Expert contributing authors cover a wide range of corrupt practices committed by global actors involved in sporting practices, events, management and governance. Chapters address off-the-field exploitation such as fraudulent betting, embezzlement, vote buying and human trafficking as examples of growing ethical concerns within the sporting community. The Handbook also explores on-field examples, including international case studies of corruption in road cycling, Italian football and doping in Russian sport. They outline prevention strategies and law enforcement approaches to improve governance and support whistleblowers and disciplinary actions.

This Handbook is a vital resource for scholars and students of sport disciplines, particularly those researching economics, sociology, management and sports law. Its applied approach will also prove beneficial to governing bodies, managers and sport practitioners.

Faced with the widespread and radical forgetting of Christian tradition, this work models a renewed theological practice for teachers in line with Pope Francis' repeated calls for a dialogical theology: recontextualization.

Recontextualization is not about reading into the text what we want to hear. Instead, it is about engaging in a repeated process of meaning-making in order to listen to the way God continues to reveal Godself through the text in new contexts and in new times. Engaging with seven challenging biblical accounts, the book shows how these texts can open onto significant issues in contemporary culture and the Church.

Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries: Radical Traditions offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary examination of Arab women's radical modes of resistance from the 1970s to the present. Spanning literary, visual, political, social, digital, and translational practices, the volume reveals how women across the Arab world and its diasporas have established and transformed cultural, artistic, and spiritual traditions into powerful tools for confronting patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures.

Bringing together leading scholars in literature, film, visual culture, oral history, digital activism, and translation, the collection traces feminist interventions across key themes, including liberation and human rights, the disruption of social and gender norms, counter-memory as resistance, feminist resistance in conflict zones, and digital and translational activism. From Syrian Sufi-inflected poetics and Lebanese women combatants to Palestinian filmmakers, Sahrawi activists, and emerging dissident voices across Saudi Arabia, the Maghreb, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, the chapters illuminate the creative, strategic, and often paradoxical ways women contest and reconfigure power.

Rich in case studies, multimodal analysis, and decolonial feminist theory, this landmark volume offers an indispensable framework for understanding the depth, complexity, and transnational reach of contemporary Arab feminist praxis.

Bringing together material religion and discourse theory, this cross-disciplinary book argues that theories of embodiment and religion co-produce one another.
Responding to the scholarly turn towards embodiment and phenomenology beginning in queer studies and branching out into the humanities more broadly, Jessica A. Albrecht brings religion to the table. This book contends that, if the turn to materiality emphasizes what religion does in bodies and spaces, or how bodies make religion, it is equally important to ask whose bodies are made legible, and under what conditions they come to matter. By shining a light on this reciprocal relationship between religion and embodiment, Albrecht reveals the processes through which meanings, "bodies," and "religion" itself are made. Across seven chapters spanning intersectionality, queer and cuir theory, and crip studies, this book traces counter-genealogies which reveal how bodies become unintelligible within the regimes of religion, race, gender, and ability. Albrecht offers tools for examining how religious experiences are shaped by queerness, disability, and power, providing a fresh and inclusive perspective on how bodies and practices are central constituents of conceptions of religion. The resulting framework for religious studies pushes beyond normative views or religious-secular divisions, prompting readers to critically re-consider both "religion" and the "body."

This book paints a detailed picture of how anti-colonial publishing operated from the very heart of the British Empire in the middle of the 20th century.

Pointing to the vibrant interconnections between anti-colonial and Pan-African activists in Britain, it engages with their personal politics, political thought, and global links to recast how we think about both publishing and anti-colonialism at this time. It engages with activists on their own terms through a book history approach, one that takes seriously the printed manifestations of anti-colonial thought, and views printing and publishing as political activism.

Assessing various forms of Pan-African writing, from pamphlets and journals to novels and works of anthropology, this book unpacks how different activists 'did' their politics, and what these politics were. Delving into the literary works that supported and maintained British Pan-African activism, Writing against Empire highlights the central and crucial role of written texts to this movement. Unpicking the links between different thinkers and their works, and analysing how such a wealth of anti-colonial writers could operate within the very core of empire, Bowman gets to the heart of anti-colonial action in 20th-century Britain, and the centrality of print to this struggle.

