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Young people today: news media, policy and youth justice
The new sociology of childhood sees children as competent social agents with important contributions to make. And yet the phase of childhood is fraught with tensions and contradictions. Public policies are required, not only to protect children, but also to control them and regulate their behaviour. For children and young people in the UK, youth justice has become increasingly punitive. At the same time, social policies have focused more on children's inclusion and participation. In this interplay of conflict and contradictions, the role the media play is critical in contributing to the moral panic about childhood and youth. In this article, we consider media representations of âantisocialâ children and young people and how this belies a moral response to the nature of contemporary childhood. We conclude by considering how a rights-based approach might help redress the moralised politics of childhood representations in the media
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Establishing Laws and Policies on Parent to Child Violence in Finland 1965-1983
This study explores perceptions of parent to child violence, the arguments for imposing legal regulation, and the intended objectives of the legislative process that led to a ban in Finland in 1983. This qualitative policy analysis examines policy documents alongside expert interviews with professional on the legislative process. The example of Finland shows that a significant change in attitudes and decreased levels of violence towards children can be achieved without the threat of legal punishment, even without specific intervention policies. However, the study emphasises the importance of establishing clear practices alongside altering legislation which has been inadequate in Finland
Doing military fitness: physical culture, civilian leisure, and militarism
Drawing explicitly upon the bodily techniques of military basic training and the corporeal competencies of ex-military personnel, military-themed fitness classes and physical challenges have become an increasingly popular civilian leisure pursuit in the UK over the last two decades. This paper explores the embodied regimes, experiences, and interactions between civilians and ex-military personnel that occur in these emergent hybrid leisure spaces. Drawing on ethnographic data, I argue that commercial military fitness involves a repurposing and rearticulation of collective military discipline within a late modern physical culture that emphasizes the individual body as a site of self-discovery and personal responsibility. Military fitness is thus a site of a particular biopolitics, of feeling alive in a very specific way. The intensities and feelings of physical achievement and togetherness that are generated emerge filtered through a particular military lens, circulating around and clinging to the totem of the repurposed ex-martial body. In the commercial logic of the fitness market, being âmilitaryâ and the ex-soldierâs body have thus become particularly trusted and affectively resonant brands
A compreensão médica portuguesa sobre a concepção da criança no século XVIII
A partir do sĂ©culo XVII, novos conhecimentos anatĂłmicos vĂŁo possibilitar aos mĂ©dicos uma compreensĂŁo da concepção humana que desagua na autoconfiança que exibe hoje a medicina. Portugal vai integrando esse novo saber mĂ©dico e, ao longo de Setecentos, vĂȘ cada vez mais generalizar-se a ideia de que o homem participava na concepção por meio do sĂ©men que fecundava o ovo existente na mulher, rompendo com as concepçÔes vindas da Antiguidade. Apesar de alguma novidade no conhecimento anatĂłmico e de um raciocĂnio mĂ©dico mais fundado na observação sistemĂĄtica, a ideia que sobressai Ă© a da impotĂȘncia para responder aos normais anseios das pessoas e a pouca capacidade para desfazer mitos hĂĄ muito enraizados, como a possibilidade da influĂȘncia da imaginação na concepção. Um dos contributos de maior alcance desta racionalidade parece ter sido o despertar para uma consciĂȘncia desenvolvimentista que acentuava a necessidade de se actuar preventivamente na promoção da saĂșde. DaĂ a importĂąncia de se olhar para os cuidados a ter para com a criança e desde o inĂcio, ou seja, desde a concepção
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