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The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

Nicole Hahn Rafter

In The Crime of All Crimes, criminologist Nicole Rafter takes an innovative approach to the study of genocide by comparing eight diverse genocides--large-scale and small; well-known and obscure--through the lens of criminal behavior.
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society

Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society

Nicole Hahn Rafter

Criminologist Nicole Rafter analyses the source of the appeal of crime films, and their role in popular culture. She argues that crime films both reflect and shape our ideas about fundamental social, economic and political issues.
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological ...

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological ...

Nicole Rafter

In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology.
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

Nicole Rafter

In The Criminal Brain, well-known criminologist Nicole Rafter traces the sometimes violent history of these criminological theories and provides an introduction to current biological theories of crime, or biocriminology, with predictions of ...
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Nicole Hahn Rafter

The first work to bring a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films, Rafter and Brown's book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of criminology to uncover ...
Prisons in America: A Reference Handbook

Prisons in America: A Reference Handbook

Nicole Hahn Rafter

Reflects upon the history and future of the prison system
Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the ...

Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the ...

Victoria Stewart

Describing the development, in the late nineteenth century, of what would come to be termed criminology, Nicole Rafter notes that key contributions were made by researchers in fields including 'anthropology, evolutionary science, ...
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime

Nicole Hahn Rafter

This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and ...
Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control

Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control

Nicole Rafter

This second edition includes two new chapters that bring the story into the present day and discusses measures now being used to challenge the partial justice women have historically experienced.
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Nicole Rafter

Bringing together the work of scholars across various disciplines committed to maximizing the inclusion of pro-feminist men in the feminist movement, the book convincingly demonstrates how and why feminist goals cannot be realized until men ...
The Origins of Criminology: A Reader

The Origins of Criminology: A Reader

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The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology – selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter. This book ...
The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

Nicole Rafter

Robertson, Geoffrey. 2009. Was There an Armenian Genocide? Geoffrey Robertson QC's Opinion. Policy Memorandum, Foreign & Commonwealth Office to the Minister, Her Majesty's Government. London: Doughty Street Chambers, April 12.
Creating Born Criminals

Creating Born Criminals

Nicole Hahn Rafter

But Creating Born Criminals is much more than a look at the past.
Law On The Screen

Law On The Screen

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Nicole Rafter, Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). M. Silbey, "Patterns of Courtroom Justice"; and Carol Clover, "Judging Audiences: The Case of the Trial Movie," in Reinventing Film Study, ...
Guerrilla Marketing Attack

Guerrilla Marketing Attack

Jay Conrad Levinson

For instance, recognize your prospect not only as a fellow human but as Nicole Denise Pope, who breeds tropical fish as a hobby. Mention Nicole's interests to her whenever you can. Find out more about them. When Nicole discovers that you ...
Basic Culinary Techniques Every Cook Should Know (Tips for ...

Basic Culinary Techniques Every Cook Should Know (Tips for ...

Nicole Bemboom

About The Author Nicole Bemboom Nicole Bemboom is a San Franciscobased writer. In addition to writing for the exciting new publisher Hyperink, she covers the best of modern craft and design for the online magazine Handful of Salt.
Quicklet On Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species

Quicklet On Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species

Nicole Silvester

Nicole Silvester Nicole has been writing since she could make letters with a pencil, and has been making a living at it for more than ten years. She has gone back to school too many times, studying archaeology, folklore, writing and visual art.
Quicklet on The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age ...

Quicklet on The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age ...

Nicole Silvester

Nicole Silvester Nicole has been writing since she could make letters with a pencil, and has been making a living at it for more than ten years. She has gone back to school too many times, studying archaeology, folklore, writing and visual art.
San Francisco in 100 Beautiful Photos

San Francisco in 100 Beautiful Photos

Nicole Bemboom

About The Author Nicole Bemboom Nicole Bemboom is a San Franciscobased writer. In addition to writing for the exciting new publisher Hyperink, she covers the best of modern craft and design for the online magazine Handful of Salt.
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological ...

The Criminal Brain, Second Edition: Understanding Biological ...

Nicole Rafter

Police justice, popular justice, and social outsiders in Nazi Germany. In Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, ed. Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus, 256–272. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Gellately, Robert, and Nathan Stoltzfus .
HOLLYWOOD'S ANNAMANIA: HEART OF MY DREAMS ANNA NICOLE SMITH

HOLLYWOOD'S ANNAMANIA: HEART OF MY DREAMS ANNA NICOLE SMITH

MARK "HOLLYWOOD" HATTEN

Hollywood's Book Review: Various Anna Nicole Books Regarding Mark “ Hollywood” Hatten Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith' 1. s Death, by Rita Cosby Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith 2. , by ...
Going to the Castle

Going to the Castle

Nicole Burnham

Nicole Burnham. Going to the Castle NICOLE BURNHAM For Doug, my own Prince Charming and for Mom and. Going to the Castle NICOLE BURNHAM.
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Amy Ellis Nutt

Ultimately, Becoming Nicole is the story of an extraordinary girl who fought for the right to be herself.
Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an ...

Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an ...

Amy Ellis Nutt

More than that, however, Becoming Nicole is the story of an extraordinary girl who fought for the right to be herself.
Lovhers

Lovhers

Nicole Brossard

This is the poetry by Nicole Brossard who has become well known as a lesbian feminist theorist and writer and as the leading figure among Quebec post-modernist writers.
Rama II

Rama II

Arthur C. Clarke

'Yeuch,' said Janos a moment later, as he passed the infrared scanner to Nicole. He had first verified ... Nicole's cup did have a marking on the bottom. She was one of ... In the middle of the light was a cutaway of an old castle. A female robot ...

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