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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This title describes and analyzes the development of criminology as a discipline, explaining the main approaches and schools of thought, and how these have been applied in practice. It then takes the example of serial murder to demonstrate the way in which criminologists seek to understand crime.

Earlier edition published as: Ageing and development: theories and research / [by] Peter G. Coleman, Ann O'Hanlon.

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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This unique reference in laparoscopic colorectal surgery starts by looking at the establishment of the Lapco training programme in the UK. It then goes on to provide a comprehensive technical manual of operative and patient care for laparoscopic colorectal surgery, offers insight into training and assessment methodology and finally looks to the future and where we may be going. It shares knowledge of a unique training programme which healthcar...

Provides comprehensive treatment approaches for a wide spectrum of presentations of gender dysphoria, the condition of being ill at ease with one's gender. This text stresses the need for evaluating and treating the disorder in the context of the client's overall physical and mental health.

This book addresses the need for a reassessment of issues relating to identity in the light of current transformations in society as a whole and religion in particular. Drawing together case-studies from many different expressions of faith and belief, leading scholars ask how contemporary religions or spiritualities respond to the challenge of forming individual and collective identities in a nation context.

Examines the problems and possibilities multi-sited approaches have presented to researchers as well as the ways in which the concept has evolved since the mid-1990s. In this book, the contributors raise new questions, new approaches and new possibilities. It is suitable for scholars in a variety of disciplines across the social sciences.

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Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of globalization.

This volume examines ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores how resistance can be shaped by dominant ways of thinking, seeing or enacting politics.

Outlines the nature and sources of risk in firms. This book sets out a body of risk knowledge to support its management, particularly at the corporate level, in much the same way that our understanding of human physiology and the physical sciences support modern medical and engineering techniques.

This analysis of the use of CCTV within the broader social, political and ideological context focuses on relations between surveillance, power and social order, using Liverpool as case study.

This new ethnographic study of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at the career structures and organizational issues that have hampered their advancement. It demonstrates the importance of moribund policy decisions in holding back research

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Provides sex therapists, counselors, psychiatrists, and psychologists with information on sex offending behavior and treatment approaches. Begins with a Standards of Care for the Treatment of Sex Offenders, then discusses such aspects as motives contributing to sexual aggression and the confluence model of sexual aggression, a case study of offende

Offers tools for the analysis, prediction and creation of various polymer blends, an area of commercial potential. This book explores and describes the use of association models to treat hydrogen bonding in polymer mixtures, illustrating its broad utility. It adapts this approach to a description of the phase behavior of polymer mixtures.