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This third edition is written in a clear, concise style and has been thoroughly revised and updated to include such new chapters as white-collar crime and the use of technology in crime control. Felson challenges the conventional wisdom and offers his perspective and solutions to reducing crime through such changes as physical environments and patterns of everyday life.

"The Violent Underpinnings of American Life explains how sexual violence against women and police and political violence against Black people maintains social order and elite power in the United States"-- The Violent Underpinnings of American Life boldly asserts that violence -- far from going against American ideals -- is as American as apple pie, central to the country's social order and the dominance of its most powerful groups. Drawing from extensive...

"This volume explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China." "The chapters in this volume suggest that one can speak of very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in china before the twentieth century. This was recognized, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic...

Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western and Israeli militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a real or imagined conflict zone inhabited by lurking, shadow enemies, and urban inhabitants as targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned, controlled and targeted.

"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most overlooked forces. For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming-meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter-a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming...

A sociological study examining the effects of informal social control--the response to behavior or people regarded as deviant, problematic, threatening, or undesirable--in everyday life in a lesbian community in the heartland of the United States. Based on interviews, participant-observation, and document sources gathered over a period of nine years (1994 to 2003), the book anyalyzes the effects of social control on relations of power (based on race,...

"Tackling one of today's most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society."--Publisher's description. Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned...

The author of the pioneering history of the Deaf, When the Mind Hears, now continues his advocacy for the Deaf community with a hard-hitting, provocative new book. The Mask of Benevolence is at once a deeply moving celebration of the unique manual language and culture of the modern deaf community, a scathing indictment of the heedlessness and hypocrisies of many of its hearing "benefactors," and an expose of the ways in which the "experts" in the...

"Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store...