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Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Books in the Series:

Big Prisons, Big Dreams: Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System
Michael J. Lynch

Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America
Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz
Foreword by Joseph F.  Donnermeyer

Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency
Anthony M.  Platt
With an introduction and critical commentaries by Miroslava Chávez-García

Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness
Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson

Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S Response to Terror
Michael Welch

Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
Leslie Paik

Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused
Susan F. Sharp

The Last Neighborhood Cops: The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
Fritz Umbach

Law and Order: Images, Meanings and Myths
Mariana Valverde

Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq
Scott A. Bonn

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency Among Women Substance Abusers
Tammy Anderson

Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Luis A. Fernandez

Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
Robert Tillman and Michael Indergaard

Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror
Edited by Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin

Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes & State Crimes in the War on Terror
Michael Welch

Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Edited and with an Introduction by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres

Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements
Loretta Capeheart and Dragan Milovanovic

State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government
Edited by Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer

State Crime: Current Perspectives
Edited by Dawn L. Rothe and Christopher W. Mullins

Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity
Torin Monahan

Victims as Offenders: The Paradox of Women's Violence in Relationships
Susan L. Miller


Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice
Edited by Saundra D. Westervelt and John A. Humphrey



Series Editor:

Raymond J. Michalowski, Arizona Regents Professor at Northern Arizona University

Critical Issues in Crime and Society is oriented toward critical analysis of contemporary problems in crime and justice. The series is open to a broad range of topics including specific types of crime, wrongful behavior by economically or politically powerful actors, controversies over justice system practices, and issues related to the intersection of identity, crime, and justice. It is committed to offering thoughtful works that will be accessible to scholars and professional criminologists, general readers, and students.

Submission Information:

Please submit your manuscript or book proposal to Raymond Michalowski, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Box 15005 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Inquiries or submissions may also be directed by electronic mail to raymond.michalowski@nau.edu, or by fax to (520) 523-8011. You may also submit inquiries to Peter Mickulas, Editor, Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854, phone: (732) 445-7762 x604, fax (732) 445 7039, e-mail:
Mickulas@rutgers.edu.







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