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The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by experts from around the world with expertise that spans the fields of Art Theory, the Social Sciences, and Visual Studies.

The second edtion of this authoratitive handbook draws on the work of leading academics from four continents in order to introduce up-to-date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood.

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on TV and the new forms of advertising on the Internet and social network sites in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters summarize research on crosscutting issues including, political and electoral

The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy addresses perhaps the most important issue in the hosting of major contemporary sporting events: the problem of `legacy¿. It offers a rigorous, innovative and comparative insight into this contested concept from interdisciplinary and practical perspectives. From `hard¿ legacies, such as stadia and infrastructure, to `soft¿ legacies including skill development, attitude change and capacity building, the book establishes the limits of what can realistically be achieved in terms of economic, social, cultural, physical and sporting development.Including contributions from world leading scholars and practitioners and featuring detailed case studies of major sports events from around the world, this book is invaluable reading for students and researchers working in sport studies, events management, human geography, economics or planning, and an essential reference for any professional engaged in delivering legacy through sport.

Football is big business. The top teams and leagues in world football generate billions of dollars in revenue and serve an audience of billions of fans. This book focuses on the marketing of football, as the apex of the contemporary football industry. Drawing upon key theories and concepts in sport marketing research, it highlights the critical

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of behavioral economics which considers both key developments and future possibilities. Part One looks at the origins and development of the field, exploring the work of the scholars who were influential in making this area so prominent. Part Two considers applications of behavioural economics.

This handbook examines current trends and reforms in public policy and administration. The two themes of the book are that public policy and administration have acquired an important global aspect, and that a critical role for government is the regulation of capital.

The handbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. With contributions from over 50 leading authors, the Handbook presents a systematic overview of political ecology's origins, practices and core concerns, and aims to advance both ongoing and emerging debates.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims¿ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current victims¿ issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original contributions from current leaders in the field, surveying victims¿ rights in the United States, victim participation in the criminal justice system, victims¿ welfare and needs, and most notably the services that have been developed in response. A section on special populations in the United States brings focus to current and emerging issues faced within the United States, while a section covering international and transnational victimization explores globalization and the implications of other legal traditions and systems.

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication, building a critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

Organized into four sections, this Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty.

Written by expert scholars, service providers, policy analysts, and health-care professionals, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for those already working in the field, as well as for students in any discipline who want to learn (or learn more) about HT and modern-day slavery.

The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education.

Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this fully revised second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies offers a conceptual and truyely global approach to the study of international migration.

Written in collaboration with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and Le Notre, this handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of teaching landscape subjects, from geology to landscape design, reflecting different perspectives and practices at university level landscape curricula.

The handbook engages with comprehensive, contemporary and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. It draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions.