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This book explores California's prison system in the context of
vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first
century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform
efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to
rehabilitation through vocational education required "evidence" to
justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes
evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically
pre-conceived, which means that the nature of the evidence
collected is also preconceived. As a result, key assumptions about
outcomes are often wished away to show improvement and be
accountable. Through a detailed analysis interspersed with stories
from the authors' experiences "behind the wall" among California's
prison population, the authors challenge the nature of
evidence-based research as used in the prison environment. In the
process they describe the thorny problems facing reformers.
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of
refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and
moral assumptions of the ?international refugee relief regime.?
Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian
relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are
determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for
?victims? is observed in the close relation between the interests
of the popular press and the decisions made by bureaucracies.This
presents a paradox in all humanitarian relief organizations, but
perhaps no more so than in the Rwanda Relief Operations (1994-96)
which ended in the largest mass forced repatriation since the end
of World War II. This crisis is analyzed with an assumption that
there is a basic contradiction between the demands of the
bureaucratized organization and the need of relief agencies to
generate the emotional publicity to sustain the interest of
northern donors. The book concludes by noting that if refugee
relief programs are to become more effective, the connection
between the press's emotional demands for ?victims? and the
bureaucratic organizations's decision processes need to be
identified and reassessed.
This interesting and accessible volume examines several immigrant
populations and explores why waves of youthful crime emerge in some
of those populations but not in others. Author Tony Waters uses
data from 100 years of Unites States immigration records
(particularly in California) to examine immigrant groups such as
Laotians, Koreans, and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well
as Mexicans and Molokan Russians in the early 20th century. Crime
and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process
that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either
the home or host culture. Water concludes that when an immigrant
group has a large population of young males (and not all immigrant
groups do), it creates the potential for patterned
misunderstandings between immigrant parents and their children.
This situation, in turn, provides conditions for a predictable
outbreak of crime within deviant subcultures (i.e. gangs), as shown
in numerous case examples. Waters also explains how youthful
immigrant crime often erupts because of the structural
relationships between immigrant groups and the host community
rather than the cultural differences imported from abroad.
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins
8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to
provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive
farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative
world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale
subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has
given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book
is about how the modern market world transformed these remote
agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate
how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence
farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th
century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the
entire modern world.
"Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan" is about the organization of
refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and
moral assumptions of the "international refugee relief regime."
Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian
relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are
determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for
"victims" is observed in the close relation between the interests
of the popular press and the decisions made by bureaucracies.This
presents a paradox in all humanitarian relief organizations, but
perhaps no more so than in the Rwanda Relief Operations (1994-96)
which ended in the largest mass forced repatriation since the end
of World War II. This crisis is analyzed with an assumption that
there is a basic contradiction between the demands of the
bureaucratized organization and the need of relief agencies to
generate the emotional publicity to sustain the interest of
northern donors. The book concludes by noting that if refugee
relief programs are to become more effective, the connection
between the press's emotional demands for "victims" and the
bureaucratic organizations's decision processes need to be
identified and reassessed.
Max Weber believed that discipline underpins modern rationalized
society. For Weber, modern discipline is the quality that gives a
population the capacity to coordinate action across vast expanses.
But modern discipline also requires individuals to shape their very
psychobiological being to fit the larger socioeconomic system, be
it a military unit, factory, bureaucracy, or other unit of modern
society. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline explores
how Weber developed his ideas using examples from Ancient Egypt to
the modern world and asks how his description of a habitus of
discipline informs understanding of modernity not just in Europe
but in places that continue to befuddle well-educated and well-paid
modern economists, strategists, and politicians in places like the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar/Burma. These are the
areas that, as Weber would have said, are still governed by
traditional authority rather than the legal- disciplined habitus of
rational authority brought by the modernizing outsiders. This book
challenges development economists, foreign service officers,
government officials, administrators, and development workers to
rethink modern discipline and the costs that modern legal-rational
rule imposes on traditional societies. By doing so, this book goes
beyond standard prescriptions for good governance, free markets,
and property rights, which underpin modern development planning. To
describe modern discipline, Tony Waters also draws on more the
contemporary work of Karl Polanyi, James Scott, Goran Hyden, Teodor
Shanin, and James Ferguson, among others. Each describes how and
why independent peasantries ignored and even resisted the
blandishments and trinkets proffered by development bureaucracies
to sell their traditional rights in the modern marketplace. Waters
agrees with them about farmer resilience, but he takes the argument
a step further by pointing out that Weber was proposing a general
theory of a disciplined modernity, not one focused on just a
particular society.
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This interesting and accessible volume examines several immigrant populations and explores why waves of youthful crime emerge in some of those populations but not in others. Author Tony Waters uses data from 100 years of Unites States immigration records (particularly in California) to examine immigrant groups such as Laotians, Koreans, and Mexicans in the late 20th century, as well as Mexicans and Molokan Russians in the early 20th century. Crime and Immigrant Youth is a unique study of migration as a process that sometimes leads to youthful crime beyond the norms of either the home or host culture. Water concludes that when an immigrant group has a large population of young males (and not all immigrant groups do), it creates the potential for patterned misunderstandings between immigrant parents and their children. This situation, in turn, provides conditions for a predictable outbreak of crime within deviant subcultures (i.e. gangs), as shown in numerous case examples. Waters also explains how youthful immigrant crime often erupts because of the structural relationships between immigrant groups and the host community rather than the cultural differences imported from abroad.
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