Kevin Wehr: 4 books
Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex
Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude...
by Kevin Wehr
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation...
Hermes on Two Wheels
The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural settings of those experiences, the research shows how...
America's Fight Over Water
The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.