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Social Control at Opportunity Boys' Home - Paul Christopher Price - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Social Control at Opportunity Boys' Home - Paul Christopher Price - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This qualitative study critically analyzes the responsibilities of frontline staff at Opportunity Boys'' Home (OBH), a residential treatment program for delinquent youth. The core activities of staff at OBH involve direct management and control of juvenile delinquents. Specifically, they serve as the formal social control agents primarily involved in "control-work," e.g., breaking up fights, resolving inmate conflicts, negotiating order, maintaining straight lines, preventing "AWOLS," confronting rule violations by juveniles, and responding to emergencies. Those interested in social control, community-based group homes, social work, and the sociology of work will find Social Control at Opportunity Boys'' Home intriguing, useful, and informative.

DKK 423.00
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Crime and Social Control in Asia and the Pacific - Victor N. Shaw - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Crime and Social Control in Asia and the Pacific - Victor N. Shaw - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

As the center stage of the world in the twenty-first century, Asia and the Pacific provide a vast testing ground where Eastern civilizations meet with Western development, socialism with capitalism, and authoritarianism with democracy for possible confrontation, fusion, or both. This study examines crime and social control in the region. It first examines crime, concentrating upon crime resulting from social disorganization; crimes of opportunity; entrepreneurial crime; bureaucratic crime; the drug trade; human trafficking; organized crime; and crimes of terror. Professor Shaw then analyzes social control, focusing on change of ideologies; transfer of technologies; professionalization of control forces; modernization of control systems; cross-border cooperation; and international coordination. Most critically, this work explores changing dynamics between capitalism and socialism; Eastern civilizations and Western development; democratic forms of government and patriarchal leadership; citizen initiative and state authority; procedural fairness and control effectiveness; and their possible impacts on crime and social control in Asia and the Pacific.

DKK 583.00
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Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The author examines parental responsibility for their children’s development. The authors then summarize the functionalist perspective of deviance, the function of crimes, and how these perspectives have influenced the development of Emile Durkheim’s work like anomie. The authors then turn their attention to fear of crime in regard to social order. The authors then examine how the Tennessean newspaper The City Paper and its readers’ comments frame the coverage of the Kurdish Pride Gang. The authors then provide an insight into pluralism and politicized religion. I then assess and compare the theories of differential association, low self-control, and Black’s theory of social control for explaining deviance. The authors then focus on fear and risk perceptions of terrorism. I then enlighten the account of communication media technology and how it influences culture, control, as well as deviance. The authors then address how the development of technology has affected the nature of deviance and social control and what is the impact of media use among the young children. Finally, the authors examine how the sociological imagination of the individuals living in southeastern Turkey is constructed through the movie, The Bliss.

DKK 556.00
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The Web - Christine M. Robinson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Web - Christine M. Robinson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control—the response to behavior or people regarded as deviant, problematic, threatening, or undesirable–in everyday life. The context of this study is a lesbian community situated in the heartland of the United States. Based on interviews, participant-observation, and document sources gathered over a period of nine years, the book analyzes the effects of social control on relations of power (based on race, class, and sexual identity) among diverse members of a lesbian community. Although much of what is represented in this book is unique to this lesbian community, the forms and functions of social control analyzed here can be found in any human community.

DKK 538.00
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The Web - Christine M. Robinson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Web - Christine M. Robinson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control_the response to behavior or people regarded as deviant, problematic, threatening, or undesirableDin everyday life. The context of this study is a lesbian community situated in the heartland of the United States. Based on interviews, participant-observation, and document sources gathered over a period of nine years, the book analyzes the effects of social control on relations of power (based on race, class, and sexual identity) among diverse members of a lesbian community. Although much of what is represented in this book is unique to this lesbian community, the forms and functions of social control analyzed here can be found in any human community.

DKK 379.00
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For the Glory of God: The Role of Christianity in the Rise and Development of Modern Science - Richard H. Jones - Bog - University Press of America -

For the Glory of God: The Role of Christianity in the Rise and Development of Modern Science - Richard H. Jones - Bog - University Press of America -

Numerous books have been written by philosophers and scientists about how creationism and intelligent design are not part of science, but scholars have largely ignored two of the main historical and philosophical issues underlying the attack on science.First, conservative Christian scholars commonly claim that Christian theological doctrines are the source of modern science. To them, modern science is the stepchild of medieval Christian theology or early Protestant doctrines. They believe that without those theological beliefs as presuppositions, modern science could never have arisen and that Christianity, or at least theism, is the only possible source of these beliefs. They argue that even today, all scientists, whether they realize it or not, must be committed to these theistic or specifically Christian ideas in order to practice science. This "dependency" thesis has now become widely accepted, even outside conservative circles. For example, renowned scientists such as Edward O. Wilson and Paul Davies accept the historical part of this thesis as a given. Second, some conservative Christians argue that theology has the epistemic right to control the content of all scientific theories and indeed the very nature of science. To them, science unfettered from theological control cannot reveal the true nature of the universe, and so theology must control the content and methods of all science. In the words of the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, "Scripture can correct science." In For the Glory of God, Jones challenges both the Dependency Thesis and Control Beliefs. He presents the historical and philosophical case against the Dependency Thesis and examines why modern science arose in the West and not in another culture. Jones also explores the negative effects of Control Beliefs on science. Throughout this work, Jones systematically studies how past and present religious conservatives have dealt with the complex nature of science.

DKK 370.00
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Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands - Roger G. Jarjoura - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands - Roger G. Jarjoura - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Both liberal and conservative arguments on the issue of gun control legislation point to the importance of controlling gun possession among criminal offenders with conservatives arguing that no gun control legislation can effectively control gun possession among criminals because they do not use legal means to obtain their guns while liberals argue that guns cause crime and must be controlled. Illegal Guns in the Wrong Hands uses data from a sample of approximately 800 incarcerated juveniles from Indiana to examine the methods through which juvenile offenders obtain firearms, the causes of their firearm acquisition and use, their preferences when it comes to choosing a firearm and the reasons for that choice, and the role that guns play in their offending behaviors. The results suggest that only a small percentage of the sample would attempt to purchase a firearm legally; the vast majority would obtain a firearm in means that would circumvent existing regulations. Contrary to evidence on adults, however, the youth in this sample state that they are most likely to acquire a firearm from a friend or relative, and not as a result of theft. Further, there are few significant demographic and contextual factors that explain source of firearm acquisition. Implications of these findings for future research and gun policy are discussed.

DKK 415.00
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Auschwitz, USA - Jon Huer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Auschwitz, USA - Jon Huer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most "efficient" system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is the quest of all efficiency experts and human resources managers and what is commonly called organizational behavior. This book is about the two best historical examples of such "efficiently-run" resource management.

DKK 399.00
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Critical Viewing of Television - Ibrahim M. Hefzallah - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Critical Viewing of Television - Ibrahim M. Hefzallah - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Designed to increase adults'' understanding of television and to develop their critical viewing skills, this text explores persuasion and presentation techniques, the programming policy of television stations, and potential effects of violence, sex, and commercials on the viewer. Also presents critical awareness exercises. The book does not advocate turning off the set, but, rather, encourages self-control.

DKK 512.00
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Revolutionary Cuba and the End of the Cold War - David C. Jordan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Revolutionary Cuba and the End of the Cold War - David C. Jordan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

There has been much speculation about Castro and Cuba''s future and the state of U.S.óCuban relations in the post Cold War environment. This study analyzes the forces which brought Castro to power and sustained his control. Jordan discusses Cuba''s historic nationalist and dependency problems, the unique Castro personality, Soviet strategy, and U.S. policy in reaction to these issues. With the demise of the Soviet Union, one main pillar of the Castro regime has been removed but he still continues to maintain control. This book discusses the current situation and argues that the objective of U.S. policy toward Cuba should be to assist and encourage a regime transition which would allow Cuban people to exercise political and economic freedom. Jordan examines the prospects for assisting a Cuban transition to a constitutional democracy and requirements for a healthy and competitive economy.

