Tag: Crime

Free Download Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime by Kristian Williams
2022 | ISBN: 1849354561 | English | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence.

Free Download Crime, Justice, and Social Control By Jeffrey Vandersip (editor) & Desiré J.M. Anastasia (editor) Stuart Henry (editor)
2019 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 1793513082 | PDF | 95 MB
Crime, Justice, and Social Controlexplores formal and informal dimensions of social control and demonstrates that law and the criminal justice system are set within the wider context of social control. Combining theory with key policy issues, the text addresses the challenges facing criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and elected officials. Part I outlines the origins and types of social control from a sociological perspective. Parts II through V build on these foundational theories by further exploring adjudication and sentencing, policing and investigations, and correctional policies and issues. Each section raises key questions under discussion by academics, policymakers, and elected officials, and helps students understand the complexity and range of challenges faced by those involved in the criminal justice process. The revised second edition features readings on the topics of moral panics, undocumented persons and border policing, private and public policing, racial profiling, wrongful convictions, mass incarceration, prisoner reentry, and the criminalization of school discipline in the United States.Crime, Justice, and Social Controlis suitable for introductory courses in criminal justice, as well as courses in social control and criminal justice policy.Stuart HenryPh.D. (Sociology, University of Kent, England) previously served as a professor of criminal justice at San Diego State University and was director of the School of Public Affairs (2006-2017).Jeffrey Vandersipis a lecturer at San Diego State University and a senior crime and intelligence analyst with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. He holds a B.A. in urban studies with a concentration in geography.Desiré J.M. Anastasia,holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Wayne State University. She is an associate professor of sociology at Metropolitan State University, Denver, and also teaches at San Diego State University.

Free Download Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration"
English | ISBN: 0520304519 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1210 KB
Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women’s protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities.

Free Download Place Management and Crime: Ownership and Property Rights as a Source of Social Control
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031276922 | 213 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This brief describes the theory and evidence of a form of social control known as place management. Created by property owners, place management is an alternative to the two other domains of social control: formally created by the state and informally created by residents. It helps explain the high concentration of crime and disorder at a relatively small proportion of addresses and facilities. This volume examines the specifics of place management and extends it in three ways: to show how high crime places may radiate crime into their surroundings; to reveal networks of places that create crime hotspot spanning blocks; to demonstrate how networks of place managers influence crime throughout neighborhoods. Finally, it shows that the policy implications of place management extend far beyond the police and should include regulatory policies.

Free Download Melanie Collard, "Torture as State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer "
English | ISBN: 1138210056 | 2018 | 218 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts of state crime for understanding and responding to the indirect use of torture by external nation states.

Free Download Steve Hall, "Theorizing Crime and Deviance: A New Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1848606729 | 2012 | 304 pages | EPUB | 715 KB
This sophisticated, original book investigates the motivations behind crime and deviance. Steve Hall uses cutting-edge philosophy and social theory to analyze empirical work on patterns of crime and illuminate contemporary criminological issues. He provides a fresh, relevant critique of the philosophical and political underpinnings of criminological theory and the theoretical canon′s development during the twentieth century.