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Today, Sussex is best-known to railway aficionados as the home of
the Bluebell Line, Great Britain's first preserved standard gauge
passenger-carrying railway, but at one time the sound of steam
could be heard across the county. Many main line routes had been
electrified in the 1930s but only the passenger services were
affected and, well into the BR era, steam traction continued
unchallenged on a variety of tasks, ranging from Bulleid Pacifics
on long distance inter-regional expresses to diminutive LBSCR
'Terriers' pottering around on menial shunting duties. Some
distinctive designs, such as the elegant Billinton K Class
'Moguls', were closely associated with Sussex and gave the county a
special identity. Using some of the most evocative images available
this album vividly recalls the closing years of steam in this
much-loved county.
London's position as Great Britain's Capital city ensured it had
special status and nearly all of the famous, prestigious named
trains such as the 'Cornish Riviera Express', 'Royal Scot',
'Atlantic Coast Express' and 'Flying Scotsman' fanned out from the
Capital. Locomotive sheds such as Kings Cross and Stratford had a
proud tradition and were renowned for the exemplary condition of
many locomotives in their care. In addition to long-distance
expresses London also boasted a dense suburban network, much of
which was still steam operated well into the 1950s, and there were
also massive marshalling yards to deal with huge amounts of goods
traffic. Using the best available photographs from the collections
of some of the most accomplished photographers this album vividly
portrays the twilight of the steam age in the Capital from the
mid-1950s to the end of BR steam traction in July 1967.
When British Railways took its first hesitant steps towards
modernisation, it was probably disappointing for railway fans when
the first main line diesel locomotives emerged in the black livery
used on steam traction in the same power classification. Railway
bosses must have had a change of heart in the mid-1950s because, on
19th August 1956, a party touring Derby works discovered Nos. 10000
and 10201 standing in the paint shop bedecked in green livery
together with a diesel shunter that was undergoing the same
treatment. This marked the beginning of the green diesel era which
lasted until official policy changed in favour of corporate rail
blue in 1965. The change was only gradual, however, and it was many
years before green disappeared completely from the scene. Using
some of the most evocative images available, this album will
rekindle happy memories for the many who witnessed this era and
provide an insight into the diesel railway at that time for those
not so lucky.
Corrections: A Critical Approach (third edition) confronts mass
imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest
incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more
troubling considering that its correctional population is
overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and
social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social
forces shaping penal practice in the US politics, economics,
morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and
theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both
instrumental (goal-oriented) as well as expressive (cultural)
explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the
growing reliance on incarceration.
Covering five main areas of inquiry penal context, penal
populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state this
book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate
students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of
penology.
From ancestors and animal spirits to elementals and
extraterrestrials, Spirits Unveiled presents an impressive variety
of energetic beings and teaches you how to connect with them. Each
chapter introduces a particular kind of spirit and provides an
example of sensing its presence, methods for identifying and
connecting with it, and strategies for setting boundaries. Michelle
Welch demystifies concepts and debunks misconceptions about
different spirit beings, and she shares ideas for honoring them.
Spirits Unveiled explores inspirational spirits like angels and
spirit guides as well as scarier entities like ghosts and demons.
You'll learn how to scry with elementals, connect with an ascended
master, protect against psychic attacks, astral travel, and more.
Featuring meditations, visualizations, and inspiring stories, this
book helps boost your intuition and spiritual experience.
Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases is a handy reference source for
scientists, students, and physicians needing reliable, up-to-date
information on basic mechanisms, physiology, pathophysiology, and
medical issues related to brain vasculature. The book consists of
short, specific chapters written by international experts on
cerebral vasculature, and presents the information in a
comprehensive and easily accessible manner. The book also contains
valuable information on practical applications of basic research.
Key Features
* Presents topics in a comprehensive and accessible format
* Written by international authorities on cerebral
vasculature
* Provides practical applications for researchers
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. As conceptualized throughout this richly
illustrated book, the Bastille Effect represents the unique ways
that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both
physically and culturally. In their afterlives, these sites deliver
critiques of political imprisonment and the sustained efforts to
hold perpetrators accountable for state violence. However, for that
narrative to surface, the sites are cleansed of their profane past,
and in some cases clergy are even enlisted to perform purifying
rituals that grant the sites a new place identity as memorials. For
example, at Villa Grimaldi, a former detention and torture center
in Santiago, Chile, activists condemn the brutal Pinochet
dictatorship by honoring the memory of victims, allowing the space
to emerge as a "park for peace." Throughout the Southern Cone of
Latin America, and elsewhere around the globe, carceral sites have
been dramatically repurposed into places of enlightenment that
offer inspiring allegories of human rights. Interpreting the
complexities of those common threads, this book weaves together a
broad range of cultural, interdisciplinary, and critical thought to
offer new insights into the study of political imprisonment,
collective memory, and postconflict societies.
Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass
imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest
incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more
troubling considering that its correctional population is
overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.
Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and
social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social
forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics,
morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and
theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both
instrumental (goal-oriented) as well as expressive (cultural)
explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the
growing reliance on incarceration.
Covering five main areas of inquiry - penal context, penal
populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state - this
book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate
students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of
penology.
The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the
attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying
what is known as dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim
subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the Disneyland
"experience, becoming the antithesis of the happiest place on
earth." In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of
international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores
ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex
interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz to the
Argentine Penitentiary, museums constructed on the former locations
of surveillance, torture, colonial control, and even rehabilitation
tell unique tales about the economic, political, religious, and
scientific roots of each site's historical relationship to
punishment.
