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Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2008). Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century. In Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective (77 - 94). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter is concerned with understanding the role and working lives of turnkeys, warders, prison officers between 1835 and 1877 period, and to examine this role within a broader understanding of the nature of local imprisonment at this time.  Ove... Read More about Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century.

Introduction (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S., Lancaster, E., & Feasey, S. (2008). Introduction. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (xvii - xx). Willan Publishing

Our primary motivation for editing a collection of this sort was to begin redressing what we saw as a serious deficit in the literature.  Emerging from our collective experience of working with offenders and training criminal justice practitioners we... Read More about Introduction.

Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice. In S. Green, E. Lancaster, & S. Feasey (Eds.), Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (426-444). Willan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781843925705

Poor people make up the overwhelming majority of offenders in the criminal jusitce system (Prison Reform Trust 2007; Social Exclusion Unit 2002).  This is troubling.  Either poor poeple commit more crime or poor people are more likely to be convicted... Read More about Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice.

Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice? (2008)
Book Chapter
Tallant, C., Sambrook, M., & Green, S. (2008). Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (75 - 92). Willan Publishing

This chapter will seek to explore the different engagement skills that are utilised when working with offenders and the practical problems involved in such work.  It will be argued that while the opportunity still exists to do contructive work with o... Read More about Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?.

Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement (2008)
Book Chapter
Lancaster, E., Feasey, S., & Green, S. (2008). Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (445 - 449). Willan Publishing

The idea for this book was originally conceived in the autumn of 2005.  Back then the three of us were responsible for managing the academic side of diploma in probation training (DipPS) across Yorkshire and Humberside.  At that time the future direc... Read More about Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement.

Turning the world upside down (2008)
Book Chapter
Humphrey, C. (2008). Turning the world upside down. In B. Spalek, & A. Imtoual (Eds.), Religion, spirituality and the social sciences: challenging marginalisation (107-118). Policy Press

Can trend followers survive in the long-run? Insights from agent-based modeling (2008)
Book Chapter
He, X. Z., Hamill, P., & Li, Y. (2008). Can trend followers survive in the long-run? Insights from agent-based modeling. In A. Brabazon, & M. O'Neill (Eds.), Natural Computing in Computational Finance (253-269). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77477-8_14

This chapter uses a simple stochastic market fraction (MF) asset pricing model to investigate market dominance, profitability, and how traders adopting fundamental analysis or trend following strategies can survive under various market conditions in... Read More about Can trend followers survive in the long-run? Insights from agent-based modeling.

Contesting the Common Good: T. H. Green and Contemporary Republicanism (2008)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2008). Contesting the Common Good: T. H. Green and Contemporary Republicanism. In M. Dimova-Cookson, & W. J. Mander (Eds.), T.H. Green: Ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy (262 - 291). Clarendon Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199271665.003.0011

© Oxford University Press, 2014. All Rights Reserved. This chapter establishes that Green's republicanism overcomes the limitations of contemporary philosophical attempts to reinvigorate the republican tradition. Green avoids the contemporary dichoto... Read More about Contesting the Common Good: T. H. Green and Contemporary Republicanism.

Probation Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Probation Service. In Dictionary of prisons and punishment (231 - 233). Willan Publishing

The (National) Probation Service is the organization within the criminal justice system that has responsibility for those offenders serving sentences in the community rather than in custody.

Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai (2008)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2008). Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai. In CineMusic?: constructing the film score (127 - 140). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Examines Hong Kong art cinema, especially the work of film director Wong Kar-Wai, as a means of illustrating a use of music in film that puts a strain on the distinctions between diegetic music and its authoritative other, the non-diegetic, which hav... Read More about Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai.

Environmental policy: EU actors, leader and laggard states (2008)
Book Chapter
Wurzel, R. K. W. (2008). Environmental policy: EU actors, leader and laggard states. In Leaderless Europe (66-88). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199535026.003.0005

© The several contributors 2008. All rights reserved. Starting from internal market harmonization regulations and with the European Court of Justice's broad interpretation of the Rome Treaty, a common environmental policy have emerged with leader and... Read More about Environmental policy: EU actors, leader and laggard states.

Guiding the digital revolution: is European technology policy misguided? (2008)
Book Chapter
Dai, X. (2008). Guiding the digital revolution: is European technology policy misguided?. In J. Hayward (Ed.), Leaderless Europe (47 - 65). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199535026.003.0004

© The several contributors 2008. All rights reserved. The Commission promotes a competitive technology and related industrial policy through its coordination Framework Programmes. Commission funding is concentrated on a variety of Information Society... Read More about Guiding the digital revolution: is European technology policy misguided?.

Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks (2008)
Book Chapter
Cox, R., Kneafsey, M., Venn, L., Holloway, L., Dowler, E., & Tuomainen, H. (2008). Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks. In G. Robinson (Ed.), Sustainable rural systems : sustainable agriculture and rural communities (67-82). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611556

This chapter examines two particular environmental programmes in Canada, one in the Atlantic provinces and one in Ontario, with a view to assessing how the process of 'bottom up' planning has worked in these two instances and what lessons may be lear... Read More about Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks.

Introductory Preface (2008)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2008). Introductory Preface. In Ten Years of New Labour (xix - xxiv). Palgrave Macmillan