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Global Development
The Basics
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Hammett || Taylor & Francis
Global Development: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to the shifting landscape of global development, right from its origins, to today, and on to what the future might look like. Delving into economics, politics, gender and climate change, this book is for readers starting out in their understanding of global development.
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Working with Involuntary Clients / 4th edition
A Guide to Practice
2022 || Paperback || Chris Trotter || Taylor & Francis
Fully updated fourth edition of Trotter's well-established text on working with involuntary clients. The new edition includes a new chapter on Collaborative Family Work and additional emphasis on trauma informed practice. Includes plentiful case examples and links to practice, from a range of settings including work with people with addictions, young people who refuse to go to school and mental health patients who refuse treatment, as well as examples from criminal justice and child protection.
Presents a practical model for evidence-based practice and discusses a range of intervention models and relationships skills. Takes into account up-to-date research evidence throughou...
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Essential Criminolog / 4th edition
2014 || Paperback || Mark M. Lanier e.a. || Taylor & Francis
In the fourth edition of Essential Criminology , authors Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, and Desire J.M. Anastasia build upon this best-selling critical review of criminology, which has become essential reading for students of criminology in the 21st century.Designed as an alternative to overly comprehensive, lengthy, and expensive introductory texts, Essential Criminology is, as its title implies, a concise overview of the field.
The book guides students through the various definitions of crim...
European Identity and Culture
Narratives of Transnational Belonging
2016 || Paperback || Markus Thiel || Taylor & Francis
As the EU continues its integration process, the concepts of culture and transnational European belonging remain ambivalent, whether in the realm of socio-historical representation or mass politics. Engaging with recent scholarly debates surrounding the formation of collective transnational identities, this collection draws on the latest empirical case studies to explore the meaning and composition of European identity, the mechanisms that create and shape it and the question of whom it inclu...
Power, Politics, and Society / 2nd Edition
An Introduction to Political Sociology
2019 || Paperback || Betty Dobratz e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Power, Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology discusses how sociologists have organized the study of politics into conceptual frameworks, and how each of these frameworks foster a sociological perspective on power and politics in society. This includes discussing how these frameworks can be applied to understanding current issues and other "real life" aspects of politics. This second edition incorporates new material on cultural divides in American politics, emerging rol...
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
2006 || Paperback || Judith Butler || Taylor & Francis
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender a...
Engaging Anthropological Theory / 2nd edition
A Social and Political History
2018 || Paperback || Mark Moberg || Taylor & Francis
This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity have always been rooted in the sociopolitical conditions in which they arose and exploring them in context helps students understand how and why they evolv...
Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life
2017 || Paperback || Josee Johnston e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator.
On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevan...
Comparative Criminal Justice / 4th edition
Fourth Edition
2019 || Paperback || Francis Pakes || Taylor & Francis
This book offers an accessible and scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with its main stages, from policing, to systems of trial, to sentencing, to punishment.
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
2018 || Paperback || Michael L. Benson e.a. || Taylor & Francis
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational conditions that facilitate white-collar crimes. In addition, they offer potential solutions to this persistent and widespread social problem without being reductive in their treatment of the diffic...