1. Introduction: Change and Continuity.- 2. UK Drug Policy -- 3. Local Impacts of Policy.- 4. The International Context.- 5. The Battle of Ideas -- 6. The Battle of Interests.- 7. Evidence and Policy.- 8. Politics and Drugs Policy in Britain.- 9. Conclusion: Conflict Resolution?.This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified repres…
Chapter 1. The Case for a Criminology of Disaster -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Fear in the Disaster Context -- Chapter 3. Property Crime in Disaster -- Chapter 4. Interpersonal Violence in Disaster -- Chapter 5. Fraud in Disaster -- Chapter 6. The Resilience of Crime< -- Chapter 7. The Resilience of Communities -- Chapter 8. Culture and a Criminology of Disaster.This book puts forward a compre…
This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationshi…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 …