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Victim-Offender Reconciliation in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia)
by Riccardo BertiThis book examines the conciliatory institutions that operate within criminal law in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Despite having the same legal traditions, the two countries have taken very different political and social roads over the past century. Taking these important factors into account, the book compares the conciliatory mechanisms that have emerged in the two countries, particularly focusing on the influence of Confucian tradition in current criminal reconciliation practices. By drawing upon in-depth interviews with multiple experts in the area, the role of tradition in the discipline of modern Xingshi Hejie is explored, alongside an analysis of the reasons that lead victims and offenders to choose this conciliatory procedure. The book offers a fascinating account of this feature of criminal justice in China and Taiwan, and will be of particular interest to scholars interested in comparative approaches to criminology and criminal justice.
Victimology
by Steven P. Lab William G. DoernerThis book covers the scope of crime victims’ suffering in the U.S., offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim’s role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal’s justice system can be transformed into a victim’s justice system. Theory is woven together with the description of each topic, and specific examples illustrate each point. The book goes on to address the full impact of victimization, and a final section details specific types of victimization, ranging from violent crimes, including child and elder abuse, to property crime, to crime in the school and in the workplace. The authors explain how obstacles hinder the pursuit of justice, and provide significant policy and programming suggestions to render the system more victim-friendly. Appropriate for undergraduate as well as early graduate students in Victimology courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Justice Studies programs, this book offers rich pedagogical features and online student resources as well as test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and sample syllabus for instructors.
Victimology
by Steven P. Lab William G. DoernerVictimology, Tenth Edition, covers the scope of crime victims’ suffering in the US, offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim’s role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and involvement in the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal’s justice system can be transformed into a victim’s justice system. Theory is woven together with the description of each topic, and specific examples illustrate each point. The book goes on to address the full impact of victimization, and a final section details specific types of victimization, ranging from violent crimes, including child and elder abuse, to property crime, to crime in the school and in the workplace. The authors explain how obstacles hinder the pursuit of justice, and provide significant policy and programming suggestions to render the system more victim-friendly.Appropriate for undergraduate as well as early graduate students in Victimology courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Justice Studies programs, this book offers instructor’s aides with test bank and PowerPoint lecture slides as well as a companion site with student resources.
Victims, Gender and Jouissance: Victims, Gender And Jouissance (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
by Victoria GraceVictimization has a long, cross-cultural history. The status of the victim has been the source of active and stirring controversy in cultural theory, criminology and legal theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis; it is of particular interest within feminist theory. Can the victim relation be refused? Are we all victims? The aim of this book is to analyze the intersection of gender and the victim, and the role of a libidinal enjoyment (jouissance) in knotting this relation. The enduring link between the construct of the victim and the sacrificial processes at its heart reveals something ultimately compelling about sacrifice. Legislating victimization out of existence will fail because the victim relation is central to the very formation of human subjectivity and implicated in the reproduction of social life. Lacanian psychoanalysis is used to interrogate the limits to arguments for resolving the problem of sacrificial violence: from Girard to Bataille, from Butler to Kristeva, from de Sade to Nietzsche. However, without denying the inevitable structuring power of the signifier, only its relentless reversion, or undoing, will expose the myths that sustain it, and create an opening within the social beyond this impasse. Such a break is theorized through a confrontation of Lacan with Baudrillard.
Victims of Crime and the Victimization Process (Criminal Justice: Contemporary Literature in Theory and Practice)
by Marilyn McShane Frank P. WilliamsVolume 6 in the 6-volume series titled Criminal Justice: Contemporary Literature in Theory and Practice. This compilation of articles attempts to fill gaps in existing resources with some of the best current statements on the topic. Subjects include the characteristics of victims, the effects of crime on victims, and some contemporary theories of victimization. Also included are evaluations of a variety of victim-oriented policies and programs, such as victim assistance, peace-making, and victim-impact statements. This title will be of great utility to students, scholars, and others with interests in the literature of criminal justice and criminology.
Victims of Obtrusive Violence
by G. K. LietenThis volume describes how children's experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against children at home, at school, and in public spaces in two different areas of Kenya (rural and urban), while taking into account its environmental and cultural factors. This volume is unique, not only because of its focus on a less researched yet highly acute social problem but also because it provides inside knowledge by giving the children a voice through their direct participation in the data collection.
Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London: Spatial Consequences to the Reordering of London’s Burials in the Early 19th Century
by Gian Luca AmadeiThis book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the principles of health and hygiene, were directly associated with liberal capital investments, which had consequences in the spatial arrangement of London. Victorian cemeteries, in particular, were not only a solution for overcrowded graveyards, they also acted as urban generators in the formation London’s suburbs in the nineteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the conditions that triggered the introduction of the early Victorian cemeteries in London, this book investigates their spatial arrangement, aesthetics and functions. These developments are illustrated through the study of three private Victorian burial sites: Kensal Green Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery. The book is aimed at students and researchers of London history, planning and environment, and Victorian and death culture studies.
The Victorian Colonial Romance with the Antipodes
by Helen Lucy BlytheThe Victorian Colonial Romance with the Antipodes.
The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives (Routledge Revivals)
by Jennifer Wagner-LawlorThis title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.
Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning: Historical Encounters in the Classroom
by Kevin A. MorrisonThis book is a crucial resource for instructors interested in bringing the past alive for their students through hands-on, immersive educational experiences. While sharing a common historical field, the contributors hail from multiple disciplines, including art history, human biology, biological anthropology, and English literature. Ranging from assignments that involve students editing and annotating a primary work to producing an array of digital projects, and from participating in study-abroad programs to taking part in service-learning initiatives, the chapters will furnish readers with strategies for creating engaged and dynamic classrooms. Although the focus of the book is on Victorian Britain, the pedagogical approaches outlined in each chapter will be useful to instructors of any historical field.
The Victorian Guide to Sex: Desire & Deviance in the 19th Century
by Fern Riddell“An enjoyable read and an informative survey of Victorian sexual tastes and preoccupations . . . a rigorously balanced account of this complex subject.” —Victorian SecretsAn exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practices and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the late 19th century. Drawing on both satirical and real-life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered.Reproducing original advertisements and letters, with extracts taken from memoirs, legal cases, newspaper advice columns, and collections held in the Museum of London and the British Museum, this book reveals historical sexual proclivities.“Riddell’s book lifts the veil on historic sexual attitudes to illuminate the secrets of our ancestors’ lives. Written with wry humour in a pastiche of Victorian style, the book is both entertaining and highly informative.” —Your Family Tree
The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Joshua GoochThis book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.
The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems and Change (Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel #14)
by Kate FlintFirst published in 1987. Many Victorian novels that considered social problems made extensive use of contemporary source material for their descriptions. This book aims to provide a greater acquaintance with this non-literary material — illustrating and exemplifying issues that the authors treated imaginatively. The material is divided into parts dealing with: the industrial north of England, London and the agricultural poor. Extracts from writings that bear directly on the fiction of writers like Dickens and Gaskell are featured, as are Government Blue Books and newspaper reports and articles. This volume also contains articles by Dickens and others, from his magazine, Household Words.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families (Routledge Revivals)
by J A BanksFirst published in 1981, Victorian Values is an investigation into the social causes behind the decline of the birth rate and the size of families in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author looks at the interplay of the rising standard of living, the emancipation of women, the attitude to children and education and the effects of the meritocratic ideal, and their interaction with religious ideas of sexual morality. He considers the pioneers of birth control, but other factors are considered which might contribute to the retreat from the very large families of an earlier period. The book is a brilliant example of how the sociologist can illuminate the problems of the social and economic historian, and at the same time contribute to developing ideas about future social policy.
Victoria’s Madmen
by Clive Bloom'Victoria's Madmen' is about those marginal 19th century voices which became the cacophony of the 20th century - the noise of revolutions shaking both the stability of society and the meaning of self. It tells the stories of figures including Oscar Wilde and Karl Marx, the outcasts and non-conformists of the Victorian age.
Victory at Bear Cove
by Elsa PedersonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality during World War II
by Marilyn E HegartyA study of how the U.S. government&’s World War II fight against venereal disease transformed into a war against women.Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes offers a counter-narrative to the story of Rosie the Riveter, the icon of female patriotism during World War II. With her fist defiantly raised and her shirtsleeves rolled up, Rosie was an asexual warrior on the homefront. But thousands of women supported the war effort not by working in heavy war industries, but by providing morale-boosting services to soldiers, ranging from dances at officers&’ clubs to more blatant forms of sexual services, such as prostitution. While the de-sexualized Rosie was celebrated, women who used their sexuality—either intentionally or inadvertently—to serve their country encountered a contradictory morals campaign launched by government and social agencies, which shunned female sexuality while valorizing masculine sexuality. This double-standard was accurately summed up by a government official who dubbed these women &“patriotutes&”: part patriot, part prostitute. Marilyn E. Hegarty explores the dual discourse on female sexual mobilization that emerged during the war, in which agencies of the state both required and feared women&’s support for, and participation in, wartime services. The equation of female desire with deviance simultaneously over-sexualized and desexualized many women, who nonetheless made choices that not only challenged gender ideology but defended their right to remain in public spaces.
La vida sigue
by Jorge BaficoEste libro es un recorrido y un homenaje. Una invitación a conocer las zonas más complejas de la psique humana, a través de diferentes historias de pacientes. También es un homenaje a la figura de Dagoberto Puppo, un gran médico que ha sido maestro, ejemplo y amigo del autor. El psicoanalista Jorge Bafico y el psiquiatra Dagoberto Puppo recorrieron un largo camino juntos. Un sólido vínculo afectivo y profesional los arropó mientras trabajaron con muchos pacientes. Tras el fallecimiento de Dagoberto en abril de 2009, Jorge supo que tenía que escribir este libro. Recorriendo sus páginas, el lector se encontrará con casos clínicos que tocan la locura, y que al mismo tiempo se convierten en cercanos. Bafico nos acerca a la patología en su versión más cotidiana, desde el respeto y una profunda sensibilidad. Un encuentro con la clínica desde dentro, moldeada a través del vínculo con Dagoberto. Este libro es también un homenaje a un gran médico que ha sido maestro, ejemplo y amigo del autor. Cómo él mismo dice: #Hay hombres que son excepcionales. Dagoberto lo fue y yo tuve la suerte de conocerlo#. Con un lenguaje directo y luminoso, Jorge Bafico nos invita a conocer esta historia de aprendizajes, gratitud y esperanza, pero también de angustia y dolor. Fiel a su estilo, cada texto está acompañado por citas musicales que complementan y amplifican el sentido de cada capítulo.
Video Gamers
by Garry CrawfordVideo gaming is economically, educationally, culturally, socially and theoretically important, and has, in a relatively short period of time, firmly cemented its place within contemporary life. It is fair to say, however, that the majority of research to date has focused most specifically on either the video games themselves, or the direct engagement of gamers with a specific piece of game technology. In contrast, Video Gamers is the first book to explicitly and comprehensively address how digital games are engaged with and experienced in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of those who play them. In doing so, the book provides a key introduction to the study of gamers and the games they play, whilst also reflecting on the current debates and literatures surrounding gaming practices.
Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon
by Arthur Asa BergerFrom their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur Asa Berger makes clear in this important new work. Films are purely to be viewed, but video involves the player, moving from empathy to immersion, from being spectators to being actively involved in texts. Berger, a renowned scholar of popular culture, explores the cultural significance of the expanding popularity and sophistication of video games and considers the biological and psychoanalytic aspects of this phenomenon.Berger begins by tracing the evolution of video games from simple games like Pong to new, powerfully involving and complex ones like Myst and Half-Life. He notes how this evolution has built the video industry, which includes the hardware (game-playing consoles) and the software (the games themselves), to revenues comparable to the American film industry.
Video Games and Social Competence (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)
by Rachel KowertDespite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community. In particular, there is a growing concern that online video game play may be associated with deficits in social functioning. Due to a lack of empirical consistency, the debate surrounding the potential impact of online video game play on a user’s sociability remains an active one. This book contributes to this debate by exploring the potential impact of online video game involvement on social competence outcomes, theoretically and empirically. Through empirical research, Kowert examines the relationships between online video game involvement, social goals, and social skills and discusses the underlying mechanisms of these effects.
Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Daniel Muriel Garry CrawfordVideo games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life. Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data – including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector – Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late modernity, and contemporary political rationalities. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such Video Games, Sociology, and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture, technology, and consumption in the transformation of society, identities, and communities.
Video-interactiebegeleiding (Methodisch werken)
by A.I.T., OCK Het Spalier J.M. Dekker J. den DekkerDit basisboek gaat over video interactiebegeleiding (VIB), een methode die gebruik maakt van videobeelden en de principes van basiscommunicatie om de begeleiding van cliënten en professionals vorm te geven. De methode is breed inzetbaar en kan worden toegepast in jeugdhulpverlening, thuiszorg, gehandicaptenzorg, jeugdgezondheidszorg, maatschappelijk werk enzovoort.De auteurs belichten video interactiebegeleiding in al haar facetten en behandelen de uitgangspunten en de wijze waarop de videobeelden van interacties met behulp van basiscommunicatie worden geanalyseerd.De illustratieve praktijkverhalen in Video interactiebegeleiding maken duidelijk hoe VIB-ers de uitgangspunten van de VIB-theorie toepassen. Ter verduidelijking van de tekst zijn foto's opgenomen.Op de bij het boek behorende website wordt video-interactiebegeleiding in de praktijk zichtbaar maakt. Drie ouders en enkele pedagogische medewerkers laten zien dat - door gebruik van videobeelden bij de begeleiding - een betere afstemming tussen de gezinssituatie en de groepssituatie tot stand komt.
Video Methods: Social Science Research in Motion (Routledge Advances in Research Methods #10)
by Charlotte BatesThis interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences, it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data. The collection showcases different video methods, including video diaries, video go-alongs, time-lapse video, mobile devices, multi-angle video recording, video ethnography, and ethnographic documentary. Each method is presented through a case study, showing how it can be used in practice. The authors offer pragmatic advice and discuss practical issues, including equipment, techniques and skills, analysis, and presentation. They also show how video methods can be used in a range of different contexts – at train stations, on bicycles, in schools, outdoors, and in museums – to investigate worlds that are visible, audible, tangible, and in motion. In doing so, they illuminate the theoretical possibilities that video methods offer for researching the body, identity, everyday life, affect, time, and space.
Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society #19)
by Fredrika Björklund Ola SvenoniusThis edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history. The book is motivated by asking what makes video surveillance "tick" in three very different cultural settings, two of which (Poland and Sweden) are virtually unexplored in the literature on surveillance. The selection of countries is motivated by an interest in societies with recent experiences of authoritarianism, and how they respond to the global trend towards intensified technical means of control. With thorough empirical studies, the book constitutes an important contribution to security studies, surveillance studies, and post-communist area studies.