Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. In Terrorism as Crime Mark S. Hamm presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods. Whether in Oklahoma City or London, Terrorism as Crime demonstrates that crimi ...
Die Lesebucher der Sozialen Demokratie bieten die Moglichkeit, sich den Themenfeldern selbstandig anzunahern. Sie sind klar in der Sprache, fundiert in der Analyse und bieten Zugange aus Theorie und Praxis. In knapper und verstandlicher Form finden Sie hier eine solide Einfuhrung zu den gro?en Linien und Kontroversen der einzelnen Seminarthemen. Die Lesebucher eignen sich nicht nur zur Vor- und Nachbereitung der Seminare, sondern gerade auch fur ...
Throughout the twentieth century, beauty shops have been places where women could enjoy the company of other women, exchange information, and share secrets. The female equivalent of barbershops, they have been institutions vital to community formation and social change. But while the beauty shop created community, it also reflected the racial segregation that has so profoundly shaped American society. Links between style, race, and identity were ...
Passing for what you are not–whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women–can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it asks us to reconsider our assumptions and forces our most cherished fantasies of identity to self- ...
En los anos sesenta y setenta en Colombia una generacion de jovenes expreso en las universidades ideales y suenos de revolucion. Si bien la memoria social de esta epoca aun esta por investigarse y escribirse, este libro es un primer esfuerzo academico por recopilar y analizar testimonios de estudiantes, docentes y personas que participaron o fueron testigos de las movilizaciones universitarias estudiantiles de aquellos anos. Hoy estas expresione ...
For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as «nature's perfect food,» as «indispensable» and «the most complete food.» These milk «boosters» have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate? Recently, within the newest social movements ...
While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Usi ...
