Het maken van verbinding met de samenleving is cruciaal voor de politieorganisatie. Met het oog op de toenemende polarisatie is de noodzaak van verbinding urgenter geworden. Het is voor de politie van wezenlijk belang om maatschappelijke spanningen vroegtijdig te kunnen signaleren en daarop in te spelen. Maar het gaat niet alleen om polarisatie. Ook andere maatschappelijke en veiligheidsthema’s, zoals de aanpak van ondermijning, vragen om een actief verbindende rol van de politie.

De Bondge...

Dit onderzoek richt zich op de invloed die patronen, regels, gebruiken en structuren van de gemeenschap van de Jehova’s getuigen in Nederland hebben op de omgang met en de aangiftebereidheid van (vermeend) seksueel misbruik. Een belangrijke conclusie van het onderzoek is dat de omgang met het misbruik maakt dat slachtoffers of vermeende slachtoffers in de gemeenschap van Jehova’s getuigen zich onvoldoende erkend en ondersteund voelen.

Voor het onderzoek zijn ervaringen van Jehova’s getu...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

A book about being homosexual in the United States.

‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more’ BILL GATES

In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today:

Why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations?

Why is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that?

Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we?

How w...

Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.

COMPREHENSIVE: The book offers an unbiased introduction to all three methodological paradigms: positivist, interpretive, critical/cultural (quantitative, qualitative, critical). - INNOVATIVE: The book includes new sample student papers along with critiques of these papers to that students can model their own work on that of their peers.

FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT: Specific attention is given to presenting conceptual and theoretical information regarding methods, and to providing real-life exampl...

Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion.