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Blended Learning Solutions for Higher Education explores the origins, empirical foundations, and implementation of blended learning in colleges and universities. Since emerging as a third-way solution to traditional and virtual higher education models, blended learning has become a predominant learning modality in an era of rapid technological proliferation. Offering an alternative to longstanding yet flawed methodologies and assumptions about its validity, this book conceptualizes blended learning as a complex social practice mediated by knowledge, institutional rules, policies, and norms as well as material factors such as technology and physical spaces. The book's original MIRACLE framework offers a research-grounded, highly practical guide to blended learning design, improvement, and long-term efficacy. From demystified history and heuristics to digitized platforms and course content to reimagined governance and regulations, these insights provide a thoughtful exemplar of blended learning's challenges and affordances along with a firm basis for integrating face-to-face and online learning, teaching, and assessment innovatively and creatively.

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment.From Tahiti, to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnical, political, and cultural groups to define their identities; how cross-cultural and cross-chronological encounters reconfigured ideas of gendered selves; how sexuality was used to empower or subjugate non-European ethnicities and how the circulation of local concepts of the physiology of emotions and taste reinforced or challenged hegemonic ideas of masculinity and femininity.With a primary focus on Southern Europe and the Hispanic World, areas still not well-charted, this edited collection explores the varied forms in which notions of sensibilities circulated within Europe and between Europe, the Americas, and the Hispanic-Asian Pacific, questioning normative and diffusionist views.Histories of Sensibilities is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, gender studies, and women's history; as well as scholars of Hispanic Studies, Latin-America Studies, and European Studies.

This scholarly book explores the intersection of social cognition with a democratic philosophy of human resource management, to advance a theory of workplace function that maximizes creativity.It examines how the work of Polanyi on tacit knowledge provides a useful theoretical structure for understanding person perception and self-fulfilling prophecy effects in the workplace, with a focus on gender, culture and race as diversity variables. Based on a broad range of interdisciplinary empirical evidence and theories, it provides a foundational set of concepts to build new applied intervention strategies. The authors create new, testable theories based on a synthesis of several major areas of research in social psychology and human resource management, moving beyond the narrow confines of trends in a particular subdomain. Part One offers a literature review of the field, ranging from theoretical, historical and philosophical psychology to social psychology and neurocognition. Each chapter in this section offers a novel theory that is pertinent to workplace innovation, synthesized from existing evidence. Part Two reveals applications of tacit knowledge to the field of human resource management, with a focus on cross-cultural applications for low and high-power distance settings.This insightful text presents the authors' original, qualitative research in the area of workplace creativity and tacit knowledge, and is valuable reading for scholars and advanced students in industrial-organizational psychology, and human resource management.

This book explores historically and theoretically Nordic peace as a marker of identification, ontological (in)security and regional branding. It emphasizes how conceptions of Nordic peace have been translated into policy practices and how it has maintained its relevance over time. The book distinguishes between the Nordic region as a region of peace, a prime example of a Deutschian security community, and as a region for peace, cultivating the role of a global humanitarian norm promoter and peacebuilder, but also interrogating how these two understandings of Nordic peace have been mutually constitutive and interdependent. The book discusses the politics of 'Nordic peace', analyzing what the concept does and enables, and why it continues to endure and exert affective appeal. Furthermore, it considers contemporary challenges, not least connected to the implications of the war in Ukraine, but also the potential future opportunities facing ideas of Nordic peace as Nordic peace is refashioned, once again, towards a new regional and global context.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Peace Research, Nordic or Scandinavian Studies, History, Nationalism Studies, Critical Security Studies, and International Relations.

