"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...

"Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice" is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy...

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

An assessment of how Israel's extraordinary population growth undermines the country's environment, social equity, and quality of life – and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel's population has increased from one to e...

The adoption of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals was a landmark for the global community and our global sustainability. Now, one year after the initiation of the goals', it is time to really start thinking about implementing and realizing th...

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...

All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...

Volume 44 of "Crime and Justice" is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in knowledge concerning crime, its causes, and its control. Contents: include Robert D. Crutchfield on the...

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...