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African American culture and society after rodney king: Provocations and protests, progression and 'post-racialism' (2016)
Book
Metcalf, J., & Spaulding, C. (2016). J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.). African American culture and society after rodney king: Provocations and protests, progression and 'post-racialism'. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

© Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding 2015. 1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional di... Read More about African American culture and society after rodney king: Provocations and protests, progression and 'post-racialism'.

Value similarity: The key to building public trust in charitable organisations (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Brennan, I., & Wilkinson, M. (2016). Value similarity: The key to building public trust in charitable organisations. Voluntary Sector Review, 7(1), 47-66. https://doi.org/10.1332/204080516X14555532383091

© Policy Press 2016. This article explores the relationship between value similarity and public trust in charitable organisations. Through a focus group interview and an empirical study based on a sample in the United Kingdom, findings show that valu... Read More about Value similarity: The key to building public trust in charitable organisations.

Prison Histories, 1770s-1950s: Continuities and contradictions (2016)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2016). Prison Histories, 1770s-1950s: Continuities and contradictions. In Y. Jewkes, B. Crewe, & J. Bennett (Eds.), Handbook on Prisons (24-38). (2nd ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315797779

The stated aims of imprisonment became markedly less ambitious when the confidence that characterized the 19th-century reform movement was displaced by a realization that places of confinement – no matter how well designed or humanely intentioned. In... Read More about Prison Histories, 1770s-1950s: Continuities and contradictions.

Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance (2016)
Book Chapter
Calverley, A. (2016). Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance. In A. Robinson, & P. Hamilton (Eds.), Moving on from Crime and Substance Use: Transforming Identities (121-152). Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447324676.003.0007

This chapter argues that the processes of adopting viable non-offending identities are as important in the desistance of minority ethnic offenders as they are for offenders who are white. However, differences in structural location and cultural expec... Read More about Different pathways for different journeys: Ethnicity, identity transition and desistance.

The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV (2016)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2016). The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV. In Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production (201-230). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612-21

© Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner and the contributors 2014. Though the Los Angeles (LA) riots of 1992 have been extensively documented by news media, pop culture, and critics alike, the gang truce that succeeded the chaotic aftermath of the uprisi... Read More about The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV.