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Crime and the Life Course
2nd Edition
Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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The Everyday Impact of Economic Reform in China
Management Change, Enterprise Performance and Daily Life
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been...
Published May 4th 2010 by Routledge
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White Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
As an instructor teaching white collar crime, are you frustrated by texts which leave your students feeling outraged but helpless about the subject? Assigning this new text by Mike Benson and Sally Simpson can successfully address that problem, because it explains to students why white-collar crime...
Published February 8th 2009 by Routledge
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Readings in Classical Rhetoric
Rhetoric -- the theory of oral discourse -- affected and indeed pervaded all aspects of classical thought. Bearing the stamp of its impact were the Homeric hymns, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Aeschylus' Eumenides, the great dramatic tragedies, the elegiac and lyric poetry, and the literature of the...
Published October 31st 1995 by Routledge