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Crime and Punishment in England
John Biggs
Paperback - $88.95
This is the first single-volume introduction to the national history of crime and punishment. From the medieval period to the present day, this survey work synthesizes the wealth of case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and ...
Do or Die
Leon Bing
Paperback - $21.95
Fiercely compelling and widely acclaimed, Do or Die is the first inside account of street gangs and their brutal world. Journalist Leon Bing, who gained ther four years, lets the gang members discuss for themselves their lives, loves, and battles.
Moving Targets
Helen Birch
Paperback - $59.95
This pioneering collection of essays looks at our fascination with women who murder. The authors explore how women both fictional and real are represented, as well as the way society responds to these women.
America's Prisons : The Movement Toward Profit and Privatization
Curtis R. Blakely
Paperback - $40.95
This reader introduces the student to prison management. Particular interest is given the increased role of profit in the application of punishment. Profit and prison privatization are viewed within their larger context. As such, public and private p ...
Bearing Witness
Sandra L. Bloom
Paperback - $75.95
From every corner of the U.S. comes a growing concern with the problem of violence -- in the home, in the workplace, in the schools, in both rural and urban areas. Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility is an extensive study of the c ...
The Predatory Society : Deception in the American Marketplace
Paul Blumberg
Paperback - $103.95
Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the decepti ...
The Crime Drop in America
Alfred Blumstein
Paperback - $68.95
Violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s and continued to climb until 1991, after which something unprecedented occurred. The crime level declined to a level not seen since the 1960s. This revised edition of The Crime Drop in America ...
Violence in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Hardcover - $336.95
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Robert M. Bohm
Hardcover - $247.95
This accessible yet comprehensive introduction to criminal justice in the United States has been dramatically updated and revised to include coverage of criminal justice's new, expanded role in the war on terrorism as well as to incorporate other rec ...