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This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide.

Representing Genocide...

Riding the housing boom of the 2000s, Diana Martin combed Austin for tired, rundown bungalows, bought them, and, with artistic flair, recast them into little gems for people looking for custom homes. Then Wall Street crashed. Trapped with three houses in a market where no one was buying, she couldn't make her mortgage payments. The banks--the same ones begging for government bailouts--began moving against her.

Desperate to sell, she opened the door to an interested buyer--who tied her up, pistol-whipped her, and forced her onto her bed to rape her...

"'My life sentence had actually started the day I left my mother's womb . . ."

Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting, and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal. Kids' gangs led to trouble with the police. Approved schools led to Borstal, and Jimmy was on his way to a career in crime. By his 20s he was a hardened villain, sleeping with prostitutes, running shebeens and money-lending rackets. Then they nailed him for murder. The sentence was life--the brutal, degrading eternity of a broken spirit in...

New Beginning: Guidelines for Offering to Ex-Offenders Radical Hospitality in Faith Communities furnishes evidence that supports the fact that the leadership of faith communities offering radical hospitality to ex-offenders can reduce recidivism. Hope can be restored, damaged and broken relationships can be mended, forgiveness from both sides can be made, and the returning citizen remain a law-abiding member of society.

This collection of critical essays considers the criminalisation of squatting from a range of different theoretical, policy and practice perspectives. While the practice of squatting has long been criminalised in some jurisdictions, the last few years have witnessed the emergence of a newly constituted political concern with unlawful occupation of land. With initiatives to address the threat of squatting sweeping across Europe, the offence of squatting in a residential building was created in England in 2012. This development, which has attracted a large measure of media attention, has...

Based on peer-reviewed articles from the Second International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, Interpersonal Criminology investigates the roots of crime and victimization, rather than dissecting criminal behavior after the fact. The book divides crime by type, covering crimes against women, crimes against children and youths, culture conflict and victimization of groups, and interpersonal cybercrimes.

Perfect for criminal justice practitioners and advanced human rights, criminology, and victimology students, Interpersonal...

Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to white elephant projects that do little more than line the pockets of developers and their political partners.

The Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia addresses the theories, issues and trends in corruption and anticorruption reform that have emerged from this diverse experience. The book is...

A true crime memoir taking the reader on a journey from his early years investigating some of the notorious counterfeiters and bank fraud masterminds of Las Vegas, Nevada, to personal interactions with presidents and first ladies and a US Supreme Court decision preserving the methods utilized by the Secret Service to protect the life of the president of the United States.

The undercover investigation of a drug-addicted forgery ring targeting Las Vegas casinos and the investigation of an escaped federal prisoner, scamming travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars. A massive...

A true crime memoir taking the reader on a journey from his early years investigating some of the notorious counterfeiters and bank fraud masterminds of Las Vegas, Nevada, to personal interactions with presidents and first ladies and a US Supreme Court decision preserving the methods utilized by the Secret Service to protect the life of the president of the United States.

The undercover investigation of a drug-addicted forgery ring targeting Las Vegas casinos and the investigation of an escaped federal prisoner, scamming travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars. A massive...

Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textbooks detailing the criminal justice systems of a few select nations, or cataloging types of international crimes that span multiple legal jurisdictions, Global Crime and Justice provides a critical and integrated investigation into the nature of crime and how different societies react to it. The book first details various types of international crime, including genocide, war crimes, international drug and weapons smuggling,...

The historical context of family violence is explored, as well as the various forms of violence, their prevalence in specific stages of life, and responses to it made by the criminal justice system and other agencies. The linkage among child abuse, partner violence and elder abuse is scrutinized, and the usefulness of the life-course approach is couched in terms of its potential effect on policy implications; research methods that recognize the importance of life stages, trajectories, and transitions; and crime causation theories that can be enhanced by it.