Political Science

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Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice

Critical Perspectives

Stacey Hannem, Carrie B. Sanders, Christopher J. Schneider, Aaron Doyle, Tony Christensen

Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice takes students through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and prevention. This seminal text unpacks technology’s influence on our understanding of governance and social order in areas of criminal justice, pol... more
Unsettling Activisms

Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change

May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, Patricia Evans

How and why do “ordinary” women and nonbinary people engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these people to age as activists? Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists in an interg... more
Women's Voices from the Margins

Diaries from Kibera, Kenya

Elizabeth Swart

Women’s Voices from the Margins explores the coping strategies, agency, and resilience of women living in Kibera, Kenya—one of Africa’s largest slums. Based on a multi-year research project in which the author analyzed the diaries of 20 young women from Kibera, this thought-pr... more
Immigration, Public Policy, and Health

Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations

Dennis Raphael

A critical assessment of how public policy affects the health of immigrants, this interdisciplinary volume is an integral contribution to the study of immigration in modern developed nations. Authors employ a welfare state analysis to examine the political and economic systems... more