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This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies. It stresses particularly the structural and relational aspects of religion as providing a sense of order and a networked structure that enables people to pursue quite...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-23
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In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before. Declining levels of homophobia across the Western world has facilitated a greater acceptance of LGBT athletes among heterosexual teammates,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-23
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This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration. Research on intergenerational transmission (IGT) has tended to focus on material asset transfers prompting calls to balance material...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-23
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This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system. There remains a misconception that once an offender has served the penalty for an offence, his or her dealings with the law and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-23
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This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-23
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Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time.Developmental studies in criminology focus on psychological factors that influence the onset and persistence of criminal behavior, while...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-23
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With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world’s most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the unjust sufferings...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-11-22
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Criminal disenfranchisement-the practice of restricting electoral rights following criminal conviction-is the only surviving electoral restriction of adult, mentally competent citizens in contemporary democracies. Despite the strong devotion to the principle of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-22
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This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation (‘rich’ versus ‘poor’ countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-20
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While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-20
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In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU policy cooperation and coordination. Regrettably, however, little progress has been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-20
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Victor Kempf konfrontiert in seiner sozialphilosophischen Studie zwei konträre Paradigmen der Kapitalismuskritik. Dem populären Exodus aus den normativen Vermittlungsformen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft stellt er den beiseitegelassenen Versuch einer emanzipatorischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-11-20
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America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-20
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This is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape.This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This book critically investigates the origins and consequences of the Janus-faced character of attitudes and policies towards migrants that seek to penetrate “Fortress Europe”. Beginning with an examination of its founding ambitions, it locates the roots of an ingrained...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. From National Socialist perpetration in the museum, through post-terrorist life writing to embodied performances of perpetration in cosplay, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Focusing on the government and its principal goals, it describes the transition of government-enterprise...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-19
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