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Power, Conflict and Criminalisation.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203935538
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364
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Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Challenging academic orthodoxy, recognising and proclaiming 'values' in critical social research -- 2 'Unreasonable force': policing marginalised communities in the 1980s -- 3 'Lost lives, hidden voices': deaths and violence in custody -- 4 'Negligence without liability': the scale of injustice after Hillsborough -- 5 'Licensed to kill': the Dunblane shootings and their aftermath -- 6 Children on trial: prosecution, disclosure and anonymity -- 7 'Asbo-mania': the regulation and criminalisation of children and young people -- 8 Children, young people and con.ict in the North of Ireland -- 9 Self harm and suicide in a women's prison -- 10 'Nasty things happen in war' -- 11 'Speaking truth to power': critical analysis as resistance -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A unique, accessible text that introduces a broad readership to critical research into 'crime', 'deviance' and conflict through contemporary, in-depth case studies. Tracing the authoritarian legacy of policing civil disturbances, harsh regimes of punishment, deaths in custody and prison protest, diverse issues such as the demonisation of children, the imprisonment of women and the 'war on terror' are explored and analysed.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Challenging academic orthodoxy, recognising and proclaiming 'values' in critical social research -- 2 'Unreasonable force': policing marginalised communities in the 1980s -- 3 'Lost lives, hidden voices': deaths and violence in custody -- 4 'Negligence without liability': the scale of injustice after Hillsborough -- 5 'Licensed to kill': the Dunblane shootings and their aftermath -- 6 Children on trial: prosecution, disclosure and anonymity -- 7 'Asbo-mania': the regulation and criminalisation of children and young people -- 8 Children, young people and con.ict in the North of Ireland -- 9 Self harm and suicide in a women's prison -- 10 'Nasty things happen in war' -- 11 'Speaking truth to power': critical analysis as resistance -- Bibliography -- Index.

A unique, accessible text that introduces a broad readership to critical research into 'crime', 'deviance' and conflict through contemporary, in-depth case studies. Tracing the authoritarian legacy of policing civil disturbances, harsh regimes of punishment, deaths in custody and prison protest, diverse issues such as the demonisation of children, the imprisonment of women and the 'war on terror' are explored and analysed.

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