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Being an interpreter in conflict (2012)
Book Chapter
Tobia, S., & Baker, C. (2012). Being an interpreter in conflict. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (201 - 221). Palgrave Macmillan

Fraternization (2012)
Book Chapter
Footitt, H., & Baker, C. (2012). Fraternization. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (139 - 164). Palgrave Macmillan

Civilian interpreting in military conflicts (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Civilian interpreting in military conflicts. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (184 - 200). Palgrave Macmillan

Frameworks for understanding (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). Frameworks for understanding. In Languages at war: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict (37 - 53). Palgrave Macmillan

State crime: a dialectical view (2012)
Book Chapter
Green, P., & Ward, T. (2012). State crime: a dialectical view. In M. Maguire, R. Morgan, & R. Reiner (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminology (717-740). (5th). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199590278.003.0024

This chapter, which examines state crime, which includes genocide, war crimes, torture, police violence, and ‘grand corruption’ (the ruling elite's organised plunder of national resources, first proposes a definition that views state crime as a form... Read More about State crime: a dialectical view.

Crime, Surveillance and the Media (2012)
Book Chapter
McCahill, M. (2012). Crime, Surveillance and the Media. In Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (244 - 250). Routledge

Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK (2012)
Book Chapter
Craig, G., & Wilkinson, M. (2012). Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK. In Migration and welfare in the new Europe : social protection and the challenges of integration (177-194). Policy Press

In this chapter we explore important issues concerned with the social exclusion and social segregation of migrant workers in the UK.  Our main argument is that social and employment protection for this group of workers is often inadequate and the the... Read More about Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK.

The Effect of Historical Events on the Speed of Price Evolution Indexed by an Operational Time for China’s Futures Market (2012)
Book Chapter
Zhang, R., Li, Y., & McKillop, D. (2012). The Effect of Historical Events on the Speed of Price Evolution Indexed by an Operational Time for China’s Futures Market. In L. Wang (Ed.), Rising China in the Changing World Economy (357-395). Routledge

Introduction:
The non-normality of security price returns has attracted a large number of studies. The observed distributions are commonly called leptokurtic because of the narrower body of the distribution and fatter tails. One explanation suggeste... Read More about The Effect of Historical Events on the Speed of Price Evolution Indexed by an Operational Time for China’s Futures Market.

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). Introduction. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (3-15). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

In Writing Wales we are concerned, not only to trace the evolution of Wales' written representation over the period from the Renaissance to Romanticism', but also to chart in these written representations the changing motivations of writers, poets, a... Read More about Introduction.

The British welfare state and its discontents (2012)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2012). The British welfare state and its discontents. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State: Regression (86-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_6

At the heart of British politics is the welfare state. As a political idea it is contested, and as a framework of public services and entitlements it is complex. Friedrich Hayek commented upon the imprecision of the term ‘welfare state’: ‘Unlike soci... Read More about The British welfare state and its discontents.

Inequality, social policy and state welfare regimes in developing countries: The case of Brazil (2012)
Book Chapter
Doctor, M. (2012). Inequality, social policy and state welfare regimes in developing countries: The case of Brazil. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State: Regression (155-171). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_10

What is the role of the state in economic and social development? This long-standing debate in political economy implies an assessment of the desirability and feasibility of the state intervening to influence economic and social outcomes. The assessm... Read More about Inequality, social policy and state welfare regimes in developing countries: The case of Brazil.

The Left and Englishness (2012)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2012). The Left and Englishness. In These Englands : a conversation on national identity (137-154). Manchester University Press

A study of the operations of formal and informal controls in a multinational subsidiary in Nigeria (2012)
Book Chapter
Egbe, I., Tsamenyi, M., & Sa'id, H. (2012). A study of the operations of formal and informal controls in a multinational subsidiary in Nigeria. In M. Mangena, & V. Tauringana (Eds.), Accounting in Africa (1-29). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3563%282012%29000012A005

Purpose – This paper reports on the results of a case study that investigates the operations of formal and informal controls in a multinational-subsidiary in Nigeria.

Design/methodology – Data has been gathered by way of semi-structured interviews... Read More about A study of the operations of formal and informal controls in a multinational subsidiary in Nigeria.

Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, D. J. (2012). Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire. In T. Devine, & J. Wormald (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0023

The revitalization of Scottish history in the 1960s reawakened scholarly interest in overseas connections that had lain more or less dormant since the 1930s. As a result, eighteenth-century Scots have appeared as Virginian tobacco merchants, Jamaican... Read More about Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire.