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The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

CURRIE, ELLIOTT

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

The most striking feature of violent crime around the world is its variability. Some societies are relatively safe and peaceful: in others, violent crime is a pervasive and devastating fact of life. In The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective, Elliott Currie explores why some societies around the world are more violent than others. Beginning by defining violent crimes and discussing how they are measured, he then presents a variety of theories on the phenomenon of violent crime, first examining those theories that don't work and then looking at those that do. Currie concludes with a look toward the future of violence in the light of social, economic, and political changes that are transforming global society. Throughout the text, he draws examples from around the world, demonstrating similarities in the roots of violence across countries and across cultures. About the Series Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Henry N. Pontell, provides essential knowledge on important contemporary matters of crime, law, and justice to a broad audience of readers. Volumes are written by leading scholars in that area. Concise, accessible, and affordable, these texts are designed to serve either as primers around which courses can be built or as supplemental books for a variety of courses.

The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective (Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice)

Oxford University Press

KEY BENEFIT: Crisis in American Institutions provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. New topics include: the erosion of retirement security, the rise in debt among young adullts, the limits of social mobility in the U.S., gender discrimination in the workplace, white privilege, global terrorism, police reform, racial disparities in the criminal justice system. For anyone interested in social problems, American society, or social work.

Crisis in American Institutions (13th Edition)

Skolnick, Jerome H.

Allyn&Bacon

Crisis in American Institutions provides students with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. This edition contains seventeen new articles, many addressing the escalating crises of American society in recent years, including the worst economic crisis in decades, the rapid rise in health care costs, the polarizing debate on immigration, and the continuing growth of economic inequality. Others update our coverage of longstanding issues, including the persistence of poverty, the continued growth of mass incarceration, and the politics of global warming.

Crisis in American Institutions (14th Edition)

Anthropology

Pearson

Professors Currie and Skolnick place special emphasis on the underlying economic causes of social problems and the social policies that fail to address them. The text's research-oriented approach introduces students to the empirical aspects of sociology by discussing how research is done and how data is compiled and analyzed. A comparative perspective on major topics exposes students to American social problems in context to other nations. This edition provides in-depth coverage of current social and political issues, such as downsizing, the growing gap between the rich and the poor, and the crisis in health care.

America's problems: Social issues and public policy

Little,Brown

Crisis in American Institutions provides an array of engaging articles on important topics. Consistently introducing framing material, an analytical introductory chapter emphasizes the role of institutions, while concise chapter openers help introduce specific topics. Authors chose articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage readers to think seriously about them. A proven winner with faculty and students alike, this new edition stands poised to continue its record of popularity in social problems. For anyone interested in social problems, American society, or social work.

Crisis in American Institutions (11th Edition)

Politics & Government

Probes the social, political, and economic factors behind America's crime problem, challenges conservative views of permissiveness and judicial weakness, and calls for a new approach to solving the crime crisis

Confronting Crime

Pantheon

Interviews with twenty youths confined in an institution in the juvenile justice system for such crimes as drug dealing and drug use reveal the tough reality of the world in which they live

DOPE AND TROUBLE

Probes the social, political, and economic factors behind America's crime problem, challenges conservative views of permissiveness and judicial weakness, and calls for a new approach to solving the crime crisis

In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. &nbsp; Whitewashing Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by failures to address the compounding effects of generations of disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people, employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial inequality in American society and economy. &nbsp; Updated to include the most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition of&nbsp;Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice can be achieved&nbsp;only if we actively attack and undo pervasive structural racism and its legacies.

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)

Business & Money

Carnoy, Martin

Duster, Troy

Oppenheimer, David B.

Wellman, David

Brown, Michael Kingsley

Shultz, Marjorie M.

Economics

University of California Press

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The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective

The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective (Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice)

Crisis in American Institutions (13th Edition)

Crisis in American Institutions (14th Edition)

America's problems: Social issues and public policy

Crisis in American Institutions (11th Edition)

Confronting Crime

DOPE AND TROUBLE

Confronting Crime

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)