In Modern Bondage
In Modern Bondage

Author: David E. Guinn

Publisher: International and Comparative

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking In The Americas presents the result of The International Human Rights Law Institute's recent trailblazing study. Based upon individual country reports from Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua & Panama, the book also includes a regional overview highlighting the interplay and interrelationships between trafficking within an individual country and the larger Central American region. It identifies both existing problems in current efforts to confront trafficking and highlights the most successful efforts or best practices adopted by some of the countries. The report also includes recommendations on how to address the problem of sex trafficking. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Theories of Delinquency
Theories of Delinquency

Author: Donald J. Shoemaker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0195374177

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Surveys the major theoretical approaches to understanding delinquent behavior, both biological and psychological. It features careful explanations of the major theories and analyzes each theory's underlying assumptions, the important concepts behind it, and finally the critical evaluations of the research associated with each theory presented.

Causes of Delinquency
Causes of Delinquency

Author: Travis Hirschi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1351529714

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In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that bind most people to a life within the law. In prominent alternative theories, the delinquent appears either as a frustrated striver forced into delinquency by his acceptance of the goals common to us all, or as an innocent foreigner attempting to obey the rules of a society that is not in position to make the law or define conduct as good or evil. Hirschi analyzes a large body of data on delinquency collected in Western Contra Costa County, California, contrasting throughout the assumptions of the strain, control, and cultural deviance theories. He outlines the assumptions of these theories and discusses the logical and empirical difficulties attributed to each of them. Then draws from sources an outline of social control theory, the theory that informs the subsequent analysis and which is advocated here.Often listed as a Citation Classic, Causes of Delinquency retains its force and cogency with age. It is an important volume and a necessary addition to the libraries of sociologists, criminologists, scholars and students in the area of delinquency.

Violence in America
Violence in America

Author: Mark L. Rosenberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0195064372

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This timely work proscribes the epidemiology of violence in American culture: its frequency, causes, and outcomes, and the intervention strategies designed to stem assaultive violence; spouse, elder and child abuse; sexual assau

Criminological Theories
Criminological Theories

Author: Ronald L. Akers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1135948224

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In Criminological Theories, the noted criminologist Ronald Akers provides thorough description, discussion, and appraisal of the leading theories of crime/delinquent behavior and law/criminal justice - the origin and history of each theory and its contemporary developments and adherents. Akers offers a clear explanation of each theory (the central concepts and hypotheses of each theory as well as critical criteria for evaluating each theory in terms of its empirical validity). Researchers and librarians, as well as general readers, will find this book a very useful tool and will applaud its clear and understandable exposition of abstract concepts.

A Modern History of German Criminal Law
A Modern History of German Criminal Law

Author: Thomas Vormbaum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3642372732

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Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. While there are many reasons for this, one stands out very clearly: Language. English has become the lingua franca of international legal research. The present book addresses this issue. Thomas Vormbaum is one of the foremost German legal historians and the book's original has become a cornerstone of research into the history of German criminal law beyond doctrinal expositions; it allows a look at the system’s genesis, its ideological, political and cultural roots. In the field of comparative research, it is of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the law’s provenance, in other words its historical DNA.

The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry
The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry

Author: Steven M. Kaplan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415587747

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The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry contains over 100,000 entries making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind. The Dictionary provides concise, comprehensive and current coverage of every word or phrase used in the study and practice of psychiatry and psychology. This valuable reference tool covers all disciplines and sub-disciplines, both research-based and clinical. This is a vital resource to those in the healthcare professions, to academicians and to those who work in translation and/or interpretation, healthcare and the law who are in contact with the English and Spanish speaking communities.

Marxism and Literary Criticism
Marxism and Literary Criticism

Author: Terry Eagleton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1976-08-16

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780520032439

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"Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian

Sexism and Stereotypes in Modern Society
Sexism and Stereotypes in Modern Society

Author: William B. Swann

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781557985316

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Once the province of a small group of theorists and researchers operating on the periphery of psychological science, gender research has charged into the psychological mainstream during the last two decades. In large measure, Janet T. Spence has been responsible for this transformation, challenging the traditional ideas of fundamental difference between men and women. The simple idea of difference, once used to rationalize prejudices and discrimination, has now been replaced by a complex, sophisticated awareness of how gender is constructed and maintained. This book explores new empirical work and theoretical models about the causes and consequences of constructing gender.

'Mixed Race' Studies
'Mixed Race' Studies

Author: Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1135170711

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Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.