BOOKS

Exploring the impact of new technologies on crime and its prevention, and on the criminal justice system, the authors address five critical issues: How will new technological innovations    More >

Drawing inspiration from the work of noted criminologist Ken Pease, the authors explore the role that imagination—matched with scientific rigor—can play in developing crime    More >

How does politics shape US government policies to control crime? How does the criminal justice system affect the activities of political actors? This lively text provides an overview of    More >

Which people are missing out on humanitarian aid because no journalists report on them, no donors are interested in them, no agencies have assessed their needs, or because their governments    More >

Transnational Civil Society provides an accessible introduction to the history, nature, and achievements of influential transnational civil society networks and movements. The authors    More >

More Pathways Out of Poverty, the follow-up to 2002's Pathways Out of Poverty and the companion book to the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit, explores new and revolutionary practices in    More >

The Poor Always Pay Back demystifies Grameen II, an improved and more flexible version of the classical Grameen model that has been used to financially empower the poorest families in more    More >

Do humanitarian NGOs function as autonomous—and even influential—nonstate actors with their own value-driven agendas? Or do they serve merely as the paid agents of national    More >

Focusing on cases of international intervention in Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia, the authors of Transacting Transition explore how the mission and vision of "democracy promotion"    More >

A World Turned Upside Down looks at children's experiences during war from a psychological and social ecological perspective, offering thoughtful observations and dispelling myths about    More >