Het politiebestel in Nederland is geen rustig bezit, dat is de afgelopen jaren met de invoering van de Nationale Politie opnieuw gebleken. De turbulentie rond het politiebestel en de wens tot vernieuwing daarvan zijn echter niet van recente datum. Terugkijkend passen de invoering van de Nationale Politie en de problemen die bij de invoering daarvan ontstonden, in een ontwikkeling die al veel langer gaande is. In dit boek wordt ingegaan op de ontwikkelingen in het politiebestel vanaf eind jare...

The Praxis of Justice brings together original contributions on restorative justice centering on the work of Ivo Aertsen, Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven. The work of Ivo Aertsen has impacted not only his country, Belgium, but the whole world. In recognition of a worthy life, his friends and colleagues of different generations and from all around the world have created this Liber Amicorum, as a living testament to friendship and accomplishment. The contribut...

De laatste jaren komen accountants(organisaties) regelmatig in het nieuws. Soms positief, maar helaas ook vaak negatief. Door een toezichtsrapport van de AFM, een tuchtzaak of een alarmerende fraudekwestie. Marcel Pheijffer schrijft er graag over en doet dat in blogvorm op www.accountant.nl, hét platform voor nieuws, opinies en discussies over de accountancy.

Dit is de vijfde bundel met honderd blogs die op de genoemde website zijn geplaatst. De auteur uit daarin zijn opinie, observaties, ana...

Het strafrecht is zich – mede door de invloed van de victimologie – meer gaan richten op de positie van het slachtoffer. Zo kan worden gesproken van een heuse emancipatie van het slachtoffer in het strafrecht. Het slachtofferpopulisme en een toenemende invloed van ‘Europa’, zijn ook debet aan deze ontwikkeling. In het bestuursrecht wordt de burgemeester steeds meer opgetuigd als veiligheidsbaas, die ook kan optreden wanneer geen sprake is van de handhaving van de openbare orde. De arm...

Looking at the intersection of religion and popular culture through a theoretical lens, this new text offers an insightful treatment of this topical area of study. Each chapter outlines different theories and explores how key ideologies inform and interact with aspects of popular culture, including television, film, music, and the Internet.

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture. From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the role of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinary insights into the difference...

Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses ...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life. Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation.

Some go so far as ...

The 9th edition of this textbook for hybrid introductory communication courses provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental theories and principles of communication. The book explores communication in a variety of contexts-including interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass media-and provides students the theoretical knowledge and the research and critical thinking skills they'll need to succeed in advanced communication courses and communication professions. The first section exp...

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to ...