This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…
Section I: The crime and justice landscape -- 1. Fifty years of Australian criminology; Duncan Chappell -- 2. A short history of New Zealand criminology; James Rodgers and Philip Stenning -- 3. Public sector criminological research; Russell G Smith -- 4. The Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators; David Biles -- 5. Crime and justice data; Fiona Dowsley and Timothy Hart -- 6…
PART I: Problems from the Margins: Young People, Social Control and Injustice -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Young People, Marginality and Social Control -- Chapter 2. Schools, Discipline, Racism and Disaffection -- Chapter 3. Employment, Discrimination and Stigmatising Discourses -- Chapter 4. Young People, Police Officers and the Barriers to Enacting Procedural Justice -- Chapter 5. The Judiciar…
1. Introduction -- 2. Studying Penal Policy -- 3. Penal Policy, Politics and Public Opinion -- 4. The Politicisation of Women’s Penal Policy -- 5. The Campaigners -- 6. The Journalists -- 7. The Political Decision-Makers -- 8. Media, Politics and Penal Reform -- 9. Conclusion .This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crim…
Section I: A Country-Specific Focus on Domestic Homicides and Death Reviews -- Chapter 1. An International Comparison of Domestic/Family Violence Death Reviews -- Chapter 2. United States -- Chapter 3. Canada -- Chapter 4. United Kingdom -- Chapter 5. Australia -- Chapter 6. New Zealand -- Section II: Understanding the Challenges, Benefits and Impacts of Domestic Violence Death Reviews -- Chapt…
1. Plotting Crimes: Early Crime Writings in Bangla and their Contexts -- 2. Bleak Houses: Domestic Dystopias and Crimes in Bankim’s Bishbrikhha and Krishnakanta’s Will -- 3. Wanton Wives and Widows: Investigating Female Bodies in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 4. Deviant by Design: Female Criminals in the Daroga Accounts of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay -- 5. Detection and Desire…
Chapter 1. Modernization, Globalization, and the Emerging Challenges to Criminal Justice in -- Chapter 2. Birth of Criminology in Colonial South Asia: 1765-1947 -- Chapter 3. Evolution of Criminology and Criminal Justice Education in India -- Chapter 4. Modernization and Advances in Crime Measurement and Crime Classification in -- Chapter 5. Criminalization of Child Abuse and Violence against C…
Possible Meteoroid Streams Associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 -- Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? -- The Problem of Linking Minor Meteor Showers to Their Parent Bodies: Initial Considerations -- Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years -- Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The NEOSSat Mission -- Dynamical Relation of Meteo…
Kinematics of the continuous media -- Stress Tensor -- Balance principles -- Constitutive relations -- Variational methods.This book develops a modern presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the fields of nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. The kinematics of the continuum deformation, including pull-back / push-forward transforma…
Theoretical Approaches -- Conservation laws for three-phase partially saturated granular media -- Thermally-induced pore pressure generation in a nearly-saturated cementitious material -- Strain localisation simulation in non-isothermal multiphase geomaterials -- Non-linear behaviour in the deformation and localization analysis of unsaturated soil -- A process-oriented approach to compute THM p…