The history of white supremacy and criminal justice
Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions ......
Renowned authors and researchers Leah E. Daigle and Lisa R. Muftic expertly relay the history and development in this growing field to equip students with a strong foundation from which to build. Emphasizing the impact of trauma on individuals and opportunities for prevention, this text offers incisive discussions of recurring victimisation, the consequences of victimisation, and the victim-offender overlap with a global focus. Students will also receive information about specific types of victimisation, including contemporary issues such as stalking, hate crimes, human trafficking, terrorism, and more.
An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy
On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in ......
An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. ......
How stable are free societies today? This book argues that they are under threat from "market free-choice" and "moral free-choice," two sides of the same coin which between them, the author warns, threaten to tear civil society apart. Market free-choice is the prevailing economic ideology that gives free reign to market forces, even when they ride ......
Real Research: Research Methods Sociology Students Can Use is an innovative text that takes a holistic approach to the subject by discussing each step in the research process within the context of a particular method. The updated Second Edition includes a new chapter on focus groups, new "Real Research" profiles of individuals using research methods in a wide range of careers, and examples of common student errors to streamline learning.
This monographs rethinks the abstract and generalised connection between entanglement and knowledge-making by grounding it within specific socio-material relations. As a focus of sociological research and theory, intimacy is usually discussed in the context of distinguishing local and experiential knowledge from universal and scientific knowledge. In contrast, by foregrounding what is so often made invisible in extant accounts of how knowledge is done, the authors explore how a focus on affect restructures possibilities for a more situated knowledge that involves non-anthropocentric modes of relatedness in a wide range of substantive domains and communities of practice. Drawing on research on laboratories, spaces of care and disability, twinning and eco-experiments, as well as human-nonhuman relations with animals and objects, the issues addressed include the politics of intimacy and its different characterizations - as attachment, belonging and companionship but also as ordinary and dangerous, as sites of alterity and contamination. Intimate Entanglements brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to open-up the value of intimacy as an often overlooked or disregarded quality of socio-material relations. In reworking human/nature and socio/technical boundaries in knowledge-making, the various chapters press the affective turn in Science & Technology Studies to explore how intimacy can be foregrounded as a site for the social production of knowledge across the social, human and life sciences. Adopting a different perspective and involving a wide array of empirical and speculative methods, the focus is on how a dominant politics of knowledge can be undone as expressions of what is being cared for. Papers are particularly concerned with the kind of attachments and detachments that appear crucial to understanding affective relations and ecologies - inside and beyond the sciences, including the social sciences - and with helping to readdress the balance over what is at stake in notions of care and over what is usually concealed."
A sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet, read the news, watch television, chat with our friends, make our appointments, and post on social networking sites. New media provide the backdrop for most of our encounters. We swim in a technological world ......
