1. Context: “Cyberspace”, “Race” and Community Resilience -- 2. Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines -- 3. How Cyber Users Experience and Respond to Racism: Evidence from an Online Survey -- 4. Racism and the Affordances of the Internet -- 5. Targets -- 6. Racist Narratives Online -- 7. Building Online Communities of Resistance and Solidarity -- …
This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape. An in-depth analysis and appreciation of the literature surrounding police socialisation, identity and culture is combined with a comprehensive four-year longitudinal study of new recruits to a police force in England. The result offers new insight…
This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems. The authors introduce and contribute to advancing a new research agenda in international penology (‘Europe in prisons’) which complements the conventional comparative approach (‘prisons in Europe’). The chapters examine the impact – if any – that institutions such a…
This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoreti…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752 -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation -- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Index.Open AccessThis bo…
1. Introduction -- PART I. SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE THEFT OF NATURE -- 2. The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide -- 3. The Archipelago of Chiloé and the Uncertain Contours of its Future -- 4. Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South -- 5. Mining in Colombia -- PART II. THE TAKE OVER OF LAND AND THE PLUNDERING OF ITS PRODUCTS -- 6. Glo…
Part 1: CP context and processes -- Introduction -- Community policing in support of social cohesion -- Fostering accountability in community policing -- Community policing: The relevance of social contexts -- CP core components -- Part 2: European CP practices and case studies -- Community policing and radicalization: Evaluation and European examples -- Police liaison approaches to managing po…
Chapter 1. Mafia and Organised Crime: the Spectrum and the Models -- Chapter 2. Case Study 1 - Italy & the Structure Model -- Chapter 3. Case Study 2 - United States of America & the Enterprise Model -- Chapter 4. Case Study 3 - Australia & the Visibility Model -- Chapter 5. Case Study 4 - United Kingdom & the Activity Model -- Chapter 6. Convergences and Divergences across the Four Models -- C…
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Obscenity and Prosecution Practice in the 21st Century -- Chapter Three: The Legislative History of the s 63 Offence -- Chapter Four: The Mediatisation of the Extreme Pornography Debate -- Chapter Five: Deconstructing the Elements of the s 63 Offence -- Chapter Six: Prosecutions, Convictions and Sentencing -- Chapter Seven: CPS Case Files Review: Settin…
Chapter 1. Vulnerability as a Contemporary Challenge for Policing -- SECTION ONE: CONCEPUTALISING POLICING ENCOUNTERS WITH VULNERABILITY -- Chapter 2. Problematising and Reconceptualising ‘Vulnerability’ in the Context of Disablist Violence -- Chapter 3. Embodying Youthful Vulnerabilities and Policing Public Spaces -- Chapter 4. Moral Vulnerability and Police Defensiveness in Accountability…