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Making Surveillance Public
Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms
2024 || Hardcover || Marc Schuilenburg || Eleven international publishing
What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation?
Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data colle...
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Network Corruption: When Social Capital Becomes Corrupted
Its Meaning and Significance in Corruption and Network Theory and the Consequences for (EU) Policy and Law
|| Hardcover || Willeke Slingerland || Eleven international publishing
Corruption is generally referred to as bribery. This books deals with a different form of corruption: corruption caused by networks. Network corruption is the form of corruption in which the interaction of multiple actors within a social network results in corruption but in which the individual behaviour as such is not necessarily corrupt. The main reason for this research is that a gap appears to exist in the available theories on corruption: very little research is available on corruption b...
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Notes from Isolation
Global Criminological Perspectives on Coronavirus Pandemic
2021 || Hardcover || Dina Siegel || Eleven international publishing
This volume includes topics analysing the meaning of the Covid-19 pandemic and the social responses to it in various domains: from sex work to wildlife crimes, from new forms of social control in Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and Thailand to the role of music, the symbolism of face masks, the spreading of conspiracy theories, domestic violence, and more. It is composed of studies conducted by criminologists who belong to the ‘Utrecht school’. Criminology ‘Utrecht style’ is unique in the wor...
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Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps
2024 || Hardcover || Mary S. Morgan e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.
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More Cats Galore
A Second Compendium of Cultured Cats
2024 || Hardcover || Susan Herbert || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This second litter of cultured cats delves further into the work of Susan Herbert, with another possé of our feline friends in much-loved works of art.
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Fieldwork for Social Research
A Student's Guide
2023 || Hardcover || Richard Phillips e.a. || SAGE
As one of the few teaching books that looks at fieldwork in the broadest of contexts, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of fieldwork within social research. It not only teaches theory but puts into practice planning, designing, conducting and sharing social research.Â
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Cybercrime and Society
2023 || Hardcover || Majid Yar e.a. || SAGE
Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â
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WORLD OF LORE MONSTROUS CREATU
2024 || Hardcover || Aaron Mahnke || Random House LCC US
A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast-now a streaming television series-including "They Made a Tonic," "Passed Notes," and "Unboxed," as well as rare material.
They live in shadows-deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives' tales, passed down through generations....
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Analysing Intersectionality
A Toolbox of Methods
2023 || Hardcover || Keming Yang || SAGE
Innovative and practical, this is the perfect methods book for anyone looking to apply intersectionality to their research and their multifaceted data.
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Decolonising My Body
A radical exploration of rituals and beauty
2023 || Hardcover || Afua Hirsch || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'A ground-breaking book that speaks to all women' Bernardine Evaristo
What can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?
Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radic...