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Israel Studies in Criminology, founded by Shlomo G. Shohamand endorsed by the Israel Society of Criminology, has brought criminology in the Israeli context to the English-speaking world since 1970. The chapters in this volume feature a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in the context of Israel. The guiding theme is Tradition (and culture) and Innovation as either contributing to a particular crime problem such as violence against women or to solutions as revealed in the chapter on rehabilitating inmates in Kibbutzim. Edna Erez and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian write that culturally-sensitive approaches sometimes lead to policies of malign neglect; they argue for policies of respect based on contextually-sensitive approaches. Shoham outlines the mindset that carries out suicide bombings as a sequel to a harsh cultural conflict that raged throughout the ages. In these chapters, we are reminded that crime has a past and a future, in theory and practice. Nick Tilley compares the e

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Tradition and Innovation in Crime and Justice
• Author: Shoham, Shlomo G. Shoham, Slomo G. Shoham
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9780969870784
• ISBN: 9780969870784
• ID: 07424970
• Publisher: de Sitter Publications
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2004

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