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Offers a look at the ways people fault and applaud each other and themselves. The stories gathered in this book range from the everyday to the altogether unexpected, from personal to humorous - whether it's the acceptance speech of an Academy Award winner or testimony before a congressional panel.

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Criminology has largely failed to examine crime and criminal justice in a rural setting and has concentrated almost exclusively on urban crime. This collection aims to fill that gap to some extent and stimulate further debate.

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This full length study provides a basic account of the rationale and content of victimization surveys; it examines the value of crime/victim surveys and deals with the shortcomings of official statistics gathered by the police.

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Employing the skills of both the historian and the criminologist, these essays range across rural and urban worlds, presenting both highly localized case studies and the broad sweep of a synoptic survey, approaching the genre from both a historical and cultural perspective.

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How do societies remember, or forget, the wartime atrocities their soldiers and citizens may have committed Offering a comparative insight, this book includes original essays on the United States in Vietnam and Korea, the Japanese in China, and the Germans during World War II.

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Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the present, Fusaro provides a novel Gramscian way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.

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This volume brings together contributions which take up the key debates regarding the economic crash of 2007-8 and its sequels.

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An important sociological intervention into the role played by media narrativesusually reflecting the ruling ideasin shaping social and political responses to Europe's refugee 'crisis.'

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In order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology.

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A comprehensive guide to contemporary developments in Marxist theory.

In this text, the author uses concepts of mapping and space to challenge traditional geo-political assumptions. He delivers a deconstructive critique of various 20th-century attempts to impose grand geo-political visions on the spinning surface of global affairs.

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A seminal work of interpretation, introducing English speaking readers to two of Mexicos leading theorists.

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This peer-reviewed book series offers insights into our current reality by exploring the content and consequences of power relationships under capitalism, and by considering the spaces of opposition and resistance to these changes that have been defining our new age.

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Analyzes liberal religious education in multi-cultural societies and suggests ways in which religious education can help young people learn to take responsibility for their beliefs and life-styles in a responsible manner. This book seeks to reconcile the often contradictory accounts offered by different religions and secular traditions.

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This expansive volume challenges the conventional approach to research by arguing for the recentering of local and marginalized knowledges

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Roland Boer draws on a vast depth of scholarly knowledge to reclaim the rich contribution of Marxism to theological studies

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Provides the exploration of college completion at America's public universities. This title sheds light on serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

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Do we want to be a people that denies humanity to others in need through deliberate cruelty, in violation of basic human rights Sarah Towle doesnt think so. Join her journey to the borderlands to meet the unsung heroes flying the tattered flag of USAmerican values as they model a better way to respond to todays crisis in global migrationand attempt to tear down the walls that divide us.

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The long-awaited expos of 9/11 and Peak Oil - by the "Godfather of 9/11 research."