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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2016

        Propaganda and counter-terrorism

        Strategies for global change

        by Emma Briant

        This book offers a unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda. These changes had implications for the structures of legitimacy yet occurred largely in isolation from public debate and raise questions regarding their governance. The author argues that independent and public reexamination of continuing strategy development is essential for government accountability and the formation of systems and policies that both respect citizens and build constructive foreign relations. The book's themes will appeal to a wide readership including scholars and professionals. It draws on illuminating interviews with high-profile British/US sources including journalists, PR professionals and key foreign policy, defence and intelligence personnel.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2018

        The victim in the Irish criminal process

        by Shane Kilcommins, Susan Leahy, Kathleen Moore Walsh, Eimear Spain

        Concern for crime victims has been a growing political issue in improving the legitimacy and success of the criminal justice system through the rhetoric of rights. Since the 1970s there have been numerous reforms and policy documents produced to enhance victims' satisfaction in the criminal justice system. The Republic of Ireland has seen a sea-change in more recent years from a focus on services for victims to a greater emphasis on procedural rights. The purpose of this book is to chart these reforms against the backdrop of wider political and regional changes emanating from the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, and to critically examine whether the position of crime victims has actually ameliorated. The book begins by discussing the historical and theoretical concern for crime victims in the criminal justice system, and how this has changed in recent years. It then moves on to examine the variety of forms of legal and service provision inclusion, before concluding with an analysis of the many of the needs of victims which continue to be unmet.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        August 2018

        Gunslinging justice

        The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

        by Justin Joyce

        This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Wild Arabs and savages

        A history of juvenile justice in Ireland

        by Paul Sargent

        This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system. It charts the emergence of the system from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. From the beginning, the system was dominated by a large network of reformatory and industrial schools which incarcerated tens of thousands of children and remained in existence into the late twentieth century. This dominance was eventually challenged by emerging discourses which emanated from the psychological sciences, social work, youth work and the children's rights movement. The book draws from a wide range of official and unofficial sources in exploring the key rationalities underpinning the system. In adopting a governmentality approach, it also examines the technologies and forms of childhood identity that are employed to govern the child and young person within the context of the Irish juvenile justice system. This unique and original approach will appeal to legal scholars, criminologists and those with an interest in juvenile justice, history and social policy.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Wild Arabs and savages

        A history of juvenile justice in Ireland

        by Paul Sargent

        This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system. It charts the emergence of the system from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. From the beginning, the system was dominated by a large network of reformatory and industrial schools which incarcerated tens of thousands of children and remained in existence into the late twentieth century. This dominance was eventually challenged by emerging discourses which emanated from the psychological sciences, social work, youth work and the children's rights movement. The book draws from a wide range of official and unofficial sources in exploring the key rationalities underpinning the system. In adopting a governmentality approach, it also examines the technologies and forms of childhood identity that are employed to govern the child and young person within the context of the Irish juvenile justice system. This unique and original approach will appeal to legal scholars, criminologists and those with an interest in juvenile justice, history and social policy.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        August 2018

        Gunslinging justice

        The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

        by Justin Joyce

        This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        August 2018

        Gunslinging justice

        The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

        by Justin Joyce

        This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2020

        The victim in the Irish criminal process

        by Shane Kilcommins, Susan Leahy, Kathleen Moore Walsh, Eimear Spain

        Concern for crime victims has been a growing political issue in improving the legitimacy and success of the criminal justice system through the rhetoric of rights. Since the 1970s there have been numerous reforms and policy documents produced to enhance victims' satisfaction in the criminal justice system. The Republic of Ireland has seen a sea-change in more recent years from a focus on services for victims to a greater emphasis on procedural rights. The purpose of this book is to chart these reforms against the backdrop of wider political and regional changes emanating from the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, and to critically examine whether the position of crime victims has actually ameliorated. The book discusses the historical and theoretical concern for crime victims in the criminal justice system, examins the variety of forms of legal and service provision inclusion, amd concludes by analysing the various needs of victims which continue to be unmet.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        November 2019

        The securitisation of Islam

        Indirect speech acts and affect in the United States post 9/11

        by Clara Eroukhmanoff, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        November 2019

        The securitisation of Islam

        Indirect speech acts and affect in the United States post 9/11

        by Clara Eroukhmanoff, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler

        Introduction 1. Methodology: language in securitisation studies Part I: Linguistic approaches 2. Framing Islam as a non security issue 3. A practice of indirect securitising speech acts Part II: Sociological approaches 4. The everyday securitisation of Islam in New York: the NYPD in action 5. Rationalism and remoteness 6. Emotions in securitisation studies: establishment versus anti-establishment Conclusion

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        May 2019

        Gunslinging justice

        The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

        by Justin Joyce

        This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent

        A vernacular approach

        by Lee Jarvis, Andrew Whiting, Stuart Macdonald

        This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how 'ordinary' citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has vitally important implications not only for counter-radicalisation and counter-terrorism policy but for the very study and practice of security.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent

        A vernacular approach

        by Lee Jarvis, Andrew Whiting, Stuart Macdonald

        This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how 'ordinary' citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has vitally important implications not only for counter-radicalisation and counter-terrorism policy but for the very study and practice of security.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        November 2019

        The securitisation of Islam

        Indirect speech acts and affect in the United States post 9/11

        by Clara Eroukhmanoff, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler

        This book is about the securitisation of Islam in the United States from the Bush to the Trump administration. It explores the ways in which the securitisation is justified and felt when president G.W Bush, Barack Obama and (even) President Donald J. Trump have often securitised through deception and covert language rather than by mobilizing a security grammar. This book contributes to the debate on islamophobia and the construction of Islam as a threat to the liberal order since the 11 September attacks. Its approach is innovative by connecting covert racism and the securitisation of minority groups, through what the book calls 'indirect securitisation', and by introducing emotions and affect to securitisation studies. This book is of interest to a wide audience interested in Islamophobia in the US, security studies, the 'emotions turn' in International Relations, and scholars interested in theories of language.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction
        May 2020

        Gunslinging justice

        The American culture of gun violence in Westerns and the law

        by Justin Joyce

        This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2016

        Wild Arabs and savages

        A history of juvenile justice in Ireland

        by Paul Sargent

        This book is the first history of the Irish juvenile justice system. It charts the emergence of the system from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. From the beginning, the system was dominated by a large network of reformatory and industrial schools which incarcerated tens of thousands of children and remained in existence into the late twentieth century. This dominance was eventually challenged by emerging discourses which emanated from the psychological sciences, social work, youth work and the children's rights movement. The book draws from a wide range of official and unofficial sources in exploring the key rationalities underpinning the system. In adopting a governmentality approach, it also examines the technologies and forms of childhood identity that are employed to govern the child and young person within the context of the Irish juvenile justice system. This unique and original approach will appeal to legal scholars, criminologists and those with an interest in juvenile justice, history and social policy.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2022

        Diario de un defensor de pibes chorros (Journal of a juvenile delinquent's defender)

        by Julian Axat

        This book chronicles Julián's journey to his role as a juvenile defender in the province of Buenos Aires, from which they sought to oust him through harassment and political trials. Others would follow the path he paved: those trained by him, officials and defenders who, witnessing his work, learned to commit to the adolescents and their heart-wrenching stories that he brought to light and presents to us again in these tales.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2024

        Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent

        A vernacular approach

        by Lee Jarvis, Andrew Whiting, Stuart Macdonald

        This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how 'ordinary' citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has vitally important implications not only for counter-radicalisation and counter-terrorism policy but for the very study and practice of security.

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