Looking to the trials of infamous murderers in late imperial Russia to reveal its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations.

In recent decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our time.

In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether anti–money laundering policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common.

Life of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight.

Confronting medical fraud and its economic, psychological, and social costs.

Exploring the legal perspective on love, sex, and marriage—and their complications—in contemporary Japan.

In this book, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of misleading or inaccurate statistics used in global policy and traces their remarkable proliferation.

Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as...

"This outstanding book examines the return of prisoners from the Gulag in the Soviet Union during the first decade after the death of Stalin."—Choice

The second edition of this book places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security environment.