Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America
(2014)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2014). Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America. Journal of American Studies, 48(2), 156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000589
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Crime, community and morality (2014)
Book
Green, S. (2014). Crime, community and morality. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203101902Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis. ‘Where have our values gone?’ our newspapers scream at us. ‘Benefit scroungers’, ‘greedy bankers’, ‘intrusive journalists’, ‘have-a-go rioters’, political... Read More about Crime, community and morality.
Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject (2014)
Book
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. L. (2014). Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203069974Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in... Read More about Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject.
Depressed but not legally mentally impaired (2014)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2014). Depressed but not legally mentally impaired. International journal of law and psychiatry, 37(2), 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.010This article examines the mental impairment (insanity) defense in the Australian state of Victoria and argues that the defense is successful only when offenders suffer from psychotic mental illnesses. This raises the question about how non-psychotic... Read More about Depressed but not legally mentally impaired.