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Legal Perspectives on Cyberbullying: A Comparative Evaluation of Current Law and Policy in England and Wales
No full textAchieving Best Practice in External Examination: Findings from the External Examiners Subgroup
No full textThe shaping of opinion: literacy, media, and folk devils in eighteenth-century London
No full textThis chapter investigates the key theme of mass media, charting the birth of what Habermas referred to as the public sphere, a development which ushered in a period of intense public opinion and moral consciousness, and subsequent moral entrepreneurship. Key to this analysis is the historical context of public literacy, alongside consideration of media availability and access for the poor and illiterate. The struggle and discourse over oral culture and literacy are discussed, again with reference to contemporary literature, as is the growing significance of visual imagery to the formation of a public consensus of morality. The rapid development of news media is covered through examination of the changes that saw what might be described as the popular press transformed into the watchman press as the century evolved
Criminal Justice Privatisation in Contemporary Context: Politics, Risk, and Globalisation
No full textFollowing on from a socio-historical overview to site the subject, this evaluative review critically examines privatisation as international public policy, with an evaluation of contemporary criminal justice practice, and the position of criminological theory - the majority of which stands in opposition. Central to this longstanding opposition is the ideology of positive externality; that fundamental public services, such as education, healthcare, defence, and criminal justice, should be beyond the reach of party politics, and remain in the hands of the state to ensure access and objectivity. Here, it is argued that the unabated increase in the privatisation of social services over the past forty years is identified as the catalyst for decline in terms of the state’s responsibility to assist justice and act in the public interest. <br/
Legal continuing professional development: interpreting Sections 14 and 15 of the SOA 2003
No full textLegal continuing professional development: illegal, harmful and offensive material online
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