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Introduction -- Uncertain Theory and Social Network Analysis -- Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Multi-criteria Decision-making -- Large-scale Group Decision-making with Uncertain Preferences -- Large-scale Group Decision-making with Social Relationships -- Consensus Study Considering Trust Relationships -- Consensus Evolution Networks -- Consensus Reaching Process in Large-scale Group decision-making -- Application of LSGDM Methods in Group Recommendation -- Concluding Remarks. .

Bringing together a range of perspectives from practice, lived experience and academia, this is an accessible and timely guide to children's services reform. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, the book highlights both the positive and negative aspects of reform, before setting out alternative policy and practice directions.

"The book relates food systems, foreign policy and industrialization of agriculture as key elements to the discussion of food sovereignty, land use, financial markets and climate change from a critical development studies perspective. Drawing on historical research, field work and political economy theory, the book demonstrates the central role of the food system in international relations and domestic politics. I analyze the industrialization of agriculture as a result of a dialectical movement of economic crisis and expansion. My goal is to investigate historical dynamics in order to better understand current debates about food sovereignty, agriculture technologies, international financial markets and speculation with farmland."--

Cover -- Contents -- List of charts -- List of tables -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 'One of the very gravest of crimes': Introduction -- 2 'How criminal lunatics are made': Pathways to the asylum - Court cases, criminal responsibility, insanity defence and the power of medical evidence -- 3 'To be held until her Majesty's pleasure be known': Confinement - opinions, discussions and decisions -- 4 'God bless all hear [sic] for the good nursing I get now.' Dynamics of treatment and care in the asylums -- 5 'They should be … happy and comfortable.' Patient life in the asylums and the impact of behaviour and relationships -- 6 'The paramount importance of gentleness and kindness to all patients.' Therapeutic agency - medical men, chaplains and attendant staff in the asylums -- 7 'She might, without unwarrantable risk, be discharged': Release or retention and the protocols of discharge -- 8 'A depth of sympathy and a breadth of charity': Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.