E-books: Sociology & Social Policy

Edited by Donna Youngs

Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of…

eBook – 2019-07-29 
Routledge
Contemporary Issues in Social Science

Edited by J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing…

eBook – 2019-02-28 
Routledge
Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives

Edited by Pal Bjorby, Anka Ryall

The articles in this collection indicate the still powerful role of queer theory in questioning the political, social, cultural, institutional hegemony of heterosexuality in culture and society at large as well as in academic research institutions. Written from the perspective of the northern…

eBook – 2019-02-28 
Routledge

By Roger Brownsword

This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety are secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules but by measures of technological…

eBook – 2019-02-18
Routledge
Law, Science and Society

By Terence Chun Tat Shum

This book looks in detail at the journeys to asylum in Asia which are largely neglected in the media and academic analyses, despite Asia becoming the most essential region for asylum, receiving refugees from both within and outside of the continent.　 Treating asylum-seeking journeys as a…

eBook – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Routledge Series on Asian Migration

By Anastasia Tosouni

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform. Such studies have called for a shift back to rehabilitative ideals augmented by innovative strategies…

eBook – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice

By Jürgen Raab

While Erving Goffman’s books are among the most widely read sociological works, covering issues including the presentation of the self, total institutions, interaction order to frame analysis, they are in fact guided by a single theme: the analysis of the form of interaction in social situations…

eBook – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Knowledge, Communication and Society

By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis

Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological…

eBook – 2019-02-13
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Genetics and Society

By Gavin Bowd, Daniel Clayton

Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary – ‘us’ and ‘them’ – terms. It has long been implicated in empire and its anxieties over difference. However, little attention has been paid to its twentieth-century genealogy. This book explores this…

eBook – 2019-02-13
Routledge
Studies in Historical Geography

By Kryštof Kozák, György Tóth, Paul Bauer, Allison Wanger

This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and Central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the present day. Sitting at the intersection of international relations, history, memory studies and various "area"…

eBook – 2019-02-13
Routledge
Memory Studies: Global Constellations

Edited by Mark Bevir, Ryan Phillips

Conforming neither to the hierarchical and bureaucratic organization of the European nation-state nor the anarchical structure of international organizations, the European Union (EU) and its predecessors provide an exemplary site for developing a decentred approach to the study of governance. The…

eBook – 2019-02-13
Routledge
Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union

By Masood Ashraf Raja

Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja asserts, it is this nexus of…

eBook – 2019-02-13
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology