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Reading Time: 17 minutes I have been digging through some old files and folder while sorting out moving house, and have realise I have never got round to posting some of the academic work I completed, some of which I am pleased with and even enjoy re-reading. I hope …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I am not really, so I like to say, a man for having heroes. However, in a very academic manner, one person for whom I have a lot of respect is Emiritus Professor Zygmunt Bauman. The School of Sociology has just run a conference to …
Reading Time: 12 minutes In the 1930’s, Penrose conducted a sociological investigation comparing statistics relating to crime and mental disorder in various European countries. Penrose discussed a number of possible conclusions that could be drawn form his data, but two that showed noticeable statistical significance were as follows: in countries with better provision of hospital beds for the mentally disordered the prison population tended to be lower and in these countries the number of deaths attributable to homicide also tended to be lower.
These findings will be used as a springboard to discuss the dilemma of whether the most appropriate method of addressing the social problem of mentally disordered people who unlawfully kill others is penal or therapeutic disposal- that is whether the emphasis of the sentence should be on punishment or treatment.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Once upon a time there was an epistemology called positivism. This was made up by some French men with beards, who got a bit worried that no one would take them seriously because they were not scientists. They decided that you had to study everything …
Reading Time: 4 minutes So this is starting to bring together the ideas I have for my Dissertation, and the reason I bought this little camera last year. In the course of my life in Hyde park, I have been acting the role of ‘researcher participat[ing]’, as Herbert Gans …