Serious violence has a devastating impact on the lives of countless young people across the UK, leaving deep and enduring scars on the families, friends and communities affected. While the magnitude of the effort needed ...
Transnational families occupy centre-stage in literatures on transformations in the social organisation and relations of care and welfare because they express how social bonds are sustained despite geographical separation. ...
Billingham, Luke; Irwin-Rogers, Keir(Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 2021)
The concept of mattering can be helpful for understanding the ways in which structural and historical factors affect individual psychologies. This paper lays out the usefulness of mattering as a lens through which to examine ...
In recent years, a small number of studies have investigated the use and impact of restorative justice in cases of sexual violence. While initial findings are broadly positive, the studies are constrained by small sample ...
Reducción de la pobreza global: ¿Qué pueden hacer las organizaciones regionales?
La pobreza global requiere de acciones rápidas y eficaces. Los 1200 millones de personas que todavía viven en extrema pobreza necesitan el ...
In this chapter I will explore both the potential and challenges faced in doing accountability work on gendered violence within what has been termed the ‘British Left’. I draw on empirical research with women and non-binary ...
An array of macro level statistics reveals a damning portrait of racial disproportionality across various components of England and Wales’ criminal justice system. This paper outlines some of the most striking areas of ...
Widespread doubt and disbelief of women and non-binary survivors who disclose, speak out and demand accountability for the violence they have experienced within social justice movements in the UK Left reveals a painful ...
Over the past ten years the theoretical framework of ‘coercive control’ has been increasingly applied, critiqued, and now underpins a criminal offence. Whilst many argue that it more accurately reflects experiences of ...
This article compares policy discourses concerning youth unemployment of seven international governmental organisations (IGOs). We classify the discourses according to broadly neoliberal and social democratic positions ...
Regionalismos de los países del hemisferio sur, agendas Globales: Modernizar el acceso inclusivo a salud,
medicamentos y protección social en un contexto de inequidad social. Este Informe de Políticas destaca los hallazgos ...
This article explores young people’s involvement in illicit drug markets in England. It focuses in particular on why young people become involved in illicit drug distribution, the extent to which their involvement is ...
Many accounts of globalization and social policy accept the ‘strong’ globalization thesis in emphasizing the naturalistic, inevitable nature of globalization, the external constraints imposed on governments by international ...
University and College Union(University and College Union, 2021-12)
This report represents the work of 13 UCU members who were convened in September 2020 to examine sexual violence in tertiary education across the UK and inform the union’s campaigning and representation of members affected ...
Dimou, Eleni; Khaled Jr., Salah H.(Instituto Brasileiro de Ciências Criminais, 2022-11)
Este artigo explora a constituição da Criminologia Cultural como uma matriz de perspectivas compreensivas que emerge da Criminologia Crítica, indagando quais seriam as suas possíveis contribuições para o desenvolvimento ...
Boukli, Avi Paraskevi; Papanicolaou, Georgios; Dimou, Eleni(2024)
This chapter interrogates the knowledge production process embedded in global antitrafficking policy initiatives, as reflected in the annual U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report (TIPR). Using the conceptual framework of ...
This paper considers borders as ubiquitous and pervasive social relations and as sites of struggles, which are shaped through and transformed by social antagonisms and contestations. While much discussion of border struggles ...
Southern criminology has been recognized as a leading theoretical development for attempting to overcome the perpetuation of colonial power relations reflected in the unequal flow of knowledge between the Global North and ...
Boué, Juan Carlos(Center of Latin American Studies. University of Cambridge, 2012)
In 2007, the government of Venezuela decided to re-structure certain oil projects, known as Associations, so as to bring them in line with the 2001 Hydrocarbons Law. In response, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips decided to ...