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This is a concise statement of ten different problems for which a behavioural science should (and may soon be able to) provide coherent, empirically grounded explanations. These problems were chosen for their social importance as well as their theoretical interest, as demonstrations of the need to integrate psychological, economic and evolutionary factors in explanatory models. For each question, I mention pointers to incipent or possible research programmes. The questions are the following: What are the natural limits to family arrangements? Do we have an intuitive understanding of large societies? Why are despised social categories essentialised? Why gender differences in politics? What logic drives ethnic violence? How are moral concepts acquired? What drives people's economic intuitions? Are there cultural differences in low-level cognition? What explains individual religious attitudes? Why religious fundamentalism and extremism? The general aim is to propose a new approach to issues of human culture, not through an abstract discussion of paradigms and traditions, but through specific examples of possible empirical research.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Editors; About the Contributors; About the Interviewees; Chapter 1: Contextualising the Issue: Leadership in Corrections; SECTION I: Europe; Chapter 2: Živilė Mikėnaitė, Director General of the Prison Department of Lithuania; Overview; Introduction; Career; Changes Experienced; Personal Correctional Philosophy; Problems and Successes Experienced; Theory and Practice; Evidence-based Corrections; Transnational Relations; Role of Corrections; General Assessments

Face à la crise climatique, l'injonction à agir urgemment n'a jamais été aussi présente, mais contraste avec la forte inertie des politiques écologiques. Ce numéro de Politix prend le parti d'adopter une approche de sociologie générale et de sciences sociales du politique qui consiste à reconnaître la dimension particulièrement agonistique de la fabrique des politiques écologiques, tant dans l'espace social en général que dans les champs politique, bureaucratique et économique ou dans l'espace des mouvements sociaux et environnementaux. L'inertie des politiques écologiques est dès lors appréhendée à la fois comme le produit de structures sociales de domination et comme le vecteur de leur reproduction. Les groupes et acteurs sociaux qui occupent au sein de ces structures des positions dominantes sont parvenus non pas à rejeter les injonctions environnementales, mais à les rendre compatibles avec la préservation de leurs positions dominantes. Participant de différentes manières à la (re)définition et à la mise en œuvre de politiques écologiques, ces acteurs participent à dessiner les contours d'une question environnementale qui s'impose sans modifier en profondeur l'état des rapports sociaux.

Acknowledgments -- Getting started -- The crime challenge -- The need to control disputes -- Containing sexual temptations -- Protecting property -- Safeguarding children -- Four types of crime control -- Personal controls -- Social controls -- Situational controls -- Formal controls -- Realistic justice -- Assigning responsibility -- Realistic policing -- Realistic court activity -- Realistic sanctions -- Efforts and realities -- Practical crime data -- Risky ages -- The teenage brain -- Teenage volatility -- Peer influences -- Situational inducements -- Time with peers -- Overt crime areas -- Tough neighborhoods -- Cohesion vs. intimidation -- Exclusion -- Concentration -- Accommodation -- The pathway to decay -- Mapping crime -- Risky settings for women -- The policy challenge -- Risky streets -- Risky homes -- Risky nights -- Crime enhancers -- Crime in groups -- Crime via cyberspace -- Wrapping up -- Index

Während sich die wissenschaftliche Strömung der "Convict Criminology" in den letzten 25 Jahren international zunehmend etabliert hat, ist sie innerhalb der Kriminologie in Deutschland bisher weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben. Der Beitrag soll die "Convict Criminology" für ein Publikum in Deutschland vorstellen, indem ihre theoretischen und historischen Grundlagen sowie bisherige Entwicklungen dargestellt werden. Außerdem soll ihre (mögliche) Bedeutung für den deutschen Kontext diskutiert und auf ihr nahestehende Entwicklungen hingewiesen werden.

Foundational characteristics of qualitative research include flexibility, variation in application, critique, and innovation all of which derive from its subjective roots in interpretivism and constructivism. While the scholars who design qualitative research projects envision these qualities as strengths, such a breadth of practices and the assumptions that undergird them may present challenges during the peer review process. As a result, those who review and consume qualitative research often have important and difficult-to-answer questions about the project's design, strategies/tools, an