Publications

Patricia Hill Collins and John Solomos (April 2010) The Sage Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies.

Sage

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Alice Bloch and John Solomos (January 2010) Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century

Palgrave Macmillan

The 21st century has seen important changes in the role of race and ethnicity. Exploring original research, empirical data and theory, this book examines major questions and issues around housing, employment, asylum, crime and health.

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John Solomos ( Dec 2009) Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital

Routledge

This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities, family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types and national boundaries. Based on new empirical data from fairly distinct sets of transnational family networks in minority communities with a substantial presence in the United Kingdom it examines their lived experiences and uses the concept of social capital to explore how these families manage to maintain close and meaningful links.

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Les Back and John Solomos (2009) Theories of Race and Racism: A reader

Routledge

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader is an important and innovative collection that brings together extracts from the work of scholars, both established and up and coming, who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as an historical and contemporary phenomenon.

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Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill and Frank Webster (2008)
Anti-War Activism New Media and Protest in the Information Age

Palgrave Macmillan

This thoroughly interdisciplinary book is the first major study of the anti-war movement after the recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Brimming with empirical material that comes from two years of fieldwork and capturing the passions of its subjects, Anti-War Activism addresses post-9/11 circumstances, the character of Information War that promotes ‘symbolic struggles’, and the changed information environment of war.

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Make Poverty History ; Political Communication in Action. Nicolas Sireau

Palgrave Macmillan

Make Poverty History was a major episode of protest that took place in 2005 in the UK, with the aim of influencing the G8 meeting in July of that year in Edinburgh. This book follows the campaign throughout its lifetime and unpacks the tensions that developed around the branding of Make Poverty History, particularly the conflict between campaigners and marketers over the content of messages. Looking at how attitudes towards government and political opportunities influenced the negotiation of communications, it analyses how these communications were understood by the campaign's three audience segments: the mass public, the interested and the activists. It looks at public stereotypes on global poverty and whether the campaign managed to modify them. It maps out Make Poverty History's frame on economic justice and confronts it with audience reactions. The book ends by looking at the campaign's troubled relationship with celebrities.

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Pam Davies, Peter Francis, Chris Greer (2007) Victims, Crime and Society

London: Sage pp 304

Organized around the intersecting social divisions of class, race, age and gender, Victims, Crime and Society provides an engaging and authoritative overview of the nature of victimisation in society. In addition to a review of the major theoretical developments in relation to understanding aspects of victimization in society, individual chapters explore the political and social context of victimisation and the historical, comparative and contemporary research and scholarly work on it. Victims, Crime and Society is the essential text on victims for students of criminology, criminal justice, community safety, youth justice and related areas.

'This book achieves the rare feat of helping its readers without patronising them. The aids to the reader - tables, boxes, glossaries, questions, and suggestions for further reading - will prove genuinely helpful to students and their teachers, but they appear within a text that is theoretically informed as well as comprehensive and up to date in its coverage. It deserves to be widely read and used in the teaching of criminology, victimology, and criminal justice.'
Professor David Smith, University of Lancaster, UK

'Focusing on key issues, themes and concepts within victimology, this edited collection provides an accessable and comprehensive critical analysis of crucial areas within victimisation. The main theories are related to, and integrated with, empirical research in an engaging style.'
Dr Anette Ballinger, Keele University

Eugene McLaughlin (2007) The New Policing

London, Sage, p.xii+ pp246

The New Policing provides a comprehensive analysis of the critical issues confronting policing today. It overviews traditional approaches to the study of the police as well as engaging with contemporary perspectives. The book goes on to examine key research issues, including: the core purpose of contemporary policework; the reconfiguration of police culture;

- organisational issues and operational dilemmas currently confronting the police; the managerial reforms and professional innovations that have been implemented in recent years; and the futures of policing, security and crime control. The book concludes with one of the first detailed discussions of the predicaments facing the UK police associated with countering the new terrorist threat.

The New Policing re-examines and re-thinks the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Drawing upon research evidence from the United Kingdom, the United States and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance and challenges of policing in postmodern societies.

”A lucid, comprehensive and stimulating state-of-the-art analysis of the bewilderingly complex contemporary changes in policing. This will be a standard resource for students and scholars of policing for a long time to come.”

Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science

“Highly original, The New Policing is a significant contribution whose implications extend well beyond the British context and reflect on contemporary policing across the English-speaking world.”

Pat O’Malley, Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University, Canada

“Deeply informed, penetrating, challenging and readable. Eugene McLaughlin analyses 'the state we're in' with respect to policing”

P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Reading, UK

“The landscape of police and policing is rapidly changing. McLaughlin locates this change in the media imagery of policing and in the very real fragmented, global context of contemporary policing. When I got to the end, I wanted the debate to continue. This book is valuable in taking our discussions about policing and policing from a clear documentation of how much has changed in policing England and Wales in the last 20 years.”

Professor Elizabeth Stanko, Metropolitan Police

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