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  • Ableism, Now Streaming

    Disability and Cultural Representations of Crime

    by Ronald Kramer ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book reveals how ableism permeates cultural portrayals of crime. What does it mean to consume crime narratives that are so thoroughly ableist? While there are many interpretations of crime in media, there is not yet a sustained analysis of its ableist underpinnings and the social and cultural significance of its seemingly endless consumption. Using a range of texts as illustrative material, ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Apocalyptic Crimes

    Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished

    by Ronald C. Kramer ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight—the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic countdown to annihilation. Now, a generation later, the world is more vulnerable than ever to the nuclear ... Read more

    $33.49 CAD

  • Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes

    by Ronald C. Kramer ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCarbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Culture, Crime and Punishment

    by Ronald Kramer ...
    This innovative introductory textbook to the growing field of cultural criminology examines the importance of understanding the cultural contexts in which crime and crime control take place. It describes and discusses the field's theoretical and methodological foundations, its links to other theoretical traditions, and its limits and criticisms. By exploring substantive areas such as crime in ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Legal Graffiti Writing in New York and Beyond

    by Ronald Kramer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships with major social institutions, it explores the contemporary dynamics between graffiti, society, the art world and social media, paying particular attention to how New York City’s political elite has ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Contesting Crime Science

    Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology

    by James C. Oleson, Ronald Kramer ...
    In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson interrogate the promises of crime science and target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality. This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent manifestations—biological, actuarial, security, and environmental sciences. Rather than holding the technological keys to crime's resolution, crime sciences ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • State Crime in the Global Age

    Edited by Raymond Michalowski, Ronald Kramer, William Chambliss ...
    State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime.The topics covered include the crimes of empire, illegal war, the bombing of civilians, state sanctioned torture, state sacrifice of human ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Crime, Deviance and Society

    An Introduction to Sociological Criminology

    by Ana Rodas, Melanie Simpson, Paddy Rawlinson, Ronald Kramer, Emma Ryan, Emmeline Taylor, Reece Walters, Alan Beckley, Chris Cunneen, Ashlee Gore, Amanda Porter, Scott Poynting, Emma Russell ...
    Crime, Deviance and Society: An Introduction to Sociological Criminology offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory. The book introduces readers to key sociological theories, such as anomie and strain, and examines how traditional approaches have influenced the ways in which crime and deviance are constructed. It provides a nuanced account of contemporary theories and debates, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Is Democracy Possible Here?

    Principles for a New Political Debate

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders.The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political culture, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee, David Coady ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of ... Read more

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  • Rejecting Retributivism

    Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

    by Gregg D. Caruso ...
    Series series Law and the Cognitive Sciences
    Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are morally responsible for their actions and deserve to be punished in proportion to their wrongdoing. This book argues against retributivism and develops a viable alternative that is both ethically ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon ... Read more

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