Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK -- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures -- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative …
1: Introduction -- 2: Ibn Khaldun -- 3: Karl Marx -- 4: Harriet Martineau -- 5: Max Weber -- 6: Jose Rizal -- 7: Emile Durkheim -- 8: Said Nursi -- 9: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati -- 10: Florence Nightingale -- 11: Benoy Kumar Sarkar -- 12: Epilogue.-.This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including…
Chapter 1. Constructing Victimhood in Culture and Law -- Chapter 2. Victims in Public Policy -- Chapter 3. Support Services for Victims in England & Wales -- Chapter 4. Victims and the Criminal Justice Process -- Chapter 5. Victim Compensation, Restitution and Restorative Justice -- Chapter 6. Victim Capital and Victim Policy Networks -- Chapter 7. Victims of Crime: Constructions, Governance an…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Societal-level Changes and Criminogenic Strain -- Chapter 3. Individual-level Changes and Criminogenic Strain -- Chapter 4. Mediating Mechanisms of Strain and Delinquency -- Chapter 5. Coping Mechanisms for Strain and Delinquency -- Chapter 6. Strain, Coping, and Delinquency among Different Groups of Youth -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.This book explores two maj…
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…
Introduction Chapter One: A History of War in the Postcolonial State -- Chapter Two: The End: Atrocity in a State of Denial -- Chapter Three. Post-War Lived Experience: ‘Sinhalisation’ -- Chapter Four: Tamil Separatism and Commemorative Practices -- Chapter Five: Transnational Discourses of Terrorism, Humanitarianism and Sovereignty -- Chapter Six: Sri Lankan Reconciliation and the Appropri…
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these dev…
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy and policing, using both direct (e.g. 'stop and search' methods) and technological intervent…
This book offers Walters's latest evolution of criminal lifestyle theory. It introduces the concept of criminal thought content to illustrate how the potential interplay between what offenders think and their thought processes can greatly aid our understanding of both crime and criminals. In this new study on criminal behaviour, Walters calls for criminological theory to be placed within a broa…
Chapter One. Outlining the Crime Drop -- Chapter Two. Critiquing the Crime Drop -- Chapter Three. Explaining the Crime Drop I: Developing a Case Study of Political Change in England and Wales -- Chapter Four. Explaining the Crime Drop II: Responding to Rising Crime Rates in England and Wales -- Chapter Five. Congruence Testing -- Chapter Six. Conclusion.The crime drop is one of the most importa…