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An investigation into the cultural and legal factors influencing the differential prosecution rate for female genital mutilation in England and France
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a problem that both England and France face. Both countries agree that FGM is a criminal offence and that it constitutes child abuse. Accordingly, each nation has taken its own distinct measures in law and policy against the practice. These approaches have produced significantly divergent outcomes, particularly in the prosecution rates of offenders, with France leading in that regard.
This thesis seeks to understand why criminal justice outcomes differ so significantly between the two nations, despite many parallels between the historical and contemporary contexts of these two Western European neighbours. In order to do this, it seeks to explore the overarching, systemic forces at play within both paradigms, what the author has termed âthe Mediumâ. Furthermore, given that FGM within both France and England is a product of migrant communities having transported cultural practices into their new context, particular attention is paid to approaches to multiculturalism as a key aspect of the Medium for the purposes of this study. However, alongside this examination of the Medium, the study also explores the role of individual activism, and the agency of particular campaigners, termed âthe Human Catalystâ. It addresses the complex interplay between the Medium and the Human Catalyst, as a means of understanding their combined influence on the divergent pictures in respect of prosecuting FGM
Constitutions of Value
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value.
Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines lawâs fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilising pathbreaking theoretical approaches, it problematizes mainstream efforts to redeem institutions of value production by recoupling them with progressive values. Aiming beyond radical critique, the book opens up the possibility of imagining and enacting new and different value practices.
This wide-ranging and accessible book will appeal to international lawyers, socio-legal scholars, those working at the intersections of law and economy and others, in politics, economics, environmental studies and elsewhere, who are concerned with rethinking our current ideas of what has value, what does not, and whether and how value may be revalued
Loss of a sense of aliveness, bodily unhomeliness and radical estrangement: A phenomenological inquiry into service usersâ experiences of psychiatric medication use in the treatment of early psychosis
Quantitative research drawing on the disease-centred model of psychiatric drug action dominates research on psychiatric medication, while little is known about service usersâ subjective, embodied experiences of taking psychiatric medication. This research explored service usersâ felt, embodied and relational experiences of psychiatric medication use in the
treatment of early psychosis using a multimodal, longitudinal research design. A more in-depth understanding of what it is like and what it means to take psychiatric medication from
service usersâ idiographic perspectives is needed to improve the clinical care and support service users receive and better understand the treatment choices they make. Ten participants between the age of 18 and 30 years were recruited from London-based NHS Early Intervention in Psychosis services and participated in in-depth idiographic interviews. Eight participants took part in a follow-up interview between six and nine months later. Visual methods were used to explore the verbal as well as the pre-reflective, embodied aspects of participantsâ medication experiences. The data was analysed using a combination of interpretative phenomenological analysis and framework analysis. While taking psychiatric medication, participants reported the loss of a sense of aliveness, feelings of radical estrangement from themselves, the world and other people and a sense of being suspended in a liminal, time-locked dimension in which they felt unable to transition from past
experiences of psychosis to future recovery. The findings of this study highlight the highly distressing and adverse iatrogenic effects of psychiatric medication use, including medication-induced coporealisation, disembodiment, estrangement and a loss of belonging. More holistic, human rights-based, recovery-oriented and body-centred ways of treating psychosis are needed
International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022
This conference proceedings gathers work and research presented at the International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022 (IASSC2022) held on July 3, 2022, in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. The conference was jointly organized by the Faculty of Information Management of Universiti Teknologi MARA Kelantan Branch, Malaysia; University of Malaya, Malaysia; Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia; Universitas Ngudi Waluyo, Indonesia; Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges, Philippines; and UCSI University, Malaysia. Featuring experienced keynote speakers from Malaysia, Australia, and England, this proceeding provides an opportunity for researchers, postgraduate students, and industry practitioners to gain knowledge and understanding of advanced topics concerning digital transformations in the perspective of the social sciences and information systems, focusing on issues, challenges, impacts, and theoretical foundations. This conference proceedings will assist in shaping the future of the academy and industry by compiling state-of-the-art works and future trends in the digital transformation of the social sciences and the field of information systems. It is also considered an interactive platform that enables academicians, practitioners and students from various institutions and industries to collaborate
Religion, Education, and the âEastâ. Addressing Orientalism and Interculturality in Religious Education Through Japanese and East Asian Religions
This work addresses the theme of Japanese religions in order to rethink theories and practices pertaining to the field of Religious Education. Through an interdisciplinary framework that combines the study of religions, didactics and intercultural education, this book puts the case study of Religious Education in England in front of two âchallengesâ in order to reveal hidden spots, tackle unquestioned assumptions and highlight problematic areas. These âchallengesâ, while focusing primarily on Japanese religions, are addressed within the wider contexts of other East Asian traditions and of the modern historical exchanges with the Euro-American societies. As result, a model for teaching Japanese and other East Asian religions is discussed and proposed in order to fruitfully engage issues such as orientalism, occidentalism, interculturality and critical thinking
How is suicide risk assessed in healthcare settings in the UK? A systematic scoping review
A high proportion of people contact healthcare services in the 12 months prior to death by suicide. Identifying people at high-risk for suicide is therefore a key concern for healthcare services. Whilst there is extensive research on the validity and reliability of suicide risk assessment tools, there remains a lack of understanding of how suicide risk assessments are conducted by healthcare staff in practice. This scoping review examined the literature on how suicide risk assessments are conducted and experienced by healthcare practitioners, patients, carers, relatives, and friends of people who have died by suicide in the UK. Literature searches were conducted on key databases using a pre-defined search strategy pre-registered with the Open Science Framework and following the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews guidelines. Eligible for inclusion were original research, written in English, exploring how suicide risk is assessed in the UK, related to administering or undergoing risk assessment for suicide, key concepts relating to those experiences, or directly exploring the experiences of administering or undergoing assessment. Eighteen studies were included in the final sample. Information was charted including study setting and design, sampling strategy, sample characteristics, and findings. A narrative account of the literature is provided. There was considerable variation regarding how suicide risk assessments are conducted in practice. There was evidence of a lack of risk assessment training, low awareness of suicide prevention guidance, and a lack of evidence relating to patient perspectives of suicide risk assessments. Increased inclusion of patient perspectives of suicide risk assessment is needed to gain understanding of how the process can be improved. Limited time and difficulty in starting an open discussion about suicide with patients were noted as barriers to successful assessment. Implications for practice are discussed
Accounting ensure of business management in the conditions of martial law and Ukraineâs national economic recovery
In this monograph, the authors summarized and supplemented the results of many scientific justifications and developments. Considerable attention is paid to the study of accounting and taxation issues in the context of modern management concepts and risks of martial law in Ukraine
Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 on the Quality of Corporate Reporting by UK Listed Companies
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 (SOA) was passed in the US in direct response to the spectacular collapse of Enron and subsequently Arthur Andersen, one of the then Big 5 Audit firms in the USA. We utilized institutional theory to study the extent to which UK financial reporting practices have changed by the passage of this Act by examining the corporate governance sections of selected financial reports. We examined the financial reports of 5 UK companies listed in the US and 5 UK only listed against the corporate governance introductions, internal control disclosures, audit committee disclosures, and external auditors reports in the pre and post-SOA period (2000-2016) and found that whereas the UK SOA compliant companies made all the necessary adjustments to comply with the Act, the UK only listed companies also began making similar changes in their disclosures when there was no such requirement in the UK. We have observed that the standard and quantity of information provided by UK companies listed in the US in corporate disclosures have improved during the SOA period when compared to the pre-SOA period. Likewise, we have noticed a similar trend in the corporate disclosures of UK-only listed companies in the post-SOA period compared to the period preceding it. Overall, we conclude that there has been a substantial decrease in the use of generic language and boiler plateism in both sets of our sample companies' corporate and audit reports during the post-SOA period. Based on these findings, we suggest that the SOA has had a favourable impact on corporate reporting in the UK. Our research adds to the ongoing modifications to the UK Corporate Governance framework, where the Financial Reporting Council is presently adopting a UK SOx-style corporate governance system in the UK, replacing FRC with ARGA, similar to the PCAOB
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