Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (340)

La perception de la peine d’emprisonnement entre privation et solidarité: Une analyse des conditions matérielles de vie des détenus (2015)
Journal Article
Santorso, S. (2015). La perception de la peine d’emprisonnement entre privation et solidarité: Une analyse des conditions matérielles de vie des détenus. Déviance et Société, 39(2), 171-188. https://doi.org/10.3917/ds.392.0171

The intent of this article is to investigate how changes within the Italian prison population have affected living conditions in prison. The article focuses on mechanisms of solidarity and the development of relations between prisoners. After a descr... Read More about La perception de la peine d’emprisonnement entre privation et solidarité: Une analyse des conditions matérielles de vie des détenus.

The abolition of dual administration of NGOs in China: Imperatives and challenges (2015)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Zhang, X., Tang, D., & Wilkinson, M. (2015). The abolition of dual administration of NGOs in China: Imperatives and challenges. International journal of social science and humanity, 5(6), 546-552. https://doi.org/10.7763/ijssh.2015.v5.515

The abolition of dual administration of NGOs in China has brought it with many challenges for development and governance of NGOs. In the context of China, the decisive role the government plays in NGOs development, which is criticized by many scholar... Read More about The abolition of dual administration of NGOs in China: Imperatives and challenges.

'Yeah, they’ve started to get a bit fucking cocky’… Culture, economic change and shifting power relations within the Scottish lap-dancing industry (2015)
Journal Article
Lister, B. (2015). 'Yeah, they’ve started to get a bit fucking cocky’… Culture, economic change and shifting power relations within the Scottish lap-dancing industry. Graduate journal of social sciences, 11(2), 38-54

This article is informed by data taken from wider findings from a Ph.D study in which the author worked as a stripper in a lap-dancing venue in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and, at the time of writing, is home to... Read More about 'Yeah, they’ve started to get a bit fucking cocky’… Culture, economic change and shifting power relations within the Scottish lap-dancing industry.

Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England (2015)
Journal Article
Johnston, H., & Turner, J. (2015). Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England. British journal of community justice : BJCJ, 13(3), 35-50

This article examines the release and aftercare of female prisoners in England during the late nineteenth century. Primarily it seeks to illuminate the use of residential provision for women who had been released from both convict and local prisons,... Read More about Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England.

When is violence not a crime? : factors associated with victims' labelling of violence as a crime (2015)
Journal Article
Brennan, I. R. (2016). When is violence not a crime? : factors associated with victims' labelling of violence as a crime. International review of victimology, 22(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758015610849

Many people do not regard violence against them as a crime, but the factors that influence this response are unknown. Understanding how the ‘crimeworthiness’ of violence is interpreted allows an insight into how victims make sense of their experience... Read More about When is violence not a crime? : factors associated with victims' labelling of violence as a crime.

Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari (2015)
Journal Article
Santorso, S. (2015). Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari. Sociologia del diritto, 147-182. https://doi.org/10.3280/sd2015-002006

L'intento di questo scritto è fornire una panoramica sui mutamenti della popolazione detenuta e sulle politiche di gestione dei flussi carcerari. A tal fine sono stati analizzati, attraverso una comparazione diacronica, dati e politiche relativi alle... Read More about Gestire la popolazione detenuta: mutamenti e continuità nelle politiche di governo dei flussi carcerari.

The war on welfare and the war on asylum (2015)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2015). The war on welfare and the war on asylum. Race & class, 57(2), 96-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396815595919

This articles examines the parallels between the UK government’s ‘war’ on welfare and ‘war’ on asylum, in terms of the creation of widespread destitution and the rhetoric which punishes those depicted as ‘bogus’. In both cases, large private corporat... Read More about The war on welfare and the war on asylum.

Transcending the carceral archipelago: existential, figurational and structurational perspectives on power and control (2015)
Journal Article
Green, S. (2015). Transcending the carceral archipelago: existential, figurational and structurational perspectives on power and control. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 5(3), 919-944

From Foucault (1977) through to Cohen (1985) and Feeley and Simon (1992) criminological thinking about punishment has been dominated by penal rationalities of power and control. This has led to an under-theorised notion of the individual in criminolo... Read More about Transcending the carceral archipelago: existential, figurational and structurational perspectives on power and control.

Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems (2015)
Book
Ornella, A. (2015). A. Höpflinger, A. D. Ornella, & S. Knauss (Eds.). Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems. Nomos

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion. This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the bo... Read More about Commun(icat)ing bodies: Body as a medium in religious symbol systems.

African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism” (2015)
Book
Metcalf, J., & Spaulding, C. (2015). African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism”. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

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 discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversa... Read More about African American culture and society after Rodney King: Provocations and protests, progression and “post-racialism”.

Afterword (2015)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2015). Afterword. In J. Metcalf, & C. Spaulding (Eds.), African American Culture and Society After Rodney King: Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' (303-307). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565989

The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity (2015)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Cain, L. (2015). The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity. Policing, 9(4), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pav017

© The Author 2015. This article reports on a research project undertaken to assess the implications and consequences of the Comprehensive Spending Review and associated Force Change Programmes upon the female police workforce in England and Wales, al... Read More about The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity.

Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article (2015)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2015). Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article. Race & class, 57(1), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396815582006

Against a backdrop of punishing austerity measures, the ascent of the neoliberal project and the undermining of multiculturalism, anti-anti-racism is seeing a renascence in the UK. This resurgent critique decries anti-racism as set against white work... Read More about Anti racism: totem and taboo – a review article.