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National Interest and the Falklands War (2014)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. (2014). National Interest and the Falklands War. In British Foreign Policy and the National Interest (66-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392350_4

Was Britain’s decision to use military action in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War guided by concerns for Britain’s ‘national interest’? This chapter seeks to answer this question by surveying the events of the crisis and exploring the reasons British... Read More about National Interest and the Falklands War.

The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales (2014)
Book Chapter
Corcoran, M. S. (2014). The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales. In Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective: Volume 19 (53-74). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1521-613620140000019002

This paper reviews the economic turn in criminology to contextualise the prominence of market rationalities in penal privatisation and outsourcing in England and Wales. It illuminates how fiscal crisis and austerity have provided opportunities for t... Read More about The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales.

Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order (2014)
Book Chapter
Griffiths, C. E. (2014). Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order. In Reflexivity in Criminological Research (178-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405_14

Re flexivity is often considered a ‘vital counterpoint… to the positivist, quan- titative agenda’ Qewkes 2012, 69). The aim of this chapter however is to provide a critical and reflexive account of a quantitative research project, that used supplemen... Read More about Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order.