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  • Understanding Victimology

    An Active-Learning Approach

    by Shelly Clevenger, Jordana N. Navarro, Catherine D. Marcum, George E. Higgins ...
    Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities. Our textbook offers instructors a variety of active learning exercises – in the book itself and in the authors’ ancillaries – that engage students in the material and shed light on the experiences of ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Shopping While Black

    Consumer Racial Profiling in America

    by Shaun L. Gabbidon, George E. Higgins ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings.Gabbidon and Higgins address the generally neglected racial profiling that occurs in retail settings. Although there is no existing national database on shoplifting or ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Prescription Drug Problem

    A New American Crisis?

    by Ryan D. Schroeder, Jason A. Ford, George E. Higgins ...
    Providing an indispensable resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and policymakers interested in the prescription drug abuse crisis in the United States, this book summarizes the current state of prescription drug abuse and its growth over the past 20 years.The Prescription Drug Problem analyzes the growth of the prescription drug abuse problem from 1994 to 2014 and includes ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Social Networking as a Criminal Enterprise

    Edited by Catherine D. Marcum, George E. Higgins ...
    As social networking continues to evolve and expand, the opportunities for deviant and criminal behavior have multiplied. Social Networking as a Criminal Enterprise explores how new avenues for social networking criminality have affected our criminal justice system.With insight from field experts, this book examines:The history of social networking ... Read more

    $182.75 CAD

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    A Guide to Improve the Effective Administration of Justice

    by Leslie J. Smith ...
    This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public officials who sense that more collaboration and coordination is needed to enhance criminal justice ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Black Disability Politics

    by Sami Schalk ...
    In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Anatomy of an Epidemic

    Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

    by Robert Whitaker ...
    Updated with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with new research, this New York Times bestseller is essential reading for a time when mental health is constantly in the news.In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Building Successful Online Communities

    Evidence-Based Social Design

    by Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Moira Burke, Yan Chen ...
    How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Addiction

    A Practical Guide for Counsellors

    Edited by Marilyn Herie, PhD, RSW, W.J. Wayne Skinner, MSW, RSW ...
    Fundamentals of Addiction is an essential reference for counsellors and a comprehensive textbook for college and university level students in courses that address addictions. Written by more than 50 experts in addiction treatment and related fields, each chapter includes case examples, practice tips and print and online resources.This fourth edition of Alcohol & Drug Problems was renamed ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Predict and Surveil

    Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

    by Sarah Brayne ...
    The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data is hotly contested, very little is known about how the police actually use it in daily operations and with what consequences. In Predict and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Evidence-Based Policing

    Translating Research into Practice

    by Cynthia Lum, Christopher S. Koper ...
    Today's police agencies are in a period of both crisis and reform as they try to improve their ability to deliver public safety to citizens in ways that are effective, legitimate, and sustainable. Evidence-based policing offers one such solution - an approach which emphasises the value that research can bring to police officers and, by extension, the public they serve. However, evidence-based ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Unbroken Brain

    A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

    by Maia Szalavitz ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMore people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD