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Leadership accountability - for violence, corruption and environmental harm - is a new aspect of globalization and civil society. This innovative forward-looking analysis explains how 'cumulative lock-in' fuels leadership deceit. The lessons are for those learning to be, or learning to question, leaders

Williams, Mitarbeiter der Universität der Vereinten Nationen in Jordanien, setzt sich intensiv mit der umweltbedingten Neurotoxikologie auseinander. Er geht, anhand von Forschungsberichten, Umweltdaten und -analysen weltweit, den durch Umweltgifte verursachten Regression des Individuums bzw. einer ganzen Population nach. Dazu holt er zwar bisweilen weit aus, vermeidet aber durchgängig, monokausale Schlüsse zu ziehen. Lösungsstrategien sind Teil seiner Erörterung ("Ein neuer ethischer Konsens"). In den 90er-Jahren gab es zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Umweltmedizin, zur Evolution des Gehirns, der Wahrnehmung und des Denkens sowie zu neurobiologischen Aspekten. Zur Neurotoxikologie in Beziehung zu Umweltgiften gibt es gegenwärtig keinen vergleichbaren Titel. Für ein interessiertes, umweltkritisches Laienpublikum. (2)

Over the last twenty-five years, Afrocentric thinkers have made notable contributions to the ongoing task of challenging Eurocentrism. In the course of so doing, however, some measure of over-reach has occurred. In particular, Afrocentrists have coupled their general critiques of Eurocentrism with specific rejections of its putatively constituent elements, one of which is materialism. Among other things, this rejection of materialism has led Afrocentrists to refrain from interrogating capitalism, downplay the structural dimensions of racial oppression and elevate the ontological status of culture to the point where it is posited as the dominant source of pressing problems affecting people of African descent in the US. Such an outlook undermines the potential of Afrocentricity to be a force for radical social change.

Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture. Utilizing the insights of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, contributors demonstrate how the reality of crime is informed by a number of implicit assumptions about the human condition and unstated values about civil society. Charting a provocative and original direction, editors Bruce A. Arrigo and Christopher R. Williams couple theoretically oriented chapters with those centered on application and case study. In doing so, they develop an insightful, sensible, and accessible approach for a philosophical criminology in step with the political and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Revealing the ways in which philosophical conceits inform prevailing conceptions of crime, Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology is required reading for any serious student or scholar concerned with crime and its impact on society and in our lives