Introduction to Statistics in Criminal Justice and Criminology: A Practical Approach to Calculating, Using, and Interpreting Data provides students with a clear, structured path to the quantitative tools that shape empirical inquiry in the field.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of sociological thought in China since the late Qing dynasty, addressing the fundamental question of how to understand Chinese society and experience.
This book explores how religious traditions can play a decisive role in addressing the complexity of the current environmental crisis by taking the ecological recommendations promoted by religious and political actors to the ground of individual and community experiences.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution but also in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society.
First published in 1974, Students and Books examines key questions about British university undergraduate reading habits of the time: What guidance on reading did undergraduates receive from their lecturers?
This book explores how religious traditions can play a decisive role in addressing the complexity of the current environmental crisis by taking the ecological recommendations promoted by religious and political actors to the ground of individual and community experiences.
Formulating Research Problems addresses one of the most critical yet often overlooked aspects of research: how to define and frame the problem at the heart of a study.
This book captures the complex relationships between rurality and populism with a focus on the processes of alienation and on the contemporary search for authenticity.
This book captures the complex relationships between rurality and populism with a focus on the processes of alienation and on the contemporary search for authenticity.
Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts - place, space, territory, networks, and scale - enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.
Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Eleventh Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency.
Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts - place, space, territory, networks, and scale - enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and development of sociological thought in China since the late Qing dynasty, addressing the fundamental question of how to understand Chinese society and experience.
First published in 1974, Students and Books examines key questions about British university undergraduate reading habits of the time: What guidance on reading did undergraduates receive from their lecturers?
Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Eleventh Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency.
Formulating Research Problems addresses one of the most critical yet often overlooked aspects of research: how to define and frame the problem at the heart of a study.
Understanding Parental Alienation offers a clear, accessible starting point for anyone trying to make sense of parental alienation (PA): what it is, how it develops, and why it causes such profound harm.
This new edition of Black Feminist Sociology offers revised and updated chapters on the history, contours, and prospects of the Black feminist tradition in sociology.
This groundbreaking book makes the often-undiscussed aspects of fieldwork accessible to novice researchers by drawing on the authentic experiences of young field researchers from diverse backgrounds.
This book delves into the experiences of South Asia's diaspora-originating from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Afghanistan-which constitutes one of the world's largest and most globally dispersed communities.
This volume celebrates identity theory as a leading framework that organizes research on identities across a wide swath of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, political science, criminology, social work, and education.
This book aims to reveal how the human mind's search for order in the face of uncertainty and complexity leads to belief systems which have no scientific basis, while exploring the harms of such beliefs at individual and societal levels.
This book aims to reveal how the human mind's search for order in the face of uncertainty and complexity leads to belief systems which have no scientific basis, while exploring the harms of such beliefs at individual and societal levels.
Presents groundbreaking approaches for bridging engineering expertise and human-centered communication in infrastructure systems Infrastructure systems sustain daily life yet are often overlooked until they fail, at which point communication gaps can hinder effective responses and solutions.
Presents groundbreaking approaches for bridging engineering expertise and human-centered communication in infrastructure systems Infrastructure systems sustain daily life yet are often overlooked until they fail, at which point communication gaps can hinder effective responses and solutions.
Understanding Parental Alienation offers a clear, accessible starting point for anyone trying to make sense of parental alienation (PA): what it is, how it develops, and why it causes such profound harm.
This book highlights empirical evidence of how African continent is confronting extreme climate events, focusing on understanding and mitigating climate-induced Loss and Damage.
African Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age.
This volume celebrates identity theory as a leading framework that organizes research on identities across a wide swath of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, political science, criminology, social work, and education.
This groundbreaking book makes the often-undiscussed aspects of fieldwork accessible to novice researchers by drawing on the authentic experiences of young field researchers from diverse backgrounds.
This new edition of Black Feminist Sociology offers revised and updated chapters on the history, contours, and prospects of the Black feminist tradition in sociology.