From the Foreword "Michael Welch's book is an invitation to think.
It is an invitation to grow intellectually and critically, as a
consumer of crime policy and an observer of the American scene.
Written by a scholar who has dedicated his work to uncovering the
hidden ironies of formal crime policy, this is a collection of
essays of depth and significance." -Todd R. Clear, Distinguished
Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Praise for Ironies
of Imprisonment: "The American correctional system is too often
misshaped by a toxic mixture of ideology, anti-intellectualism,
wishful thinking, and structural interests. Michael Welch uses his
substantial critical skills to illuminate how these various factors
intersect to create policies and practices that produce, in the
end, more injustice and less public safety. His sobering analysis
deconstructs the rhetoric used to justify mass imprisonment and its
unanticipated, disquieting consequences." -Frank Cullen, University
of Cincinnati "Michael Welch has written a book which anyone who is
looking for an alternative to conventional and conservative
approaches to prisons and punishment should read. Welch provides
the groundwork for the development of a penology which engages
critically with the growing tensions and ironies of imprisonment."
-Roger Matthews, Middlesex University Ironies of Imprisonment
examines in-depth an array of problems confronting correctional
programs and policies from the author's singular and consistent
critical viewpoint. The book challenges the prevailing logic of
mass incarceration and traces the ironies of imprisonment to their
root causes, manifesting in social, political, economic, and racial
inequality. Key Features A compelling Foreword written by Todd E.
Clear, an internationally recognized leader in the field of
criminal justice. Chapters open with illuminating real-life
vignettes and end with provocative review questions. The author's
knowledgeable and dynamic voice provides a consistent perspective
on key issues such as the war on drugs, the war on terror, prison
violence, capital punishment, health care, and the prison industry.
Up-to-date presentation of pertinent subject matter, including
chief developments in research and theory. Discussion of the
problems facing corrections in a post-September 11th world. Unique
and accessible, this book promises to stimulate spirited discussion
and debate over the use of prisons. Ironies of Imprisonment is
recommended reading for students in corrections classes at the
undergraduate and graduate levels in sociology, criminology, and
criminal justice departments. In addition, it can be used in
conjunction with a core text in courses on policy, theories of
punishment, and social problems. The book will also be of interest
to a general audience interested in reading about incarceration.
Michael Welch is the author of numerous articles and several books
on the subject of punishment and social control, including
Punishment in America (1999), Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the
Criminalization of Protest (2000), and Detained: Immigration Laws
and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex (2002). He has correctional
experience at the federal, state, and local levels. Welch received
a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas, Denton and
is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
In this new book, readers are treated to a huge variety of views
illustrating numerous different vehicles from all three pregrouping
companies that made up the Southern Railway, as well as vehicles
built by the SR itself. The images portray the coaches both solely,
in various formations, and sometimes in their final days, stored or
in departmental use. Informative and detailed captions complement
the illustrations. Liveries are also varied-red, crimson and cream,
green, and even Bullied designs in BR Maroon. The author is well
respected and will need no introduction to the railway fraternity.
Renowned for his ability to locate amazing color images, his books
on Southern matters have ensured a wide following, and this is
certain to be no exception.
"A superb book on the treatment of race, gender, and punishment."-
Susan L. Miller, professor of sociology and criminal justice,
University of Delaware "This volume stands as first-rate evidence
that the sociological imagination is alive and well. The
contributors move the discussion of race, gender, and social
control beyond the statistical morass with their
historically-situated analyses that simultaneously demonstrate the
diversity of socially constructed categories."-Claire M. Renzetti,
University of Dayton The disproportionate representation of black
Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented.
Far less well-documented are the entrenched systems and beliefs
that shape punishment and other official forms of social control
today. In this book, Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin bring together
twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only
the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and
cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the
current situation. Contributors point to four major factors that
have impacted public sentiment and criminal justice policy:
colonialism, slavery, immigration, and globalization. In doing so
they reveal how practices of punishment not only need particular
ideas about race to exist, but they also legitimate them. The
essays unearth troubling evidence that testifies to the nation's
brutally racist past, and to white Americans' continued fear of and
suspicion about racial and ethnic minorities. The legacy of slavery
on punishment is considered, but also subjects that have received
far less attention such as how colonizers' notions of cultural
superiority shaped penal practices, the criminalization of
reproductive rights, the link between citizenship and punishment,
and the global export of crime control strategies. Mary Bosworth is
University Lecturer in criminology and fellow of St. Cross College
at the University of Oxford. Jeanne Flavin is an associate
professor in the sociology and anthropology department at Fordham
University.
"Michael Welch?s book is an invitation to think. It is an invitation to grow intellectually and critically, as a consumer of crime policy and an observer of the American scene. Written by a scholar who has dedicated his work to uncovering the hidden ironies of formal crime policy, this is a collection of essays of depth and significance. Those who read it will be challenged, and those who engage with the challenges contained within these pages will have their views of the realities of penal policy changed: deepened, and made more honest, more complete. More true." --from the Foreword by Todd R. Clear, Florida State University Punishment in America offers readers a critical examination of the so-called back end of the criminal justice system, namely, incarceration. The book integrates various levels of analysis ranging from the macrosociological aspects of punishment to the meso (organizational) and micro (individual) dimensions of imprisonment. The overarching themes of Punishment in America are social control and the ironic effects of incarceration. In an effort to reduce crime, the criminal justice system ironically produces various self-defeating measures. Moreover, these pitfalls in current correctional policy and practice which neglect fundamental social inequality merely compound the problem of crime.
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