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There is no doubt that globalisation has profound effects on crime, justice and our feelings of security, identity and belonging. Many of these affect both the making of laws and the breaking of laws. It has been argued however that criminology has been too provincial, focusing as it often does on national laws and issues, whilst others have said that globalisation is the stuff of international relations, global finance and trade, not of criminology. This book disputes this by asserting that criminology has a firm place in this arena and globalisation offers the discipline a challenge that.

This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorizing without a concern for social totalities. This book is designed to place criminological theory at the cutting edge of contemporary debates. Wayne Morrison reviews the history and present state of criminology and identifies a range of social problems and large scale social processes which must be addressed if the subject is to attain intellectual commitment. This book marks a new development in criminological texts and will serve a valuable function not only for students and academics but for all those interested in the project of understanding crime in contemporary conditions

"Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology brings together leading scholars to commemorate the illustrious career and enduring contributions of Professor James F. Short, Jr., to the social sciences. Although Professor Short is best known as a gang scholar, he was a bridging figure who advanced the study of human behavior across multiple domains. Individual chapters document Professor Short's intellectual development and highlight the significance of his theoretical and empirical work in a range of specialty areas, including suicide and homicide, criminological theory, field and self-report survey research methodologies, white-collar crime, hazards and risks, and levels of explanation, microsocial group processes, and the etiology of gang violence and delinquency. A special feature of this book is the collection of brief personal reflection essays appearing after the main chapters. Authored by Professor Short's students, colleagues, collaborators, and friends, these essays provide powerful testimonials of the influence of his intellectual legacy as well as his generous spirit and commitment to mentorship. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology and sociology, and all those interested in the important contributions of Professor James F. Short, Jr., to these subject areas"--

Studying Police Integrity in South Africa -- The Origin and Functions of the Police in South Africa: From Colonialism to Democracy -- Transition to a Police Service: From Enforcer to Protector -- South African Policing through Normative and Legal Boundaries -- Policing the Police: Internal Control of Police Misconduct -- Curtailing the Code of Silence -- Apartheid Aftershock: Race, Police, and Police Integrity -- Gender (In)Equality within the SAPS -- Police Integrity across Rank and File -- Police Integrity in the South African Context.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface to the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: new horizons, ongoing and emerging issues and relationships in green criminology -- PART I: History, theory and methods -- 1. The growth of a field: a short history of a 'green' criminology -- 2. The ordinary acts that contribute to ecocide: a criminological analysis -- 3. Wildlife crime: a situational crime prevention perspective -- 4. Expanding treadmill of production analysis within green criminology by integrating metabolic rift and ecological unequal exchange theories -- 5. The visual dimensions of green criminology -- 6. Innovative approaches to researching environmental crime -- 7. Environmental refugees as environmental victims -- 8. How criminologists can help victims of green crimes through scholarship and activism -- PART II: International and transnational issues for a green criminology -- 9. Climate crimes: the case of ExxonMobil -- 10. Global environmental divides and dislocations: climate apartheid, atmospheric injustice and the blighting of the planet -- 11. Food crime and green criminology -- 12. Monopolising seeds, monopolising society: a guide to contemporary criminological research on biopiracy -- 13. The War on Drugs and its invisible collateral damage: environmental harm and climate change -- 14. 'Greening' injustice: penal reform, carceral expansion and greenwashing -- PART III: Region-specific problems: some case studies -- 15. The Amazon Rainforest: a green criminological perspective -- 16. Green issues in South-Eastern Europe -- 17. The Flint water crisis: a case study of state-sponsored environmental (in) justice.

Donor insemination or DI is the oldest and most widely practised form of assisted conception but, until relatively recently, it had been assessed largely from a medical perspective. This 1998 book brings together an international group of social scientists to discuss the social, cultural, political and practical dimensions to DI, relating it to the wider debates about fertility treatment and the place of assisted conception in contemporary society. The contributors consider the experience of DI from the viewpoint of all the various parties involved, including the recipients of the treatment, the sperm providers, the clinicians, the people conceived and policy-makers working in the area. The assumptions informing the practices around DI and the reactions to it are critically examined, with reference to developments worldwide, cross-national issues, the language of DI, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and identity

AbstractIncreased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at the turn of the millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and a novel societal research policy for the responsible development of nanotechnology. Innovative policy discourses at the time suggested that such work could engage a variety of publics, stakeholders, and researchers to enhance the capacity of research systems to adapt and be responsive to societal values and concerns. This article reviews one of two federally funded social science research centers—the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University(CNS-ASU)—to assess the merits of this form of engaged social science research in which social science contributes not only to traditional knowledge production but also to the capacity of natural science and engineering researchers and research communities for greater reflexivity and responsiveness, ultimately producing more socially robust research systems.