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This book speaks to those interested in topics related to
punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment.
Punitiveness has been the focus of increasing criminological
attention in recent decades. This book extends this focus by taking
a multi-disciplinary approach to examining punitiveness in the
criminal justice system, the welfare system, and the education
system in British society today. In doing so, this study uses new
survey data (n=5,781) applying ordinal and linear regression and
structural equation modelling to examine the relationship between
public punitiveness towards ‘rulebreakers’ and political
values. This is explored through assessing punitive attitudes
towards the treatment of i) school pupils who break school rules,
ii) towards the treatment of benefit recipients who fail to comply
with the rules, and iii) towards people who break the law. It
examines the relationship between political attitudes
(neo-conservative values, neo-liberal values), nostalgic values
(social, economic, and political), and public punitive attitudes
towards the three rule-breaking groups. This book’s appeal may
extend to an interdisciplinary audience including welfare,
education, and social policy disciplines.
This book brings together some of the key researchers and thinkers
in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex
and/or queer (LGBTIQ+) teacher research. The authors offer
international perspectives on the state of play for LGBTIQ+
teachers and engage with some of the key issues that have and
continue to shape research. Importantly, this book offers accounts
from trans*/non-binary teachers and researchers as well as
racialised LGBTIQ+ teachers and researchers—voices that have been
absent from the field for too long. The book also offers
reflections upon the history of research with LGBTIQ+ teachers and
offers an examination of the impact of political and legal changes
for LGBTIQ+ people upon teacher identity. The book does not
understand the process of change as simple—from intolerance to
tolerance—rather, it understands that change is complex, nuanced
and experienced differently across and between contexts. As such,
it provides readers with a challenge—to accept all that it means
to be an LGBTIQ+ educator, including unhappy histories, complex
relationships with schools, systemic homophobia and transphobia,
and moments of pride and joy. This book was originally published as
special issue of the journal Teaching Education.
The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for
institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more
generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically. This
book seeks to address that oversight by building on existing
studies which have approached the notion of a legacy to offer a
clear definition and operationalisation of the term which might be
used to inform future research. Legacies we view as traces of the
past in the present; the claim to the existence of a legacy is both
a causal and a counter-factual claim. We propose, in the light of
this, a multi-dimensional approach to gauging political legacies,
reflecting on some of the theoretical, analytical and
methodological concerns which need to be addressed in establishing
credible claims to their existence. These we develop and illustrate
with respect to the literature on Thatcherism.
Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New
York Times Book Review) page-turner of greed and obsession,
survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of
one unforgettable female con artist. At the end of the 1990s, with
the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss
Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City,
selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored
900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest
champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture
of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a
shark with outstanding business acumen. To others, she's a
heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can
make. But a thousand miles from the Big Apple, in the small town of
Pierson, Illinois, Miss Farwell is someone else entirely-a quiet
single woman known as Becky who still lives in her family's
farmhouse, wears sensible shoes, and works tirelessly as the town's
treasurer and controller. No one understands the ins and outs of
Pierson's accounts better than Becky; she's the last one in the
office every night, crunching the numbers. Somehow, her neighbors
marvel, she always finds a way to get the struggling town just a
little more money. What Pierson doesn't see-and can never
discover-is that much of that money is shifted into a separate
account that she controls, "borrowed" funds used to finance her art
habit. Though she quietly repays Pierson when she can, the business
of art is cutthroat and unpredictable. But as Reba Farwell's deals
get bigger and bigger, Becky Farwell's debt to Pierson spirals out
of control. How long can the talented Miss Farwell continue to pull
off her double life?
The first two decades of the 21st century have been characterised
by conflict, displacement, growing economic insecurity and
austerity. Increasing social polarisation has meant that
contemporary societies are becoming more unequal with smaller
segments of the population having access to the most wealth.