Introducing 'cosmopolitans' as a growing group of global citizens, the book examines how this group values openness and cultural diversity and views this identity as a source of empowerment. Contributing authors discuss Finland as an in-depth case study, highlighting the country's acute need for international talent while acknowledging cultural and linguistic barriers to inclusion. The growing complexity of global mobility is also addressed considering technological advances, political tensions, pandemics and shifting legal frameworks. Ultimately, the book emphasises, and argues for, the importance of mobility in today's society.

The Many Faces of Global Mobility is a key resource for scholars and students in international business, management and migration studies, especially those seeking a greater understanding of contemporary mobility and the future of work. Practitioners and policy makers concerned with migration, inclusion and demographic challenges will also find its insights invaluable.

The reference text provides a holistic insight into critical areas of the supply chain and improves them by utilizing advanced technologies of Industry 4.0. It highlights the implementation of advanced technologies, such as Industry 4.0, digital supply chain, blockchain technology, smart factory, and circular economy. The book presents applications and case studies in the field of service and manufacturing sectors.

This book:

• Discusses smart manufacturing implementation and integration with advanced production processes.
• Focuses on advanced technologies such as logistics 4.0, warehousing 4.0, Industry 4.0, big data analytics, machine learning, blockchain, automation, smart factory, and operation management 4.0.
• Explores digital supply chain for smart operation and logistics systems.
• Showcases the benefits and applications of digitalization such as supply chain visibility, data-driven decision-making, cybersecurity and data protection, smart contracts, agile supply chains, and automation of processes.
• Provides insights on intelligent decision-making in supply chain and operation management.

It is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, production engineering, manufacturing engineering, management, product design, automotive engineering, and mechanical engineering.

A rich, interdisciplinary exploration of music through Japanese aesthetics that calls for a new way to think about nature and the role of silence.

The art, aesthetics, and philosophies of medieval Japan and its contemporary Kyoto School lie at the centre of this book. Daryl Jamieson applies East Asian aesthetics, rooted in nature and ways of being that are very different from those of late-capitalist subjects, to critique contemporary experimental music from both Japan and the western world.

Introducing the unique features of Japanese aesthetics, Jamieson connects it to the North American music tradition that includes John Cage and his deep interest in Zen and Fluxus artists such as Yoko Ono. His original interpretation of sound constructs a new way of being in the world, showing how we can cultivate a more ethical way of hearing which is grounded in our environment.

This is a treatise for an aesthetics grounded in Buddhism and a music based on the ethics of respect for the environment. For anyone interested in cross-cultural interpretations of art and reality, it tells us why listening to difficult, challenging and obscure music matters in our present era of crises.

This cultural history of thinking machines examines conceptions of the human as an automaton and the possibility of mechanised thought in philosophical and literary works from the seventeenth century to the 1840s, with particular emphasis on the Romantic period.

In the 2020s, there has been no escaping the debate over AI. Yet strong AI remains as much science fiction today as it was in the nineteenth century. Media archaeology has highlighted the ruptures and dead ends of technological development, recovering forgotten and obsolete technologies. Failed and imagined attempts to create thinking machines from Thomas Hobbes to Charles Babbage and from E.T.A Hoffmann to Edgar Allan Poe not only illuminate their own historical contexts; they also reveal the origins of the utopian hopes and dystopian fears that continue to shape responses to mechanised thought. Artificial Intelligence before Computers argues that we can move beyond the Romantic myth of AI only by recognising its historical roots.

Drawing on case studies from Britain, Germany and the United States, this book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars in history, philosophy, literary studies and media studies, as well as non-specialist readers seeking to understand the long history of AI.

Key Features:

• Includes ready-to-use checklists, templates, and step-by-step guides
• Draws on relevant case studies, such as the Barnes Foundation and Gurlitt collection
• Covers cross-border complications, including foreign tax implications and export restrictions
• Proposes an 'emotional economics' approach which addresses both the financial value and personal attachments to art
• Emphasizes succession planning as an ongoing process that anticipates change in art markets, legal environments, and family dynamics

This Practical Guide is an essential resource for estate planning lawyers, art collectors, and wealth managers. Artists and art institution administrators will similarly benefit from its pragmatic approach and actionable insights.

This book offers a holistic view of the complex dynamics of interpreter-facilitated legal interviews, elucidating insights into challenges and opportunities for effective communication in legal settings in today's multilingual world.

The volume sheds light on an underexplored area of research at the intersection of language and the law in its focus on legal interviews, a key dimension of legal communication. Xu adopts an ethnographic approach to data from authentic interviews at several legal aid institutions in Australia, supported by survey data with lawyers and interpreters from across Australia. Drawing on these different data sources, Xu explores the ethical, technological, and communicative challenges in interpreter-mediated legal interviews, from deviations in ethical standards by untrained interpreters to the difficulties of remote interpreting. In so doing, the volume puts in starker relief the importance of professional training, ethical practices, and proactive approaches in facilitating effective communication and access to justice for all clients in multilingual legal settings.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies and language and the law, as well as related areas such as legal studies and immigration studies.

The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies captures how discussions about disability have progressed since the 1990s, as well as grappling with the new debates over bodies and autonomy that are dominating various media today.

Providing newly written chapters by scholars from both the global north and the global south, the book offers a mix of experiential, creative, and progressive content, combined with theoretical and political commentaries, to provide an eclectic and holistic immersion in feminist disability scholarship. It covers topics as diverse as societal barriers; access to public spaces; neurodiversity, activism; hate crime, bullying and ridicule; media and cultural analyses and representation of disabled women; structural issues such as poverty, policy and their relation to care/autonomy; mothering, both in terms of access to reproductive care and the re-emergence of eugenics, and care ethics of mothering disabled people; and madness, personality disorder and the provocations of the medical model, in terms of the imperative for 'cure' or 'recovery'.

This collection will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, feminism, social work, cultural studies, human geography media, media studies and sociology.

Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Chapters assess current and historical overt and covert racism in healthcare, going beyond individual prejudice to examine how discrimination is built into organisational frameworks, health research and market regulations. Employing empirical, theoretical and practice-oriented research, contributors cover diverse fields such as elder care, sexual health services and pharmaceutical regulation. They also consider emergent debates around anticolonial work in education and community engagement. In documenting and interrogating racism in health, this Handbook contributes towards the development of a sustainable anti-racist and decolonial practice.

The Handbook of Racism, Ethnicity and Health is a key resource for scholars and students across the social sciences, especially critical health studies and critical race studies. By illustrating how racism takes place in care, educational and market settings the Handbook is of interest for healthcare policy makers and practitioners.

Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition.

Designed to provoke critical thinking, this text addresses the cultural frameworks of religious meanings and explores the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as it explains the ongoing process of interpretation in each religion. The following themes are covered in each religion:

• Scripture and Tradition
• Monotheism
• Authority
• Worship and Ritual
• Ethics
• Material Culture
• The Political Order
• Gender, Sex and Family

This third edition is fully updated throughout with a new introduction exploring religious diversity, new discussions of gender, sex, and family integrated into previous sections, detailed analysis of religious ethics covering topics such as war, the environment, and capital punishment, discussion of global aspects of monotheism such as missionizing, imperialism, and postcolonialism, and new images and inset text boxes to help guide students and instructors.

The book is an ideal resource for anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Western and World Religions.

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World takes readers on a whirlwind journey through over two millennia of sources that provide insight to the lives and lore of remarkable women in the Celtic tradition.

From approximately 500 BCE, when the so-called 'Lady of Vix' was interred in her Hallstatt-era cart burial in what would become Central France, to the twelfth century when the Irish, Welsh, and Scots navigated the changes brought by Anglo-Norman colonization, women's stories trace the rise and fall of the Celtic-speaking world. The chapters provide a broad and varied examination of historically attested women as well as the mythological, literary, and legendary women of the medieval tradition. Finally, women of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'Celtic Revival' movement demonstrate the continued significance of the ancient and medieval Celtic past into the modern era.

While the Celtic past is all too often ignored or fetishized, this book provides readers with a concise yet fully contextualized introduction, valuable to anyone seeking to better their understanding of women's history and Celtic history.

Focusing on children's literature, comics, and digital media, this book explores alternative forms of translation, which differ from the more traditional approaches and practices in these fields and from the predominant conceptualizations of translation.

