Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Terry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial America using interviews with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, empirical data, news accounts, academic literature and case law.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political...
Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations.
by Steve Martinot
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
This book is an extended argument for the abolition of prisons as such. Its reasoning is based not on sociological considerations, such as the fact that they don’t work, but rather on ethical and political principles. I look at both the ethics that prison violates, and the ethics that society adopts...
Downsizing Prisons
How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular...
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe
Welfare States and Political Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.
The Future of Crime and Punishment
Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Today, we know that crime is often not just a matter of making bad decisions. Rather, there are a variety of factors that are implicated in much criminal offending, some fairly obvious like poverty, mental illness, and drug abuse and others less so, such as neurocognitive problems. Today, we have...
Contested Voices
Women Immigrants in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
A comprehensive and stimulating examination of how the migration of women affects attitudes in receiving countries, among the women themselves, and how changing women's attitudes shapes their relations with men and between generations within ethnic groups.
The Politics of Leverage in International Relations
Name, Shame, and Sanction
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments.
Diversity in Family Formation
The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands...
Not a Crime to Be Poor
The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Strong sales track: So Rich, So Poor sold 15,000 in all editions combined, including 8500 hardcover.
Hot issue: Hits the intersection of criminal justice and inequality.
Extensive radio and TV attention: Author did dozens of interviews for previous book including Tavis Smiley, Moyers...
The Government of Childhood
Discourse, Power and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childhood in the West from the early modern period to the present. The book deals with three key time-periods and examines shifts in the conceptualization and regulation of childhood and child-rearing.
by Dorothy E. McBride, Jennifer L. Keys
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
According to the CDC, more than 660,000 legal abortions were performed in the United States in 2013, yet despite these numbers, or perhaps because of them, the abortion war rages on in state legislatures, in Congress, and in court rooms. This work offers an eye-opening look at the enduring cultural...
Restorative Justice in India
Traditional Practice and Contemporary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book systematically introduces the practice of restorative justice in India, as a resource for comparative criminal justice research. “Restorative justice” focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims, and with the community at large. It has gained momentum...