Taking Sides Clashing Views in Crime and Criminology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078050375 ISBN 13: 9780078050374

Publisher: Dushkin Pub Group, 2012

Synopsis

Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources. Taking Sides readers also offer a Topic Guide and an annotated listing of Internet References for further consideration of the issues. An online Instructor’s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each volume. Using Taking Sides in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit www.mhhe.com/takingsides for more details.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas J. Hickey is the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Government at the State University of New York (SUNY Cobleskill). He received his bachelor s degree from Providence College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Sam Houston State University, and a law degree from the University of Oregon, School of Law. His areas of expertise include criminology and law and he is the author of two books, Criminal Procedure (McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2001, 1998) and Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Criminal Justice (McGraw-Hill, 2007) as well as many journal articles. He is a licensed attorney as well who specializes in the areas of labor law and tort litigation.

Thomas Devaney is the author of five poetry collections: RUNAWAY GOAT CART (Hanging Loose Press, 2015), CALAMITY JANE (Furniture Press Books, 2014), The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014), A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES (Fish Drum, 2007), and The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and a nonfiction book, Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). Devaney teaches creative writing at Haverford College where his collaborative projects with faculty and staff include the poetry tree tour "Under An Oak" and "INSIDE," a meditation on space and confinement. He is the editor of the e-journal ONandOnScreen. Devaney's poems have been included in several anthologies, including EMERGENCY INDEX (Ugly Duckling Presse), A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 1 (Fence Books), POEM: POETS ON (AN) EXCHANGE MISSION (Fish Drum/Double Change, bilingual French-English edition), Walt Whitman, Hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point Press and Editions Joca Seria), and American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). From 2001 to 2005 he was program coordinator of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Projects with the Institute of Contemporary Art include "Tales from the 215" for "Philadelphia Freedom" with Zoe Strauss and the "The Empty House" at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for "The Big Nothing." Other projects include poems written for "Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009). Devaney earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dushkin Pub Group
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0078050375
• ISBN 13: 9780078050374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 482
• Editor: Hickey Thomas J., Devaney Thomas