This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and most globally integrated – regions.

The aim of this book is to provide students and lecturers with a clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of research and the main theoretical approaches in sociology. By covering both research methods and theory, students and tutors have one text that offers a consistent coverage of the two areas that are on the whole compulsory, core elements of sociology degrees. The volume: provides a combination of sociological theory and methods in a single text; enables regular cross-referencing between practice and theory, and easy grounding of one with the other; provides a middle ground...

This text aims to encourage students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. It offers a review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice and punishment and the developing perspective of victimology.

Presenting a comprehensive review of theoretical thinking on crime, this book encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of classic and contemporary theories, and provides an interdisciplinary approach to criminology through the contributions of sociology, psychology and biology.

This work provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. It is divided into two parts, which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology.

The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted. This book introduces a novel framework for evaluating the rise and decline of democratic governance. Examining three mature democratic countries Britain, Australia and New Zealand the authors discuss patterns of governance from the emergence of mass democracy...