Ongoing conflicts around the world and the ongoing refugee crisis
in Europe has only intensified calls for justice, equity,
compassion and understanding. We live in times of despair and
conflict, but also times of hope and action. Social Justice in
Times of Crisis and Hope examines the possibilities and
consequences of the relationship between young people, well-being,
education and social justice in times of crisis and hope. Drawing
together contributions from around the globe, the chapters examine
the role of young people in contemporary social movements, the
kinds of demands that are being made by the world's young people
and the spaces within which they are making such demands. Authors
engage with notions of justice and well-being, what this means in
the contemporary moment and for whom. They interrogate the politics
of increasingly global education to think about the limits and
possibilities, challenges and opportunities, for education to play
a role in delivering on the promise of social justice.
The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social
problem in its own right, with a significant number of citizens in
many countries concerned about crime. In this book, the authors
critically review the main findings from over 35 years of research
into attitudes to crime, highlighting groups who are most fearful
of crime and exploring the theories used to account for that fear.
Using this research, the authors move on to propose a new model for
the fear of crime, arguing that such methods, which involve
intensity questions (such as 'how worried are you about x ...'),
may actually conflate an 'expressive' or 'attitudinal' component of
the fear of crime with an experiential component and therefore fail
to provide a comprehensive insight into how crime is perceived.
Taking an entirely new approach to their subject, the authors use
existing quantitative data from the British Crime Survey to pose
theoretically informed questions to help identify those who only
'expressively' fear crime, separating them from those who have the
actual experience of worrying about crime. By exploring the extent
to which each group has different social attitudes and backgrounds,
and whether there is more than one social/cultural form of the fear
of crime, this innovative and exciting title promises to reposition
this aspect of criminology to a more prominent place.
Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both
young and adult offenders have become established in the UK as an
important new component of penal policy - the ISSP (Intensive
Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for persistent and serious
young offenders, and the ICCP (Intensive Control and Change
Programme) for adult offenders. Expectations of these programmes
have been high, but the evidence relating to their effectiveness is
mixed, and a number of critical concerns have emerged. This book
seeks to address these issues, providing a timely review of the
current literature, and presents findings of a recent national
evaluation of ISSP. Emerging lessons for future penal policy are
presented, and set within a wider theoretical context. The book
concludes by stressing the need for greater realism and further
evidential support if such programmes are to gain long-term
credibility, and also to consider the appropriateness of differing
forms of targeting as well as the emphasis placed on the various
methods of surveillance.
Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both
young and adult offenders have become established in the UK as an
important new component of penal policy the ISSP (Intensive
Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for persistent and serious
young offenders, and the ICCP (Intensive Control and Change
Programme) for adult offenders. Expectations of these programmes
have been high, but the evidence relating to their effectiveness is
mixed, and a number of critical concerns have emerged. This book
seeks to address these issues, providing a timely review of the
current literature, and presents findings of a recent national
evaluation of ISSP. Emerging lessons for future penal policy are
presented, and set within a wider theoretical context. The book
concludes by stressing the need for greater realism and further
evidential support if such programmes are to gain long-term
credibility, and also to consider the appropriateness of differing
forms of targeting as well as the emphasis placed on the various
methods of surveillance.
The concept of the political legacy, despite its importance for
institutionalist and historically-minded political analysts more
generally, remains both elusive and undeveloped theoretically. This
book seeks to address that oversight by building on existing
studies which have approached the notion of a legacy to offer a
clear definition and operationalisation of the term which might be
used to inform future research. Legacies we view as traces of the
past in the present; the claim to the existence of a legacy is both
a causal and a counter-factual claim. We propose, in the light of
this, a multi-dimensional approach to gauging political legacies,
reflecting on some of the theoretical, analytical and
methodological concerns which need to be addressed in establishing
credible claims to their existence. These we develop and illustrate
with respect to the literature on Thatcherism.
When Max takes his dog, Sammy, to play fetch at the park, he has no
idea that his life is about to change forever. As he chases Sammy
through the trees, he enters an amazing place - the kingdom of
Terra Libre. Sir William, a Master Knight, offers to train Max in
the art of knighthood and Max wants nothing more than to learn to
sword fight, but the path to knighthood is more difficult than he
could have imagined. When danger strikes, Max has a choice to make.
Will he stay in Terra Libre and become a knight? Or will he be able
to find Sammy and return home in safety? One thing is for certain,
Max will never be the same again
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