DKK 919.00
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Call From the Cave - Jon Huer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Call From the Cave - Jon Huer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what would Bill Gates do if he had Hitler’s absolute power? It is a sociological question that exposes power as a tool of control over the powerless, not as a psychological trait or manners of personal interactions. With Hitler’s power, any individual, group, or nation could become as crazy as Hitler or as cruel as the Nazis. Call from the Cave argues that the savage struggle for power, exemplified in the free market system of America—history’s first and purest “natural” society—is in our very human nature. In the footsteps of the ancient Romans and the recent Nazis, we push on in every waking moment of our lives to expand our power and to control the souls and minds of other human beings to do our bidding. The book concludes that this is the very destiny of humanity we cannot escape.

DKK 600.00
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Inside the Cold War From Marx to Reagan - Sven F. Kraemer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Inside the Cold War From Marx to Reagan - Sven F. Kraemer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A long-time U.S. policy insider’s scholarly and encyclopedic history with unprecedented analysis of the official documents of the Cold War explores its Marxist-Leninist totalitarian roots, faltering pre-Reagan U.S. strategies of Containment, MAD, and Détente, and the Reagan Revolution. This book details Reagan’s integrated new strategies in defense, arms control, diplomacy, information and intelligence, and support for the faiths and forces of freedom that collapsed the Soviet ideology and empire.

DKK 538.00
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Controlling the Difficult Adolescent - David B. Stein - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Controlling the Difficult Adolescent - David B. Stein - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Introduces specific methods for parents and for therapists on how to teach parents to control difficult and oppositional adolescents. The oppositional/defiant adolescent engages in behavior that can be described as abusive to and inconsiderate of other family members. Such teenagers do not typically respond well to traditional methods of psychotherapy and often therapists commit these youngsters to psychiatric hospitals. The methods introduced in this book are based on years of research and can be effectively carried out in the home setting, removing the need for hospitalization. Simple rules of conduct and clear expectations for the teen''s behavior are established at the beginning. Enforcement of these rules is carried out by systematically controlling the teen''s economic resources (The Real Economy System for Teens.) Both parents and practicing therapists can benefit from the information contained in this book. Contents: How Did it Happen; Discipline and Punishment; How Control the Difficult Adolescent: The REST Program; Special ProblemsóLying and Aggression; Special ProblemóPoor School Performance; Special ProblemóCollege; Special ProblemóDrug and Alcohol Abuse-Hardcore Behaviors; Special ProblemsóActing Out Behaviors - Runaway Reaction, Suicide Attempts, and Delinquent Behaviors; Special ProblemsóDivorce; Communications; A Case Study; Not the Final Chapter.

DKK 715.00
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Controlling the Difficult Adolescent - David B. Stein - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Controlling the Difficult Adolescent - David B. Stein - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Introduces specific methods for parents and for therapists on how to teach parents to control difficult and oppositional adolescents. The oppositional/defiant adolescent engages in behavior that can be described as abusive to and inconsiderate of other family members. Such teenagers do not typically respond well to traditional methods of psychotherapy and often therapists commit these youngsters to psychiatric hospitals. The methods introduced in this book are based on years of research and can be effectively carried out in the home setting, removing the need for hospitalization. Simple rules of conduct and clear expectations for the teen''s behavior are established at the beginning. Enforcement of these rules is carried out by systematically controlling the teen''s economic resources (The Real Economy System for Teens.) Both parents and practicing therapists can benefit from the information contained in this book. Contents: How Did it Happen; Discipline and Punishment; How Control the Difficult Adolescent: The REST Program; Special Problems-Lying and Aggression; Special Problem-Poor School Performance; Special Problem-College; Special Problem-Drug and Alcohol Abuse-Hardcore Behaviors; Special Problems-Acting Out Behaviors - Runaway Reaction, Suicide Attempts, and Delinquent Behaviors; Special Problems-Divorce; Communications; A Case Study; Not the Final Chapter.

DKK 468.00
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Militias in the New Millennium - Daniel G. Rodeheaver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Militias in the New Millennium - Daniel G. Rodeheaver - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Militias in the New Millennium, Stan Weeber and Daniel Rodeheaver examine the state of the U.S. citizen militia movement in the new millennium. Using Smelser''s theory of collective behavior, the authors examine the causes, belief systems, and electronic presence of militias, and the efforts of social control agents to contain them. Tested with 1196 internet communications and supplemented with interviews with militia members, Smelser''s theory of the origins and direction of radical social movements, such as militias, is mostly confirmed by data analysis.

DKK 379.00
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Public Administration in Palestine - Usamah Shahwan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Public Administration in Palestine - Usamah Shahwan - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Public Administration in Palestine traces the development of public administration in Palestine during the last 150 years. The book spans the Ottoman, British, Jordanian and Israeli historical periods, as well as the present Palestinian authority. Usamah Shahwan argues that public administration systems created by political powers that ruled the region were designed primarily for the control and domination of the local population and not for economic and social development. Shahwan contends that until a new approach is adopted by the Palestinian government, the prospect of a democratic Palestine remains an illusion.

DKK 521.00
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Clinical Depression - Paul Lavin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Clinical Depression - Paul Lavin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are in constant misdirected motion, unable to concentrate and complete assigned tasks, and behave impulsively. Their poor-self control frequently interferes with classroom learning and hinders their ability to relate to parents, teachers, and peers. Continued failure and criticism from those around them often has a profoundly negative impact on the ADHD child''s self-concept. As a result, the child''s internal disposition becomes one of hopelessness. Rather than anticipating and planning for success, ADHD children anticipate failure, believing there is little they can do to control their destiny. Many ADHD children become markedly despondent as they move from one developmental stage to the next. They engage in various forms of oppositional behavior believing they simply can not succeed. In short, they have given up. In order to alter this course, ADHD children must learn to replace hopelessness with hopefulness. The insidious and often unrecognized depression blocking this transition must be addressed. The purpose of this book is to provide parents, educators, and mental health professionals with a conceptual and practical framework for identifying and correcting this emotional virus, which can undermine even the most well-designed and implemented therapeutic and educational program.

DKK 397.00
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Colloquial Spanish in Context - Gunnar Anderson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Colloquial Spanish in Context - Gunnar Anderson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The subjunctive is more than a trap for unwary students; it is truly a key component of the Spanish language, a basic structure that the whole language depends on. Condorito comic strips provide the basis for the Spanish grammar examined in this book as they perfectly capture fleeting colloquial Spanish in a permanent concrete form. This book is an invaluable resource for mastering Spanish grammar because although native speakers control the subtle nuances of the subjunctive mode perfectly, they cannot explain it. The explanations in this book encourage the learner to extrapolate and expand on the particular grammar point being presented.

DKK 514.00
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Power to the People - Charlyne Berens - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Power to the People - Charlyne Berens - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Power to the People examines the first session of the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature, in 1937, to determine whether the Legislature''s structure and rules reflected populism, progressivism, or simply a variant of liberal democracy. The book considers the notion that the one-house, nonpartisan legislature adopted by Nebraska''s citizens is a reflection of the desire for "the people," rather than the elites, to control government. Building on the work of the new institutionalism and applying the principles of social choice, Power to the People argues that the structure and procedures of an institution affect its product as well as the philosophies on which it is founded.

DKK 512.00
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Deforestation in Ghana - Michael S. Asante - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Deforestation in Ghana - Michael S. Asante - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Deforestation in Ghana is a research-based analytical study that explains the disconnect between the declared deforestation policy intentions and their outcomes in Ghana. Intended as a case study of the renewable resources policy process in developing economies, this book provides complete information and clarification about the phenomenon of continued deforestation in Ghana in spite of the long history of policies and actions to control it. Author Michael Asante''s detailed in-depth analysis of historical, political, economic, and cultural factors and events fully explain the unending destruction of the forests in Ghana. He provides experts, students, and all others with rational, practical answers and recommendations for this lingering problem.

DKK 786.00
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