This state-of-the-art handbook provides authoritative, up to date coverage of health psychology topics, offering an excellent, in-depth view of the field. Leading experts provide essential insights into the discipline of health psychology, its roots, future directions, and the networks and organisations involved.Structured into eight parts, the book starts with defining health psychology including and providing an important historical overview. Subsequent sections examine theories and methodology, health behaviour, interpersonal relations and health, chronic disease and interventions. The concluding sections tackle the important areas of global health psychology and the future of Health Psychology. The editors and auditors include leading experts in the field as well as early career researchers from over 20 countries across the world. Global representation was a key goal in selecting authors.While familiar areas receive ample attention this book strives to put the field of health psychology in context. As well as examining history this book spotlights global issues and explicitly mentions future developments and opportunities. The role of health psychology in the COVID-19 pandemic is considered and there is discussion more broadly on how health psychology can contribute to addressing societal challenges, including how to move forward sharing knowledge more firmly with policymakers.This is an essential resource for scholars, PhD students and research master students specialising in the field of Health Psychology.

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults. In doing so, Hooyman invites readers to envision a society that fully values the essential work of care.The book is distinctive in its analysis of the interrelationships among both types of care laborers, who often face structural constraints on their decision to care and whose work is devalued and marginalized. Their care work affects every member of society, but it is generally invisible to others and its economic value rarely recognized by policymakers. How care work is organized and unrewarded typically has the most financial, physical, and emotional costs for women, people of color, and immigrants across the life course. Inequities for care workers by race, immigrant status, class, and sexual orientation are rooted in systemic racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia. In this book. policy priorities and change strategies are proposed to attain the six core components of a care justice framework, which include fundamental structural changes to value collectively the essential work of care, ensure meaningful choice to care, and reduce systemic inequities faced by care workers. This framework is informed by feminism, Black feminism, intersectionality, and care theory. By conceptualizing care justice, the author aims to stimulate new discourse and action related to care of older adults - the most important work in society - and make the seemingly unattainable attainable. This timely book will be salient to anyone committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and with an interest in policy, gerontology, disability studies, ethnic studies, feminist studies, social justice, and social work and social welfare.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a topic for academic research for years to come. This collection brings together international scholars from various disciplines to analyse the impact of the pandemic on both religious freedom and on religious community life in Europe.Divided into two parts, the first focuses on theoretical considerations, while the second explores local challenges and includes case-studies from countries with different socio-political profiles. The book includes critical evaluations of public crisis management of religious communities during the pandemic, as well as critical reflections on religious freedom appeals in such crisis.In sum, the volume probes and challenges scholars and students of law, religion, politics and sociology to go beyond the typical oppositions in considering Freedom of Religious Belief in the current secular European context. The work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Law and Religion, Human Rights Law, Sociology and Political Science.

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. This is an outstanding reference source to these topics, debates and issues. This is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology and related fields.

Scholarship has generally viewed the Salem judges as credulous, cruel, or stupid but this book makes the case that the strong intellectual background of the judges at the Salem witch trials was the major reason that they were prepared to accept spectral evidence and touch tests, and to condemn so many accused witches. Many histories of the Salem witch-trials have focused on the accusers and the accused. The judges, however, were the valve which regulated which accusations would be accepted in evidence. Several of the judges--Stoughton, Winthrop and Sewell in particular--had exceptionally strong intellectual backgrounds. The judges' close advisors, the Boston ministers, Increase and Cotton Mather notable among them, were some of Massachusetts Bay colony's most learned men. Why, then, were the judges and ministers not more liberal or enlightened in their treatment of accused witches? This book argues it was because they were steeped an intellectual tradition which insisted that scientists and philosophers must believe in the reality of an invisible world, which included witches. The fear was that the philosophy of Descartes and certain interpretations of natural philosophy (science) would lead to the association of science and philosophy with atheism and heresy. Exponents of this group often expressed their fears in some form of the dictum: no witches, no invisible world, no God. The chapters uncover the work of the Cambridge Platonists Henry More and Joseph Glanville, but included other leading members of the Royal Society and major thinkers, who launched an attack on contemporary authors (whom they called "Sadducees") who cast doubt on witch beliefs or doctrines of the afterlife. Their work included the collecting of witch stories from all over, to create a proof de consensus gentium that witches are not only real, but present an existential danger to society. Matt Goldish argues that those judges and ministers involved in the Salem witch-trials were heavily influenced by this tradition and explains their zealous treatment of the accused. Specters, Science, and Skepticism in Salem is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of the Salem witch-trials and the history of witchcraft more broadly.

Español académico esencial es una guía práctica para todas aquellas personas que necesiten expresarse con corrección, por escrito u oralmente, en el contexto académico.El libro ofrece más de 1000 estructuras y fórmulas lingüísticas y comunicativas útiles para redactar un trabajo académico-científico, o bien para preparar una presentación oral, organizadas todas ellas siguiendo las fases sucesivas que conlleva un proyecto de investigación. Se trata de una obra sumamente práctica que incluye, para facilitar el autoaprendizaje, 120 ejercicios con sus correspondientes soluciones. Tanto los numerosos ejemplos como las actividades propuestas ayudan a los lectores a abordar las distintas tareas propias del entorno académico, tales como escribir una tesis o un artículo. Además, en el libro se proporcionan claves acerca de cómo elegir y combinar al vocabulario apropiado, reproduciendo, asimismo, muestras de diferentes textos académicos. Al estar centrada en los rasgos del discurso académico-científico comunes en gran medida al ámbito docente, al de la investigación y al laboral, la obra ayudará a los hablantes de español, tanto nativos como no nativos con nivel de lengua avanzado, a dominar el español académico-científico necesario para desenvolverse en cualquiera de esas esferas.Español académico esencial is a practical guide for those who need to refine and master how they express themselves in Spanish, both in writing and orally, within an academic context.This book presents more than 1,000 linguistic and communicative patterns which are useful for writing an academic-scientific paper or preparing an oral presentation, organised according to the successive phases that a research project involves. It is highly practical, with 120 exercises and their corresponding solutions included to facilitate self-learning. The numerous examples, as well as the exercises help readers tackle the different tasks they are likely to encounter in an academic context, such as writing a dissertation or an article. Additionally, Español académico esencial offers helpful tips and resources, such as samples of different academic texts and guidance on how to choose and combine the appropriate vocabulary.The book will aid both native and non-native advanced users of Spanish in mastering academic Spanish, whether in their studies, research, or work environment, through its focus on characteristics of academic discourse that are broadly common to both scholar and scientific-technical discourse.

A comprehensive scholarly look at the dominance, power, and influence of News Corp as one of the most potent communication giants of current times.Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence this book offers an authoritative, wide-ranging, and accessible analysis of the development, operations, and political influence of the most widely commented on media company of modern times, directed by the world's most famous media mogul, Rupert Murdoch. It details News Corp's ownership and control, traces its global expansion in print, television and film, examines the crises that have prompted sell-offs, withdrawals and retrenchment, and explores losses and gains in its responses to the rise of digital media. The book explores Rupert Murdoch's close relations with successive prime ministers and presidents, examines the mobilization of his news outlets to make and break political reputations, and details the consistent promotion of right wing populist ideology on a range of key issues across the company's tabloid outlets.This is an invaluable resource to students and scholars of global media industries, the political economy of media, media policy, and media and politics.

Psychology and Criminal Justice covers the ways that psychology intersects with the criminal justice system, from explaining criminal behavior to helping improve the three criminal justice pillars of policing, courts, and corrections.The book is divided into two parts. The chapters in Part One describe how different areas of psychology can help us understand why people commit crimes. The Basics of biopsychology, developmental psychology, behavioral psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, and psychopathy are presented first in their respective chapters. These initial chapters conclude with a section called Explaining Criminal Behavior that applies The Basics to help explain criminal behavior. Part Two of the textbook begins with a chapter on three topics in psychology that are particularly relevant for the criminal justice system: mental illness, trauma, and substance use. In the remainder of Part Two, there are two chapters each for policing, courts, and corrections. Each of these chapters discusses the ways principles from psychology can help with criminal justice processes, including police investigations and officer mental health, psychological evaluations for court proceedings, juror selection and decision making, behavior change, and the effects of imprisonment.After decades of overreliance on sociology-based theory and research, the field of criminal justice is looking to psychology for explanations and insight. This book is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level courses housed in both criminal justice and psychology departments.

A Therapist's Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying developmental knowledge in therapeutic practice.Chapters explore development and therapeutic considerations for specific age ranges in pre-adolescence, early, middle, and late adolescence. The final chapter includes reproducible, age-specifc handouts about adolescent development for use by counselors and therapists to educate and collaborate with adolescents and their significant adults, including parents, caregivers, teachers, and mentors. Clinical examples representing diverse clients are provided throughout the book to support culturally sustaining practice and practical application.This unique and meaningful book will benefit any mental health professional or student who wants to integrate developmental knowledge into practice in a way that educates, empowers, and promotes collaboration with adolescents rather than pathologizing them.

Now in its second edition, Introduction to Human Development and Family Science was the first text to introduce human development and family studies (HDFS) as inextricably linked areas of study. Pioneers of research paradigms have acknowledged that the family is one setting in which human development occurs, and much work is inherently multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. This book helps to fortify an understanding of HDFS and subareas within it.Key features include: Chapters aligned with Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) Guidelines. An applied focus, with vignettes exploring diverse family structures and human experience, a brand-new appendix with helpful tips to encourage the effective utilisation of research. Discussion of the wide variety of career paths for HDFS students. Rich pedagogical features, including Challenge: Integration sections, bringing together content from all chapters; Journal Questions, encouraging reflection on content as well as personal experience; and Suggested Resources, listing relevant websites, books, articles and video links for further study. Incredibly user-friendly, this is essential reading for students new to Human Development and Family Science.A fully developed Instructor and Student Website includes flashcards, self-testing quizzes and discussion questions for students, as well as activities, lecture slides, test banks, and video recommendations for instructors.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive grounding in key issues of corpus-informed Translation Studies, while showcasing the diverse range of topics, applications and developments of corpus linguistics.In recent decades there has been a proliferation of scholarly activity that applies corpus linguistics in diverse ways to Translation Studies (TS). The relative ease of availability of corpora and text analysis programs has made corpora an increasingly accessible and useful tool for practising translators and for scholars and students of Translation Studies. This Handbook first provides an overview of the discipline and presents detailed chapters on specific areas such as the design and analysis of multilingual corpora, corpus analysis of the language of translated texts, the use of corpora and literary and non-literary translation, corpora and critical translation studies, and the application of corpora in specific fields, such as bilingual lexicography, machine translation, and cognitive translation studies. Addressing a range of core thematic areas in translation studies, the volume also covers the role corpora play in translator education and in aspects of the study of minority and endangered languages. The authors set the stage for the exploration of the intersection between corpus linguistics and translation studies, anticipating continued growth and refinement in the field.This volume provides an essential orientation for translators and TS scholars, teachers and students who are interested in learning the applications of corpus linguistics to the practice and study of translation.

This pioneering text explores the emerging discipline of ethorobotics which brings together the fields of animal behaviour and robotics. It encourages closer collaboration between behavioural scientists and engineers to facilitate the creation of robots with a higher degree of functionality in animal/human environments, and to broaden understandings of animal behaviour in new and intriguing ways.Utilizing the knowledge of key ethologists and roboticists in the field today, the book is divided into four major parts. The first part is written for those with little or no background in the biology of animal behaviour, particularly for those coming from a engineering background seeking an accessible introduction to the field and how it can be applied to robotic behaviour. Topics include problem solving in animals, social cognition and communication (visual, acoustic, olfactory, etc.). The second part is an introduction to the basic construction of robots for non-engineers, and the possibilities offered by current technical achievements and their limitations to the study of animal behaviour. The third part explores the core theme of ethorobotics, the basic framework of the discipline, the field's evolution, and current topics including ethical considerations, autonomy, to 'living' social robots. The fourth and final chapter looks at ethorobotics in practice through key research projects which have had the biggest impact.This is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary text which will appeal to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers focusing on animal behaviour and cognition, as well as those undertaking courses in engineering, social robotics, biologically inspired robotics, AI, human-robot and animal-robot interactions.

