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Capital punishment has for many years now been the subject of controversy and moral debate. With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights there has been a movement to abolish this form of punishment or in the least, uphold the minimum international law standards aimed at protecting the rights of those facing capital punishment. This book identifies Asia as being particularly unaffected by these international pressures

Gennifer Furst provides the first comprehensive look at prison-based animal programs, an innovative approach to rehabilitation that draws on the benefits of human-animal interactions. Analyzing a national survey of these programs and also presenting in-depth case studies, Furst pinpoints the mechanisms that transform prisoners' lives and reduce the chances of recidivism. The result is a thought-provoking exploration of a correctional programming idea that promises to benefit inmates, animals, and communities alike

When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its tenth anniversary year, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more relevant than ever. The Jena Six, Duke Lacrosse Team, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, James Byrd, and all of those victimized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are just a few of the racially fueled cases that have made headlines in the past decade.Russell-Brown continues to ask, why do Black and White Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is White fear of Black crime justified? Do African Americans really protect their own? Should they? And why are we still talking about O.J.? Russell-Brown surveys the landscape of American crime and identifies some of the country's most significant racial pathologies. In this new edition, each chapter is updated and revised, and two new chapters have been added. Enriched with twenty-five new cases, the explosive and troublesome chapter on "Racial Hoaxes" demonstrates that "playing the race card" is still a popular ploy.The Color of Crime is a lucid and forceful volume that calls for continued vigilance on the part of journalists, scholars, and policymakers alike. Through her innovative analysis of cases, ideological and media trends, issues, and practices that resonate below the public radar even in the new century, Russell-Brown explores the tacit and subtle ways that deviance is systematically linked to people of color. Her findings are impossible to ignore

CHAPTER 9 -- The Blue Gardenia Murder 1961KILLINGS OVER NOTHING; CHAPTER 10 -- Henry Solomon's Demise 1844; CHAPTER 11 -- A Bad Night at the Jolly Fisherman 1866; CHAPTER 12 -- The Violence of William Wilton 1887; CHAPTER 13 -- A War Veteran Loses It 1943; CHILD VICTIMS; CHAPTER 14 -- Frenzy in William Street 1826; CHAPTER 15 -- The Epileptic Delivery Man 1891; Bibliography; Index -- Index of Persons; Index of Places (excluding buildings and structures, for which see General Index); General Index

Contents -- Chapter 1. The Nature of the Study / Carol H. Weiss -- Part I. Interview / Carol H. Weiss -- Chapter 2. Processes of Reporting -- Chapter 3. How Journalists and Social Scientists View the Reporting of Social Science -- Chapter 4. A Search for Factors That Make a Story Good -- Chapter 5. Social Science Not Covered by the Media: Reporting of AAAS Meetings -- Chapter 6. Social Science Not Covered: Incoming Media Communications -- Chapter 7. The General Pattern of Social Science Reporting -- Chapter 8. In Which We Conclude, Seek to Improve, and Take Stock

Mode of access: Internet. ; Prepared by: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Office of Basic Research.

Global Gangs features essays that investigate gangs spanning across nations, from Brazil to Indonesia, China to Kenya, and from El Salvador to Russia. Volume editors Jennifer M. Hazen and Dennis Rodgers bring together contributors who examine gangs from a comparative perspective, discussing such topics as the role the apartheid regime in South Africa played in the emergence of gangs, the politics behind child vigilante squads in India, the relationship between immigration and gangs in France and the United States, and the complex stigmatization of youths in Mexico caused by the arbitrary deployment of the word "gang."--Back cover

Work on soc perception & norm formation is noted & the healthy interdisciplinary aspect of exp'tion in soc psychol is stressed. The `dream' of an integration of interdisciplinary efforts is found to be embodied most prominently today in the phrase `behavioral sci's.' Current res & writing indicate that there is a greater emphasis on individual behavior, somewhat to the neglect of comparable emphasis & data on the org'al patterns among individuals, their instit's, value or norm systems, & technology. There are cases in which culture is defined in strictly individual terms & is seen only within the confines of specific interpersonal relations. Carried to its extreme, 'behavioral sci' would lead to the absorption of the soc sci's by an all-embracing sci of individual behavior. The contributions soc psychol can make most effectively are discussed. They include: the study of the meaning of the S-cul setting to the reacting individual, & the study of the processes of perceiving, judging, learning etc, of the individual within his S-cul setting. The conception of the soc disciplines working at their own level of analysis, & psychol working at the level concerned with individual experience & behavior will make it possible to check results across the various disciplines, but reductionist trends must be curbed. M. Maxfield.