Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Terror on Trial

    An Ethnography of French Courts

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Grounded in legal ethnomethodology, this book explores terrorism trials in France. Drawing on extensive court ethnography, a multidisciplinary research team examines how terrorism logics are reflected, represented, and negotiated within criminal proceedings. Based on hundreds of hearing days – ranging from small terrorism criminal cases to the so-called trials for history, commonly known as the ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Enforcing Order

    An Ethnography of Urban Policing

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Intelligence in an Insecure World

    Over a decade on from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world. Today there is a growing awareness of the importance of intelligence, and an increasing investment in it, as individuals, groups, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable information in order to increase their sense of security.But what exactly is ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Political Crime

    In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Countering Terrorism in Britain and France

    Institutions, Norms and the Shadow of the Past

    by Frank Foley ...
    Though Britain and France have faced a similar threat from Islamist terrorism in the years following September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This groundbreaking work offers the first in-depth comparative analysis of counterterrorist policies and operations in these two leading liberal democracies. Challenging the widely held view that the nature ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Fighting Terrorism and Drugs

    Europe and International Police Cooperation

    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is an examination of European states in their fight against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960s up to the present day.Jörg Friedrichs explores what makes large European states willing or unwilling to participate in international police cooperation against terrorism and drugs. The book examines forty-eight case studies, with particular regard to the policy preferences ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity

    This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on local gang formation and development, paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The book also explores the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Criminology
    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events and the inhumanity and degradation of domestic prisons within the 'allied' states, including the USA, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Journalism in an Age of Terror

    Covering and Uncovering the Secret State

    by John Lloyd ...
    Series series Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
    The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice, how legal practice responds to that challenge, and how practice is changing in the encounter with the cultural diversity occasioned by large-scale, post-war immigration. Locating actual practices and interpretations which occur in jurisprudence and in public discussion, this ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The Abolition of Prison

    Translated by Scott Branson ...
    The Abolition of Prison provides a reflection from a longtime prison abolitionist, psychoanalyst, and former prisoner on the history, theory, and practice of anti-prison activism in France and globally over the last fifty years. This book powerfully makes the case for the end of prisons, punishment, and guilt and, instead, suggests we work towards social change, care, collectivity. The book weaves ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prison Worlds

    An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

    by Didier Fassin ...
    The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there?To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD