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Introduction
No full textThis chapter provides a comprehensive overview of womens experiences in international criminal justice systems (CJSs), including historical and contemporary policy and practice. It is relevant for those studying and/or working in criminology, sociology, social work, youth justice, and many other disciplines that directly or indirectly discuss and/or work with women in contact with justice systems. Routes into the Criminal Justice System. The chapter examines the many ways in which women enter different CJSs. While not an exhaustive list, some of the recurrent issues identified in the chapter discusses women's victimisation, challenging family circumstances, class-based inequalities, racial discrimination, and marginalisation from policies and practices that offer the potential to safeguard and/or support women. It is through the tireless work of contributors and their peers, positive change is being made, and authors hope that they can continue to build upon good practice and work collaboratively together
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Keeping the conversation going: the Women, Family, Crime and Justice network
No full textThis introductory chapter opens the edited collection by restating the position, perspective and purpose of the authors/editors of the book who co-convene the Women, Family, Crime and Justice (WFCJ) network. The editors articulate their disappointment at the lack of meaningful change within the criminal and social justice areas associated with the WFCJ network, and the damaging consequences this brings to women and families. It goes on to explain how this second volume both complements the first (Masson et al, 2021) but is appropriately distinct, shedding light on different, but overlapping, issues facing women and families in the current climate
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(Wo)men in the middle: the gendered role of supporting prisoners
Full text linkPrisons are, by their very nature, gendered institutions. Despite women making up a
small percentage of the prison population (House of Commons Library, 2020), those
supporting prisoners are generally women - especially mothers and partners (Booth
and Masson, 2021; Codd, 2008). In understanding women’s experiences of criminal
justice, it is prudent to consider the women who are punished by the system despite
not being incarcerated themselves. This chapter sheds light on these women’s
experiences. First, through a review of the growing international literature that
illustrates how the economic and relational implications as well as the health, stigma
and care for children of prisoners are overwhelmingly experienced by women in the
community attempting to keep their families together. Following this, a case study
showcasing the excellent work of one organisation, The Straight Path Resettlement
Project (SPR) in Leicester, England, discusses Ferzana Dakri’s experience of
working in the community with ‘BAME’ Muslim women who have imprisoned loved
ones. In viewing prison as sites of punishment, and appreciating how these pains
extend beyond those incarcerated, this chapter draws attention to the multiple ways
that women supporting prisoners are simultaneously harmed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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