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Adolescent Victimization and Delinquent Behavior (Book)

Erika Harrell

ISBN:9781593324353

Harrell uses several waves of the National Youth Survey to measure whether Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST) could explain the relationship between adolescent victimization and delinquency. She examines the effects of victimization on different types of delinquency across racial and gender groups. The main premise of the GST...more details
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Alternative Dispute Resolution in Civil Justice Systems (Book)

Roger E Hartley

ISBN:9781931202367

Hartley examines the introduction of alternative dispute resolution (e.g., mediation) in a court system in Georgia. Attorneys supported the introduction of mediation to consolidate control of the legal process and to add it to their practices...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

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Amnesty International and U.S. Foreign Policy: Human Rights Campaigns in Guatemala, the United States, and China (Book)

Maria T Baldwin

ISBN:9781593323295

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Asian American Assimilation: Ethnicity, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Attainment (Book)

Jacob I Stowell

ISBN:9781593322045

Stowell examines the impact of immigration on violent crime. Crimiological theory, and particularly social disorganization theory, has held that immigration is inextricably linked to crime. Stowell tests whether patterns of neighborhood-level violence are partially attributable to the population characteristics of an area...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:186

USD $79.22

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Asian American Evangelical Churches: Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation in the Second Generation (Book)

Antony William Alumkal

ISBN:9781931202640

Alumkal examines the beliefs and life experiences of American-born/raised Asian American evangelicals in two congregations, one Chinese American and one Korean American...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:220

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Becoming American, Remaining Ethnic: The Case of Armenian-Americans in Central California (Book)

Matthew A Jendian

ISBN:9781593322618

Jendian provides a snapshot of the oldest Armenian community in the western United States. His work explores the processes of assimilation and ethnicity across four generations and examines forms of ethnic identity and intermarriage. He examines four subprocesses of assimilation ?"cultural...more details
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Bridges and Barriers: Earnings and Occupational Attainment Among Immigrants (Book)

Jennifer Karas

ISBN:9781931202169

Karas compares the earnings and occupational attainment of Chinese, Cuban, Filipino, Korean, and Mexican immigrants to those of foreign-born non-Hispanic whites. Using census data...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:172

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Bullies, Fights, and Guns: Testing Self-Control Theory with Juveniles (Book)

Stacey Nofziger

ISBN:9781931202039

Most examinations of juvenile violence are limited in the behaviors studied and the theories used. To address these issues Nofziger applies a test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) General Theory of Crime to a range of violent and intimidating acts. She explores bullying...more details
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Changing Gender Roles: Brazilian Immigrant Families in the U.S. (Book)

Sylvia Duarte Dantas Debiaggi

ISBN:9781931202190

DeBiaggi focuses on recent Brazilian immigrant families. There are over 600,000 Brazilians in the U.S., the majority in metropolitan New York (230...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:163

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Contemporary Gangs: An Organizational Analysis (Book)

Deborah Lamm Weisel

ISBN:9781931202305

Contemporary gangs are persistent despite efforts to control them. Theories of gangs explain the emergence of gangs but offer littleinsight into their persistence and growth. Weisel examined theorganizational characteristics of four criminal gangs. Although even large gangs appear disorganized...more details
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Courts as Policymakers: School Finance Reform Litigation (Book)

Anna Lukemeyer

ISBN:9781931202466

Lukemeyer describes four policy important to the effectiveness of school finance reforms: 1) the existence of multiple, sometimes inconsistent...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:244

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Death Justice: Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the Contradictions of the Death Penalty (Book)

Kenneth W Miller

ISBN:9781593323400

Justice Scalia has warned of the danger of fallacies that pass for truth simply because they are frequently repeated. Death Justice argues that one fallacy that passes for truth is the widely held notion that Justices Rehnquist...more details
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Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown's Elusive Mandate (Book)

Mary F Ehrlander

ISBN:9781931202459

After the Supreme Court's decision, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), segregated schools eventually responded to court orders to desegregate; yet...more details
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Fertility Patterns of Native- And Foreign-Born Women: Assimilating to Diversity (Book)

Ann I Glusker

ISBN:9781931202589

Glusker considers how and why fertility patterns change with immigration. In so doing she considers not only immigrants, but also US minority groups. Using Current Population Survey data Glusker addresses the complex of factors: duration of stay...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:312

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Homicide and Gun Control: The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention ACT and Homicide Rates (Book)

Jeffrey D Monroe

ISBN:9781593322083

Monroe investigates the success of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act at reducing homicide. Using data from the 1989 - 1997 Uniform Crime Reports: Supplemental Homicide Reports...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:226

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Immigrant Children and the Politics of English-Only: Views from the Classroom (Book)

Tom Stritikus

ISBN:9781931202282

Stritikus examines the effect of California's anti-bilingual initiative, Proposition 227, on the education of Latinos. He highlights the teachers' role in enacting the policy...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:204

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Journalism Ethics by Court Decree: The Supreme Court on the Proper Practice of Journalism (Book)

John C Watson

ISBN:9781593322663

Watson concludes that journalism practice is guided and defined by law and ethics. Journalists are most likely to follow an ethical principle when it is supported by the law and less likely if it is opposed or not supported by the law...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:280

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Last Words and the Death Penalty: Voices of the Condemned and Their Co-Victims (Book)

Scott Vollum

ISBN:9781593324360

Vollum analyzes the content of the last statements of the condemned and statements made by co-victims; he seek to "give voice" to these two different groups. Vollum finds that the most dominant themes among the condemned center around transformation...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:316

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Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second Generation (Book)

Ken R Crane

ISBN:9781593320058

Crane's work shows how a significant number of Latino youth born in the rural Midwest have stayed involved in church out of ethnic and family solidarity. Although these youths do not show the same zeal and enthusiasm for certain traditions held dear by their parents...more details
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Latino Families Broken by Immigration: The Adolescent's Perceptions (Book)

Ceres I Artico

ISBN:9781931202633

Artico describes the experiences, perceptions, and memories of seven Latino adolescents reunited with their biological parents after prolonged separation during childhood because of piecemeal patterns of immigration...more details
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Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (Book)

Randall Amster

ISBN:9781593322977

Amster explores the historical and contemporary implications of homelessness as a social and spatial problem, drawing upon academic disciplines and policy concerns ranging from urban geography to legal advocacy...more details
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Making Connections: A Study of Networking Among Immigrant Professionals (Book)

Ann D Bagchi

ISBN:9781931202176

Utilizing quantitative and qualitative research methods Bagchi examines the role that networks play in the immigration of professionals to the United States...more details
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Making Ends Meet: Income-Generating Strategies Among Mexican Immigrants (Book)

Socorro Torres Sarmiento

ISBN:9781593320362

Using ethnographic interviews, Sarmiento studies how globalization affects ordinary Mexican American immigrants, shaping their families and daily lives. Even as families are divided by borders...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Narcissism and Entitlement: Sexual Agression and the College Male (Book)

David R Champion

ISBN:9781931202497

Champion examines the premise that sexually aggressive men possess distinct, cognitively structured belief systems. To explore these belief systems he focuses on entitlement. Entitlement was measured through existing scales for Machiavellianism and narcissism. Sexual aggressors tend to be more narcissistic...more details
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Nativism and Immigration: Regulating the American Dream (Book)

Brian N Fry

ISBN:9781593321932

Fry seeks to interpret historical and contemporary expressions of American nativism with reference to Blumer's group position framework. Fry...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:226

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Neighborhood Structure, Crime, and Fear of Crime (Book)

Clete Snell;Clete Csnell

ISBN:9781931202077

Snell shows how weak primary and secondary relationships, weak parochial and public control, and high levels of disorder relate directly to increased crime and fear of crime in unstable...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:168

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Police Coercion: Application of the Force Continuum (Book)

William Terrill

ISBN:9781931202091

Using observational data from two cities, Terrill studies police use of force to better understand how and why officers resort to force. He examines the extent of force within individual police-citizen encounters and tests numerous theoretical perspectives (sociological...more details
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Police Organizational Cultures and Patrol Practices (Book)

Kimberly D Hassell

ISBN:9781593321413

Hassell studies police organizational cultures and patrol practices through close participant observation in a large, municipal Midwestern police department. Her work uncovers that organizational cultures are formed at the precinct level. Police patrol practices...more details
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Police Requests for Compliance: Coercive and Procedurally Just Tactics (Book)

John D McCluskey

ISBN:9781931202619

Kaminski seeks to explain murders of police in 190 cities and four time periods (1987, 1990, 1993, and 1996). His hypotheses are that differences in levels of officer exposure (e.g....more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:224

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Police Shootings and Citizen Behavior (Book)

James P McElvain

ISBN:9781593322984

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Prisonization: Individual and Institutional Factors Affecting Inmate Conduct (Book)

Wayne Gillespie

ISBN:9781931202527

Prisonization involves the formation of an informal inmate code and develops from both the individual characteristics of inmates and from institutional features of the prison. Its explanation involves indigenous influence theory and cultural drift theory. Gillespie's exploration of these theories is based on data from questionnaires given to over 1...more details
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Private Vs. Public Operation of Juvenile Correctional Facilities (Book)

Gaylene Styve Armstrong

ISBN:9781931202008

Armstrong studies the environmental quality of confinement in private and public juvenile correctional facilities using data from 48 facilities...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:178

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Social Equity and the Funding of Community Policing (Book)

Ricky S Gutierrez

ISBN:9781593320966

Gutierrez examines the solicitation, granting, and use of Community Oriented Policing (COP) Funds in 197 municipalities. He discusses how disproportionately poor...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Sorting Out Deregulation: Protecting Free Speech and Internet Access in the United States, Germany, and Japan (Book)

Jae Young Kim;Chae-Yong Kim

ISBN:9781931202374

Kim examines how the United States, Germany, and Japan encourage universal service and free speech on the Internet in deregulated marketplaces. All three nations seek universal service through competitive marketplaces...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:204

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The Detention of Unlawful Enemy Combatants During the War on Terror (Book)

Colleen E Hardy

ISBN:9781593323257

Today the United States is fighting a new type of non-nation state enemy, which does not behave according to historical doctrines or principles of war. Hardy examines the development of legal doctrine surrounding the management of the "new" enemy combatant...more details
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The Effects of Race and Family Attachment on Self-Esteem, Self-Control, and Delinquency (Book)

Mahasin Cecelia Owens-Sabir

ISBN:9781593322113

Owens-Sabir examines the effect of race and family on delinquency, self-esteem, and self-control among Native American Indians, African Americans and Whites...more details
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The Juror Factor: Race and Gender in America's Civil Courts (Book)

Sean G Overland

ISBN:9781593323288

The Juror Factor examines how jurors reach their verdicts in complex civil trials. In particular, the book explores the relationship between "juror factors" - that is...more details
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The Measurement of Crime: Victim Reporting and Police Recording (Book)

Shannan M Catalano

ISBN:9781593324346

Catalano explains how changes in social perceptions of crime have contributed to increased correspondence in how both police and victims respond to crime. This correspondence between victim and police crime statistics raises important questions regarding public and official responses to crime over time. In addition...more details
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The Occupational Attainment of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, Canada, and England (Book)

Melonie P Heron

ISBN:9781931202206

Many scholars consider education to be a social leveler. Previous research also shows that immigrant status, gender, and race are three major axes of stratification in each country. However...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:151

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The Supreme Court's Role in American Indian Policy (Book)

John Harlan Vinzant

ISBN:9781593323301

Vinzant demonstrates how the Supreme Court has been effective at shaping American Indian policy in the areas of tribal sovereignty and the trust responsibility. He explains how the Court...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:194

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The Use of Force by Detention Officers (Book)

Marie L Griffin

ISBN:9781931202015

Griffin conducted a survey of all detention officers in Maricopa County, Arizona, a jail system known for punitive policies and for a sheriff with a national reputation for severity. Griffin's findings indicate that attitudes toward the use force are influenced by authority...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:126

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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: The Property Rights Movement and Regulatory Takings (Book)

Alfred M Olivetti;Jeff Kashman NancyWorsham

ISBN:9781931202411

The property rights "movement," a coalition of mineral industry actors, anti-government propagandists, and local economic interests, is best viewed as a backlash aimed at regulations associated with environmental protection and public lands conservation policy. Using a combination of interviews and archival research...more details
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Understanding Homicide Trends: The Social Context of a Homicide Epidemic (Book)

Benjamin Pearson-Nelson

ISBN:9781593322632

Pearson-Nelson looks at the homicide epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s. His approach draws on epidemiological and sociological perspectives focused on the factors...more details
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Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: S Se Puede! (Book)

Alejandra Rincon

ISBN:9781593322922

Rincon reviews the struggle by undocumented immigrant students to gain access to college by paying in-state tuition rates. These efforts, which have been successful in ten states...more details
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Unhealed Wounds: Medical Malpractice in the Twentieth Century (Book)

Neal C Hogan

ISBN:9781931202428

In 1900 medical malpractice was an obscure field, with few cases, small damages, and little case law. Across the century malpractice became a major component of tort litigation and created entire industries of insurance...more details
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Violent and Non-Violent Disputes Involving Gang Youth (Book)

Lorine A Hughes

ISBN:9781593320980

Hughes analyzes the occurrence and resolution of dispute-related incidents involving black and white youth street gangs in Chicago. Quantitative analysis involves assessing situational variables suggested by the literature as relevant to the occurrence of violence. When possible...more details
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Working Mothers and Juvenile Delinquency (Book)

Thomas Vander Ven

ISBN:9781931202725

"Mother-blame," blaming mothers for their children's anti-social behavior, is a common theme of social critics and policymakers. Critics charge that mothers have chosen work over parenting and that their children have suffered due to a loss of supervision and support. Their children are...more details
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Workplace Violence and Mental Illness: (Book)

Kristine M Empie

ISBN:9781931202503

Empie provides an overview of violence in the workplace and explores in detail victimization among mental health workers working with the mentally ill. To find data...more details
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