This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity have always been rooted in the sociopolitical conditions in which they arose and exploring them in context helps students understand how and why they evolv...

Women, Crime, and Justice: Core Concepts, provides a complete and concise view gendered issues and the connection to the criminal justice, including victimization, criminalization, and work within the system.

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts...

Bestselling text Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment, Third Edition covers the modern treatment of psychological trauma that is both comprehensive in scope yet highly practical in application.

This book is for social science students who need to learn the theory of analysis alongside the specifics of the R software package.

De klimaatverandering plaatst de hedendaagse maatschappij voor een van de grootste uitdagingen van deze tijd: de transitie naar een duurzame economie. Deze transitie zal in alle sectoren van de economie moeten plaatsvinden en ziet niet alleen op de duurzaamheid van producten en diensten als zodanig, maar uitdrukkelijk ook op de logistiek daarvan. Die veroorzaakt immers ook een deel van de uitstoot van CO2, stikstof en fijnstof.

Dit rapport brengt in kaart welke rol Recht en handhaving spelen ...

Presenting a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and conduct CBPR research, this book includies a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations and ethical issues - all presented in an accessible format.

NYPD "Cop Doc" Rudofossi delves into what it meant to live as a deep-cover operative through narratives with Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who spent six years living as Donnie Brasco as a member of the Bonanno crime family.