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High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making (2017)
Book Chapter
Brennan, I. R. (2017). High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making. In W. Bernasco, J.-L. van Gelder, & H. Elffers (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of offender decision making (421-444). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.013.17

This chapter describes the contradictory roles that weapons play in offender decision making as mechanisms that can both increase the physical harm to a victim of violence and also reduce the need for physical harm in victims of robbery. Because weap... Read More about High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making.

The Violence of Workfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J., & Whyte, D. (2017). The Violence of Workfare. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (59-66). London: Pluto Press

This chapter analyses the testimonies of 97 people who have participated in ‘workfare’ schemes in the UK and have raised concerns about the health and safety risks experienced on these placements. Overall, these placements, which were carried out bet... Read More about The Violence of Workfare.

Austerity and the Production of Hate (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2017). Austerity and the Production of Hate. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (217-223). London: Pluto Press

The Violence of Austerity collects the voices of campaigners and academics to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies dismantled the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity... Read More about Austerity and the Production of Hate.

Distant-Water Trawlerman: William Oliver, 1884-1959 (2017)
Book Chapter
Starkey, D. J. (2017). Distant-Water Trawlerman: William Oliver, 1884-1959. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (207-237). Liverpool University Press

Dock Development, 1778-1914 (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2017). Dock Development, 1778-1914. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (117-144). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph: Hull owes its existence to water transport. Located at the mouth of the River Hull, where the deep-water channel of the Humber sweeps along its north bank, it is a natural transhipment point, and although the town (as it is properly... Read More about Dock Development, 1778-1914.

The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2017). The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (145-177). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph: When the results of the 2011 UK Census were made public in 2013 the BBC’s Six O’Clock News ran a live television broadcast from the city to herald a remarkable transformation – Hull was now home to a migrant population of 12,000 Eur... Read More about The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.

Housing and the move to the estates (2017)
Book Chapter
Byrne, J. (2017). Housing and the move to the estates. In Hull: Culture, History, Place (50-51). Liverpool University Press

Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Byrne, J., & Ombler, A. (2017). Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (270-301). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph: At the close of the Second World War, as the port-city of Hull faced the challenge of rebuilding an urban fabric shattered by wartime bombing, its maritime industries prepared to return to business as usual. Hull’s trawl fishery an... Read More about Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull.

A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications (2017)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Aljaber, T. (2017). A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications. In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology in Education; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (330-340). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_26

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. A growing number of mobile applications for health education are being utilized to support different stakeholders, from health professionals to software developers to patients and more general users. There... Read More about A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications.

"A spontaneous following" : Wittgenstein, education and the limits of trust (2017)
Book Chapter
Burwood, S. "A spontaneous following" : Wittgenstein, education and the limits of trust. In M. A. Peters, & J. Stickney (Eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education :Pedagogical Investigations (161-177). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_11

It is now commonly argued that trust is fundamental to numerous and varied sorts of human relationships and activities and that education takes place within a fiduciary framework: that a basic trust is essential to child development and the very poss... Read More about "A spontaneous following" : Wittgenstein, education and the limits of trust.

Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care (2017)
Book Chapter
Hughes, G. (2017). Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care. In J. Horton, & M. Pyer (Eds.), Children, young people and care (26-43). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686752-2

This chapter draws from a study which explores the conceptualisations of care in theory and practice, examining (in Pierre Bourdieu’s terms) its ‘doxic’ qualities: that is, how it often seems ‘natural’, ‘self-evident’, or ‘understood without question... Read More about Who cares and how would you know? Conceptualising ‘doxic’ care.

Commentaries on Article 2, 17-32, and 51-54 (2017)
Book Chapter
Barnes, R. (2017). Commentaries on Article 2, 17-32, and 51-54. In A. Proelss (Ed.), Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Commentary. Bloomsbury Publishing

On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices (2017)
Book Chapter
Guédon, O., Hinrichs, A., Litvak, A. E., & Prochno, J. (2017). On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices. In Lecture Notes in Mathematics; Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis (151-162). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45282-1_10

We prove estimates for the expected value of operator norms of Gaussian random matrices with independent (but not necessarily identically distributed) and centered entries, acting as operators from ℓnp∗ to ℓ q m , 1 ≤ p∗ ≤ 2 ≤ q  Read More about On the expectation of operator norms of random matrices.

The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England (2017)
Book Chapter
Bell, J., & Bailey, L. (2017). The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England. In T. Niederkrotenthaler, & S. Stack (Eds.), Media and Suicide International Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Policy (75-86). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351295246

e research draws on the experiences of bereaved individuals who utilize Facebook to memorialize loved ones who have died by suicide. Aspects of the research have been published elsewhere. In Bailey et al. (2014), we explore how the use of social medi... Read More about The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide: Findings from a qualitative study in England.

The responsibility to protect: A long view (2017)
Book Chapter
Morris, J. (2017). The responsibility to protect: A long view. In A. Hehir, & R. W. Murray (Eds.), Protecting human rights in the 21st Century (231-248). Routledge

William Colbeck (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). William Colbeck (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Opening paragraph: People from Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire played a significant role in the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (1897-1922). Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, who envisaged and oversaw the... Read More about William Colbeck (Vignette).

Lilian Bilocca (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Lavery, B. (2017). Lilian Bilocca (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Whaling (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, D. (2017). Whaling (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. J. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

William Papper (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. William Papper (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press