Faculty Books
Recently Published Books by Our Faculty
Delinquency in an International Perspective
Criminal Justice Press, Monsey, NY, USA
Kugler Publications, The Hague/The Netherlands
Josine Junger-Tas, Ineke Haen Marshall and Denis Ribeaud
This book has taken a long time to be realized. It is based on self-report delinquency data from 11 countries, of which ten are European and one is an American state. The idea of undertaking a comparative self-report delinquency study was bron during an international NATO Advanced Research workshop that took place in the Netherlands in 1988. It was organized by Malcolm W. Klein and the Dutch Ministry of Justics's Research and Documentation Center (Klein, 1989). Its objective was to discuss problems in measuring self-reported crime and delinquency and examining the possibility of conducting comparative research.
Minorities, Migrants, and Crime: Diversity and Similarity Across Equope and the United States
Sage Publications Inc.
Ineke Haen Marshall
What relationship exists between minority status and crime? Is this relationship generalizable across different societies? Many western nations are becoming concerned with the problem of crime in general and, in particular, the role of minority groups, be they political refugees, immigrant workers, or native ethnic and racial minorities. A unique cross-cultural exploration.
Between Prohibition and Legalization: The Dutch Experiment in Drug Policy
Kugler Publications, Amsterdam/New York
Ed. Leuw and I. Haen Marshall
After a period in which a broad consensus on the issue seemed evident in Dutch society, drug problems and drug policy have again become more prominent on the political agenda and in the public consciounsess. Debates and reports on the issue abound in the Dutch parliament, the mass media and in international exchanges within the European Community.
The Construction of Democracy
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Jorge I. Dominguez and Anthony Jones
How should democracies balance the hopes and constraints of their societies with the architecture of their constitutions and institutions to secure freedom, promote citizenship, and foster prosperity? In The Construction of Democracy, leading scholars from seven different countries-and key decision makers from eight-come together to analyze the dimensions of democractic design and draw not only practical but feasible recommendations.
Power and Security in Northeast Asia
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Byung-Kook Kim and Anthony Jones
This book began with a conference on "Peace, Development, and Regionalization in East Asia" cosponsored by the East Asia Institute in Seoul and the Gorbachev Foundation of North America in Boston. Since then, the project has evolved and gone through substantial revisions and additions. We would like to thank the sponsors of the conference for their support of the project; the chairman of the East Asia Institute, Lee Hong-Koo, and the chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America, George J. Matthews, for their personal interest and inspiration; and the scholars and practitioners who have enriched the project with their comments and suggestions. We also very much appreciate Kim Ha-jeong and Park So-yeong at the East Asia Institute, who assisted us with preparations for the conference and the book.
Serial Killers and Sadistic Murders
Prometheus Books
Jack Levin
After twenty-five years of investigating, analyzing, and interviewing serial killers, their family members, neighbors, and even surviving victims, Jack Levin has become one of the world's most respected experts on the motivations and modus operandi of dangerous criminals. In this gripping book, he taps his wealth of experience with the criminal mind to offer lessons for law enforcement and the general public about how serial killers think, as well as the conditions under which hideous murders typically occur. These lessons, he hopes, will lead to more effective ways to thwart such crimes in the future.
The Sacrifice
Purdue University Press
Lynda Birke, Arnold Arluke, and Mike Michael
The Sacrifice provides a uniquely detailed account of the sociological context of animal experimentation. Drawing on historical material, media reports and professional debates, interviews with scientists and animal technicians, and ethnographic data from laboratory settings, the authors provide a rich analysis of the complex and changing role of the laboratory animal in the political and scientific culture of the US and UK.
From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials
Vallentine Mitchell
Debra Kaufman, Gerald Herman, James Ross, David Phillips
In reaction to the Irving v. Penguin/Lipstadt (winter, 2000) trial, the editors of this volume sought to provide a text that moves away from the Holocaust itself to ask broader questions about the stubborn persistence of anti-Semitic invective and historical distortion despite legal verdicts to the contrary, historical correctives and media reportage. In these essays the authors explore the assumptions and methods of their disciplines that limit or enhance the ability of any single approach (historical, legal, or journalistic) to challenge the racism and/or anti-Semitism which underlie the persistence of such forgeries as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the fallacies of Holocaust denial. Teachers of college and graduate courses on the Holocaust are increasingly faced with proliferating print and web based assertions and re-assertions of premises whose veracity explore through three trial contexts (Protocols of Zion, Eichmann/Nuremberg, and Holocaust Denial) the way in which claims related to the fate of Jews in the Twentieth Century have been made, struggled over, and fixed in the law, in historical canon and in genocide against the Jewish people did happen. This volume marks the ways in which we present and re-present the historical facts, the journalism, and the legal proofs that support the truth of those assertions in the face of invective and denial.
The Housing Divide
New York University Press
by Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman
The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next. Through a careful reading of such factors as home ownership, housing quality, and neighborhood rates of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage pregnancy, and educational achievement, Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman provide a detailed portrait of neighborhood life and socio-economic status for the immigrants of New York.
Why We Hate
Prometheus Books
by Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic
In this in-depth look at the most troubling aspect of human nature, Jack Levin, a nationally recognized criminologist, and Gordana Rabrenovic, a respected sociologist, seek to explain why hate exists and offer practical methods for creating a more peaceable society.
Are we born with the tendency to hate, or is it something we learn? Does educating people necessarily reduce hate? Looking at biological, psychological, and cultural factors, Drs. Levin and Rabrenovic investigate the evidence for hate as an inborn trait; as learned behavior; and as a reaction to envy, frustration, or the need for belonging, control, and authority.
Growing The Game
The Globalization of Major League Baseball
Yale University Press
by Alan M. Klein
Growing the Game shows how baseball has been changing in recent years and offers the first detailed look at a sport in the process of globalizing. Alan Klein shows the international activities of individual teams, as well as the overall strategies of the Commissioner's Office, and examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage.
Boston's Back Bay
The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
Northeastern University Press
by William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton
Opening with a look at the geological history of the Back Bay and its life as a tidal marsh, this fascinating narrative examines the roles of planners, politicians, engineers, and contractors who made it possible to dump millions of tons of sand and gravel into the marsh. Innovative new technologies were needed to excavate, move, and grade the heavy loads, and to construct substantial buildings on very soft ground. Newman and Holton tap into a wide variety of primary sources including rare maps and plans, photography collections, corporate and railroad archives, political documents, deeds, mortgages, and bankruptcy records, all of which underscore the significance of the Back Bay landfill as a central component of Boston's development from a small town to a major metropolis in the nineteenth century.
The Politics of Sexual Harassment
A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany
Cambridge University Press
by Kathrin Zippel
Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross-national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassement in the workplace? Why was the United States on the forefront of policy and legal solutions, and how did this affect politicization of sexual harassment in the European Union and its member states? Exploring the way sexual harassment has become a gloval issue, Kathrin Zippel draws on the theories of comparative feminist policy, gender and welfare state regimes, and social movements to explore the distinct paths that the United States, European Union and its member stats, specifically Germany, have emparked on to address the issue. This comparison provides invaluable insights on the role of transnational movements in combatting sexual harassment, and on future efforts to implement the European Union Directive of 2002.
The Trouble Between Us
An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement
by Winifred Breines
Oxford University Press
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to creat an integrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. In The Trouble Between Use, Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States.