Alternative translation has been selected as an overarching theme for this project as it has the potential to provide an effective framework for examining underexplored translation activities and cultural contexts. We use it to revisit existing areas of translation and to shed more light on newly-emerging translation territories. The book offers a combination of European and non-European perspectives and several languages represented, including English, Polish, Japanese, Spanish and Catalan. The diverse forms of alternative translation examined in the book include digital manga translation, fan translation, scanlation, transcreation, indirect translation, visual translation, and competing (re-)translations. By exploring these areas, this volume shows valuable contrasts and enables new and more nuanced understandings of translation in general. Connecting Japan, Spain, and Poland under the umbrella of alternative translation, it also invites exploration of other semi-peripheral and non-hegemonic sociocultural contexts.

The book will provide insights for scholars, teachers, and postgraduate students in translation studies, children's literature studies, comics studies, cultural studies, fan studies, and media studies.

Creative Arts PhD Compass: Essential Insights from Practice to Wellbeing equips creative arts doctoral candidates with the knowledge and frameworks to navigate their PhD with confidence and clarity, fostering genuine research independence at every stage.

Organised around eleven decalogues, each comprising ten key principles, the book guides scholars through both fully written and creative artefact theses. It can be read sequentially or used as a reference, with individual decalogues consulted as needed. Rather than prescribing universal rules, it offers decision-making frameworks and contextually informed principles that reflect the lived reality of doctoral study, encompassing its technical, practical, existential, emotional, ethical, and intellectual dimensions. The book's structure allows readers to engage with each stage before reaching it, anticipating challenges rather than encountering them unprepared. Extensive suggested reading lists direct scholars to resources suited to their own focus and circumstances.

This book is for anyone considering or currently undertaking a creative arts PhD and is especially valuable for practitioners coming to academic research for the first time. It accompanies the scholar from the decision to enrol through to completion, preparing them for the requirements, challenges, and complexities unique to creative arts doctoral study.

This is the first book to critically examine England football fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam through the lens of a sports mega-event, drawing on fan experiences at the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, the first staged in an Islamic society.

Drawing on pre-event interviews, audio-visual diaries, field observations, and post-event reflections with England fans, the book examines whether short-term sporting events can produce transformational shifts in fans' attitudes towards Muslims and Islam, or whether they reinforce existing prejudices despite unprecedented opportunities for intergroup contact. To do so, it develops a novel theoretical framework by integrating Gordon Allport's contact theory with Edward Said's Orientalism, offering a unique lens for understanding intergroup encounters in a sporting context. Arriving at a critical juncture between the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia, as Arabian Peninsula states will likely assume a greater role in global sport, the book makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of football fandom, anti-Muslim prejudice, and the potential for sport to address wider social and cultural issues.

This book is fascinating reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the sociology of sport, social psychology, postcolonial studies, and tourism and events, and will appeal to anybody with a broader interest in football fandom, intergroup relations, Orientalism, or the cultural politics of sports mega-events.

Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but these issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology.

Vaccine hesitancy stems from a range of concerns, many of which are fueled by misunderstandings about vaccine technology, conspiracy theories, or misconceptions about scientific research. While some grounds for vaccine hesitancy are clearly irrational, other concerns appear more reasonable. This is the first volume to offer a comprehensive exploration of the interplay of epistemological and ethical dimensions of vaccine hesitancy from a post-COVID perspective. The chapters in the first part of the volume reflect on the epistemology of vaccine hesitancy. They address issues related to trust and expertise, probability literacy, and epistemic justice. The second part covers the ethics of vaccine hesitancy and the implications for public policy. These chapters explore the moral implications of free riding, as well as the complex interplay between individual rights, public health, and the collective good. Together, they help us to consider where the line between personal freedom and civic responsibility should be drawn.

The Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy will be of interest to philosophers and graduate students working in epistemology, applied ethics, bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and political philosophy.

This book explores the participatory economy model (parecon) as a democratic alternative to capitalism and central planning. Written from an accounting perspective, it addresses two critical challenges in implementing this theoretical framework: product categorisation and contextualising annual planning.

It outlines a comprehensive product catalogue framework by analysing how consumers and producers influence product categorisation, design, and production processes across nine distinct product types, which collectively shape annual planning proposals, costing, and pricing mechanisms. Further, the book positions the contextualisation of annual planning clearly and concretely within the framework of the ongoing and complex relations existing in an open, fair and democratic modern economy. It identifies the most important coordination tasks and support functions necessary in a participatory economy for the formal annual planning procedure and the implementation of a fair and efficient agreed annual plan. Overall, the author proposes possible and viable ways to bridge the gap between abstract economic theory and the present reality, illuminating complex issues and demonstrating how a participatory economy can function efficiently without markets or private ownership.

The work emphasises democratic decision-making, equitable income distribution, and self-management while providing detailed frameworks for price formation, production coordination, and investment planning in a complex modern economy. As such, it will appeal to researchers, scholars and students of heterodox economics, political economy, and socialist theory, as well as activists and practitioners interested in alternative economic systems.

This publication is not approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Social Security Administration. The information contained in this publication can be found free of charge at www.ssa.gov

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. This completely updated Handbook, organized by section number, is a readable, easy-to-understand reference for comprehending complex Social Security programs and services and contains information on several topics relevant to Social Security policies:

?How Social Security programs are administered
?Who is and isn't covered under retirement, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance programs
?Who is responsible for submitting the necessary evidence to support a claim
?How claims are processed by the Social Security office
?What Social Security benefits are owed to you
?How to obtain information about your rights under Social Security policy

The Handbook is designed to help users understand the gray areas of the Social Security Act, and to provide critical information about rights and obligations under Social Security laws.

The Handbook outlines how to:
?Protect your benefits and avoid benefit loss;
?Monitor government agencies and get information about policy changes that will affect your benefits;
?Make the most of hospital and Medicare coverage;
?Determine the amount of benefits that are subject to federal income taxes;
?Check Social Security earnings and benefits; and
?Get up-to-date news about future Social Security programs and services.

Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community introduces a holistic understanding of smart living that values both efficiency and empathy, repositioning the idea of smart housing within a human-centered, culturally grounded, and socially aware framework.

In recent decades, the notion of "smart housing" has evolved into a dominant paradigm within architecture, planning, and urban innovation. Yet, much of this discourse remains narrowly focused on technological efficiency, automation, and energy optimization. This book challenges this limited view by exploring the deeper layers of what it truly means for a home, and by extension, a community, to be "smart." It argues that genuine intelligence in housing cannot be reduced to devices, data, or digital connectivity alone, but must also encompass cultural meaning, social interaction, and emotional attachment. The book unfolds in three analytical layers: 1. The House: as an individual unit of living, exploring its psychological, spatial, and sensory meanings; 2. The Home: as a lived and emotional space, shaped by identity, memory, and self-expression; 3. Housing and Neighborhood: as collective systems of life, where cultural intelligence and everyday practices sustain social cohesion. The book draws inspiration from real-world examples including the Dutch woonerf and field observations from Bojnord, Iran, to show how the idea of "everyday intelligence" already exists within lived social patterns. These cases illustrate that true smartness may arise not only from technology but from community behavior, shared awareness, and mutual care.

This book invites scholars and students, urban policymakers, designers, architects, and anyone who has ever wondered what makes a home and neighborhood truly smart to rethink the smart home as a living, learning environment: one that cultivates resilience, inclusivity, and emotional well-being.

The making of multicultural Britain is often dated to the arrival of the Windrush in 1948, but this obscures the lives of the many colonized migrants who were already surviving, and often thriving, in the metropole long before 1948.

This book follows early twentieth century migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean from their recruitment in the colonies through their varied exploits and experiences in Britain. It affords a window into life in multicultural working-class settlements before and between the world wars, offering unprecedented granular detail about who such migrants were, where they came from and moved to, how their networks and institutions in Britain functioned, how much they mixed with and married local people, and whether these patterns persisted or altered as new waves of migrants joined them over time.

Weaving multiple stories together, Colonized Migrants in Imperial Britain tells of the opportunities seized; the networks, communities and kin that were sustained; and the strategies used to make ends meet. Often marginalised, policed and subordinated, this book shows how colonized migrants overcame formidable institutional obstacles to take part in, enrich, and build modern British society.

