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From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the
development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion
of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and
economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural
form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume,
contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in
comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic,
narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth
to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the
form will go from here.
From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the
development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion
of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and
economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural
form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume,
contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in
comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic,
narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth
to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the
form will go from here.
"Tackling prison overcrowding" is a response to controversial
proposals for prisons and sentencing set out in by Lord Patrick
Carter's "Review of Prisons", published in 2007. The Carter review
proposed the construction of vast 'Titan' prisons to deal with the
immediate problem of prison overcrowding, the establishment of a
Sentencing Commission as a mechanism for keeping judicial demand
for prison places in line with supply, along with further use of
the private sector, including private sector management methods.
"Tackling prison overcrowding" comprises nine chapters by leading
academic experts, who expose these proposals to critical scrutiny.
They take the Carter Report to task for construing the problems too
narrowly, in terms of efficiency and economy, and for failing to
understand the wider issues of justice that need addressing. They
argue that the crisis of prison overcrowding is first and foremost
a political problem - arising from penal populism - for which
political solutions need to be found. This accessible report will
be of interest to policy makers, probation practitioners, academics
and other commentators on criminal policy.
The Government has embarked on a programme of radical reform for
the probation and prison services with the setting up of a National
Offender Management Service (NOMS). The aim is to make the two
services work more effectively together, and to promote private
sector involvement in 'corrections' work. This groundbreaking
volume takes a critical look at the different aspects of the NOMS
proposals, at a time when the Government is still working out the
detail of its reforms. No other academic publication has
scrutinised the NOMS proposals so closely. Through six
contributions from leading experts on probation and criminal
justice the report identifies the risks attached to NOMS; assesses
the prospects of success; provides ideas for reshaping government
plans and presents an authoritative critique of a set proposals
that could go badly wrong. The report will be crucial reading for
politicians, civil servants and criminal justice managers. Senior
probation and prison staff will find it of particular value.
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Just after the Second World War Rosie Baker, a working girl from
the slums of inner-city Auckland, beaten and close to death, is
dumped from a flash city car onto the long grass outside an
isolated farm gate. The two young farmers, maimed by war wounds and
recovering from combat-induced madness, battling both the hostile
and marginal farm, as well as their own insanity, fight to save
Rosie. As Rosie recovers, she sees her chance to build a new life
for both herself and the men, but Rosie's secrets and her own
pathology bring the men and those around them to the edge of
disaster. A gritty story set in the back country of New Zealand in
the late forties. It takes us back to the great tradition of New
Zealand rural story telling. The plot is fast-moving, the
characters likable and although it is set in a time now past, it
examines themes that are important today. Following a long career
in education, Rob Allen is now emerging as a genuine New Zealand
author, and the settings and characters, in his four novels to
date, reflect that. He lives in Auckland and is passionate in his
love for New Zealand; its places, people, landscape; and believes
it to be a naturally spiritual place. This is Rob Allen's fourth
novel. He has also written Apparition, Sons of the Poison Tree, and
Mishi's Gift.
At a time when problems of crime and antisocial behaviour stimulate
debate on big society solutions, this book provides an exceptional
means of tracing a line of response which began at the end of the
18th century. Nipping Crime in the Bud explores the origins and
development of the Philanthropic Society (and its influence on
contemporary institutions) amid growing alarm about crime levels,
Draconian sentences under England's Bloody Code and a paucity of
effective crime prevention measures. Driven by Enlightenment zeal
and ideals, this was the first voluntary sector charity devoted to
'nipping crime in the bud'. It did so through education, training,
accommodation, mentoring and support for young people. Uniquely,
the book traces the first hard won policy networks and partnerships
between government and the voluntary sector. It reveals
how-sometimes against the odds, with funding on a knife edge but
constantly striving for effective answers-influential
philanthropists rose to the challenge and changed approaches to
young people involved in crime and delinquency, traces of which
endure today within the great crime prevention charities which
still rally to this cause. Muriel Whitten's book draws on
previously neglected archival sources and other first-hand research
to create a formidable and illuminating account about what, for
many people, will be a missing chapter in English social and legal
history. Review 'Describes in colourful detail the background to
the founding of the Society and how its founders and their
successors worked. It explains how their plans were put into
practice, how they governed and how they acquired support. It
skilfully deals with questions that are still asked today such as
to what extent are children to be held responsible for wrongdoing?
... Dr Whitten is admirably suited to write such a book ... and]
her knowledge and experience are distilled in this comprehensive
and well-written book': John Hostettler, legal historian. Read the
full review Author Dr. Muriel Whitten has been a youth and family
court magistrate and a member of West Sussex Probation Committee.
She has lectured widely on criminal justice matters at Goldsmith's
and Birkbeck (University of London), the University of Ulster and
has presented for CENTREX (now the National Policing Improvement
Agency). She has also contributed a weekly column to the Belfast
News Letter.
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