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Sylvia Walby offers an alternative framework within which to theorize crisis, drawing on complexity science and situating this within the wider field of study of risk, disaster and catastrophe. In doing so, she offers a critique and revision of the social science needed to understand the crisis.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297530032501,"sku":"9780745647616","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745647616_14376fbf-4571-40c7-9530-0b6ff5da5ad0.jpg?v=1786014607"},{"product_id":"9781529232356","title":"Trafficking Chains – Modern Slavery in Society","description":"Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for policy. Despite economic development, modern slavery persists all around the world. The issue is not only one of crime but the regulation of the economy, better welfare, and social protections. Going beyond polarized debates on the sex trade, an original empirical analysis shows the importance of profit-taking. Although individual experience matters, the root causes lie in intersecting regimes of inequality of gender regimes, capitalism, and the legacies of colonialism. This book shows the importance of coercion and the societal complexities that perpetuate modern slavery.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303232483701,"sku":"9781529232356","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529232356_4f2421a5-0490-4871-8782-0783ec5cd058.jpg?v=1786021892"},{"product_id":"sex-crime-in-the-news","title":"Sex Crime in the News","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1991, \u003ci\u003eSex Crime in the News \u003c\/i\u003eis a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press. Analysing examples from forty years of newspaper coverage, the authors provide a systematic study of this controversial topic. The book reveals the misleading and trivializing nature of sex crime coverage, with serious research reports on rape and discussions on law reform being given short shrift. The authors examine the increasing gap between the reality of sexual abuse and the coverage it receives in the press, and they set their detailed empirical work within a context of broader concerns about the relationship between the media, the individual and the state. Critical though it is of the press, this book will be of special interest to people working in the media, and to legislators involved in debates about the press. It will also be of value to students on course in women’s studies, cultural and media studies, and deviancy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483305484661,"sku":"9781032461885","price":103.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032461885.jpg?v=1786178437"},{"product_id":"theorizing-violence","title":"Theorizing Violence","description":"Violence is increasing on many measures. As criminal justice and security interventions become more punitive, rising inequalities diminish the resources needed for resilience. When all governments proclaim the need to end violence, how can we make sense of this? Sylvia Walby offers new ways to theorize violence, placing it at the centre of society, not the periphery, and rethinking the relationship between violence and security. Arguing for an integrated analysis of internal and external security within a theory of society, she shows how neoliberal transformations have led to the growth of violence. Understanding these changes requires gendering theories of the state, the economy and civil society. With securitization growing while welfare and the regulation of the economy shrink, Walby uses complexity science to investigate the contradictions in state responses.    Crucially, this book offers a way forward, drawing on inspirational practices and cutting-edge social theory, to better understand violence and the causes of its variations.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682750210421,"sku":"9780745647593","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57499225686389,"sku":"9780745647586","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745647593_368734fc-df8b-4928-b599-46939fa752fa.jpg?v=1792511616"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sylvia-walby.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}