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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

Plural policing and CCTV surveillance (2008)
Book Chapter
McCahill, M. (2008). Plural policing and CCTV surveillance. In M. Deflem (Ed.), Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond (199-219). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1521-6136%2807%2900209-6

This chapter aims to make a contribution to recent debates on the 'governance of security' (Johnston & Shearing, 2003) by drawing upon empirical research conducted by the author and other writers on 'plural policing' and the construction of closed ci... Read More about Plural policing and CCTV surveillance.

New Labour and the Politics of Dominance (2008)
Book Chapter
Beech, M. (2008). New Labour and the Politics of Dominance. In M. Beech, & S. Lee (Eds.), Ten Years of New Labour (1-16). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584372_1

In attempting to survey New Labour’s period in office one aspect appears to stand out. New Labour’s politics has been and continues to be the politics of dominance. As a government they have set the tone for political discourse and have been the vict... Read More about New Labour and the Politics of Dominance.

Conceptualizing the right to privacy: Ethical and legal considerations (2008)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2008). Conceptualizing the right to privacy: Ethical and legal considerations. In R. Watson, & M. Blondheim (Eds.), The Toronto School of Communication Theory Interpretations, Extensions, Applications (305-336). University of Toronto Press

Divergence and the Francovich remedy in German and English Courts (2008)
Book Chapter
Kunnecke, M. (2008). Divergence and the Francovich remedy in German and English Courts. In S. Prechal, & B. van Roermund (Eds.), The Coherence of EU Law: The Search for Unity in Divergent Concepts (233 - 254). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199232468.001.0001

This chapter assesses the extent to which the common law system differs from a codified system in the application of the Francovich principle and the extent to which this results in divergence. A comparison of the English and German law of state liab... Read More about Divergence and the Francovich remedy in German and English Courts.

The agendas of the restorative justice movement (2008)
Book Chapter
Johnstone, G. (2008). The agendas of the restorative justice movement. In Restorative Justice: from Theory to Practice; Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance (59-79). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1521-6136%2808%2900403-X

This chapter examines how the aspirations of the restorative justice movement are broader than tends to be acknowledged in debates about the virtues and vices of restorative justice. It suggests that, along with trying to change the social response t... Read More about The agendas of the restorative justice movement.

William Marshal and the Mercenariat (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). William Marshal and the Mercenariat. In Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages (15 - 32). Brill

A look at attitudes to the mercenary amongst the established aristocracy as viewed through the source of the biography of William Marshal