Books written by Richard Sparks
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Public Criminology?
As students of criminology ought to be well aware (thanks, in large part, to Geoffrey Pearson's celebrated reminders: Pearson 1983) it is always tempting to idealize and simplify the past. If, for example, we consider the 1950s in ...
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Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town
Thompson, E.P. (1980) PVriting by Candlelight, London: Merlin. Thompson,J.B. (1990) Ideology and Modern Culture, Cambridge: Polity. Thompson, JR (1996) The Media and Modernity.' A Social Theory of the Media, Cambridge: Polity.
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Crime, Risk, and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
The maintenance of the first model of social control in modernity can now be seen as a ' century mistake ' ( Beck 1988 : 9 ) . Risks are no longer external side - effects but a manufactured property of society .
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Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment
Second, contributors to this volume draw upon a number of areas of contemporary research, including urban studies, philosophy, history, religious studies, and ethics, as well as criminology.
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Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration
These same studies find public attitudes become more lenient the more that they learn about individual cases. 3. See D. Smith, Confidence in the Criminal Justice System: What Lies Beneath? (London: Ministry of Justice, 2007). 4.
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The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society
The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society draws together this disparate and expansive field of punishment and society into one compelling new volume.
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Crime, Risk, and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
This book presents work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of western societies.
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Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration
Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration seeks to overcome this puzzling disconnect by deepening the dialogue between democratic theory and punishment policy.
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Crime, Justice, and Social Order: Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms
Jeffrey, R. (2009) The Barlinnie Story. Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing. Jeffrey, R. (2013) Peterhead: The Inside Story of Scotland's Toughest Prison. Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing. Jenkins, M. (1987) 'Control Problems in ...
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Diary of a Mad Poker Player: A Journey Into the World Series of Poker
Chris Moneymaker parlayed $35 into the 2003 World Poker Championship of $2.5 million, and got players thinking, ôIf he can do it, anyone can!ö Diary Of A Mad Poker Player...
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Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment
Second, contributors to this volume draw upon a number of areas of contemporary research, including urban studies, philosophy, history, religious studies, and ethics, as well as criminology.
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Crime, Risk and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary Western societies.
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Crime, Justice, and Social Order: Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms
You have new ways of thinking and so on. The development of the anthropology of ethics, potentially in relation to prison studies, is very new, and there's always an opportunity to try and think outside the box.
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Travels of the Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion
... Strategies in Europe and North America (Helsinski, Helsinski United Nations Institute). Haggerty, K (2002) 'Displaced Expertise: Three Limitations on the PolicyRelevance of Criminological Thought ... Crime Prevention in Argentina 213.
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Criminal Justice and Political Cultures
... America. Helsinki: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations. Hancock, L. (2001) Community, Crime and Disorder: Safety and ... Crime Prevention – New 230 Criminal Justice and Political Cultures.
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The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society
The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society draws together this disparate and expansive field of punishment and society into one compelling new volume.
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Criminology and Social Theory
The questions that animate this collection of essays concern the challenges that are posed for criminology by the economic, cultural, and political transformations that have marked late 20th century social life.
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Television and the Drama of Crime: Moral Tales and the Place of Crime in Public Life
"Crime series are prime time viewing. They are significant in understanding the rhetorics of crime and law enforcement in our society. Richard Sparkes explores the relations between watching "cop shows"...