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s.The discussion centres on the collecting of Koryŏ celadon ceramics as they formed the focal point of commercial exchanges of Korean artefacts and explores how their acquisition and ownership formed part of the complex power relationship that played out between the Koreans, Japanese, Americans, and Europeans. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the volume analyses collectors' acquisition practices, arguing that their fascination with celadon ceramics from the Koryŏ kingdom (918-1392) was shaped not only by the aesthetic appeal of the objects, but also by biased perceptions of the Korean peninsula, its history, and people.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, social history, cultural history, Korean studies, collection studies, museum studies, Korean history, and Asian studies.

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis.This volume examines the barriers, opportunities and incentives around the pursuit of climate-just behavior, based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary and integrative analysis. It investigates how the gap between expressing concern about the climate crisis and giving it a high priority within the context of everyday behaviour can be overcome. At the same time, it looks at the challenging politico-economic framework conditions such as the strong economic growth and profit orientation of capitalism. Although justice is a fundamental human motive, which should induce climate just behavior, system justification is common and makes people rather justify their unjust behavior. In this book, a general and systemic framework on human behavior is provided, including internal factors, such as knowledge and psychological needs, external factors, such as socio-cultural and politico-economic factors, feedback loops and interactions. The authors draw on multiple theories to examine how denial and moral disengagement affects individual responsibility, despite real-world evidence of the climate crisis. The book highlights the role of emotions in encouraging a pro-environmental response, and discusses solutions on both the individual and the collective level, such as transparency laws. Moreover, making climate-friendly options more accessible, affordable, and convenient facilitates behavior change more effectively. Overall, this book presents knowledge-based, realistic approaches to surmounting these obstacles in order to achieve a more climate-just world.Climate-Just Behavior will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental geography and environmental psychology.

First Published in 1972, Prelude to Modern Europe provides a political narrative, the social and economic background of events in Europe from 1815- 1914. Woodward's own deep sense for social values and the quality of life emerges conspicuously in his long introductory chapter on European civilization. This is followed by chapters on the major powers, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and the Habsburg Empire. Finally, there is an epilogue describing and discussing the breakdown of the 'great power' system. Throughout the book, the author deploys all his unrivalled skills in historical and philosophical commentary, and the result is a tour de force of equal merit with his one volume History of England. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of European history, modern history, and history in general.

This book brings together essays that ask how one may chart more productive engagements with the methodological foundations of literary studies, a discipline that is finding itself in a moment of severe crisis. The temptation to reduce methodological debates to method wars constitutes one of the main obstacles for what ought to be the common goal of our discipline: to articulate the possible and indeed necessary futures of literary studies.How do we think about the future of literary studies in the funerary climate that has engendered the belief that we need to fight our internal wars for survival? How might (must?) our understanding of what literary criticism is and does change? How do we formulate possible futures for literary studies while grappling with the significant problems that our present poses? The chapters in this volume stage hopeful interventions that seek to contribute to the effort to explore the futures of literary studies by way of and conceived as a collective endeavor. Together, the authors advance a call for better, more useful, more active, more networked, and, yes, even for abandoned versions of the always multiple and joyously contradictory discipline that is called literary studies.This book will be beneficial to students and scholars of English literature, literary theory and literary studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice and are accompanied by a new Preface.

Originally published in 1967, Social Policy and the Young Delinquent is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent has developed from the days when a boy of nine could be sentenced to be hanged for stealing two penny worth of paint (though the sentence, imposed in 1833, was not actually carried out) to the controversies of the time concerning the desirability of replacing the legalistic and penal framework of the services for young offenders by a service more appropriate to their educational and social needs.Peter Boss deals with the development of policy relating to the young offender with sympathy and clarity. While his own views were progressive, he is at pains to point out the administrative advantages and disadvantages of each of the current proposals, and to leave the reader free to make up their own mind on issues which have no simple and easy solution. Profound changes had taken place in our attitude to delinquent children over the previous hundred years, and, as Boss makes clear, the importance and even the direction of change was not always clearly discernible at the time. Whatever the outcome of the controversy in 1967, this account of a developing process would have been of value in enabling us to stand back and take the long view of the most intractable and important problems of modern urban society.

