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Prison Sentencing And Confinement For Child Sex Offenders, Steven Patrick, Robert Marsh

Robert L. Marsh

No abstract provided.

A Limited Engagement: Mexico And Its Diaspora, Roger D. Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

Responding to migrants’ many, ongoing involvements with their home communities, sending states have increasingly adopted policies of diaspora engagement, seeking both to retain the emigrants’ loyalties and shape their attachments so as best to meet home state leaders’ goals. This paper seeks to gain traction on the politics of diaspora engagement by studying two contrasting aspects of the Mexican experience – expatriate voting, a relatively new development, and provision of the matrícula consular, a long-standing component of traditional consular services, though one that has recently been transformed. Focusing on the complex set of interactions linking migrants, sending states, and receiving …

A Study Of Web 2.0 Tourism Sites: A Usability And Web Features Perspective, Carmine Sellitto, Stephen Burgess, Carmen Cox, Jeremy Buultjens

Carmen Cox

No abstract provided.

Photos And Field Notes From Visual Research, Kenneth Tunnell

Kenneth Tunnell

This paper describes ongoing visual field research by focusing especially on its self-reflective and auto-ethnographic constituents. The presentation relies on photographs, field notes and personal encounters from the field as the process of doing research is described. Recognizing the simbiotic order of the personal and political, the author details confrontations and emotions from ongoing efforts at recording visually.

Homeland Calling? Political And Social Connectivity Across Borders, Roger D. Waldinger, Nelson Lim

Roger D Waldinger

This paper seeks to understand the paradox of large-scale migrant connectivity with the significant others still at home, alongside far more limited engagement with the homeland polity left behind. We argue that, in the expatriate situation, homeland political involvement yields a decidedly unfavourable mix of costs and benefits for most migrants. On the one hand, the costs of expatriate political involvement are higher than the costs that would be entailed when “in country”; on the other hand, the home state can do much less for migrants than the state where they actually live. While the great majority of migrants consequently …

Assessment And Treatment Of Fire-Setters, Rebekah Doley, Katarina Fritzon

Rebekah Doley

Extract: I am malicious because I am miserable. -Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Within clinical literature there has been an assumption that the above quote typifies a large proportion of individuals who deliberately commit arson. In other words, that psychological disorders of some kind can be found in the majority of such persons (Geller, Fisher, & Moynihan, 1992). For example, early conceptualisations of the condition pyromania meant that any individual who set more than one fire was considered to suffer from an 'irresistible impulse'- merely for the fact that they did not resist the impulse to set a fire. Now, however, a …

College Students' Crime-Related Fears On Campus: Are Fear-Provoking Cues Gendered?, David May, Bonnie Fisher

David May

Gender plays a central role in the study of crime-related fear as does the description of various fear-provoking cues in the environment. Despite the ever-growing body of crime-related fear research, few researchers have examined which fear-provoking cues, if any, are gendered. Using a large sample of undergraduates from a public university, this article explores the gendered nature of fear-provoking cues and crime-related fears while on campus. Bivariate and multivariate results suggest that fear-provoking cues are not gendered for fear of larceny-theft or fear of assault. These results inform the fear of crime research on a number of dimensions and have …

Making The Connection: Latino Immigrants And Their Cross-Border Ties, Roger D. Waldinger, Thomas Soehl

Roger D Waldinger

This paper uses the Pew Hispanic Center’s 2006 National Survey of Latinos to study the everyday, routine cross-border activities of travel, remittance sending, and telephone communication among Latin American immigrants in the United States. We ask how migrants vary in the intensity of their cross-border connections, distinguishing among the transmigrants, those captured by the host country national social field, and those who maintain some ongoing home-country tie. We then examine the characteristics associated both with variations in the intensity of connectedess and with each specific type of connection. We show that most migrants maintain some degree of home country connectedness, …

Increasing Competition For University And The Challenge Of Access For Government School Students--Case Study, Daniel Edwards

Dr Daniel Edwards

There is a wide variety of universities, university campuses and university courses in Australia available to those interested in pursuing a higher edu- cation degree. This paper examines the impact of increasing competition for entrance to university on the educational outcomes for students from the govern- ment school sector. Using Melbourne as a case study, the research shows that, over a four-year period of increased competition, entry to some of the more aca- demically accessible university campuses in the city became more difficult and this disproportionately affected the opportunities for university entrance among some groups. Despite the fact that there …

The Political Economy Of Aid And Regime Legitimacy In Cambodia, Sophal Ear

Sophal Ear

Culture Matters: Forensic Issues For Australian Indigenous Peoples, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

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There has clearly been an extensive amount of scientific focus on Indigenous peoples in the 200 plus years since colonisation. There were many early scientific expeditions, work done by linguists and anthropologists, followed by the involvement of legal practitioners in land rights claims or those working in the health and mental health fields. More recently too, criminological attention has been paid to the interactions of Indigenous Australians and the processes of the criminal justice system largely because of the disproportionate number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples being dealt with by justice agencies. And, of course, in addition …

Invited Lecturer, Richard Mora

Richard Mora

No abstract provided.

Race And Ethnicity In The Arab World, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.

The Contradictions Of Neoliberal Globalization, Martin Orr

Martin Orr

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Student Learning Through Collaborative Research On Active Learning, Karen Leonard

Karen Moustafa Leonard

No abstract provided.

Urban Indigenous Young People: Criminality, Accommodation Or Resistance, M. Lynch, A. Fagan, E. Ogilvie, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

Chapter 9 (urban indigenous young people: criminality, accommodation, or resistance) focuses on urban youth and explores aspects of their neighborhood, education, peer relationships, and family.

Inequalities Of Crime, Kathleen Daly, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

An introductory text for the study of crime and criminology in Australia. The text is student-friendly, incorporating diagrams, cartoons and photographs as learning aids, sample questions and suggested further reading.

F. Holland Day And ‘The Beautiful Boy’: The Story Of Thomas Langryl Harris And Day’S Nude Study, Patricia Fanning

Patricia J. Fanning

No abstract provided.

Counting Confucians: Who Are The Confucians In Contemporary East Asia?, Anna Sun

Anna Sun

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Global Commodity Chains: Integrating Extraction, Transport, And Manufacturing, Paul Ciccantell, David Smith

Paul Ciccantell

The global commodity chains (GCCs) approach is an insightful way to understand issues of “development” and how processes of production and consumption vary across physical and social space. The key questions that this perspective prompts are inherently both sociological and geographic, integrating social and natural processes. How and where do these commodity chains “touch down”? How do they affect local people and places? Acknowledging the analytical usefulness of the GCCs framework, we propose rethinking it in three basic ways.

First, many of the studies associated with GCCs research tend to focus on only part of the commodity chain – and …

《重塑上海人--上海新老居民一体化研究》Migration And The Remaking Of Shanghai, Danching Ruan

Dr. RUAN, Danching

No abstract provided.

Resurrecting Smelser: Collective Power, Generalized Belief, And Hegemonic Spaces, Mikaila Arthur

Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur

When people mobilize for collective action, it is because they want something. These wants are known as grievances, and in order for them to emerge, collectivities must break free of hegemonic power to see their true interests. This paper takes a new look at Smelser’s The Logic of Collective Action and finds that by incorporating a robust understanding of power, Smelser’s framework can provide an understanding of grievance emergence.

A Sheltered Life: Observations On A Domestic Violence Shelter, Angela Moe

Angela M. Moe

No abstract provided.

Of Guilt, Defiance, And Repentance: Evidence From The Texas Death Chamber, Danielle Dirks, S.K. Rice, J.J. Exline

Danielle Dirks

No abstract provided.

Theoretical And Contextual Predictors Of Perceptions Of Criminal Justice Agents Among Juvenile Offenders, David May, Daniel Phillips, Elissa Johnson

David May

No abstract provided.

Florence Nightingale, Linda Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

No abstract provided.

Induction And Deduction In Criminal Profiling, Wayne Petherick

Wayne Petherick

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Literature on criminal profiling has reached a considerable volume, including not only a quantity of true crime works but also numerous scholarly texts and articles. The casual reader will be familiar with some aspects of profiling, with the more discerning reader being familiar with the steps involved in the profiling process (Holmes & Holmes, 2002; Ressler, Burgess, & Douglas, 1988; Turvey, 2008), the so-called "inputs" and "outputs" of a criminal profile (Davis, 1999, Egger, 1999; Geberth, 1996; Ressler & Burgess, 1985; Ressler et al., 1988), and the personality and grandiosity of profilers (see a variety of memoirs, such as …

The Race Of Time: The Charles Lemert Reader, Charles Lemert

Charles C Lemert

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Examining Theoretical Predicators Of Substance Use Among A Sample Of Incarcerated Youth, David May, Kelly Cooper, Irina Soderstrom, G. Jarjoura

David May

A wide variety of theoretical perspectives have been found to have an association with substance abuse. Most of these studies use data from samples of public school students and thus capture only part of the youth population. Using data from approximately 800 delinquents incarcerated in a Midwestern state, we examine the association between attitudes about drug and alcohol use and use of drugs and four theoretical perspectives: nonsocial reinforcement theory, social learning theory, social control theory, and strain theory. Our findings suggest that nonsocial reinforcement is the best predictor of both preference for and use of illegal substances among this …

The Evolution Of Feminist Thought About Female Genital Cutting, Lisa Wade

Lisa Wade

No abstract provided.