Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. — 214 p. Eva-Maria Heberer provides an overview over the history of prostitution in Germany, in which she discusses changes in legislation, in society and its view on prostitution, as well as in the market for commercial sex since 1846. Two different models describing a woman’s decision to engage in sex work are suggested. Both are kept...
University of Toronto Press, 1998. — 488 p. The Canadian National Task Force on Suicide found that suicide rates in Canada, especially among youth, exceed those in other countries around the world, including the United States. Health care professionals and social service providers identify suicide as one of the most important areas in which they need information. Yet, there has...
Bokförlaget Forum, 2012. — 301 s. Annika, 47, tänder på att klä sig i korta jeanskjolar och högklackade skor. Men egentligen är Annika en heterosexuell man som heter Krister, har fru, två barn och ett välavlönat jobb. Så fort Krister får en möjlighet smyger han ut på gatorna i sina kvinnokläder - utan att hans familj får veta något. Petra, 32, arbetar i sjukvården. Hon tänder...
Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. — 183 p. — ISBN: 0525429816, 1524756342. A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken...
University of Manchester press, 1959. — 173 p. The social bandit. Mafia. Millenarianism. The city mob. The labour sect. Ritual in social movement. Notes for further reading.
New York: Patheon Books, 1981. — 219 p. What is social banditry Who becomes a bandit The Noble Robber The Avengers Haiduks The Economics and Politics of banditry Bandits and Revolution The expropriators The Bandit as symbol Women and banditry Postscript Further reading
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 581 p. — (American Psychology-Law Society Series). — ISBN10: 0199981191. — ISBN13: 978-0199981199. When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people, in some circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed two separate and distinct tracks: laws aimed at preventing suicide and,...
Greenwood Press. 2006. 468 p. ISBN: 0–313–32970–2 Scientific publication “Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sexual Work” in two volumes. Contains 341 articles on important social, cultural, geographical and medical topics related to prostitution. The fruit of three years of work by 179 experts. This file contains the second volume. Prostitution is a sensitive and controversial...
Greenwood Press. 2006. — 372 p. — ISBN: 0–313–32969–9 Prostitution is a sensitive and controversial topic, encompassing both sex and money. The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work is the first major reference on these topics. Although extensive research has been undertaken, there has been no definitive collection of resources and information available in a convenient and...
London: Sage, 1999. – 231 p. In this major new work, which Zygmunt Bauman calls a '"tour de force" of breathtaking erudition and clarity', Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division. Jock Young, one of the foremost...
London: Sage, 2007. – 231 p. – ISBN: 9781412935739 The Vertigo of Late Modernity engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in...
Routledge; 2 edition 2010, 379 p. This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. Sex for Sale covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work independently,...
The Teaching Company Taught By Professor Paul Root Wolpe , Ph.D., Yale University, Emory University Explaining Social Deviance (10 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture) Course No. 675 Why do some people commit crimes, use the wrong fork, or speak out of turn? How does a society determine when a crime has been committed, which fork to use, and who should speak when? How have we tried to...
Article from the journal "Europe-Asia Studies", 2012, 64:1, pp. 69-90. In English. This article analyzes the violent practices of youth territorial groups in Moscow. These groups exist on the city periphery and mainly involve young people (most of them male), who are not well integrated into society through the schooling system. Rather than simply depending on violence as a...
Article from The Sociological Review, 59:2, 2011. Language: English. This article discusses the evolution of street gangs in the Russian city of Kazan. Using historic and interview data, it shows that the changes in the social organization of these gangs were a reaction to a series of systemic crises in the Soviet and post-Soviet social order.As a result of power deficits,...