Social Issues & Processes

  A brave, beautifully told story of an Afro-American teen dealing with colourism, racism and bullying - but given hope by the ...

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsit is often c...

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to ...

This book aims to challenge current thinking about serious youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. Written b...

In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences cr...

The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the Worl...

'Lizzie has been able to embody the power of hope and compassion in everything she does. Stories like hers keep me inspired every day.' Michelle Ob...

The developmental perspective is becoming increasingly significant in criminology and in research on antisocial and criminal behavior. Developmenta...

Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and they may leave be...

Bullying is an age-old problem that has traditionally been seen as normal, as par-for-the-course of childhood and youth, at times even depicted as ...

Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attack...