Originally published in 1978, reissued here with a new preface, this book describes a project based outside the school institution, but in co-operation with it, exploring methods and courses which might offer meaningful education for groups of fifth-form leavers. Though the project had been primarily concerned with developing a survival curriculum for the non-academic urban adolescent, the format of living, experiential teaching and learning it exemplifies would be appropriate to the education of children of all ages and abilities.The authors identified community resources and offer suggestions as to how these might be better employed. They show how education could be taken out of the classroom to extend 'schooling' beyond the schools, and in this context they point to the vast, untapped resources of both people and buildings outside the school walls which could profitably be incorporated within the existing learning framework. They show, also, how the training of 'professionals' - particularly trainee teachers and social workers - by involvement in such an experiment could constitute a fundamental preparation for their future roles.Finally, the authors urge for an extension of social policy with regard to education; an extension of provision which they argue could be achieved largely through the re-allocation of existing resources, such as had already demonstrably worked in the city of Bristol. The perspective throughout is ideological as well as practical, and the book is both a polemic and a procedural manual suggesting workable approaches and ideas, many of which are still relevant today.

First published in 1991, Changing New York City Politics provides an important grounding for understanding where New York City politics is likely to go in the coming two years.Three decades after New York City's first Black mayor was elected and then defeated after only one term, the city's second Black mayor is facing challenges that in many ways are similar to those of his predecessor, yet different in others. Like David Dinkins, Mayor Eric Adams faces worries about crime and public disorder, recovery from an economic downturn, and criticism over his managerial style. It may be a quite different city today in terms of the makeup of its electorate - less white, more diverse, but certainly no more Black - and Adams may have a closer connection to the Police Department than Dinkins could manage - but the challenges of constructing a multi-racial electoral and governing coalition in the face of skepticism from white voters remains.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of political science, American history, and comparative politics.

In the 1960s, the farming industry of Britain had been transformed and modernised to the point where output per person was the highest in Europe. Many farmers reasoned from this that there should be expansion of agriculture rather than restriction, and that the natural resources of Britain should be developed to the full. Originally published in 1965, this book examines the case for further expansion against the background of mass hunger and rising population in many parts of the world. The case rests upon three premises. The first is that the farming industry is now making an indispensable contribution to the national economy. The second is that the industry is capable of further development in output and efficiency. The third is that there is likely to be a scarcity of food on the world markets over the next twenty to thirty years rather than a surplus.Margaret Bramley believed that the final choice of policy should be based upon the long-term interests of the whole community, not upon the sectional interests of farmers, food importers or distributors. She said it was essential to recall how vulnerable as a small densely populated island Britain is, with half our food at the time coming from overseas.With recent world events bringing the subject of food distribution to the fore, the book's advocacy of expansion of British farming resonates strongly again today.

The late 1970s saw the emergence of a heated debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The argument was usually presented as being between the exponents of 'law and order' and punishment on the one hand, and the 'soft' advocates of social work and treatment on the other. Originally published in 1980, Out of Care: The Community Support of Juvenile Offenders took issue with both sides and argued that it was the juvenile justice system itself which was at fault. Much of the debate about the merits or otherwise of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act had been conducted in an informational vacuum. For the authors, the most important point is that while this self-interested and politically disingenuous debate had been continuing more and more supposedly delinquent children had been locked up, quite contrary to the intentions of the Act.The book, however, goes further than a mere critique of the existing system at the time. It also offers very direct and practical advice on what can be done - advice aimed at the police and magistrates, and especially at social workers and probation officers, both agency managers and field level practitioners. It describes practical ways of collecting information to modify local policies and suggests innovative and imaginative ways of working face to face with juvenile offenders. The book is unusual in that it combines this practical usefulness with a detailed analysis of certain key themes in contemporary criminological theory.All the authors had backgrounds in social work or probation practice, as well as recent experience of research into intermediate treatment and the workings of the juvenile justice system at the time. They were therefore able to offer a unique combination of perspectives, drawing on social policy, theories of delinquency, justice and the state, field research and social work practice.

This book was originally published in 1981 at a time when mass unemployment had returned to the United Kingdom. Now reissued with a new Preface by the author's literary executor, the essays in this volume discuss in detail the damage that was being done to the community and the economy at national and regional levels as a result of government policy. There are chapters on the political and economic aspects of the problem, on the comparison with the inter-war years, on youth unemployment and on unemployment in each of the regions worst affected. The collection as a whole provides an authoritative overview of a central political issue of the late 20th Century but one which still has resonance today as the post-Covid, post-Brexit UK economy teeters on the edge of recession.

In the 1990s private security patrols in public places were occurring in many areas of the UK and moving closer to that traditional domain of the public police - streets and neighbourhoods. Such a phenomenon was ripe for sociological enquiry and, accordingly, this book, originally published in 1995, provides a focused interpretation of six key concepts, each central to the equity debate on private policing. Data from three research sites in the UK are presented throughout the book in the form of case studies. Equity of justice is crucial and intrinsic to the association policing should have with a democratic, equal and free society. Private security, however, is not conducive to these requirements for it has an inherently competitive style excluding freedom from those who are non-competitive through either choice of economic disadvantage. Accordingly, an embarrassing characteristic of private security policing is that it promises too much freedom of choice in a less than equal world.

Originally published in 1988, this is a fully revised second edition of the successful introductory textbook on developmental and educational psychology. With its cross-cultural framework, the book was aimed at students of education and psychology in multi-cultural communities as well as at those studying in the developing world.The authors present an overview of developmental and educational psychology that does not rest on any single model of home environment. Instead, by drawing critically on a wide survey of cross-cultural data, they look at the ways in which different home environments in nuclear and extended families and differing social values can affect children's emotional, social and intellectual development. They focus particularly on the ways in which home background can influence the child's ability to cope with a formal education system.The book relates theory to practical aspects of child care and development and leads the reader through the world of childhood, the primary school years, adolescence and youth and school and society. This second edition takes full account of new cross-cultural research, and particularly work which had been undertaken by researchers in developing countries at the time. The sections on learning and instruction incorporate recent advances in cognitive research and new sections have been added particularly in the fields of social cognition and social development.

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women's bodies.Across the globe, women have always controlled their fertility through intimate efforts ultimately tied to larger political processes and gendered power dynamics. Women's biological reproductive capabilities have been contested sites of power struggles, shaping the formation, rule, and dissolution of political regimes throughout history. Yet these intersections between the intimate and the political remain understudied in the historical literature. This book explores these questions from the perspective of multiple time periods, geographic locations, actors, and methods. Chapters analyze how women's individual practices of fertility control, including contraception, abortion, and infanticide, alongside methods for achieving conception and birth, intersected with larger political, economic, and cultural trends. Others problematize the ideas of 'control' in history. What did it mean to 'control one's fertility' in different historical periods and geographical regions? How did historical actors understand and practise what we now call fertility control? How can we expand conventional definitions of fertility control to interrogate ideas related to infertility, menstruation, and heteronormativity? Contributors also highlight how race, ethnicity, and class intersect with gender to shape if, and how, women and men approached fertility control. This book will be of great value to students and scholars of history including the history of the body, women's rights, and health equity, as well as the intersectionality of gender and health.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation. The findings are based on an analysis of a 1 in 10 sample of men made redundant in Birmingham in the period. Among the matters examined are the difficulties encountered in obtaining work after redundancy; the range of geographical mobility and the role played by the then employment exchanges in securing new employment. Other chapters focus on the financial hardship caused; the resort to savings and the impact of the redundancies on the gender balance in the workforce. The impact of the dismissals on trade union affiliation is also considered, as are the men's verdicts on the 'fairness' of the selection procedure adopted.