Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kristine levan”
Skip side bar filters

  • Crime, Punishment, and Video Games

    by Kristine Levan, Steven Downing ...
    Moving beyond discussions of potential linkages between violence and video games, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games examines a broad range of issues related to the representation of crime and deviance within video games and the video game subculture. The context of justice is discussed with respect to traditional criminal justice agencies, but also expanded throughout to include issues related to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Prison Violence

    Causes, Consequences and Solutions

    by Kristine Levan ...
    Series series Solving Social Problems
    Drawing on a range of research and media sources to provide an international perspective on the topic of prison violence, this book focuses on the impact of such violence on the individual both while he or she is incarcerated and upon his or her release from prison, as well as on society as a whole. With a special emphasis on comparisons of violence among incarcerated populations in the United ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Surviving Incarceration

    Inside Canadian Prisons

    by Rose Ricciardelli ...
    Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving the safety and lives of incarcerated populations?Considering that many Canadians have served time, are currently incarcerated, or may one day be incarcerated–and will be released back into society ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Crime in Canada

    by Diane Crocker ...
    In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Principles of Criminology

    by Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey, David F. Luckenbill ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This classic has been the most authoritative text in the field since 1924. The thoroughly revised Eleventh Edition continues to provide a sound, sophisticated, sociological treatment of the principal issues in criminology. ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Criminal (In)Justice

    What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

    by Rafael A. Mangual ...
    In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020—sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—a dangerously false ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When Prisoners Come Home

    Parole and Prisoner Reentry

    by Joan Petersilia ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Crime and Public Policy

    Edited by James Q. Wilson, Joan Petersilia ...
    Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years, as have the policy approaches to deal with it. During this time criminologists and other scholars have helped to shed light on the role of incarceration, prevention, drugs, guns, policing, and numerous other aspects to crime control. Yet the latest research is rarely heard in public discussions and is often missing ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Criminology

    The Essentials

    by Anthony Walsh, Cody Jorgensen ...
    In Criminology: The Essentials, authors Anthony Walsh and Cody Jorgensen introduce students to major theoretical perspectives and criminology topics in a concise, easy-to-read format. This straightforward overview of the major subject areas in criminology thoroughly covers the most up-to-date advances in theory and research, while challenging students to consider the applications of these theories ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Responding to Youth Crime in Canada

    by Carla Cesaroni, Anthony N. Doob ...
    In Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, Anthony Doob and Carla Cesaroni describe how Canada has been responding to youth crime in the context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which came into force on April 1, 2003. The authors describe what is known about Canadian youth crime, and the operation of the youth justice system in the context of the changes in the law that are taking place.The authors ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Victimization of Women

    Law, Policies, and Politics

    by Michelle L. Meloy, Susan L. Miller ...
    In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Imprisoning Communities

    How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse

    by Todd R Clear ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20% of the adult men are locked up on any given day, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD