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Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
Holding the line: The sustainability of police involvement in crime prevention
No full textThe opening lines of the handbook issued by Sir Robert Peel to all officers of the Metropolitan Police in 1829, were these:
‘It should be understood at the outset that the object to be attained is the prevention of crime. To this great end every effort of the police is to be directed. The security of person and property, the preservation of the public tranquility, and all the other objects of a police establishment will thus be better effected than by the detection and punishment of the offender after he has succeeded in committing the crime.’ Quoted in Reith (1948:62). Mayne, one of the first two Commissioners, added this principle: ‘To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.’ Quoted in Boyd (2012). What exactly they meant by prevention is open to interpretation, and whether this was just a ruse to help convince a suspicious public that in England ‘continental’ methods of repression would not be adopted is not clear. But by the late 19th Century the reactive approach of catching criminals or ‘feeling collars’ had come to predominate; and in the 20th, the politically-significant rhetoric of ‘fighting crime’ achieved consensual hegemony, delivered huge resources to policing over the years and of course powerfully shaped the policing organisation. It was not until the 1960s that the first signs of resurgence of an explicit, practical, preventive role were seen
[Marina, Marguerite, and Rachel Oswald at Dallas Police Headquarters]
No full textOriginal black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International photographer Darryl Heikes. The image shows Marina Oswald, wife of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald, holding her infant daughter Rachel, walking with Oswald's mother Marguerite, at Dallas Police Headquarters on the evening of November 22, 1963
[Marina, Rachel, and Marguerite Oswald at Dallas Police Headquarters]
No full textOriginal black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International photographer Darryl Heikes. The image shows Marina Oswald, holding her infant daughter Rachel, standing close to Lee Harvey Oswald's mother (and Rachel's grandmother) Marguerite Oswald in the hallway at Dallas Police Headquarters on the evening of November 22, 1963
Episode 3: Rachel Wightman, CSP Staff and Author
No full textIn this episode, CSP\u27s Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach, Rachel Wightman, shares about her new book, Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely, including how she became interested in the topic, what led to the creation of this book, and why this topic is so important today
Rachel Swarns Book Event: The 272
No full textA conversation with Rachel Swarns, author of The GU272: The Families Who Were Enslaved And Sold To Build The American Catholic Church (Penguin Random House 2023). The conversation was moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman and hosted by Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Police engagement with and through the arts : an innovative approach to building trust and confidence?
No full textResearch from University of Warwick’s Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR) assesses the benefits and challenges of arts and culture as a means of better police engagement and relationship-building with seldom-heard communities who historically, have had little reason to trust the police, as Dr Rachel Lewis and Professor Jacqueline Hodgson explain
Drugs, police inefficiencies and gangsterism in violently impoverished communities like Overcome
No full textThis research establishes an understanding of the relationship between gangsterism, the drug
commodity and inefficiencies in the state’s policing institution, as well as the consequences
of this relationship, in the context of Overcome squatter area in Cape Town. Overcome is
representative of other violently impoverished Cape Town communities with its high rate of
unemployment, low quality of education, domestic abuse, stagnant housing crisis, lack of
access to intellectual and material resources or opportunities for personal growth,
gangsterism, inefficient policing, substance-dependency, and violence. This research
demonstrates that the current relationship between the gangs, drugs and the police fosters an
unpredictable, violent environment, leaving residents in a constant state of vulnerability.
The argument is developed around three key historical junctures in the development of
organized crime in South Africa, starting with the growth of the mining industry in the
Witwatersrand after 1886, followed by forced removals and prohibition like policies in Cape
Town circa 1970, and finally the upheaval created around transition away from apartheid in
1994.
Research for this paper was both quantitative and qualitative in nature, and included expert
interviews on the subjects of police criminality, narcotic sales, and gangsterism. Newspapers
articles, crime statistics, books, census figures, and a host of journals were also utilized.
Upon reviewing a host of police inefficiencies and criminal collusions, the research
concludes that public criminals related to the state, such as police, and private criminals, such
as gangsters, work together in a multitude of ways in a bid to acquire wealth, most notably
through an illicit drug market today dominated by ‘tik’. It is shown that this violent narcotics
market binds police and gangsters together at the expense of creating a state of insecurity for
those living in poor drug markets
Theodore Clement Steele: A Lecture by Rachel Perry
No full textJoin author and curator Rachel Perry for a lecture on the life and artwork of Theodore Clement (TC) Steele. Perhaps the most well-known artist of the “Hoosier Group,” Steele created impressionist portraits and landscape paintings from his studio in Nashville, Indiana.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1084/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon, July 21, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon regarding information about Japanese American claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
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