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,...

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 ...

Many scholars have endured the struggle against rising anti-Israel sentiments on college and university campuses worldwide. This volume of personal essays documents and analyzes the deleterious impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on the most cherished Western institutions. These essays illustrate how anti-Israelism corrodes the academy and its treasured ideals of free speech, civility, respectful discourse, and open research. Nearly every chapter attests to the ...

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...

À tous les mois, Le Devoir de littérature propose de revisiter l’œuvre d’un écrivain du Québec, à la lumière de l’actualité. Avec ce projet réalisé par Le Devoir en collaboration avec L’Académie des lettres du Québec, des chercheurs et des écrivains actuels ont revisité les œuvres de plus de 30 écrivains de toutes les époques, de Octave Crémazie à Jacques Ferron, de Anne Hébert à François Ricard, de Germaine Guèvremont à Pierre Perreault.

Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary understandings of gender as construction and performance are embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism (here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as well), at once examining the ancient evid...

Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the reader step by step from intellectual competency, to critical thinking, to cultural cognition, and to critical awareness necessary for social justice.The book documents and explains the scope of multiple crises facin...

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 ...

Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary philosophical landscape. What are we to make of this and similar claims? What do they mean in light of the effort made during the last several centuries to overcome, overturn, destroy, or deconstruct...