As businesses face growing pressure to accurately disclose environmental and social impacts, AI and Sustainability Reporting: Advancing Sustainability, Accountability, and Corporate Governance explores how artificial intelligence (AI) addresses core challenges of sustainability reporting. This book uniquely examines AI's specific role in improving data quality, enhancing comparability, supporting predictive analysis, and strengthening corporate transparency to meet rising regulatory and stakeholder demands. Uniquely bridging sustainability reporting, corporate governance, regulations, and digital transformation, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and risks of AI-enabled reporting. It distinguishes itself by tackling pressing concerns, including greenwashing, algorithmic bias, explainability, data governance, and the institutional challenges of building accountable reporting systems. Written for academic and professional audiences, this book provides a rigorous and accessible resource that uniquely contributes to current debates on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting, responsible business, and AI-driven corporate accountability. Designed to serve advanced students, researchers, practitioners, regulators, and policymakers at the intersection of sustainability and emerging technologies, it delivers practical knowledge and original analysis unavailable elsewhere.

Examining contemporary ideas like collective leadership, implicit leadership theories and the active role of followers, contributors establish models that go beyond legal compliance to foster genuine belonging. Developing a more globally representative understanding of the discipline, chapters feature perspectives underrepresented in traditional research including Indigenous and culturally diverse approaches from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook emphasizes the role of followership, exploring its development and influence within sport organisations and leadership dynamics. It also addresses key challenges shaping modern sport, such as diversity, sustainability, crisis situations and the role of emerging technologies.

The Handbook of Sport Leadership is a valuable resource for business scholars and students, especially those specializing in sports management. Combining theoretical insights with practical application, the Handbook is also a useful guide for sports leaders and business operators seeking to promote inclusive, ethical and adaptable sport leadership in practice.

Going beyond typical genderblind analyses, contributors illustrate how anti-gender ideology, reproductive constraints, backlash against feminism and hostility towards LGBTIQ identities are both responses to and exacerbated by the polycrisis. Chapters demonstrate gender's centrality in different dimensions of this phenomenon, including war and conflict, the care crisis, migration, masculinity and race. In addition to addressing exigent contemporary issues, this book also adopts a historical viewpoint, highlighting the long shadow of colonisation as a key dimension of the polycrisis.

Gender Politics in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political science and theory, gender studies and international relations seeking insights into the most extant geopolitical and social issues faced by society today. Due to its relevance, this book will also be an enlightening read for anyone interested in investigating current affairs through a gendered lens.

John R. Hipp evaluates innovative techniques such as measuring and estimating spatial mobility and the impact of the larger city context on neighborhood-level crime modeling. Chapters assess the importance of longitudinal data, neighborhood change and the feedback effects of crime in understanding why crime concentrates in some neighborhoods and not others. Posing key questions for scholars, the book debates the future direction of research on the social, spatial and structural forces that shape the geography of urban crime.

Rethinking Neighborhoods, Crime and Place is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice, geography and sociology, especially those seeking a greater understanding of the relationship of crime to spatial scale. Practitioners and policymakers in urban planning, housing and policing will also benefit from its timely insights.

This full-color text offers a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, Newbold provides undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the field.

Key Features:
End-of-chapter Focus boxes weave in substantive discussions of interesting current issues, and Methods, Measures, and Tools boxes illustrate how population geography questions are tackled
Learning objectives at the start of each chapter establish key concepts for learning and end of chapter study questions ensure concepts are retained
End of book Glossary of Terms and Population Website Resources offer additional avenues for student learning


New to this Edition:
Impacts of COVID-19 on mortality, fertility, and mobility patterns
Expansion of non-US examples to highlight key concepts
Recent trends and policy updates

Employing pluralist democratic theory, agenda setting scholarship and critical race theory, contributors explore politics in legislatures and courts, spatial boundaries, accountability systems, micropolitical negotiation and community mobilization. They review education politics in both urban and rural communities, illustrating its implications at the local, state and national level. Drawing on commentaries on ethics and injustice, the Modern Guide to Education Politics in the US advocates for public education's thoughtful and persistent engagement with politics.

This timely Modern Guide provides valuable insights for scholars and students of education policy reform, particularly those focused on contemporary US education policy. Practitioners and policymakers working in education will also benefit from the book's approach to prescient debates in the field.