, economic stress, and family disintegration. These changes were especially pronounced for racial minorities. American society responded by investing more in criminal justice, education, and welfare institutions. Stabilization of traditional social institutions and the effects of new institutional spending account for the modest crime declines of the 1990s. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780813334509 | Westview Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold.

Paperback:

9780813334516 | Westview Pr, November 11, 1999, cover price $42.00

Product Description: This book should be of interest to degree courses in sociology; women's studies courses.

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9780534110567 | Wadsworth Pub Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This book should be of interest to degree courses in sociology; women's studies courses.

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