Violent Crime Books

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41. Holding Your Square

    By Christopher Mullins

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on...

    Published August 31st 2006 by Willan
42. Murder

    By Shani D'Cruze, Sandra Walklate, Samantha Pegg

    Series: Crime and Society Series

    This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to...

    Published March 31st 2006 by Willan
43. The Violent Workplace

    By P.A.J Waddington, Doug Badger, Ray Bull

    The threat of violence concerns most people most profoundly. It has long been a topic of intensive academic, practical and political debate. In recent years the workplace has emerged as a recognized site of violence, threat and menace and this book will make a significant contribution to the...

    Published October 31st 2005 by Willan
44. Workplace Violence

    Edited by Vaughan Bowie, Bonnie S. Fisher, Cary Cooper

    This book examines some of the key issues around violence at work which have emerged in the new millennium, including the events of September 11th 2001 and other terrorist-related incidents, identifying these as an extreme form of workplace violence. It builds upon the expanded typology of...

    Published September 30th 2005 by Willan
45. Football Hooliganism

    By Steve Frosdick, Peter Marsh

    This book provides a highly readable introduction to the phenomenon of football hooliganism, ideal for students taking courses around this subject as well as those having a professional interest in the subject, such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management. For anybody...

    Published June 30th 2005 by Willan
46. Researching Gender Violence

    Edited by Tina Skinner, Marianne Hester, Ellen Malos

    In this edited collection leading authors in the field draw on their experience to address key methodological questions and challenges that have arisen from the recent proliferation of research projects and government funded initiatives on violence against women. Topics include: evaluation research...

    Published December 31st 2004 by Willan
47. Armed Robbery

    By Roger Matthews

    Series: Crime and Society Series

    Despite the significance of armed robbery in the criminal justice system, the media and in the public mind there has been little systematic research or writing on the subject beyond the popular accounts. In both the USA and the UK there remains a large gap in the literature on the subject, which...

    Published March 31st 2002 by Willan
48. Violence at Work

    Edited by MARTIN GILL, Bonnie S. Fisher, Vaughan Bowie

    Workplace violence has emerged as a growing concern in today's interdependent political economy, and increasing attention is being paid to the phenomenon both by business and in the academic world to identifying its causes and to devise strategies to prevent it. In this book a distinguished...

    Published October 31st 2001 by Willan
49. Stolen Lives

    Trading Women Into Sex and Slavery

    “Dancers/Hostesses required for top cabaret nightclubs both here and overseas. No experience necessary. Mega bucks to be earned. Telephone. . . ”Would you answer an ad like this? Thousands of women do and fall victim to the illegal trafficking in women by organized crime...

    Published January 25th 1996 by Routledge
50. Women, Violence and Social Change

    By R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash

    Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and...

    Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge