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The Social Psychology of Social Movements

Product Description: The social movements that Professor Toch examines in this book, originally published in 1966, range from the Black Muslims to food faddists, and the founders of these movements range from Hitler to Joan of Arc. Why do people join social movements? How do such movements serve the needs of their members, and what unique social problems do they cause? What are the typical consequences of membership? What gives rise to social movements, and how can we evaluate them? In The Social Psychology of Social Movements Hans Toch provides answers to these questions...read more

By Hans Toch

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Hardcover:

9780415718554 | Routledge, July 3, 2013, cover price $155.00

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9780415718646 | Routledge, January 9, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The social movements that Professor Toch examines in this book, originally published in 1966, range from the Black Muslims to food faddists, and the founders of these movements range from Hitler to Joan of Arc.

Organizational Change Through Individual Empowerment: Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing

Product Description: How does meaningful change occur? What is the role of the psychologist in promoting change? These questions drive this incisive retrospective by social psychologist Hans Toch, whose groundbreaking work among police, corrections officers, and inmates has long been centered on simple tenets: treat humans as human, ameliorate environmental harm, and promote democracy by teaching individuals how to stand up and participate in their lives...read more

By Hans Toch

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9781433817298 | Amer Psychological Assn, March 15, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: How does meaningful change occur?

Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform

Product Description: In Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform, renowned social psychologist Hans Toch takes stock of the vast changes in police procedures that have occurred over the last half-century by examining the evolving role of spectators to police citizen interactions...read more

By Shadd Maruna (foreword by) and Hans Toch

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9781433811197 | 1 edition (Amer Psychological Assn, February 15, 2012), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform, renowned social psychologist Hans Toch takes stock of the vast changes in police procedures that have occurred over the last half-century by examining the evolving role of spectators to police citizen interactions.

Pioneers in Penology: The Reformers, The Institutions, And The Societies, 1557-1900, Book 2

Product Description: This two-volume work is an exposition of the history of seminal penological thought and practice covering the period 1557-1900. Based principally on period primary source literature, the thirty-eight chapters in this anthology bring into sharp focus - the lives of the great European and American pioneering reformers in penology; the most important pioneering experiments in prison and reformatory discipline; and the histories and contributions of the major societies responsible for imparting impetus to prison reform in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...read more

By David M. Horton (editor) and Hans Toch (foreword by)

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9780773454972 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 30, 2007, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This two-volume work is an exposition of the history of seminal penological thought and practice covering the period 1557-1900.

9780773453920, titled "Pioneers in Penology: The Reformers, The Institutions, And the Societies, 1557-1900; Book 2" | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 30, 2007, cover price $199.95 | About this edition: This two-volume work details the history of seminal penological thought and practice in the period between 1557 and 1900.

Pioneers in Penology: The Reformers, the Institutions, and the Societies, 1557-1900: Book 1

Product Description: This two-volume work is an exposition of the history of seminal penological thought and practice covering the period 1557-1900. Based principally on period primary source literature, the thirty-eight chapters in this anthology bring into sharp focus: the lives of the great European and American pioneering reformers in penology; the most important pioneering experiments in prison and reformatory discipline; and, the histories and contributions of the major societies responsible for imparting impetus to prison reform in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...read more

By David M. Horton (editor) and Hans Toch (foreword by)

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9780773454958 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 30, 2007, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This two-volume work is an exposition of the history of seminal penological thought and practice covering the period 1557-1900.

Men in Crisis: Human Breakdowns in Prison

Product Description: This book is about human breakdown under stress. It is the first attempt comprehensively to map the variety of forms that despair can take, to reconstruct the ineffable shapes of human extremity as fully and faithfully as possible...read more

By Hans Toch

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9780202309323 | Aldine De Gruyter, May 1, 2007, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: This book is about human breakdown under stress.

Police As Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change

Product Description: Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Foot patrol officers again walk the streets and talk to citizens, and neighborhood crime watches are valued as the eyes and ears of enforcers...read more

By James Douglas Grant and Hans Toch

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9781591471509 | 2 edition (Amer Psychological Assn, September 30, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing.

Stress in Policing

Product Description: This work makes the daily challenges, joys and frustrations of police work come alive. The realities of keeping the peace reveal sources of sustenance and stress that are often contrary to popular wisdom. Also, race and gender issues are shown to be a source of stress.

By Hans Toch

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9781557988294 | Amer Psychological Assn, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this volume, Hans Toch aims to make the daily challenges, joys and frustrations of police work come alive.

Paperback:

9781591470076 | Amer Psychological Assn, November 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This work makes the daily challenges, joys and frustrations of police work come alive.

Acting Out: Maladaptive Behavior in Confinement

Product Description: This volume examines the prison careers of the most problematic group of inmates - those who appear to sabotage their own rehabilitation by repeated displays of violence, disruptiveness or otherwise self-defeating behaviour. A particular challenge with these prisoners is determining the extent to which their problem behaviour is a result of mental illness, as opposed to purely "characterological" defects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kenneth Adams, J. Douglas Grant, Elaine Lord and Hans Toch

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9781557988805 | Amer Psychological Assn, April 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume examines the prison careers of the most problematic group of inmates - those who appear to sabotage their own rehabilitation by repeated displays of violence, disruptiveness or otherwise self-defeating behaviour.

