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…
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…
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…
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. 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…
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 …