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Sex Crimes: Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives
By Rich Furman, Alissa Ackerman. 2015
Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border…
and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence, prosecution, and treatment of sexual crimes across different countries and cultures.This book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspective. Introducing an array of tools for reducing the prevalence and consequences of sex crimes, this volume brings together leading scholars in criminology, criminal justice, social work, and law to discuss topics ranging from sex trafficking and sex tourism to pornography, cyberstalking, and sexual abuse in the military and the Catholic church. Case studies track the reporting of these crimes, the methods used to interview victims and perpetrators, and the policies enacted to punish those involved.Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities
By Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Karen Staller. 2010
St. Mary County is a small rural midwestern enclave with a unique approach to handling accusations of child sexual abuse.…
Hoping to spare children the trauma of lengthy court appearances and probing interrogations, St. Mary's professionals strive to obtain confessions from accused sex offenders rather than ask the victim to bear the burden of proof. Treating this county as a critical case study, scholars from a variety of fields come together to analyze this community's unique approach. They address relevant case law, innovative treatments for both victim and offender, and the social history of child sexual abuse as a national policy concern. They cover legal burdens and scientific methods, prosecutors and protocol, the interrogation of victims and suspects, the use of expert witnesses, defense strategies, and practice wisdom in videotaping. In addition, they examine the unfolding drama of a single legal case from incidence to conviction.The result is a fascinating dialogue that confronts the unique complexities of child sexual abuse for readers on all sides of the issue. Introducing a model that makes enormous headway in the pursuit of justice, fairness, and trauma treatment, this interdisciplinary text is an indispensible tool for all communities seeking redress.Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination
By Michael Flynn, Fabiola Fernandez Salek. 2012
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most…
cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films appear for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions.This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda
By Philipp Schulz. 2021
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs…
more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are remarkably underexplored, and male survivors’ experiences remain particularly overlooked. This reality is poignant in northern Uganda, where sexual violence against men during the early stages of the conflict was geographically widespread, yet now accounts of those incidents are not just silenced and neglected locally but also widely absent from analyses of the war. Based on rare empirical data, this book seeks to remedy this marginalization and to illuminate the seldom-heard voices of male sexual violence survivors in northern Uganda, bringing to light their experiences of gendered harms, agency, and justice.Emerging Powers, Development Cooperation and South-South Relations (International Political Economy Series)
By Chithra Purushothaman. 2021
This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation,…
their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations. With their growing economic and political clout, emerging powers are using economic instruments like foreign aid to ensure their position in the international system that is going through power shifts. By comparing three major emerging economies of the Global South- Brazil, India and China- this book would explore how emerging powers are changing the international aid architecture that is created and dominated by the traditional donors.Crimen autorizado
By Samuel Schmidt. 2020
En octubre de 2020 fue detenido en Estados Unidos el exsecretario de la Defensa de Enrique Peña Nieto acusado de…
narcotráfico y lavado de dinero. Eso es crimen autorizado. En julio de 2020 una juez federal mexicana liberó a un narcotraficante a cambio de 2 millones de dólares. Eso es crimen autorizado. En diciembre de 2019 fue detenido en Estados Unidos el Secretario de Seguridad Pública de Felipe Calderón acusado de colaborar con el Cartel de Sinaloa. Eso es crimen autorizado. En abril de 2019 un candidato presidencial de Guatemala fue apresado en Estados Unidos acusado de solicitar al cártel de Sinaloa fondos para la campaña. Eso es crimen autorizado. En Paraguay los cárteles de la droga penetran los niveles más altos de la policía y logran un narcopresidente. En ese mismo país, la DEA protegía narcotraficantes para hacerlos sus informantes. Eso es crimen autorizado. En Colombia las narcoaportaciones a la campaña presidencial de Ernesto Samper en 1994 lo imposibilitaron para hablar de legalizar la marihuana. Eso es crimen autorizado. La categoría crimen autorizado es un concepto jurídico que alude a la asociación entre criminales y el Estado, configurando una condición estructural que dificulta combatir al crimen y a la corrupción. Esto afecta la gobernabilidad, la legitimidad, arruina el tejido político y expande los beneficios del crimen, causando daños graves a la salud social. En este libro, Samuel Schmidt desarrolla a fondo ese concepto, revelando los impactos sociales, económicos, políticos e ideológicos de la profunda asociación entre los criminales y los distintos componentes del Estado. Además, fiel a su estilo, nos sugiere algunos cursos de acción para librar a la sociedad de esta relación perversa entre crimen y política.El cártel chilango: Origen, poder y saña de la Unión Tepito
By Antonio Nieto. 2020
En el corazón de la capital de México -la ciudad que alguna vez estuvo "prohibida" para los capos del narco-…
nació La Unión Tepito, el primer y único cártel chilango. No es una pandilla, no es una célula de un grupo mayor ni tampoco una banda doméstica, sino un auténtico cártel que logró apoderarse del centro del país, justo en las narices de las más altas autoridades. ¿Cómo lo hizo? Ejerciendo una violencia como nunca se había visto, con el liderazgo de un hombre del que poco o nada se sabía, con una red de lavado poderosísima y la apatía de dos administraciones capitalinas. Ningún trabajo periodístico había escarbado tan profundo en las entrañas de La Unión Tepito, en la personalidad de sus líderes, en las matanzas que ha perpetrado, en sus alianzas y sus impunidades. Con documentos altamente confidenciales, testimonios de víctimas, de ex miembros del cártel y acceso al contenido de teléfonos celulares de sus integrantes, este libro revela el verdadero rostro de La Unión, y el reguero de sangre y dinero sucio que ha dejado a su paso.Lost Childhood: Unmasking the Lives of Street Children in Metropolitan India
By Kapil Dev, Dipendra Nath Das, Sangeetha Esther. 2021
Lost Childhood explores the everyday lives of street children in India. It presents insights on their life on the streets to…
provide a comprehensive understanding of why they are driven to extreme means of livelihoods. This volume, · Inquiries into the histories of street children, and discusses their socio-economic and socio-demographic characteristics to provide a sense of their living conditions; · Sheds light on the social injustice experienced by these children, their health and hygiene, and also looks at the insecurities faced by the children in their interactions with the society; · Uses detailed field research data to highlight issues that affect the lives of street children such as education, gender discrimination, and their social networks; · Suggests a way forward that would not only benefit street children but will also be of use to the community in understanding their lives, problems, and help explore this issue in further detail. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of human geography, development studies, child development, urban poverty, and social justice. It will also be of interest to policymakers, social workers, and field workers who work with street children.Family Violence and Criminal Justice: A Life-Course Approach
By Brian P. Payne, Randy R. Gainey. 2015
The historical context of family violence is explored as well as the various forms of violence their prevalence…
in specific stages of life and responses to it made by the criminal justice system and other agencies The linkage among child abuse partner violence and elder abuse is scrutinized and the usefulness of the life-course approach is couched in terms of its potential effect on policy implications research methods that recognize the importance of life stages trajectories and transitions and crime causation theories that can be enhanced by itHow the Other Half Lives (The Bedford Series in History and Culture #110)
By Jacob A Riis. 2010
Jacob Riis's famed 1890 photo-text addressed the problems of tenement housing, immigration, and urban life and work at the beginning…
of the Progressive era. David Leviatin edited this complete edition of How the Other Half Lives to be as faithful to Riis's original text and photography as possible. Uncropped prints of Riis's original photographs replace the faded halftones and drawings from photographs that were included in the 1890 edition. Related documents added to the second edition include a stenographic report of one of Riis's lantern-slide lectures that demonstrates Riis's melodramatic techniques and the reaction of his audience, and five drawings that reveal the subtle but important ways Riis's photographs were edited when they were reinterpreted as illustrations in the 1890 edition. The book's provocative introduction now addresses Riis's ethnic and racial stereotyping and includes a map of New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s. A new list of illustrations and expanded chronology, questions for consideration, and selected bibliography provide additional support.Can We Feed The Future Before The Well Runs Dry?
By David Farrell PhD D.Rur.Sci.. 2015
Mankind is at a crossroads. We need to increase food production by 70% by 2050 in the face of climate…
change, increased water and fertiliser demand, declining arable land area, environmental degradation and an affluent and rapidly-growing population with inequality rising quickly. But what about the one billion now living in poverty; many with insufficient money to buy food and go to bed hungry every night yet we waste sufficient food that would feed these and millions more. But are we as individuals prepared to put our shoulder to the wheel and give the poor the opportunity to improve their lot. Or will we continue on the well-worn pathway in an increasingly selfish consumer society rapidly using up our diminishing resources?Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
By Meg Jay. 2017
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #232323} Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Meg…
Jay takes us into the world of the supernormal: those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence, nearly 75% of us experience adversity by the age of 20. But these experiences are often kept secret, as are our courageous battles to overcome them.Drawing on nearly two decades of work with clients and students, Jay tells the tale of ordinary people made extraordinary by these all-too-common experiences, everyday superheroes who have made a life out of dodging bullets and leaping over obstacles, even as they hide in plain sight as doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, parents, activists, teachers, students and readers. She gives a voice to the supernormals among us as they reveal not only "How do they do it?" but also "How does it feel?"These powerful stories, and those of public figures from Andre Agassi to Jay Z, will show supernormals they are not alone but are, in fact, in good company.Marvelously researched and compassionately written, this exceptional book narrates the continuing saga that is resilience as it challenges us to consider whether -- and how -- the good wins out in the end.They are the drugs that make millionaires, and cause careers to crash. They lurk at the cross-section of science and…
scandal, and the list of stars who've been laid high and low by them grows every day. In Steroid Nation, Shaun Assael traces the history of America's steroid-mania, and demonstrates why it is still such a stubborn, enduring phenomenon. Beginning his epic story in 1981 with Dan Duchaine, the godfather of America's steroid movement, Assael follows the drug as it journeys from the Venice Beach gyms christened by Arnold Schwarzenegger to NFL locker rooms to the world of MLB, which found itself paralyzed in the 2000s by a parade of perp walks and hand-wringing headlines. From Barry Bonds to Marion Jones, Lance Armstrong to A-Rod, Steroid Nation tells the story of wildly ambitious athletes who felt they couldn't compete without a chemical edge. Part detective story, part medical investigation, and part sociological examination, Steroid Nation is a groundbreaking work on the most compelling story in the sports world today.This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence…
The most significant factor accounting for the persistence of intense political violence in Uganda is the severe crisis of legitimacy of the state its institutions political incumbents and their challengers This crisis of legitimacy which is shaped by both internal and external forces past and present accounts for the remarkable continuity in the history of political violence since the construction of the statePerspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
By Shannon Tushingham, Elizabeth Bollwerk. 2016
This volume presents the most recent archaeological historical and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking…
and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America By broadening research questions utilizing new analytical methods and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipesThis book looks at human capital development and provides an explanation for why cognitive development varies among ethnic groups. The…
book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine inter-generational ethnic poverty. It puts forth an argument that the ethnic poverty gap can be reduced, and to do so we need a broader view of human capital which considers the match between the nature of the economy and the specific capabilities needed. The book focuses on the interrelationship between developmental psychology and socio-economic status and argues that the most important relationship in a knowledge economy is actually the one between a parent and a child. The book begins by looking at cultures and assimilation and investigates the link between education, culture and socio-economic status. It also attempts to answer the question of what the link between culture, parents and children’s ability is and why ethnic groups vary in their nurturing. It delves into how parenting and cognitive development are interrelated. This thought-provoking book concludes with an emphasis on nurture and how it may alleviate ethnic poverty and shape social policies. The book provides a strong thesis to counter explanations based on racial and genetic superiority.Woman Abuse in Rural Places (Routledge Studies in Rural Criminology)
By Walter S. DeKeseredy. 2021
This book chronicles key contemporary developments in the social scientific study of various types of male-to-female abuse in rural places…
and suggests new directions in research, theory, and policy. The main objective of this book is not to simply provide a dry recitation of the extant literature on the abuse of rural women in private places. To be sure, this material is covered, but rural women’s experiences of crimes of the powerful like genocidal rape and corporate violence against female employees are also examined. Written by a celebrated expert on the subject, this book considers woman abuse in a broad context, covering forms of violence such as physical and sexual assault, coercive control genocidal rape, abortion bans, forced pregnancy, and corporate forms of violence. It offers a broad research agenda, that examines the multidimensional nature of violence against rural women. Drawing on decades of work in the shelter movement, with activist organizations, and doing government research, DeKeseredy punctuates the book with stories and voices of perpetrators and survivors of abuse. Additionally, what makes this book unique is that it focuses on the plight of rural women around the world and it introduces a modified version of Liz Kelly’s original continuum of sexual violence. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, women’s studies, cultural studies, policing, geography and all those interested in learning about the abuse women face in rural areas. Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 26 books, over 100 refereed journal articles, and 90 scholarly book chapters on issues such as woman abuse, rural criminology, and criminological theory.Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence (Victims, Culture and Society)
By Elizabeth A. Cook. 2020
Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal…
and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and punishment. The problem of fatal violence represents one end of a long continuum of violence that marks society, the effects of which endure in families and friends connected through ties of kinship, identity and social bonds. The aftermath of fatal violence can therefore be an intensely personal encounter which confronts families with disorder and uncertainty. Nevertheless, bereaved families are often found at the forefront of efforts to expose injustice, rouse public consciousness, and drive forward social change that seeks to prevent violence from happening again. This book draws upon ethnographic research with those bereaved by gun violence who became involved in family activism in the context of fatal violence: namely, the attempts by bereaved families to manage their experiences of violent death through public expressions of grief and become proxies for wider debates on social injustice. This is an ever more pressing issue in a landscape which increasingly sees the delegation of responsibility to families and communities that are left to deal with the aftermath of violence. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and all those interested in learning more about the after-effects of fatal violence.This book provides clinicians and students with insights on the use of psychodynamic therapy to treat drug abuse and addiction,…
combining theory with clinical case material. The perspectives of analysts such as Abraham, Rado, Zimmel, Tibout, Wurmser, Khanzian, Krystal and McDougall are reviewed alongside original and more recent conceptualizations of drug addiction and recovery based on Kleinian, Winnicottian and Kohutian ideas. The case material deals with clinical phenomena that characterize working with this complex population, such as intense projective identification, countertransference difficulties and relapses. The theoretical analysis covers a range of concepts, such as John Steiner's psychic shelters and Betty Joseph's near-death-addiction, which are yet to be fully explored in the context of addiction. Prevalent topics in the addiction field, such as the reward system, the cycle of change and the 12-step program, are also discussed in relation to psychodynamic theory and practice. Written by an experienced therapist, Psychodynamic Approaches for Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction is useful reading for anyone looking to understand how psychodynamic thought is applicable in the treatment of drug abuse and addiction. It may also be of some relevance to those working on treating alcohol use disorders and behavioral addictions.Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Mark Vareschi. 2018
A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital ageEverywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and mediation…
in the publication and circulation of eighteenth-century British literature—before the Romantic creation of the “author”—and what this means for literary criticism. Anonymous authorship was typical of the time, yet literary scholars and historians have been generally unable to account for it as anything more than a footnote or curiosity. Mark Vareschi shows the entangled relationship between mediation and anonymity, revealing the nonhuman agency of the printed text. Drawing richly on quantitative analysis and robust archival work, Vareschi brings together philosophy, literary theory, and media theory in a trenchant analysis, uncovering a history of textual engagement and interpretation that does not hinge on the known authorial subject.In discussing anonymous poetry, drama, and the novel along with anonymously published writers such as Daniel Defoe, Frances Burney, and Walter Scott, he unveils a theory of mediation that renews broader questions about agency and intention. Vareschi argues that textual intentionality is a property of nonhuman, material media rather than human subjects alone, allowing the anonymous literature of the eighteenth century to speak to contemporary questions of meaning in the philosophy of language. Vareschi closes by exploring dubious claims about the death of anonymity and the reexplosion of anonymity with the coming of the digital. Ultimately, Everywhere and Nowhere reveals the long history of print anonymity so central to the risks and benefits of the digital culture.