Rob Watts: 4 books

Book cover of States of Violence and the Civilising Process

States of Violence and the Civilising Process

On Criminology and State Crime

by Rob Watts
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able to do the killing, torturing...
Book cover of Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
by Rob Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016

This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell...
Book cover of International Criminology

International Criminology

A Critical Introduction

by Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008

International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline while...
Book cover of The Precarious Generation

The Precarious Generation

A Political Economy of Young People

by Judith Bessant, Rys Farthing, Rob Watts
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017

This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation...
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