Routledge International Handbooks
The Routledge International Handbook on Hate Crime
1st Edition
Edited
By Nathan Hall, Abbee Corb, Paul Giannasi, John Grieve
August 02, 2017
This edited collection brings together many of the world’s leading experts, both academic and practitioner, in a single volume Handbook that examines key international issues in the field of hate crime. Collectively it examines a range of pertinent areas with the ultimate aim of providing a ...
Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Giulianotti
July 06, 2017
The sociology of sport is a core discipline within the academic study of sport. It helps us to understand what sport is and why it matters. Sociological knowledge, implicit or explicit, therefore underpins scholarly enquiry into sport in every aspect. The Routledge Handbook of the Sociology of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology
1st Edition
Edited
By Liqun Cao, Ivan Y. Sun, Bill Hebenton
July 06, 2017
As the world’s second-largest economy, China has made great progress in developing criminology. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology aims to be a key reference point to summarize the large body of literature in both Chinese and English about various aspects of crime and its control in ...
The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Pickering, Julie Ham
July 06, 2017
The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration is concerned with the various relationships between migration, crime and victimization that have informed a wide criminological scholarship often driven by some of the original lines of inquiry of the Chicago School. Historically, ...
Routledge International Handbook of Medical Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Khalid Abdulrahman, Stewart Mennin, Ronald Harden, Catherine Kennedy
June 29, 2017
Twenty-first century medical schools, postgraduate bodies and other medical education organisations are responding to rapid advances in medicine, healthcare delivery, educational approaches and technology, and globalisation. Differences in geography, culture, history and resources demand diversity ...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Milena Parent, Jean-Loup Chappelet
June 20, 2017
From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management surveys the management of sports events around the world of every size and scale, from small to mega-events, ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise
1st Edition
By Joseph Baker, Damian Farrow
May 25, 2017
Understanding and developing expertise is an important concern for any researcher or practitioner working in elite or high performance sport. Whether it's identifying talented young athletes or developing methods for integrating cutting-edge sport science into daily coaching practice, scientists, ...
Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn
May 24, 2017
World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and ...
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike McNamee, William Morgan
May 24, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport is a landmark publication in sport studies. It goes further than any book has before in tracing the contours of the discipline of the philosophy of sport and in surveying the core themes, approaches and theories that form its disciplinary fabric. ...
Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Williams, Robert Wood, Jonathan Parke
May 24, 2017
Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet ...
Routledge Handbook of Body Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan Turner
May 18, 2017
In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and ...
Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Verner Møller, Ivan Waddington, John Hoberman
May 17, 2017
Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and ...