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Criminology

Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder

Swaan Abram de Swaan

ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...

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General

Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928

Geiger Andrea A. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...

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Anthropology

Criminology

Cruel Attachments The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

Borneman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226233918, ISBN: HB: 9780226233888, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessme...

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Poverty and the Quest for Life Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

Singh Bhrigupati

ISBN: PB: 9780226194547, ISBN: HB: 9780226194400, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 2 tables

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers,...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 43 Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why They Don't

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226208770, ISBN: HB: 9780226208633, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have noticed the common patterns and fewer have attempted to understand or explain them. Yet th...

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Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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