29 research outputs found
Damned if they do, damned if they don't: negotiating the tricky context of anti-social behaviour and keeping safe in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods
Young people's relationship with anti-social behaviour (ASB) is complicated. While their behaviours are often stereotyped as anti-social (e.g. âhanging aboutâ), they also experience ASB in their neighbourhood. In this study, we explore young people's own perspectives on ASB, comparing results from âgo-alongâ interviews and focus groups conducted in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland. This article discusses how young people's everyday experience of ASB was contextualised by social factors such as cultural stereotyping of marginalised groups, poor social connectivity and spatial marginalisation within their neighbourhood. Furthermore, we found that these social factors were mutually reinforcing and interacted in a way that appeared to leave young people in a âno-winâ situation regarding their association with ASB. Participation in ASB and attempts to avoid such involvement were seen to involve negative consequences: participation could entail violence and spatial restrictions linked to territoriality, but avoidance could lead to being ostracised from their peer group. Regardless of involvement, young people felt that adults stereotyped them as anti-social. Our findings therefore provide support for policies and interventions aimed at reducing ASB (perpetrated by residents of all ages); in part by better ensuring that young people have a clear incentive for avoiding such behaviours
'We don't learn democracy, we live it!' : consulting the pupil voice in Scottish schools
As the education for citizenship agenda continues to impact on schools, there is a need to begin the discussion around examining the kind of initiatives that can push it forward. In Scotland the proposals should, it is argued, permeate the curriculum throughout the school. Yet there is the fear that the responsibility of all can become the responsibility of none. This paper examines, through case study research carried out by the authors, initiatives in schools designed to take forward the citizenship agenda in the light of children's rights. The first two relate to firstly the impact of pupil councils in primary schools and secondly the impact of discussing controversial issues in the primary classroom. The third outlines the impact on values and dispositions of developing more participatory, democratic practice in the classroom. The paper concludes by calling for both more initiatives of this type and more evaluation of their worth
Football Banning Orders: The Highly Effective Cornerstone of a Preventative Strategy?
The chapter examines the development, use and effectiveness of football banning orders in the UK, comparing their use in England to address issues of football 'hooliganism' with their distinct evolution in Scotland to address concerns around sectarian disorder
Safety vs. reputation: risk controversies in emerging policy networks regarding school safety in the Netherlands
This article deals with risk controversies in emerging policy networks regarding school safety in the Netherlands. It offers a grounded account of the interpretations of school risks and safety measures by the various stakeholders of the policy network, in particular, schools, local government and the police. Theoretically, policy networks are conceived as mediating between the structural conditions of the risk-society and the culture of fear on the one hand and the institution of safety standards on the organizational level of schools on the other hand. It is argued that in the low-risk context of schools, it is particularly important to take into account the soft, cultural side of safety next to the hard, material side of safety. This distinction also accounts for the ambiguities and controversies over school risks. A further conclusion is that in this network a lack of local leadership seems to hinder the development of firm safety measures. Overall, this article highlights the paradox between a concern for safety and a concern for a schools reputation. © 2012 Taylor & Francis
A Compact Dication Source for Ba Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor Development
We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents
in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed
by sequential atomic evaporation and single or multiple electron impact
ionization, followed by acceleration into a sensing region. Controllability of
the ionic charge state is achieved through tuning of electrode potentials that
influence the retention time in the ionization region. Barium, lead, and cobalt
samples have been used to test the system, with ion currents identified and
quantified using a quadrupole mass analyzer. Realization of a clean
ion beam within a bench-top system represents an important
technical advance toward the development and characterization of barium tagging
systems for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon gas. This system
also provides a testbed for investigation of novel ion sensing methodologies
for environmental assay applications, with dication beams of Pb and
Cd also demonstrated for this purpose
NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout
The search for neutrinoless double beta decay () remains one
of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino
sector. Electroluminescent gas-phase time projection chambers are well suited
to searches due to their intrinsically precise energy
resolution and topological event identification capabilities. Scalability to
ton- and multi-ton masses requires readout of large-area electroluminescent
regions with fine spatial resolution, low radiogenic backgrounds, and a
scalable data acquisition system. This paper presents a detector prototype that
records event topology in an electroluminescent xenon gas TPC via VUV
image-intensified cameras. This enables an extendable readout of large tracking
planes with commercial devices that reside almost entirely outside of the
active medium.Following further development in intermediate scale
demonstrators, this technique may represent a novel and enlargeable method for
topological event imaging in .Comment: 32 Pages, 22 figure
Scared of the kids? Curfews, crime and the regulation of young people
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