Sociology & Social Policy

This newly updated second edition of Eglin and Hester’s well respected A Sociology of Crime, evaluates the current state of criminalization globally and asks what sociology’s various perspectives have to say about it. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive stance but greatly widens it..

Informed by a modified version of Goffman's original concept of the total organization, A Sociology of the Total Organization untangles the French Foreign Legion and the ways in which different kinds of social orders interplay there. This book shows how atomistic unity is not limited to greedy organ..

A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life...

Globalisation and neo-liberalism have generated rapid economic growth and technological progress, but they have also laid waste to established communities, cultures and the natural environment. One outcome has been populist politics, playing on fears of change, but this book offers counter-narrative..

Asserts that antitrust laws - on economic, legal, and moral grounds - are bad, and provides evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. The authors look at some cases as well as the Antitrust Act and conclude that they are based on an erroneous interpretation of the history of American ..

Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B...

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life..

Abortion, Religious Freedom, and Catholic Politics..

Abused and Battered..

An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, and the case for each position is put forward, the whole discussion being set in context..

Plastic has become emblematic of economies of abundance and ecological destruction. If the post-war ‘plastics age’ was cleaner and brighter than all that preceded it, this boosterism has now become intertwined with anxiety as the burdens of accumulating plastic wastes register in environments and bo..

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses this population to make a signal contribution to human evolut..