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Interactionist Currents eBook Series

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  • The Politics of Sorrow

    Families, Victims, and the Micro-Organization of Youth Homicide

    Series series Interactionist Currents
    Drawing on several years of research with grief support organizations and the families and friends of murdered children, this book examines the emotional experience of families in the aftermath of a homicide. It examines the politics of sorrow, offering a comparative analysis of White and African-American families as they navigate the experience of homicide, shedding light on the ways in which the ... Read more

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  • Unfair

    The New Science of Criminal Injustice

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unfair succinctly and persuasively recounts cutting-edge research testifying to the faulty and inaccurate procedures that underpin virtually all aspects of our criminal justice system, illustrating many with case studies.”—The Boston GlobeA child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores critical clues in a case; an innocent man confesses to a crime ... Read more

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  • Brainwashed

    The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

    This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain ... Read more

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  • Other People's Children

    Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    The classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur award–winning educator"Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes fear and speaks of truths, truths that otherwise have no voice." — San Francisco Review of BooksIn this groundbreaking, radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur award–winning author Lisa ... Read more

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  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    by Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Read more

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  • Memory

    Fragments of a Modern History

    by Alison Winter ...
    This historical study is "a compelling demonstration that the science of memory . . . is both a product of and an influence on the culture from which it springs" ( Bookforum).Think about a birthday you remember well. Now step back and ask: how clear are those memories? Is there a chance you're remembering incorrectly? And what about the details you can no longer recall? Are they hidden in your ... Read more

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  • The Tender Cut

    Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury

    A sociological and psychological study illuminating the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the twenty-first century.Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. The Tender Cut ... Read more

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  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

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  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

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  • Surviving Incarceration

    Inside Canadian Prisons

    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

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  • Tranquil Prisons

    Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders

    by Erick Fabris ...
    Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications after leaving hospitals. However, survivors attest that forced treatment used as a ... Read more

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  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

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