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Introduction
This chapter establishes the aims, rationale, and scope of the book, providing a detailed introduction to the use, affect, and violation of the...
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Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion
This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or...
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Customs and ‘Laws’ of Orphanisation: Bastards and Foundlings in Folklore and Fairy Tale
Absence of natal origin has long been framed as a worrying sign of otherness: often steeped in stigma, it can both spark and signify unfairness,...
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for...
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Monsters, Heroes, Waifs, and a ‘Witch’
As Nixon has argued, orphans were very often ‘intimately…connected to the law.’ The eighteenth century saw many works of non-fiction define the...
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Conclusion
Throughout this book, it has been posited that the social licensesocial license to operate refers to the extent of stakeholder acceptancestakeholder...
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Legal Fictions, Dystopian Truths: [Re]Writing Family Life Rights
Forced adoptionForced adoption and orphanisationOrphanisation have frequently been depicted in various works of dystopianDystopia fiction: usually...
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Introduction
The concept of genetic stigma, in the sense of being othered on the basis of one’s birth status or ancestry, is seen frequently in various works of...
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Adoption’s ‘Golden Age’: From Orphan Rescue to the Rights of the Child
Various mythologies have attached to the ‘adoptionAdoption industrial complex’ which established itself in the late nineteenth century, both within...
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Conclusion
The concluding chapter offers an overall summary of the argument made in this book and sets out how the notions of mnemonic legality and temporal...
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Legitimacy and the Corporate Social License
This chapter discusses the key strategic issues underpinning the social license to operate. Important issues include the relevance of various sources...
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The organization of the human organ trade: a comparative crime script analysis
This study fills critical knowledge gaps into the organization of organ trade utilizing crime script analysis. Adopting a situational crime...
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Screwed: Prison Work and Prison Officer Cultures
Screwed centres on Sam Norwood, a new prison officer. He learns his craft, guided by more experienced colleagues, and becomes enmeshed in the...
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Historical Themes of Legitimacy
With the popularity of social media, “hostile” mass media, and ambient surveillance facilitated by a coalescence of public CCTV surveillance that...
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Crime Reporting and Institutional Reputation of the Police in Mexico
Understanding the determinants of crime reporting is fundamental to develo** responsive judicial services that seek to pursue justice while...
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Conclusions
The women who were interviewed for this book have shown that the use of drugs can be very different from stereotypical representations. Many accounts...
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Dialogue-Based Approaches to Football Policing
In this chapter we explain how the development of Public Safety and Public Order Policing in England and Wales since the death of Ian Tomlinson in...
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Understanding the Psychology of Football Crowds
In this chapter we set out the case for reconceptualising major incidents of football ‘hooliganism’ as crowd behaviour or collective action within...
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Hegemonic Masculinity and Game of Thrones
Born the product of rape to Lord Roose Bolton and an unnamed married woman, Ramsay Snow serves as one of the most memorable villains in the Game of...
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A Feminist Ethics of Care Approach to De-escalation in Policing
In response to the death of George Floyd, many activists have demanded that police agencies require that de-escalation be used as the principal...