1: Myths and Histories of Italian Sociology -- 2: The Post-War Period: ‘Inventing’ Sociology in Italy -- 3: The Hubs of Newborn Sociology -- 4: The Dream of Institutionalization -- 5: A Fascinating and Precarious Project: Sociology in Trento -- 6: After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists -- 7: Entrenchment and the Emergence of New Structures -- 8: Routinization and Globalization: the 1…
Fluctuation Correlation Spectroscopy in Cells: -- Dynamics of the Cell Membrane Observed under the Evanescent Wave Microscope and the Confocal Microscope -- Using GFP and FRET Technologies for Studying Signaling Mechanisms of Apoptosis in a Single Living Cell -- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Study on Protein-Protein Interaction in Single Living Cells -- Functional Optical Cohere…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Researching Judges in China -- Chapter 3. The Chinese Judiciary and Its Gendered Construction -- 3.1. The Chinese Judicial System and Practice -- 3.2. Women Judges and Their Work in Court -- Chapter 4. Women in the Judiciary -- 4.1. Entry into the Judiciary and Career Paths -- 4.2. Women’s Position in the Judiciary -- Chapter 5. Women and Judging -- 5.1. …
1. Introduction -- 2. The Play of Power in the Politics of Harm -- 3. Palm Oil in Colombia: National and Local Context -- 4. Colombia’s Contested Grounds -- 5. Preparing the Ground: Discourses, Mechanisms, and Impacts -- 6. Reaping the Fruits -- 7. Conclusion: to Miss the Forest for the Trees? -- Annex: List of Interviews and Site Visits.This book examines the politics of harm in the context …
Introduction -- PART I: HOW TO ASSESS COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- The Concept of Compliance -- The TRIPS Agreement: Developing Global Rules for Intellectual Property Protection -- A Framework for Assessing Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement -- PART II: ASSESSING COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT IN CHINA -- Implementing the TRIPS Agreement in China -- Assessi…
This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of ‘vindicators’ or how common citizens turned into ‘evil’ modern heroes in the press, and the…
1. Thinking Through Critical Criminology -- 2. Censure: Moral and Sociological -- 3. Restoring the Crime-Poverty - Class Inequality Link -- 4. Two Accounts of Censure -- 5. Anti-Racist Criminology? -- 6. The Social Censure of Hidden Youth in Hong Kong -- 7. Sex Work, Censure and Transgression -- 8. Mitigating and Responding to Corporate Violence: Beyond Crime and Criminology -- 9. Idealism, Vio…
Section 1. Desistance Pathways for Specific Offender-Groups -- Chapter 1. Narratives of Punishment and Frustrated Desistance in the Lives of Repeatedly Criminalised Women; Serena Wright -- Chapter 2. ‘I Want to Be a Dad to Him, I Don’t Just Want to be Someone He Comes and Sees in Prison’; Emily Turner -- Chapter 3. The Desistance Process of Offenders Who Misuse Drugs; Charlotte Colman and…
1. Towards Global Gambling -- 2. Bringing Crime to the City? Casinos, Betting Shops and Criminality -- 3. Gambling, Problem Gambling, Crime and the Criminal Justice System -- 4. Organised Crime, Gambling and Illegal Gambling -- 5. Gambling, Sport and Corruption -- 6. Internet Gambling, Crime and the Regulation of Virtual Environments -- 7. Gambling and Crime: Myths and Realities.This book explo…
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfa…