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11. Security and Everyday Life

    Edited by Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values – particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some...

    Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
12. Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality

    By Stephen Tomsen

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    The binary model of sexuality can be devastating and even fatal for people left outside the category of heterosexuality. Essentialist categories of sexuality and gender are often enforced by harassment and violence, as is clear in the case of violence directed against sexual minorities such as...

    Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
13. The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour

    Amoral Panics

    By Stuart Waiton

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the...

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
14. The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch

    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...

    Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
15. China’s Death Penalty

    History, Law and Contemporary Practices

    By Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book...

    Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge