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The Handmaid's Tale
Vintage Quarterbound Classics
2024 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's iconic dystopian novel.
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and ...
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Being consequential about restorative justice
Hardcover || Lode Walgrave || Eleven international publishing
In this anthology, Professor Emeritus Lode Walgrave, a pioneer in the field of juvenile justice and restorative justice, revisits a selection of his publications, going back to the late 1990s to the late 2010s, on
restorative justice as a response to offending. These include reflections on why restorative justice is valuable as well as on how it can and should be implemented. Can reparation be imposed and how would that relate to retribution? Is there room for punishment? The broader field i...
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Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice
The Case for Parallelism
2023 || Hardcover || Derek R. Brookes || Eleven international publishing
Criminal justice is primarily designed to serve the public interest in relation to criminal acts. Restorative justice is designed to address the harmrelated needs of individuals in the aftermath of wrongdoing. These distinct aims require such different processes and priorities that any attempt to integrate restorative justice within the criminal justice system will almost invariably undermine the quality and effectiveness of both. In this book, the author argues that the optimal relationship ...
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May Contain Lies
How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
2024 || Hardcover || Alex Edmans || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases effect the way we receive and interpret information
Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Stories, statistics and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It's only when we do, that we can actively resist...
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The Trading Game
A Confession
2024 || Hardcover || Gary Stevenson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Compelling, intensely readable, unsettling. An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart
'An incredibly important and timely book, very much of its era. The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh
'Astonishing, enraging, extremely funny and exquisitely sad - a magnificent exposé of the 'masters of the universe' whose greed imperils us all. I cannot recommend this book highly enough' The Secret Barrister
*An outrageous, white-knuckle journey...
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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods
Integrating Theory and Practice
2021 || Hardcover || Michael Quinn Patton || SAGE
The book that has been a resource and training tool for countless researchers and students has been completely revised in its Fourth Edition with hundreds of new examples and stories illuminating all aspects of qualitative inquiry and now offers more balance between applied research and evaluation.
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Making Surveillance Public
Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms
2024 || Hardcover || Marc Schuilenburg || Eleven international publishing
What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation?
Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data colle...
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Notes from Isolation
Global Criminological Perspectives on Coronavirus Pandemic
Hardcover || Dina Siegel || Eleven international publishing
This volume includes topics analysing the meaning of the Covid-19 pandemic and the social responses to it in various domains: from sex work to wildlife crimes, from new forms of social control in Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and Thailand to the role of music, the symbolism of face masks, the spreading of conspiracy theories, domestic violence, and more. It is composed of studies conducted by criminologists who belong to the ‘Utrecht school’. Criminology ‘Utrecht style’ is unique in the wor...
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Network Corruption: When Social Capital Becomes Corrupted
Its Meaning and Significance in Corruption and Network Theory and the Consequences for (EU) Policy and Law
Hardcover || Willeke Slingerland || Eleven international publishing
Corruption is generally referred to as bribery. This books deals with a different form of corruption: corruption caused by networks. Network corruption is the form of corruption in which the interaction of multiple actors within a social network results in corruption but in which the individual behaviour as such is not necessarily corrupt. The main reason for this research is that a gap appears to exist in the available theories on corruption: very little research is available on corruption b...
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Fieldwork for Social Research
A Student's Guide
2023 || Hardcover || Richard Phillips e.a. || SAGE
As one of the few teaching books that looks at fieldwork in the broadest of contexts, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of fieldwork within social research. It not only teaches theory but puts into practice planning, designing, conducting and sharing social research.Â