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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julia davidson”
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  • Child Sexual Abuse

    Media Representations and Government Reactions

    by Julia Davidson ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in Public Policy
    Child Sexual Abuse critically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders. The last fifteen years has seen increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and the public, regarding child sexual abuse. This concern has been prompted by a series of events including cases inviting media attention and involving the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Virtual Reality Risks for Children in the Metaverse

    An Examination through Criminological Perspectives

    by Elena Martellozzo, Paula Bradbury, Ruby Farr, Julia Davidson ...
    Series series Elements in Criminology
    This Element explores online harms experienced by children in the metaverse and considers the implications through a criminological lens. Drawing on research from the VIRRAC project, funded by REPHRAIN, it includes insights from industry experts, practitioners, and young people. The Element examines how criminological theories help us understand children's experiences online, while highlighting ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Child Abuse and Protection

    Contemporary issues in research, policy and practice

    by Julia Davidson, Antonia Bifulco ...
    Literature in the child abuse and child protection arena has tended to adopt either a practice or legal perspective. Drawing on their expertise as researchers and leaders in their field, Julia Davison and Antonia Bifulco offer a comprehensive and cohesive book on child abuse and child protection, drawing on both criminological and psychological perspectives on all forms of child maltreatment and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Sun, Sex, and Gold

    Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

    by Jessica Tomiko Anders, Christel Antonius-Smits, Shirley Campbell, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Nadine Fernandez, Ranya Ghuma, Jacqueline Martis, Laura Mayorga, Cynthia Mellon, Patricia Mohammed, Beverley Mullings, Althea Perkins, Joan Phillips, A Kathleen Ragsdale, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Pilar Velasquez, Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Pathways into and out of Youth Cybercrime

    Research Findings and Reflections for Academics, Professionals and Policymakers

    by Julia Davidson, Ruby Farr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of pathways into and out of youth cybercrime, and evidence-led ways to tackle the cybercrime epidemic, drawing on theoretical perspectives and insights from the largest European H2020 study of youth cybercrime undertaken to date.As societies are incorporating cyberspace into daily routines, people are increasingly at risk of exposure to ... Read more

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  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery?

    by Julia O′Connell Davidson ...
    Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
    Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others hold that the on-going devaluation and destruction of black life continues the logic of transatlantic slavery. They urge us to address the "afterlives" of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Methods, Sex and Madness

    by Dr Derek Layder, Julia O'Connell Davidson ...
    Social research yields knowledge which powerfully affects our daily lives. The 'facts' it generates shape not just how we see ourselves and others, but also whether or not we see the existing status quo as normal, just and legitimate. This book examines and questions the methods used by social researchers to produce such knowledge. It focuses chiefly on research into human sexuality and madness. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Prostitution, Power and Freedom

    by Julia O'Connell Davidson ...
    Prostitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in empirical research. This book offers new perspectives on prostitution based on wide-ranging research in nine countries and extensive work with prostitute users. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Modern Slavery

    The Margins of Freedom

    by Julia O'Connell Davidson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy

    Edited by Julia Davidson, Petter Gottschalk ...
    Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse. Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information technology now forms a core part of the formal education system in many countries. There is however, increasing evidence ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery

    Towards a Critical Analysis

    Edited by Laura Brace, Julia O'Connell Davidson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite growing popular and policy interest in ‘new’ slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million ‘modern slaves’, interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on ‘modern slavery’.This edited volume will provide a space to reinvigorate the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • The Science of Evil

    On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

    by Simon Baron-Cohen ...
    An award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil” (New York Times).How can we explain both cruelty and kindness? To award-winning psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, the explanation for cruelty is low levels of empathy, and the explanation for kindness is high levels of empathy. In The Science of Evil, Baron-Cohen ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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