New in the Library

The political economy of new slavery
Edited by: Christien van den Anker
Published by: Palgrave, 2004
This volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration, with specialist empirical chapters on specific forms of contemporary slavery, such as trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, latin America and Africa.

Child pornography
An Internet crime
By: Max Taylor and Ethel Quayle
Published by: Brunner-Routledge, 2004
The availability of child pornography on the Internet has become a cause of huge social concern in recent years. This book considers the reality behind the often-hysterical media coverage of the topic. Drawing on extensive new research findings, it

• Examines how child pornography is used on the Internet
• Identifies the social context in which such use occurs
• Develops a model of offending behavior to help better understand and deal with the processes of offending