This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime, through to the emergence of a strong neighbourhoods agenda, combined with the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented attack on anti-social behaviour. It also explore...

First published in 1997.This work summarizes and synthesizes the substantial crime prevention literature to provide an approachable and comprehensive text for students. It sets out a critical analysis in the context of the politics of criminal justice policy.

How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices?This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and volunt...

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system.Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies,...

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families... many depicted from a kid's-eye-view... are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the preemptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!Included are:Shirley Jackson's CharlesRead by L...

Il était une fois douze écrivains donnant de leurs nouvelles, d'ici, de là-bas ou bien d'ailleurs. Les douze destinations furent multiples et surprenantes, proches ou lointaines, émouvantes, dépaysantes assurément.

Daniel O'Connell, often referred to as The Liberator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. One of the most remarkable historical figures in Irish history, he campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, including the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament, and repeal of the Act of Union which combined Great Britain and Ireland. Famous in his day as the most feared lawyer in Ireland, O'Connell tormented judges, terrorised opposing barristers, and w...

A dead body in the prayer hall of a mosque isn't the best start to the day for anyone. But for Detective Inspector Harold Porter it's all in a day's work. The problem is that DI Porter has been given a new partner – a young Muslim detective by the name of Mohammed Salim Nasri. Nasri and Porter are both British and both cops, but they look at the world – and the case – from completely different viewpoints. And when that case includes Islamic terrorists and knife-wielding fanatics that can o...

Un meurtrier s’introduit par le balcon chez une dame qu’il connaît, parce qu’elle est juive s’acharne sur elle avec une violence inouïe, la torture, la défigure, la frappe sauvagement à mort en récitant des sourates du Coran, et la défenestre. Circulez, il n’y a rien à voir ! Les instances, dans une posture répétitive, font d’un attentat islamiste un simple fait divers. La Justice s’empresse de psychiatriser l’assassin, qui, hospitalisé depuis, et sans traitement, devrait sortir en pleine ...

The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's personal story of faith, courage, forgiveness, and love for the persecuted Jewish community during the World War II Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland.Part of an underground resistance movement, Corrie and her family risked their lives to hide Jewish friends within a secret wall space of the Beje, their beloved clock shop and home in Haarlem, Netherlands. Led by the convictions of her Christian f...

25 mai 1926 : Symon Petlioura, président en exil de l'éphémère République démocratique ukrainienne (1917-1921), est assassiné à Paris. Le meurtrier, Samuel Schwartzbard, justifie son crime en disant avoir voulu venger les victimes des pogroms survenus durant la guerre d'indépendance menée par l'Ukraine contre la Russie. Bénéficiant d'une formidable campagne de presse orchestrée par le Parti communiste, son procès devient celui de sa victime. Il est acquitté en octobre 1927.100 ans ...

Depuis douze ans, Maître Masamichi Noro enseigne à Paris — et dans le monde entier — le Kinomichi ou “méthode Noro”. En un temps où la plupart des disciplines venues du Japon, se sont banalisées pour devenir des sports parmi d’autres, Maître Noro propose un art du mouvement et de la relation, à la fois original et enraciné dans des siècles de tradition. Ainsi que le dit Maître Noro lui-même, le Kinomichi se propose d’unifier le corps et l’esprit, en privilégiant le sens du toucher et la re...