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Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime. However, in reality almost half of offenders stand to be sentenced for more than one crime. The high proportion of multiple crime offenders poses a number of practical and theoretical...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-10-10
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An NPR Best Book of 2017Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity,...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2017-10-10
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This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory. In recent years, demographic changes in cities in many parts of the world have led...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. It shows that these platforms have profoundly altered...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book produces...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, with the Government focus on such approaches asLocal Enterprise Partnerships and neighbourhood development plans, and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This edited volume discusses the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding changes in journalism in the digital era. The chapters explore how technological innovations have transformed journalism and how an international comparative perspective can...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-09
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Do you want to thrive in your doctoral research?Do you want to do more than just survive? If so this is the book for you. Focused on empowering the doctoral researcher, it is packed with advice on how to make the best of opportunities and enjoy your research...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-07
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This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime. Looking at the nature of news sources regularly used by journalists, Lugo-Ocando analyses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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The expansion of Higher Education has been one of the most important changes to affect Western labour markets. More than a third of all British workers are now degree holders.The graduate labour market is often understood as that part of the labour market characterized...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.
Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in Bristol and York, the book first describes the way in which...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-10-06
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This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of moral panics. It provides an up-to-date overview of the history and development of the concept of panic, and discusses the key criticisms and debates that have stemmed from its use over the last four decades....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences. Politicians and policymakers frequently use militarised responses to look tough on crime. The deployment of armies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-06
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THE PERFECT GIFT for the party animal . . . or at the very least, for that person you know who doesn't know when it's time to go home.______________________Every so often, it is nice to have a big night out.It is important to let your hair down.And for a friend to hold...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-10-05
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This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-05
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Water Security in a New World
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This book focuses on the experiences of temporary movements between Asia and Europe from the perspective of migrants and mobile people. It raises important questions such as: Why do people migrate on a temporary basis and what does this actually mean? How are these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-05
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