Crime and Punishment: Inside Views

By Robert Johnson (editor) and Hans Toch

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9781891487163 | Roxbury Pub Co, July 1, 1999, cover price $44.95

Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It

Documenting the incarceration of thousands of mentally incapacitated individuals, this passionate call for appropriate services and rehabilitation also suggests that a lack of such programs constitutes a real danger to society. (view table of contents)

By Terry A. Kupers and Hans Toch (foreword by)

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9780787943615 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, February 1, 1999, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Documenting the incarceration of thousands of mentally incapacitated individuals, this passionate call for appropriate services and rehabilitation also suggests that a lack of such programs constitutes a real danger to society.

Corrections: A Humanistic Approach

Product Description: The 28 previously published essays in this anthology adopt the distinctive perspective of humanistic psychology to discuss: reforming prisons; reforming prisoners; working with disturbed prisoners; prison violence; and prison research and reform. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Hans Toch

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9780911577402 | Criminal Justice Pr, October 31, 1997, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The 28 previously published essays in this anthology adopt the distinctive perspective of humanistic psychology to discuss: reforming prisons; reforming prisoners; working with disturbed prisoners; prison violence; and prison research and reform.

Police Violence: Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force

Product Description: Although the prevalence of police-citizen conflict has diminished, police use of excessive force remains a concern for the police. This study focuses on what is known and what still needs to be learned to understand, prevent and remediate police abuse of force. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William A. Geller (editor) and Hans Toch (editor)

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9780300064292 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Although the prevalence of police-citizen conflict has diminished, police use of excessive force remains a concern for the police.

Paperback:

9780300107470 | Yale Univ Pr, December 11, 1959, cover price $37.00

Disturbed Violent Offender

Product Description: Who constitutes the mentally ill who behave violently? Which criminal offenders are disturbed? Using case histories that serve as depictions of disturbed offenders and their offences, this book addresses these and other questions on the relationship between emotional disorders and violence...read more

By Kenneth Adams and Hans Toch

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9780300045338 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Examines the relatively few people who are both violent criminals and mentally ill.

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9781557982605, titled "The Disturbed Violent Offender" | Revised edition (Amer Psychological Assn, November 1, 1994), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Who constitutes the mentally ill who behave violently?

9780300051483, titled "The Disturbed Violent Offender" | Reissue edition (Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1991), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Based on a study of convicted offenders, this provides a typology of violent criminals who have histories of mental health problems.

Living in Prison: The Ecology of Survival

By Hans Toch

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9781557981769 | Rev sub edition (Amer Psychological Assn, December 1, 1992), cover price $19.95

Mosaic of Despair: Human Breakdowns in Prison

Product Description: "Mosaic of Despair" describes the variety of stress transactions that occur in a setting - the prison - which is intended to be uncomfortable or punitive. The study offers an opportunity to view stress and personal crises in a real life context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Hans Toch

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9781557981776 | Rev sub edition (Amer Psychological Assn, September 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Mosaic of Despair" describes the variety of stress transactions that occur in a setting - the prison - which is intended to be uncomfortable or punitive.

Violent Men: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence

Product Description: This revised edition explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent. How patterned and consistent is the violence of such men? What are the dynamics of their escalating encounters? What dispositions are most apt and lead to violence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Hans Toch

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9781557981721 | Rev sub edition (Amer Psychological Assn, August 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This revised edition explores the personal motives, attitudes, assumptions and perceptions of men who are recurrently violent.

Police As Problem Solvers

Product Description: This book is about police and police reform and about a movement called "problem-oriented policing," which is sweeping the country. The problem-oriented approach has been labeled "a philosophical revolution" and "the cutting edge of policing" (Malcolm, 1989)...read more

By J. Douglas Grant and Hans Toch

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9780306438455 | Plenum Pub Corp, June 1, 1991, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book is about police and police reform and about a movement called "problem-oriented policing," which is sweeping the country.

Coping: Maladaptation in Prisons

Product Description: Book by Toch, Hans, Adams, Kenneth

By Kenneth Adams and Hans Toch

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9780887388774 | Transaction Pub, December 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Toch, Hans, Adams, Kenneth

Pains of Imprisonment

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Robert

By Robert Johnson and Hans Toch (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780803919020 | Sage Pubns, December 1, 1982, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780881333695 | Reissue edition (Waveland Pr Inc, August 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Johnson, Robert

9780803919037, titled "The Pains Of Imprisonment" | Sage Pubns, December 1, 1982, cover price $12.95

Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice

By Hans Toch

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9780881332285 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, August 1, 1986), cover price $24.95

Violent Men

Product Description: Book by Toch, Hans

By Hans Toch

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9780870738876 | Rev rei su edition (Schenkman Books, July 1, 1984), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Book by Toch, Hans

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9780870738883 | Rev rei edition (Schenkman Pub Co, July 1, 1984), cover price $18.95

Reforming Human Services: Change Through Participation

Product Description: The authors feel that management techniques adopted from industry have created bureaucratic demands that are not suited to agencies trying to provide responsive, humane assistance. They suggest an approach that draws from democratic management principles to involve front line human service workers in the decision making process...read more

By Hans Toch

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9780803918863 | Sage Pubns, November 1, 1982, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: The authors feel that management techniques adopted from industry have created bureaucratic demands that are not suited to agencies trying to provide responsive, humane assistance.

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9780803918870, titled "Reforming Human Services Change Through Participation" | Sage Pubns, November 1, 1982, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The authors feel that management techniques adopted from industry have created bureaucratic demands that are not suited to agencies trying to provide responsive, humane assistance.

Therapeutic Communities in Corrections

By Hans Toch (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780275905613 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1980, cover price $72.95

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