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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the editor -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Is there a future for humane imprisonment? -- 2 First impressions -- 3 Life inside -- 4 Psychopathological considerations of prison systems -- 5 How to create madness in prison -- 6 Resolving prisoner conflicts before they escalate into violence -- 7 Can there be 'best practices' in supermax? -- 8 The UK Prison Service Close Supervision Centres -- 9 Creating the elements of a humane prison system -- 10 Women's imprisonment: how getting better is getting worse -- 11 Governing a humane prison -- 12 Clinical supervision for staff in a Therapeutic Community prison -- 13 Psychotherapy in prisons: a supervisor's view -- 14 Peer-review and accreditation -- 15 Independent inspection of prisons -- 16 Humane prisons: are they worth it? -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Setting the scene: contemporary views and historical perspectives -- 2 Arson and the rural community: East Anglia in the mid nineteenth century -- 3 The poacher: a study in Victorian crime and protest -- 4 The conquering of 'China': crime in an industrial community, 1842-64 -- 5 Crime in London: the evidence of the Metropolitan Police, 1831-92 -- 6 Crime and police in Manchester in the nineteenth century -- 7 The vagrant and crime in Victorian Britain: problems of definition and attitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Paid, earned, and social media are all crucial elements of modern electioneering, yet there is a scarcity of supplementary texts for campaigns and election courses that cover all types of media. Equally, media and politics courses cover election-related topics, yet there are few books that cover these subjects comprehensively. This brief and accessible book bridges the gap by discussing media in the context of U.S elections. David A. Jones divides the book into two parts, with the first analyzing the wide array of media outlets citizens use to inform themselves during elections. Jones covers traditional, mainstream news media and opinion/entertainment-based media, as well as new media outlets such as talk shows, blogs, and late-night comedy programs. The second half of the book assesses how campaigns and candidates have adapted to the changing media environment. These chapters focus on earned media strategies, paid media strategies, and social media strategies. Written in a concise and accessible style while including recent scholarly research, the book will appeal to students with its combination of academic rigor and readability. U.S. Media and Elections in Flux will be a useful supplementary textbook for courses on campaigns and elections, media and politics, and American introductory politics"--Publisher's website

Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius's ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the Analects, his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation

American and Chinese interests seem to be at one time in agreement and at another at loggerheads over issues that involve armed services, diplomacy, economics, human rights, intelligence, trade and culture. Part of what may appear to be a growing déracinement, or mutual disenchantment, arising from diverse viewpoints over infrastructure development globally but especially in sensitive developing areas such as the stand-off in the South China Sea and elsewhere along the Pacific coastline of Southeast Asia, and the Western Pacific Rim. China seems to be reconstructing its ancient feudal empire, actual or imaginary, in the territory to its South, the ASEAN bloc. This article will address some issues of compatibility and conflict that unite China but that sometimes divide it from the United States and the West, then assesses what alternative strategies should be adopted or abandoned in the interests of global and regional harmony coupled with security. It urges greater cooperation and collaboration, a development of a code of conduct for state behavior in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, together with a concerted East–West effort to maintain a stable economy for China and a sustainable trade relationship between China, Europe, and North America.

Identifying and halting the decline of High Nature Value farmland (HNV) is seen as essential to the EU meeting its 2020 biodiversity targets. Data on HNV farmland is used to target policy instruments and monitor changes in HNV to assess policy impact and development. Initial estimates of HNV land were based on land cover data with limited spatial resolution. The EU has since taken a distributed approach, allowing countries to develop their own data and metrics to report on the presence of HNV land, and changes to it. Land cover type has been the main data used for reporting but no consistent set of data metrics have been agreed. Therefore, there is interest in both developing standardised reporting metrics and identifying land with high restoration potential to increase the area of HNV land. We explore the relationship between soil associations and broad habitats across a member state (Wales) to determine if any discernible patterns exist between soil and habitat diversity and if soils information might be useful for identifying areas with high restoration potential. We developed a set of criteria to identify soil abundance, combining soil diversity with ecological rare species approaches. The rare (< 1000 ha) and occasional (1000-10,000 ha) soils identified were associated with significantly higher levels of habitat diversity than the national average. We propose that soil diversity information could supplement habitat information in identifying areas of potential restoration interest. Two iconic areas of Wales, the Llyn Peninsula and Conwy Valley, were compared for restoration potential. Soil diversity in both areas is higher than the national average; habitat diversity was average, or lower in the case of the Llyn Peninsula. These areas with higher soil diversity offer greater potential for restoration to type-2 HNV. Soil diversity and habitat diversity were found to be positively correlated at a national level despite major management modification of habitats. Given this relationship it is proposed that soil diversity information offers useful metrics alongside land cover data for identifying or comparing areas with regard to potential restoration for HNV.