Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust

Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust
Author: F. Furedi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137338024

The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust

Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust
Author: F. Furedi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137338024

The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

‘Preparing for Power’

‘Preparing for Power’
Author: Jack Hepworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2023-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 135024239X

This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the RCP existed for barely two decades, it left a curiously lasting impact on British politics, and its legacies have provoked bewilderment, suspicion, and animosity. Formed as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency in 1978, the RCP represented a distinct and often controversial offshoot of the Trotskyist left. Campaigning principally around 'unconditional support for Irish freedom' and anti-racism, RCP cadres expounded an independent revolutionary politics to supersede capitalism. In the 1990s, however, the RCP leadership ruefully declared that the working class had suffered an historic defeat, and the party dissolved in 1996. Combining wide-ranging archival research and twenty-four life-history interviews with former activists, Preparing for Power examines ideological continuity and change among the ex-RCP milieu. Explaining the party's key ideas, their evolution, and their retrospective contestation, Jack Hepworth analyses the RCP's trajectory in a broader political context. In doing so, Hepworth illuminates a network which has been the subject of considerable media sensation and polemical attention.

Media and Crime in the U.S.

Media and Crime in the U.S.
Author: Yvonne Jewkes
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483373894

Offering new and innovative ways of thinking about the relationship between media and crime, Media and Crime in the U.S. critically examines the influence of media coverage of crimes on US culture and identity.

Democracy in Iran

Democracy in Iran
Author: R. Jahanbegloo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137330171

Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a plan for non-violent action to help Iranians achieve it.

College Student Voices on Educational Reform

College Student Voices on Educational Reform
Author: K. Burke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137351845

This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy, and practice. It demonstrates how university courses can be designed to treat students as engaged citizens and contextualizes students' voices in the private university and the public sphere.

Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character

Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character
Author: R. Tzanelli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137336323

This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadóros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.

Russia and Latin America

Russia and Latin America
Author: M. Astrada
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137308133

Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account for alone. Using Russia-Latin America relations as a case study and applying a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective, this work explores alternative international mechanisms of order and organization.

Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers

Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers
Author: Jim Greer
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473965721

Social work in the 21st century is facing great change and upheaval in a period of Government austerity measures. From worsening pay rates to limited resources, these are increasingly challenging times in which social workers practice. It is therefore important that social work students are prepared for the realities of working within the modern social care system - that they have the tools and skills to care for themselves, and not just others. This book is a straightforward guide on how to cope with the stress and pressures of today’s social work environment by developing the right skills and knowledge. It will help students learn from a very early stage how to be at their best; from developing strategies to look after themselves and making the best use of supervision to the support they need to dealing with bullies and/or difficult people - all essential guidance on how to improve their health and mental wellbeing and prepare them to manage the challenges they will face.

The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody

The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody
Author: David Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317483138

Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both stigmatising and isolating, and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements, parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK started over ten years ago and have slowly spread across the country. They work closely with the police and probation services but rely entirely on volunteers prepared to give up their time to work with people often otherwise shunned by communities. Circles offer support to the person concerned but also hold them accountable for their future behaviour. They aim to ensure there are ‘no more victims’. This book is based on original research and provides a close-up picture of how these Circles of Support and Accountability work in practice. It brings together for the first time the voices of all the participants, from the offenders and the volunteers through to the Coordinators who link the volunteers to the professionals in the form of the police and probation services. The research was commissioned by Circles UK and funded by the Wates Foundation and the University of Leeds, School of Law.