This book presents new conceptual and theoretical approaches to violence studies. As the first research anthology to examine violating interpersonal, institutional and ideological practices as both gendered and affective processes, it raises novel questions and offers insights for understanding and resolving social and cultural problems related to violence and its prevention. The book offers mu…
This book analyzes human rights and crime prevention challenges from the perspective of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular its goal 16 on promoting peaceful, inclusive and just societies, the creation and development of which depend on the interplay between various secular and non-secular (f)actors. The book r…
This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system. Imprisonment is the only space where Americans have a constitutional right to healthcare but findings from this research suggest that accessing this care and associated welfare benefits requires some degree of violence. This book documents …
This book is the first to compare the shared cultural tenets of ancient warbands and outlaw biker gangs. It argues that the values of hyper-masculinity can be traced from the former into the contemporary environment of the latter: codes of honour, loyalty and bravery have prioritised small groups of males over women and other men, creating a history of hyper-masculinity that shows little sign o…
This book seeks to bring understanding of both complexity and temporality into criminology. It outlines why these are important in criminological models of causation and explanation and explores them by drawing on theories and approaches in political science, comparative history, social theory and systems analyses. It discusses what is meant by complexity and introduces historical institutional…
This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this affects people in prison. The book explains the ways in which film acts as a power resource, presenting an ideological vision …
“Davies, Leighton and Wyatt’s compilation is a must read for all scholars and students of criminology. Through its conceptual interrogation of harm and justice, application of novel methods, and focus on the most deleterious forms of harm affecting humans, non-human species and the environment, The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm brings together scholars who individually and collectively s…
This study aims to (1) describe the results of the analysis of the needs of students and class X teachers of Public High School 19 Palembang on learning media to write text reports on observations using sparkol video scribe; (2) describe sparkol video scribe learning media design in writing observational report text (3) describe the results of expert validation on sparkol video scribe learning …
This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime. It takes a diverse international perspective of the response to and prevention of cybercrime by seeking to understand not just the technological, but the human decision-making involved. This edited volume represents the state of the art of research on the human factor in cyb…
With the widespread use of information technology at this time, it also influences business processes in various industrial environments, one of which is the banking industry. BRI Bank is one of the banks that utilizes information technology to improve services by presenting a mobile BRI system that can be used anywhere in the hope of meeting the needs of BRI Bank customers. Therefore, this res…
This study investigated the students’ self-regulated learning in creative writing course applied by the 5th semester students of English Education Study Program Sriwijaya University. The study used a quantitative method and involved 74 respondents. It used a questionnaire consisting of 60 items on a 5-Likert scale, which evaluated six aspects of self-regulated writing strategies as identified…
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