Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas 9781136229145, 9780415529815

This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "talked into being" in relation to crime, and the

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Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas
9781136229145, 9780415529815

Over the last few decades, there has been a marked increase in media and debate surrounding a specific group of offences

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Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume owner

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This new study of early Canadian law delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of r

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The subject of the book is responsibility for collective crime. Collective crime is an act committed by a significant nu

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Read the Authors' Op-Ed on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sin No More offers a vivid examination of some of the mos

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Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultu

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What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculin

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Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some

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Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained mo

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Using thorough ethnographic research, Stephen Schneider identifies, comprehensively details, and critically examines the

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