Imagine a workplace where people are energized and motivated by being in control of the work they do. Imagine they are trusted and given freedom, within clear guidelines, to decide how to achieve their results. Imagine they are able to get the life balance they want. Imagine they are valued according to the work they do, rather than the number of hours they spend at their desk.Wouldn't you want to work there? Wouldn't it also be the place that would enable you to work at your best and most...

Church attendance in the United States and other Western nations is rapidly declining, and the losses are not solely because "young people don't like church." Baby boomers are also leaving, frequently because the church leadership assumes a believer's faith and how it plays out is constant over a lifetime. Boomers are a transition generation, undergoing profound faith journeys as they transition through life's phases. Many churches struggle to connect with people on a journey because the c...

Criminological Theory is an examination of the major theoretical perspectives in criminology today. Werner J. Einstadter and Stuart Henry lay bare various theorists' ideas about human nature, social structure, social order, concepts of law, crime and criminals, the logic of crime causation, and the policies and practices that follow from these premises. Material is presented and organized around these analytic and critical dimensions throughout the text.Criminological ...

This significantly expanded edition of Essential Criminology covers the broadest range of criminological theories—the essential criminological theories—from longstanding ones such as classical theory and strain theory to recently introduced ones such as ultra-realism and green cultural criminology. Whether all are “essential” depends on one’s theoretical stance. The value of this text is its carefully designed comparative analysis, which helps readers consider their relative contr...

For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who t...

Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry's best-selling Essential Criminology textbook, this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses. The Essential Criminology Reader contains 30 original articles on current developments in criminological theory. Commissioned specifically for The Reader, these short essays were written by leading scholars in the field. Each chapter complements one ...

This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social control that exist ostensibly outside the formal legal system but on which it crucially depends. Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law will be of interest to students of law, sociology, and criminology.Dr. Stuart Henry is currently Professor and Director o...

The novel follows the journey of the protagonist, who finds himself drawn to the charm and beauty of Villa Elsa. As he becomes entangled in the lives of its inhabitants, he uncovers secrets and confronts his own demons. Through a series of encounters and revelations, the characters grapple with their pasts and search for meaning and belonging in the present."Villa Elsa" is praised for its evocative prose, vivid descriptions, and richly drawn characters. It transports readers to the sun-dre...

This volume contains recent and cutting-edge articles from leading criminological theorists. The book is organized into ten sections, each representing the latest in the multi-disciplinary orientations representing a cross-section of contemporary criminological theory. These sections include: 1: Classical and Rational Choice; 2: Biological and Biosocial; 3: Psychological; 4: Social Learning and Neutralization; 5: Social Control; 6: Social Ecology, Sub-cultural and Cultural; 7: Anomie and S...

Aristoxenus of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle.He was the most famous music theorist in antiquity and came to be referred to simply as "the musician."Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter. The Elements is the chief source of our knowledge of ancient Greek music.Cont...

Against a blaze of sun and sea, Fenella Barbour emerges as a young woman of startling vitality: beautiful, fearless, and impossible to ignore. Her daring swim, her tenderness toward the brooding Paul Ingram, and her love of movement all reveal a spirit that longs for freedom, while the people around her begin to see that beauty can invite both admiration and scrutiny. Set against windswept beaches, moonlit pines, and the rigid rooms of Chubley castle, the novel follows Fenella's first enco...

In "The Genesis of Queensland," Henry Stuart Russell meticulously chronicles the formation and development of Queensland, Australia, from its earliest days of European exploration to the establishment of a separate colony. Russell's prose is characterized by its engaging narrative style and a scholarly approach, seamlessly intertwining historical facts with personal anecdotes, which bring the characters of the past to life. This historical account serves not only as a record of events but ...