Social Science : Criminology

With some help from colleagues on Gujarati, Korean, and Japanese, McMenamin (linguistics, California State U.-Fresno) introduces language, linguistics, and linguistic variation to attorneys and other nonlinguists who need to understand what linguist-witnesses do; introduces the discipline of forens more...

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Providing many experiments suitable for non-science majors and attainable for departments with small budgets, the experiments cover all the typical trace evidence tests including body fluid, soil, glass, fibre, ink and hair. The book also includes experiments for impression evidence. more...

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Gates of Injustice is a compelling expose of the American prison system: how more than 2 million Americans came to be incarcerated ... what it's like on the inside ... and how a giant "prison-industrial complex" pushes incarceration over other solutions. Veteran journalist Alan Elsner tells the terrifying truth about prison brutality and rape, gangs, drugs, corruption and abuse, "supermax" prisons and death row. You'll learn how the prison crisis touches you, and all Americans. Most importantly, Elsner charts a path for reform ... one that could make America not just more humane, but safer. more...

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The first major study of the history of British 'bad girls', this book uses a wide range of professional, popular and personal texts to explore the experiences of girls in the twentieth century juvenile justice system. It examines the processes leading to their definition as variously delinquent, defective or neglected and analyses the different possibilities for public and private reform made available to them. It shows how 'bad girls', though few in number, posed a recurring challenge to established generational and gender orders, and questions the popular contemporary belief that 'rising' delinquency among girls has been the product of late-twentieth century social changes. more...

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Juvenile arrest rates in the United States have declined over the past decade, yet the percentage of girls in trouble with the law increased. Girls now enter the juvenile legal system for violent offenses in addition to minor violations for which previous generations of young women have always been detained. In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated. Across the country, she finds that an overwhelming majority of court-involved young women are from ethnic or racial minority groups, and most have experienced some sort of sexual and physical assault. Focusing on the girls’ experiences of early adolescent sexualization, increased social violence, and the inequities of the juvenile court system, Schaffner explores three central questions: How have changing social norms of sexuality and emotional expression influenced the way that society sees adolescent girls’ transgressions? How do young women experience and understand their involvement in the juvenile legal system? What role do gender and race play in the increasing reliance on arrests to solve social problems?. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile legal system, Schaffner makes a compelling argument that current policies do not go far enough to empower disadvantaged girls so that they can overcome the social limitations and gender, sexual, and racial/ethnic discrimination that continue to plague young women growing up in contemporary United States. more...

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