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50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
No full textFrom the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.
This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake
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Life, Loss and Legacy
No full textThis introductory chapter sets the scene for the book by exploring how life, loss and legacy are central to criminology and indeed to criminological research. Yet these are concepts that remain on the periphery of debate and discussions, with academics seldom reflecting (openly at least) on the losses they experience. This chapter therefore argues the need to consider loss – and indeed the stories of those or that which have been lost – to highlight their/its legacy. It contends that telling the stories of those/that, which have been lost enables us, as criminologists, researchers and members of society, to better understand their significance and symbolism. We do this by employing a critical lens, which presents loss as the outcome of the structural violence permeating society, which ultimately results in death and destruction. Yet the legacy of The Lost continues with those of us who experience this during our research, and how we respond, interact with and utilize this loss says a lot about the discipline of criminology and the wider environment of academic capitalism
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Making Sense of Loss
No full textThe concluding chapter pulls together the various forms of loss outlined throughout the book and the key themes emerging from the different authors’ interpretations of their significance and symbolism. Split into four thematic sections – loss as a motivator; loss as an obligatory component of the research process; loss as symbolic; and loss as legacy – it considers how loss is integral to criminology. Criminology is a discipline which ultimately has loss located at its philosophical and practical core – and how we therefore interpret and negotiate loss is of crucial importance, whether that be as students, academics and/or researchers. Yet loss also represents a vital aspect of the commodified criminological academic complex, and how we respond to the ethical challenges that this raises is equally important. The purpose of the book was to offer a voice to the voiceless and ensure their stories are told. In doing so we also made sure our own voices were not lost. Centring loss within theoretical and methodological conceptions, however, also offers a small opportunity to unite the criminological (sociological, anthropological, psychological and legal) community(s) which transcends the litany of theoretical differences and juxtapositions within the discipline(s)
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
Kelly Craig
No full textCraig has put Trail Little League on the map, for a number of firsts during the 1990 baseball season: 1. First female to hit a home run in the Provincial Championships (against Whalley, August 14, 1990 in Trail). 2. First female to hit a home run in the Canadian Championships (against Edmonton, August 15, 1990 in Stoney Creek, Ontario). 3. First female to be a starting pitcher in a Championship game in the World Series (against Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, August 21, 1990) in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 4. First female to play the catcher's position in a Championship game in the World Series (against Matamoros, Tamulipas, Mexico, August 21, 1990) in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Note: One of Kelly's most famous feats was in an exhibition game against Nelson in July 1990, when she recorded 10 RBI's in only 3 at bats - 3 consecutive home runs
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