Product Description
Publisher: Chicago : Northwestern university buildingPublication date: 1909Subjects: Criminal lawCrimeNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Peter Sotos casts a savage eye over those enslaved,degraded, and ultimately destroyed by sex. Reporting back candidly athuman lives steeped in urban sewers of pornography, prostitution, drugabuse, murder, and anonymous, unprotected sexual encounters, Sotosalso exposes with ruthless clarity the media hypocrisy surroundingthese issues. The result is a compendium of total abuse which initself achieves a rare pornographic intensity and remove. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Give it a break, Sotos!
At one time shocking and confrontational, Sotos seems content on taking us to the same ol' places in a cut-up, avant garde style. One would have a time coming up with a follow-up after "Total Abuse" and "Pure" magazine, however.

Sotos is great, but he's no Bataille
As a sort of cultural compass that points to a very odd magnetic south, Sotos is fairly without peer.His earlier writings are by nature, more vitriolic; this book shows his matured writing style and personally I find it more disturbing than his former "shock for shock's sake" style.He's also lost some of the irritating "serial killer fanboy" tinge he had.Total Abuse should still be sought out though, to trace the course his writings have taken.

When discussing the gray areas that humanity slips into, Sotos is perfect.I love his work, and though I love him, I see him as being closer to de Sade than to Bataille.Nothing wrong with that, however!

Hard to take, harder to forget, impossible to ignore
It feels weird even trying to review this book, but since no one else has, I thought I'd give it a shot.Sotos is one of a kind and his work is a sexual ground zero; he writes the most disturbing, provocative material(this book, as well as his other ones - TOTAL ABUSE, SPECIAL, and LAZY)about sex and pornography available today.He could be called amisogynist, a racist and a homophobe, except his disdain for humanity ingeneral is so apparent that I'd just call him a misanthrope.As preciseand articulate as he is (possibly) insane, Sotos may well be the De Sade orBataille for the 21st century. ... Read more

Product Description
This annotated bibliography of research citations covers the topic of race and crime in the United States from 1950-1999. This work includes research on all racial groups, including whites and American Indians. Annotations are divided into categories such as works on individual racial groups and multi-racial groups. Includes edited collections, government reports, and electronic resources. ... Read more

Product Description
The bulk of research and writing in criminology remains highly, if not intentionally, ethnocentric and culturally bound. The field does exhibit a growing awareness of the potential insights we might gain from research in political and judicial systems outside the boundaries of our own. This bibliography assembles literature on delinquency and the operation of juvenile judicial and correctional agencies around the world. The international focus of this volume sets it apart from others. ... Read more

Product Description
This annotated bibliography reviews scholarly work on acquaintance and date rape. Works specifically on acquaintance or date rape are included, as well as earlier works that led to the emergence of the separate conceptual category of acquaintance rape. Each annotation includes a statement of the purpose, the method, and the major findings of the work. ... Read more

Product Description
Beginning with the 1760s, when lynching and vigilantism came into existence in what is now the United States, this bibliography fills a void in the history of American collective violence. It covers over 4,200 works dealing with vigilante movements and lynchings, including books, articles, government documents, and unpublished theses and dissertations. Following a chapter listing general works, the book is arranged into four chronological chapters, a chapter on the frontier West, a chapter on anti-lynching, and chapters on literature and art. ... Read more

Product Description
This broadly-based guide to recent work in the field encompasses references in gerontology, criminology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology, and allied disciplines. Containing over 360 thoroughly annotated citations, it provides access to current knowledge of both the victimization of the elderly and their participation in crime. It presents a careful assessment of each resource, including objectives and major conclusions. "a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. Highly recommended." Choice ... Read more

Product Description
This is the first comprehensive bibliography that deals with comparative criminology and significant works in the field dating from the 1960s. The guide covers 500 studies on crime, law, and social control in two or more cultures. The volume is organized into eleven chapters dealing with topics of major importance. Appendices point to useful sources for further research, and a full author and subject index is provided. ... Read more

Product Description
The issue of capital punishment is a continually debated issue because it calls into question the values and direction of society. How is a civilization supposed to handle lawbreakers? Are some crimes so heinous and some people so dangerous that the death penalty is the only appropriate response? The United States Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment," but opinions on whether that includes capital punishment are vehement on both sides. Many states have some form of death penalty, and public opinion seems to indicate support of it in principle. However, many firestorms have erupted recently over the application of the penalty, including the topics of its use on minors and those with mental disabilities. There are also questions raised about how much of a factor race plays in a capital sentence. Internationally, several countries have foresworn the death penalty, with certain countries in Europe and the Americas refusing to extradite criminal suspects (including suspected terrorists) to the U.S. if capital punishment is a possible sentence.With such politically flammable and ethically challenging issues hanging over it, capital punishment is a vitally important issue to understand. To help facilitate that study, this book assembles a carefully selected and substantial listing of literature focussing on the death penalty. Anyone researching this area of criminal justice will find this book an important tool as it offers easy access to the most relevant works about capital punishment. Following the bibliography, further access is provided with author, title, and subject indexes. ... Read more