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When crime pays: money and muscle in Indian politics
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With its stew of languages and religions, India often appears inscrutable to outsiders. Indian politics are no exception. In recent decades, a significant percentage of Indian lawmakers have faced serious criminal charges, including murder, kidnapping and rape. South Asia foreig…
By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline.
The wire and America's dark corners: critical essays
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"In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire focused on the dark realities of domestic life. This collection of essays examines The Wire in these terms, covering the unforseen consequences of the War on Drugs, the racial and economic division of A…
"The majority of books on Holocaust literature and film focus on its victims or survivors. The essays in this collection, by established academics as well as newer voices, take the more unusual method of analyzing representations of the Holocaust perpetrators. In doing so, they …
What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, Under a Bad Sign explores the r…
"In this hermeneutic analysis of seven literary texts, Stephanie Barbe Hammer studies the roles of criminal protagonists in the dramas of George Lillo (The London Merchant) and Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers) and in the narratives of Abbe de Prevost (Manon Lescaut), Henry Field…
'Offence Paralleling Behaviour' assists clinicians in using this method for assessing risk and determining treatment needs and progress for their clients. The book presents the empirical evidence for the approach and outlines methods for using it ethically and effectively.
New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour presents an original framework of individualised assessment and treatment methods for clinicians working in the forensic environment.: Provides a framework that helps practitioners to identify…
This title proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies - the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from the trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, the book seeks to theorize this as yet undertheorized field. Taking as a po…
" ... [The] term [Mafia raj] ... refers to to the diffuse sphere of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia ... Through intimate stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, …
" ... [The] term [Mafia raj] ... refers to the diffuse sphere of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia ... Through intimate stories of the lives of powerful and aspiring bosses in India, Pakistan, and…