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Book Sterilisation

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 6 pages

Download or read book Sterilisation written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Name of Eugenics

Download or read book In the Name of Eugenics written by Daniel J. Kevles and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering. It is rich in narrative, anecdote, attention to human detail, and stories of competition among scientists who have dominated the field.

Book In The Name of Liberalism

Download or read book In The Name of Liberalism written by Desmond King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. The book examines the use of eugenic arguments in the 1920s and 1930s, the use of work camps in the 1930s as a response to mass unemployment and the introduction of work-for-welfare programs since the 1980s. The book argues that existing accounts of American and British political development neglect how illiberal social policies are intertwined in the creation of modern liberal democratic institutions. Such policies are, paradoxically, justified in terms of the liberal democratic framework itself. In the light of the books research, the author suggests that there is a need to know more about the internal workings of democracies to justify the claim that liberal democracy represents the most attractive set of political institutions.

Book Governing the Dangerous

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  • Author : John Pratt
  • Publisher : Federation Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781862872677
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Governing the Dangerous written by John Pratt and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how dangerousness first became an object of penological discourse and why it has since remained so. Draws on material from Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States, and Canada.

Book Human Biology and Social Inequality

Download or read book Human Biology and Social Inequality written by Simon Slade Strickland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures of biological variation have long been associated with many indices of social inequality. Data on health, nutrition, fertility, mortality, physical fitness, intellectual performance and a range of heritable biological markers show the ubiquity of such patterns across time, space and population. This volume reviews the current evidence for the strength of such linkages and the biological and social mechanisms that underlie them. A major theme is the relationship between the proximate determinants of these linkages and their longer-term significance for biologically selective social mobility. This book therefore addresses the question of how social stratification mediates processes of natural selection in human groups. Data like this pose difficult and sensitive issues for health policy and developments in this area and in eugenics are reviewed for industrialised and developing countries.

Book Institutional Care and the Mentally Handicapped

Download or read book Institutional Care and the Mentally Handicapped written by Andy Alaszewski and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal  1895 1970

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal 1895 1970 written by Victor Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive. Drawing on a plethora of source material, such as the official papers of mandarins, ministers, and magistrates, measures of public opinion, prisoner memoirs, publications of penal reform groups and prison officers, the reports of Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees, political opinion in both Houses of Parliament and the research of the first cadre of criminologists, this book comprehensively examines a number of aspects of the British penal system, including judicial sentencing, law-making, and the administration of legal penalties. In doing so, Victor Bailey expertly weaves a complex and nuanced picture of punishment in twentieth-century England and Wales, one that incorporates the enduring influence of the death penalty, and will force historians to revise their interpretation of twentieth-century social and penal policy. This detailed and ground-breaking account of the rise and fall of the rehabilitative ideal will be essential reading for scholars and students of the history of crime and justice and historical criminology, as well as those interested in social and legal history.

Book Human Sterilization

Download or read book Human Sterilization written by Robert Latou Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction

Download or read book Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction written by Hermann Mannheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume V of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology series. Originally published in 1946, readers of the present volume will be aware of the links existing, for instance, between certain chapters of the author’s previous work ‘Social Aspects’, especially those on Business Administration and similar subjects, and the economic sections of the present book; or between the concluding Parts of the latter and of ‘The Dilemma’. A few lectures of a programmatic character delivered at a Summer School of the Fabian Society and at the South Place Ethical Society also feature in this book. It is one of the most important functions of Criminal Justice to play some part in the great task of Education for Citizenship.

Book Liberal Languages

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  • Author : Michael Freeden
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-10
  • ISBN : 1400826357
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Liberal Languages written by Michael Freeden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community. Written by one of the world's leading experts on liberalism and ideological theory, it uses new methods of analyzing ideologies, as well as historical case studies, to present liberalism as a flexible and rich tradition whose influence has extended beyond its conventional boundaries. Michael Freeden argues that liberalism's collectivist and holistic aspirations, and its sense of change, its self-defined mission as an agent of developing civilization--and not only its deep appreciation of liberty--are central to understanding its arguments. He examines the profound political impact liberalism has made on welfare theory, on conceptions of poverty, on standards of legitimacy, and on democratic practices in the twentieth century. Through a combination of essays, historical case studies, and more theoretical chapters, Freeden investigates the transformations of liberal thought as well as the ideological boundaries they have traversed. He employs the complex theory of ideological analysis that he developed in previous works to explore in considerable detail the experimental interfaces created between liberalism and neighboring ideologies on the left and the right. The nature of liberal thought allows us to gain a better perspective on the ways ideologies present themselves, Freeden argues, not necessarily as dogmatic and alienated structures, but as that which emanates from the continuous creativity that open societies display.

Book The Eugenics Review

Download or read book The Eugenics Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index  Proceedings of the American Prison Association  1905 1934

Download or read book Index Proceedings of the American Prison Association 1905 1934 written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eugenic Sterilization in the United States

Download or read book Eugenic Sterilization in the United States written by James Edward Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contrasts in Punishment

Download or read book Contrasts in Punishment written by John Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this book seeks to answer these questions. The book argues that the penal differences that currently exist between these two clusters of societies emanate from their early nineteenth-century social arrangements, when the Anglophone societies were dominated by exclusionary value systems that contrasted with the more inclusionary values of the Nordic countries. The development of their penal programmes over this two hundred year period, including the much earlier demise of the death penalty in the Nordic countries and significant differences between the respective prison rates and prison conditions of the two clusters, reflects the continuing influence of these values. Indeed, in the early 21st century these differences have become even more pronounced. John Pratt and Anna Eriksson offer a unique contribution to this topic of growing importance: comparative research in the history and sociology of punishment. This book will be of interest to those studying criminology, sociology, punishment, prison and penal policy, as well as professionals working in prisons or in the area of penal policy across the six societies that feature in the book.

Book Vasectomy and Vasectomania

Download or read book Vasectomy and Vasectomania written by David Wolfers and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working with People with Learning Disabilities

Download or read book Working with People with Learning Disabilities written by Honor Woods and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to working with people with learning disabilities, this guide provides the theoretical understanding needed to inform good practice and to help improve the quality of life of people within this group. Using accessible language and case examples, the authors discuss both psychological and practical theories, including: * person-centred and behavioural approaches * anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive approaches * systems theory * task centred approach * role theory. Emphasising empowerment and inclusion of those with learning disabilities, they relate theory to issues such as loss and bereavement, sexuality and social stigma. They also provide guidance for practitioners on social policy and legislation and explore crisis intervention, values and ethics, advocacy and joint agency work, making this an extremely useful resource for social workers, nurses, teachers care workers and others working with people with learning disabilities.