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Criminology

Rid Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781849047128, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Cyber war is coming", announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cybe...

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Criminology

Crime in the Second World War Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse

Legg Penny

ISBN: HB: 9781781220092, Casemate, Sabrestorm Publishing, April 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, heavlly illustrated

At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an opportunity to exploit the emergency...

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Criminology

Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi Publics and Counterpublics

Khan Nichola

ISBN: PB: 9781849047265, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Karachi is a city framed in the popular imagination by violence, be it criminality and gangsterism or political factionalism. That perception also dominates literary, cinematic and scholarly representations and discussions of t...

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Criminology

Education

Human Targets Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Rios Victor M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090993, ISBN: HB: 9780226090856, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target – flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a tea...

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Criminology

Anthropology

Truth about Crime Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

Comaroff Jean, Comaroff John L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424910, ISBN: HB: 9780226424880, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves – it is by our crimes. Surveying...

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Criminology

Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

Eason John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226410340, ISBN: HB: 9780226410203, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country bu...

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Military

Criminology

Inside the Enemy's Computer Identifying Cyber-Attackers

Guitton Clement

ISBN: HB: 9781849045544, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Attribution – tracing those responsible for a cyber attack – is of primary importance when classifying it as a criminal act, an act of war, or an act of terrorism. Three assumptions dominate current thinking: attribution is a t...

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Criminology

America

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Criminology

Political Science

Sectarianization Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Hashemi Nader, Postel Danny

ISBN: PB: 9781849047029, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to "ancient sectarian differences", putatively primordial f...

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Computer Science & Internet

Criminology

Cybersecurity Dilemma Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations

Buchanan Ben

ISBN: PB: 9781849047135, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leak...

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