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Once Upon A Place: The Fading Of Community In Rural Kentucky, Kenneth Tunnell
Once Upon A Place: The Fading Of Community In Rural Kentucky, Kenneth Tunnell
Kenneth Tunnell
Across the globe, something is amiss. Even pedestrian observation recognizes that rural communities and small towns are fundamentally changing. Local economies, generations-old cultures, and ingrained ways of life are being severely altered. Within the United States, these changes are symbiotically tied to the demise of the family farm. The decline in family farming and -- the so-called “development” of the country-side -- race along unimpeded and, in fact, are aided by public officials and their policies. With these two great and fundamental changes – the downturn in family farming and the general paving of paradise – locally owned and operated …
Living Off Crime, Kenneth Tunnell
Living Off Crime, Kenneth Tunnell
Kenneth Tunnell
A sociological exploration of highly active property offenders who commit themselves to careers in serious property crimes, such as burglary and armed robbery. This book takes the unique approach of situating these criminal careers within the fundamental sociological concepts of social class, criminal subcultures, and consciousness. Kenneth D. Tunnell brings class back into the dialogue of property crime among the highly criminally active and economically marginalized, and gives considerable treatment to the subcultural values of this group. The book does not ignore the politics of repetitive property offenders' behaviours; rather, it describes their actions as political, yet absent of politicized …
Pissing On Demand : Workplace Drug Testing And The Rise Of The Detox Industry, Kenneth Tunnell
Pissing On Demand : Workplace Drug Testing And The Rise Of The Detox Industry, Kenneth Tunnell
Kenneth Tunnell
Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demandexamines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like "body flushers" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Timesthat make no bones about their real purpose. The first expose of the detox industry in all its manifestations, this book …
Political Crime In Contemporary America: A Critical Approach, Kenneth Tunnell
Political Crime In Contemporary America: A Critical Approach, Kenneth Tunnell
Kenneth Tunnell
Nine essays explore not only politically motivated crimes against the state, but also harmful acts committed by the government, a category usually omitted in discussions of political crime. Among the topics are social relationships that can be considered criminal but are legal, debunking the "pro-life" agenda, the role of the state in violence against women, and hate crimes and the far right.