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  • Security and Space

    In Pursuit of Interconnections

    by Keith Hayward, Joe Greener, Laura Naegler, Anna Schliehe, Elspeth Van Veeren, Jason Luger, Katharina Newbery, Christopher Peys, Julie Berg, Clifford Shearing, William Vlcek, Nick Brooke, Pınar Bilgin, Alistair Fraser, Andrew N. Neal, Lauren Rogers, Roy B. Gardner, Max Cohen ...
    This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between security and space, from neighbourhood crime to global conflict.By viewing security through a spatial lens, the book uncovers the social, economic and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction

    Stories, Movements, and Hope

    by Alistair Fraser, Luke Billingham, Fern Gillon, Keir Irwin-Rogers, Susan McVie, Tim Newburn ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    In recent years, the UK has seen the emergence of a new approach to violence reduction—the public health approach. This method prioritises early intervention and holistic support to prevent violence upstream. This movement, based in part on a perceived success story in Scotland, has led to the founding of more than twenty Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales, and more than £200m of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Urban Legends

    Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City

    by Alistair Fraser ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well as high levels of public fear and anger, fuel an amplification of anxious public and political rhetoric in relation to gangs, in ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Slow Computing

    Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives

    by Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser ...
    Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances.Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Gangs & Crime

    Critical Alternatives

    by Alistair Fraser ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes:- A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Shanghai- A chapter on researching gangs which covers quantitative and qualitative methods- Extra chapter features such as key terms ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Urban Legends

    Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City

    by Alistair Fraser ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well as high levels of public fear and anger, fuel an amplification of anxious public and political rhetoric in relation to gangs, in ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Youth Marginality in Britain

    Contemporary Studies of Austerity

    by Anthony Rudd, Robert Mcpherson, Frances Atherton, Jane Mckay, Sean Murphy, Emma Davidson, Claire Tupling, Patrick Ainley, Jenny van Krieken Robson, Lucy Williams, Kim Robinson, L. Ling, Alistair Fraser, L. Whittaker, Susan Anusas Batchelor, Mary Jane Kehily, Linda Brooks, Eldin Fahmy, Peter Squires ...
    Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal’ have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers a new perspective by promoting young people’s voices and understanding the agency behind their actions. It ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Global Foodscapes

    Oppression and resistance in the life of food

    by Alistair Fraser ...
    What we eat – as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before. Global Foodscapes takes on this topicality and asks readers to think about how we are all involved in the making of an odd and, in many ways, troubling and contested food economy. It explores how food is conceived, traded, grown, reared, processed, sold, and consumed; ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Preventing Violence

    The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach

    by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie, Tim Newburn ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Preventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention.It explores the serious limitations of contemporary public health approaches and proposes an alternative path forward. Based on data from a three-year, ESRC-funded project 'Public Health, Youth ... Read more

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    Edited by Angie Bartoli ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Social Work
    Anti-racism has a long history within the profession of social work and its education. Despite an agenda within higher education which promotes internationalization and practice which recognizes diversity, little has been written to address the question of why black African students have a different experience from others on their social work educational journey.This book is based upon the authors ... Read more

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  • Scottish Education

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  • Great Mistakes in Education Policy

    And How to Avoid Them in the Future

    by Ruth Lupton, Debra Hayes ...
    Education policies should drive success and equity but in many countries they are failing to do so. Situating the cases of England and Australia within broader global policy trends, this book critically analyses what has gone wrong.The authors draw on extensive research in education to review the impact of multiple policies on students, teachers and schools, with a focus on communities where ... Read more

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