While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment has growing support in the United States. This book offers an account of anti-death penalty activism in America since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended.
Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their d…
An "incisive and original" history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America's first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy). A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvan…